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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01
MARY W. REED

Our whole community was given
great shock last Monday afternoon
by the sad report that Mrs. Mary w.
Reed had died at four O'Clock. She
had been at her task in the printing
office Saturday, but was taken SER
iously Ill that evening, grew worse
Sunday, and the end came Monday, at
the Kelsey hospital Conscious that
she was going, she said, II am not
afraid to die, but / do not want to
die yet" 1t was very hard to real
ize the sudden departure.
Born in Almy, Wyoming, she had
lived this life, when the summons
came to her, February oath, 1913,
twenty-five years, seven months, and
fourteen days, her parents being, Mr..
and Mrs. w. w. Williams, of Cole
vile, Utah.
1t was six years since she became
the wife of Clayton X. Reed, the
Oath day of January, 1907, and to
their wedlock was given one child,
baby Blair, who has proceeded his
! mother. Besides husband and par
ents she leaves to mourn their loss
three brothers and four sisters. Mrs
Reed was a member of the Norman
church. The remains were taken
Tuesday evening to Coleville, Utah
for interment.
Funeral services were held IN
Mountain Home, at the Congregation
al church, Tuesday afternoon, al
2 90 O'Clock, conducted by Rev. G. e
Mason. Interested friends and ac
quaintances filled the auditorium Oh
the church. The choir consisted ol
Mesdames Morton, Cordell, Longfel
low, and Miss Bunk, and gentlemen
Thompson and .Norell, and Miss Carr
organist. Among other selections, the
closing hymn by request was Near
er My God to Thee" The endear
ment of this hymn to bereaved hearts
is evidenced in that 1t has beer
sung by request In three successive
| funerals. The bearers, gentlemen
Anderson, Cooper, Mckibbon, Smith
Whitbeck and Ottenheimer, bore thu
remains from the Clayton Reed res
| idence to the church followed by The
relatives and friends. Her father
came ON No. II, Tuesday morning
| The flowers covered the casket. Tit
remains were very life like, and will
the flower in hand were beautiful II
death. Mr.. Helm took a photo o
the casket for the friends.
Though a resident Of Mountain
Home only three years, Mrs. Reet
had endeared herself to larg'
circle of friends by her ever pleas
ant manners and sincere friendship
She was devoted to her home an'
her husband s business, doing dali.
work in the weekly issue OF The New
Time. Much sympathy goes out Il
the bereaved husband, parents ant
other relatives in their sadness. Blu
natural that she should want to liv'
for she had much to live for. Wit
heroic courage born Of faith, sh'
was not afraid to die.
The remains, accompanied by tn
husband, Clayton, and brother q. L
Reed, we're taken Friday to Coleville
Utah for interment.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01
REeEKAH SOCIAL

On Wednesday evening, March 3
the Rebekah Lodge will give a Social
Everybody cordially invited to be pre-
sent and enjoy very pleasant time
good supper and program, only 25c.
25 cents.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to those who SO kindly assist
ed us during the illness and death OF
our beloved mother
Mrs. ]. c. COATS,
Mrs. c. e. Holverson.
Mr.. 7. J. Harris.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01
NEW RESTAURANT

Eckstein Bros. are having the build
ing, recently vacated by W. b.
Brown, remodeled for Harry Hoff-
man who will open p restaurant
under the management Of Grant
Coates.
They expect to be ready to cater
to the hungry public the first OF
next week
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01

Mrs. Worth Lee has been home
for the week from Boise where she
has been spending the winter wltn
her hsband, Senator Lee, during the
legislative session.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Johnson return
ed Monday from a two weeks stay
at Dietrich where Berg G Johnson
have the contract for building the
new school house.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-03-01

G. R. Wetherell has purchased the
Abstract business of the Guarantee
Abstract and Title Co. and took po-
session this week.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

erature is earlier In one land, and later
In another italian literature stands In
marked contrast to the English liter
AZURE described in Newman's lectures.
For here all the greatest masterpieces
are the work of Catholics, and pro-
foundry affected by a Catholic spirit.
But it may be remarked that this
great literature would still be power
full Catholic force, even if Italy had
fallen away from the old faith in the
dark days of the Reformation. For
Dante, the greatest name of all, would
still be ours. And If the English
poetry of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries had CHANGED to flower
little earlier, our classic literature
might still be mainly Catholic. In that
event literary and historical studies
might do much to bring modern Eng
lishmen into touch with the Catholic
past and the old faith of their fathers.
This, if we are not greatly mistaken,
is actually the case with Welsh ma
tiOnal literature.
So much as this might be surmfsed
by the mere literary student who has
gathered from Mathew Arnold's popu-
lar lectures, or from Borrow's pictured
pages, that classic Welsh poets lived
and fourished in the days before the
Reformation. But it might possibly be
supposed that these early Celtic poets,
though they were in no sense Protes-
tants or Dissenters, might not have
been very amenable to Catholic and
religious influences. Macaulay reminds
us that in the days of Dunstan and
Edgar the Saxon minstrels and the
monks were at feud with one another,
and that the King Jared badly in the
ballads because of his partially for the
monks. Happily, the remarks made by
Mr.. D. Rhys Phillips show that this
was not the case with the medieval
bards of Wales. 1t will be enough to
quote the following passage, which
will at the same time serve to illus
trate the standpoint adopted by the
author of "The Romantic History of
the Monastic Libraries of Wales: "A
close examination of the MSS. of the
thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries
reveals most of the bards as pious
Catholics, working in union with and
receiving much of their inspiration
from the monks, who had generally
espoused the Welsh national cause and
suffered for it. The scores of poems
to MAR (the Virgin), to the saints,
and to the various abbots of con-
temporary monastic houses form a
library of Roman Catholic poetry
probably unequalled in any country of
| the same size at that era"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08
THE CHURCH IN GUATEMALA
Best Missionary Work Done by Cath
oIics - Only One Religious Com
munity in Guatemala-Church Not
Free.

Frank G.. Carpenter, the well-known
traveller and newspaper correspondent
does not believe that the South Ameri
can countries are legitimate or hope
full field for Protestant missionary en-.
deavor, says the Sacred Heart Review.
Writing from Guatemala he corrects
the idea advanced so often in Pro-
testant publications that the Catholic
Church is all-powefful there, and that
it wilfully keeps the people in ignor-
ance. He points out that as a matter
of fact the Church is very poor and
the priests have nothing like the free
dom they enjoy in the United States.
But he recognizes that the Catholic
religion is the only one which can ap-
peal with any force to the South
American Indian, or white man. He
says: II am Presbyterian myself,
but I really believe that the best work
can be done here by the Catholics, and
that South America should be given
over to them"
The Republic of Guatemala con-
tains 28,950 square miles. There are
1,422,933 Catholics (see the Catholic
Encyclopedia); yet there are but 1O1
parishes in the Archdiocese of Santi-
ago de Guatemala, (Which is cotermin-
GUS with the Republic) and only 1873
priests being one priest to more than
10000 people.
Formerly there existed in Guatemala
many religious Congregations of men
such as Dominicans, Recollect and
Capuchin missionaries, Jesuits, Ora
torians Of st. Philip Neri, and Vincen-
tians-and several committees of
nuns, but all were suppressed by the
Government in 1872 and 1874 At pres
ent no monastic or conventual estab-
lishment is allowed by law in Guate-
mala. The Sisters Of Charity Of st.
Vincent de Paul are an exception, and
they are tolerated because of their
work in the hospitals.
Mr.. Carpenter says that what 10
needed in Guatemala is not a new
faith but revivifying of the old faith.
If the Church had her freedom there,
as she has here in the United States
there would be no need to worry about
identification.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08
GOING TO CHURCH.

One of the greatest difficulties
which the non-C Catholic churches
have to cope with is how to make
the services SO attractive as to en-
sure the presence of large congre-
cations Various methods have
been employed for this purpose,
but without any great measure Of
success. n-Catholics are amaz-
ed at the large congregations
found in every Catholic Church
on Sunday. Even in our largest
churches many Masses have to be
said to accommodate the people
who attend. Non-Catholics find it
difficult to understand the reason
for this. They see very plainly
that the Catholic Church has a
hold upon her people which their
own church can never hope to
have. The great problem with
them is how to get the people to
church.
In the course of an article on
this subject the Rochester Post
Express cites some of the novel
methods employed by ministers to
entice their people to church.
Among these attractive music,
stereopticon views and lectures on
literary subjects or other topics
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

more or less remotely connected
with religion hold a large place.
In some cases the Protestant serv-
ice has been so emasculated of all
that savors Of religion that, were
it not held in a church, the congre-
CATION would not know that it was
intended to have a religious char
acter. To such an extent has this
been carried on that many minis
tiers seem to have but very hazy
notions regarding the reasons why
people go to church.
On this point the Post Express
has the following to say:
"We go to church to worship
and, il that purpose is lost sight
of, all the social betterment ideas
and lectures aiming at the i'm
provement of the mind are beside
the point. 1t would be interesting
to compare the attendance at
churches in which the idea of max
ing the service border on the
character of entertainment has
been followed with what it used
to be in the days when worship
and worship only was the thing
which drew people to the sane
tuary. 1t is all very well to make
the service attractive; but, if the
service element tends to disappear,
then the change is likely to do
more harm than good. 1t is not
social enjoyment that people
ought to seek in church; the ideal
Of the minister should not merely
be that Of getting people away
from the temptation Of the streets.
REGULATIONS from the poets and
beautiful music will be of little
avail, if they do not form part of
direct and unmistakable preach
ing Of the gospel. It is not by al
Turing people with the bait of en-
joyment that their souls are to be
won; it is by appealing to their
sense Of duty. To inveigle people
into church under specious pre-
texts is not likely to win them to
prayer and, unless they pray, they
might just as well stay at home.
Indeed, man of character may
very reasonably resent the trick
for such he is likely to esteem it
of getting him into church with
promise Of some entertainment.
But the minister with a high ideal
Of his responsibility, who bids him
to come and hear the word of
God, will command respect and
stands better chance Of winning
the man for churchgoer We
have had too much of the mere
tricious, and the ad captandum in
our churches: why not try the
sound and substantial fare which
won the hearts and minds of gen
Grafton ago?''
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

and it is the four hundredth an
niversary of this great event which
will be celebrated in Porto Rico
on February %.
"The Cathedral of San Juan
marks the site Of the first church
erected on the islands by Bishop
Manzo. For four centuries this
hallowed spot has been the sanctu-
airy of the Mother Church of the
New World. Within it's crypt lies
the remains of Don Juan Ponce
de Leon, the intrepid soldier and
Christian cavalier who first colon
lied Porto Rico
For four hundred years the Do
cese of Porto Rico was under the
jurisdiction of the Church in Spain
and during that time forty-seven
Bishops occupied its Episcopal
See. At the close of the Spanish
American War the Island came
under the control Of the United
States and the Most Reverend P.
Il. Chapelle, Archbishop of New
Orleans, was appointed Apostolic
Delegate and recommended the
nomination of the Right Reverend
James III. Blenk, S. M, as it's first
American Bishop. Bishop Blenk
was consecrated on June II, 1899
and continued to rule the Diocese
of Porto Rico until his promotion
to the Archiepiscopal See of New
Orleans in 1906, when the Right
Reverend w. A. Jones, 0. S. A.,
was appointed his successor.
The celebration Of the fourth
centenary will be inaugurated on
Sunday February %, with Ponti-
fcal High Mass celebrated by
Archbishop Blenk in the Cathe-
dral of st. John the Baptist, which
occupies the site of the first
church erected on what is now
American soil. His Eminence Car
dinal Farley of New York will
preside on that occasion and the
sermon will be preached by the
Most Reverend Archbishop Nouel
Of San Domingo. The public
functions in connection with the
celebration will be held four days
later during the annual Insular
Fair. A number of American pre-
lates will attend the celebration
Next to Porto Rico the oldest
Diocese in North America is that
of Quebec, Canada, which was
erected into a Vicariate-Apostolic
in 1857, and into a diocese on
October 1, 1914. The oldest in the
United States is the Diocese of
Baltimore, which was established
on April 6, 1889.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
LEGISLATIVE WORK AGAINST
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

Opponents of the liquor traffic won
their fight in the Massachusetts legis-
lature, to separate the sale of liquor
over the bar and the sale of liquor in
the bottle, when the so-calTed "bar and
bottle" law was put upon the statute
books. Last year an attempt to re-
peal this law was successfully de-
feated. Now the anti-iquor interests
believe the tine has arrived to take
the next step in their general cam
paign to reduce the consumption of
liquor; they want the hour at which
the sale of liquor may begin in the
morning changed from the present
hour, 6 o'clock, to o'clock.
The matter was brought before
the State Legislature when it con-
vened in January, says the Sacred
Heart Review. The advocates of the
later opening hour are of the opinion
that thus more workingmen will start
the day without drink; doing there
by not merely better days work,
but reducing materially the liability to
accident. Statistical Bulletin No l.
issued by the Industrial Accident
Board of Massachusetts, states: "The
peak of accidents is at or about 10
o'clock in the morning and o'clock in
the afternoon" In the opinion of
physicians who have made special
study of this matter, the effect of alco-
hol is most apparent between three
and four hours after the liquor is,
taken into the system. This matter
of industrial accidents assumes par
ticular Importance now, because the
Workingman's Compensation Act went
into effect on July 1.
The "Bar and Bottle" law went into
effect a year and half ago, and ad-
vocates of the legislation claim, among
other results of the law, the follow
ing:
Over $50 fewer saloons in Massachu-
sets than there would have been ex-
cept for the law; over 1,20e fewer
wholesale licenses, a decrease of 20
per cent, decrease of eighty-seven
saloons in the City of Boston alone;
and general and decided decrease of
arrests for drunkenness
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

The austerities which the
Church commands us to practice
during the next six weeks are
intended to build up and strength
en- our moral fibre. Without self
denial there can be no vigorous
spiritual life. Like st. Paul, we
must "chastise our body and
bring it into subsection" in order
that the horizon of our spiritual
vision may be broadened and our
vision clarified to enable us to see,
through the atmosphere of world
illness which surrounds us, the
beauties of ''the things that are
above" which ever allure the soul
that realizes it's true destiny. All
are not called upon to scourge
their bodies or endure the pangs
of hunger in order to mortify the
flesh, but all are called upon to
be opponents of the spirit of self
denial of which these gave evil
dence in the lives of many of the
heroes of the spiritual life who are
placed on high for our imitation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

Another section of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church has had a
spasm about it's name which seems
to CRATE on the ears of those who
would like to be considered Cath
olics. The sixty-third conven-
ton of the Protestant Episcopal
Church Of California held on Janu-
airy 80, adopted a resolution memo
rializing the General Conference
which meets in New York next
October to change the name of
the church to the "Holy Catholic
Church of America" as if a
change Of name would bring a
change of spirit or doctrine. 1t
wants to ape the Catholic Church
without being Catholic.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

The practice of using Mass
Cards" is largely on the increase,
says the Holy Name Journal, es-
pecially in the south of France.
1t simply consists in a card, visit
ing or otherwise, on which is writ
ten the promise Of having one or
more Masses celebrated for the
soul of a deceased person, the card
being sent to the house of the de-
ceased during the first period of
mourning. Once known, it is GER
tain that the practice would be-
come general, to the great benefit
of the departed If people will,
in obedience to custom, still insist
on sending wreaths, what is to
prevent them attaching a SMass
Card" to their floral tributes?
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

"The Indian Sentinel" for 1913,
published by the Board of Catho-
lie Indian Missions, devotes con.
siderable space to historical ac-
count of the Catholic Indians OF
Maine, who it characterizes az
''the happiest people in the
world" The article is timely in
view of the fact that the three
hundredth anniversary of the
establishment of the Catholic mis-
sions in Maine will be celebrated
in the autumn. The Sentinel also
contains brief account of some
of the more important features Of
Catholic Indian work during the
past year.
The Sentinel is published in the
interests of the Society for the
Preservation of the Faith Among
Indian Children. The returns
from this Society for 1912 to
tailed 500, 144.03, an excess o.
$19,161.19 over the receipts fol
1911. AT no time in the past,
says Father Ketcham, "has OPP
position to the Catholic India1
missions been more bitter and vic
lent than during the year 1912
and it is Of the greatest import
ance that adequate financial assist
ance be provided for them. Thu
anti Catholic forces are unit il
their opposition to the work; i
behooves all Catholics bishops
priests, and laymen- present t.
these forces solid front of de
fence and to cooperate more gen
erously than ever in providing thu
sinews of war. 80
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

According to Mrs. Frederick
Nathan, President of the Consum-
er's League of New York, sixty
per cent of the saleswomen over
sixty years of age in New York
stores receive less than $3.50 a
week, and thirty-three per cent
between $500 and $3.50. Eve
believe" she says, "that $500 a
week is low living wage for self
supporting girls to live on in our
city. Many of the girls who earn
less than 5000, have no other
source Of income, and in order to
make up the discrepancy they lose
their health or self respect, or
both, and the community pays
eventually through taxes raised to
support hospitals, homes and re
formatories. "
What is true Of New York is
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08
NEW CANADIAN CATECHIsM

The Plenary Council held at
Quebec in 1910 authorized the
compilation of catechism for the
Dominion of Canada and en-
trusted the work to committee
Of three Bishops. This committee
found it impossible to meet for a
sufficiently long time to draft a
satisfactory catechism and moth
ing was done to carry out the
wishes Of the Canadian Hierarchy
in this regard.
Bishop Mcdonald of Victoria,
B. c., who was a member Of the
commission, finally set to work to
prepare a series of graded cate
chisms. One of these, the second
of the series, has already been
completed. He realized that, in
order to secure a catechism that
would be satisfactory from every
point Of view, it was necessary to
makeit the product ofmany minds,
so that the principles Of pedagogy
and the results of experience, as
well as doctrinal content would
receive due attention. To this end
he asked the Most Reverend Arch
bishop Mcneil of Toronto to ap-
point committee to gather and
correlate suggestions and ideas to
be borne in mind by those en-
trusted with the final revision Of
the catechism.
The Catholic Record Of London,
Ontario, and the Catholic Regis
ter and Canadian Extension of
Toronto are publishing consecu-
tive chapters Of Bishop Melon
AIDS catechism in order that those
interested in the work may send
criticisms and suggestions for its
improvement to the Rev. Ell. j.
Canning who is chairman of the
committee appointed by Archbish-
op McNeill.
GA feature of the catechism, :"
according to these papers, is the
order in which the subjects are
presented. The position of the
Mass in our catechisms does not
correspond with the position
which public worship occupies in
Catholic life. 1T is the Mass that
matters. Worship is a distinc-
tive feature of religion. To treat
of the Mass as part of one of the
Sacraments is to give a wrong i'm
preston of it's Importance. 1t is
coordinate with the Sacramento
system, not subordinate. To bring
this out clearly and impress it on
the mind of the pupil, the cate
chism tells, in consecutive chap
tiers, what Our Lord is as Teacher,
Priest and King. As Priest He
offered up the Sacrifice of Re-
demption, and continues the offer
ing daily on our affairs.
Another feature consists of a
reading lesson after each chapter
of question and answer, develop
ing or explaining more fully or
suggesting application in practice
of, the preceding chapter. =
We hope this new catechism viii
materialize and that, when COM
pleted, it will be found an i'm
provement on those now In use.
There is no doubt that the ordi-
nary catechism is, in many ways,
unsuitable as a textbook of re-
ligion for children. Any changes
which will make it more satisfac-
tory in this regard will be well
coined by all to whom is entrusted
the task of instructing the young
| In Christian Doctrine.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

If we doubt about the extent
of our obligation to fast and alb.
stain during Lent we should have
recourse to our pastors or con,
fessors who are the authorized
interpreters of the law and who
have power, for sufficient reasons,
to commute the lenten fast to
some other form of penitential
work.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-08

During Lent it is expected that
Catholics will have the courage of
their convictions and withdraw,
as far as possible, from worldly
amusements and abstain from
whatever interferes with the due
observance Of the penitential sea-
son according to the spirit of the
Church.