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Show WE SUSPECTED AS MUCH. The New World, of Chicago, thus glowingly eulogizes a poem gleaned from among the regular contributions to the Intcrmountain Catholic from the same source; without, howeve:-, divulging the medium whence it was procured: "Here is a little poem which, if written bv Shelley, Shel-ley, Keats, Tennyson or Bryant, would be praised by the great critics on account of its beauty. It ! was written recently by Miss Daisy Maginni-;, a. pupil of Sacred Heart Academy, Ogden, Utah, who will graduate this year. DAWN ON THE PKAIKIE. Cold and gray, , Over the dim horizon breaks the day; Silent, remote, immeasurably far, Glimmers and fades the morning star. Still and calm. Over the slumb'ring prairies broods the dawn. Only the nightwind's low, deep murmcrou-s sound, Breathes o'er the desert's peace profound. Hr.rk! Yet hark! I.o! from yon misty hollow wakes the lark, Thus is the mystery of life reborn. From dying darkness springs the morn, "There is poetry in this great poetry. If this Sacred Heart girl is not heard from in litcriture hereafter we shall be very much surprised.". It is, forsooth, abundantly manifest that there presides, a liteary genius over the destinies of the bud.Hng or flowering intellects of the pupils of Sacred Heart Academy. The tllented writer of the above verses is by no means the only pupil of that worthy institution that has exhibited the attributes at-tributes of an incipient "genius." r The Salt Lake Herald, referring to the law, recently passed by the Illinois legislature, under which divorced persons, with certain exceptions, are not permitted to remarry within a year from the date of the decree, of divorce, comments as follows: ' "The bill is a move in the right direction. It is a measure against the present tendency to view the marriage relation as a condition to be taken not too seriously because of the easy escape from it." The editor of the Herald is to be congratulated for thus taking his stand on the side of ' decency. If the moulders of public opinion would all be wisely influenced by the attitude of the Catholic Church in questions of morals, there would soon be manifest a marked improvement in the moral standards of the people. : The Catholic Universe", in commenting on the anti-Catholic spirit of the "Elsie Books," after quoting a scandalously slanderous passage found therein, very justly remarks: "That such infamous slanders as these should appear in children's books in this enlightened age is positively criminal. It is the duty of Catholics whenever they come across these books in public libraries to insist that they be removed from tho shelves. ' Catholics, by their taxes, help support, these public libraries, and it is not fair that their money should be paid to circulate literature that, besides calumniating them, is calculated to so prejudice young girls against the Catholic Church that in after life they arc likely to be out and out bigots." I ; -4. Divorce statistics recently published manifest an alarming" state of affairs. It is safe to, conjecture conjec-ture tha't an overwhelming proportion of the victims vic-tims of this modern social vice are men and women wo-men who have discarded from their lives the influences in-fluences of Christian dogma and who have formally yielded to the sway of atheistic, materialistic and ''mamonistie" principles. Is it not about time that all high-minded persons who have the perpetuity and -well-being of our American society at heart wisely avail themselves of the salutory influence of the holy Catholic Church, in order that this perilously peril-ously growing evil may be checked ere it is too late? She alone, with her dogmatic anathema against this impious practice, can save tho proud ship of our modern civilization from the maelstrom of confusion and disaster. |