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Show j Diocese of Denver i , x t All the Church and Social Doings of the Catholic t People Speially Prepared for the Readers t of "The Intermountain.', " By ELIZABETH KELLY. Miss Cora Shevnin, Who Is to Be Married to Mr. Edwin Wagner in September. An engagement of considerable interest in-terest to Catholic social circles of Denver Den-ver is that of Miss Cora Shevnin to Mr. Edwin Wagner of St. Louis. This engagement possesses a tinge of romance, which makes it particularly interesting. It is the result of a lifelong life-long friendship. There is hardly a family in Denver that has a wider circle of friends than the Shevnin.s. Miss Shevnin is a beautiful and I highly educated young lady, a gradi ate of Florissant Convent. She is an esteemed member of the Cathedral parish, and the wedding, which is to take place in September, will probably be a large church affair. DENVER NEWS. Rev. Father Phillips has returned from a short trip in southern Colorado. He also visited Santa Fe. Rt. Rev. Bishop Scannell of Omaha was the guest of Bishop Matz last Thursday. Bishop Scannell was on his way home from Salt Lake City, where he assisted at the laying of the corner stone of the new cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. John Reddin have returned re-turned from their wedding trip and are at home at 915 Broadway. Mr. Dennis Sheedy has returned from the east. Rev. J. F. Nugent of Davenport, , la., was in Denver Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson of Louisville, Ky., have taken up their residence in the Cathedral parish. Miss Katherine Alkire, a graduate of St. Mary's Academy, has returned from a pleasant eastern trip. A solemn high Mass of Requiem was sung at Logan Avenue chapel last Wednesday for Bishop Machebeuf. Rev. Father Phillips was celebrant and was assisted by Fathers Callanan, Casey Ca-sey and Duffy. Miss Nellie Maude Carroll and Mr. Martin Murray wrere united in the sacred bonds of matrimony by Rev. Father Phillips at Logan Avenue chapel cha-pel last Tuesday. After an extended wedding tour they will take up their i residence in Louisville, Ky., where Mr. Murray is a prominent business man. Mrs. Harnan, mother of John and Philip Harnan, mining men of Portland Port-land fame, will leave for her old home in Philadelphia the early part of next week. , It is rumored that Miss Helen Cowie of St. Patrick's parish, a recent convert con-vert of the Catholic faith, is soon to oe marnea to jir. cpeiiman, a mining ; man of Brooklyn. The wedding is to take place in Rochester at the resf-1 dence of the bride's sister. The officiating offi-ciating clergyman will be Rev. Father Goulding, a nephew of Mr. Goulding, proprietor of the Tortoni restaurant. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Yeaman are at the Holland hotel in New York City. They expect to sail for Europe in the near future. Mr. E. W. Villeneuve, son of a former for-mer mayor of Montreal, was in Denver Den-ver Wednesday on his way to Boulder and Ward, where he has extensive mining min-ing interests. Mr. Joseph O'Neill, the popular organist or-ganist of the Logan avenue choir, is recovering from his severe illness. Mr. George Kempton, who was operated op-erated on for appendicitis at St. Joseph's Jo-seph's hospital last Friday, is rapidly recovering. Sir- The Misses Shevnin are visiting in Manitou. Very Rev. Dr. Walter McDonald, D. D.: Rev. M. F. Callanan and Rev. John O'Kane spent Monday in Georgetown. George-town. Dr. McDonald is a great writer and professor of canon law at the theological theo-logical seminary at Maynooth. He was en route to San Francisco, via Salt Lake City. Denver has a particular particu-lar charm for Maynooth scholars visiting visit-ing in this country, as a number of our most esteemed priests are graduates of that world-famed institution. Among these are Rev. Father Callanan, Calla-nan, pastor of the Cathedral parish, and Rev. Father O'Ryan, pastor of St. Leo's. While in Denver Rev.-'Dr. McDonald Mc-Donald was the guest of Father O'Ryan. The funds of StT Vincent's Orphanage Orphan-age were increased by at least $1,200 by the picnic at Elitch's lrst Saturday. The theatre, dancing, merry-go-round and iinimals afforded abundant entertainment enter-tainment for old and young. The crowd began to arrive early, and all afternoon there was a steady stream of humanity pouring in. The theater was packed to the door, the audience being the largest in the history of the gardens in attendance at a Saturday matinee. Dancing was free in the trocadero and the floor was crowded continually. The little folks were much in evidence, and enjoyed themselves hugely. They swarmed over the merry-go-round like ants; they climbed oboard the miniature minia-ture railroad train; flung peanuts at the bears, watched the monkeys and laughed and danced with childish glee. An excellent lunch was served in the cafe, beginning at 5 o'clock. Everything Every-thing in the eating line was donated, and was of the very finest quality. At least 1,000 people were fed in the cafe alone, while the ice cream booth.3, soda , water fountains and lemonader stands j were constantly thronged with people. Over 6,000 people visited the garden during the afternoon and evening. One-half One-half of the gate receipts and the box office receipts at the theater gees to the orphans. That institution's share of the receipts from other amusement sources is based upon a percentage of from 10 to 30 per cent. Taken as a whole the results are very gratifying to the promoters of the affair. As early as 6:30 p. m. the evening crowd began to arrive, and immediately began lining up in front of the theater. The line extended out past the trocadero, troca-dero, and when the doors were finally flung upon they crowded in like the proverbial sheep. . The cafe was under the management of Mrs. J. K. Mullen, who was assisted by Mesdames P. V. Carlin, William Guion, Thomas Kerin. T. W. Casey. W. T. 'Davaren. Frances Fisher, L. Paul and Fred Graham. The lemonade booth was under charge of Mrs. D. W. Mullen, end she had for assistants Mrs. C. H. Wilken, Mrs. P. Doyle. Mrs. W. T. Hyne. Mrn. Mary Hock, Miss Kate Campbell, Mrs. Fife, Mrs. Anna Custello and Miss Mary N Loftus. The theater was looked after by "Joe" Newman. Bawrence M. Puree:!. S. J. Young, John R. Schilling. Georga Foley, William L. Carroll, Joe Duna and Eugene McCarthy. Stanley McGinru-ss, I). W. Mullen, W. H. Andrew and Frank S. Lenert had charge of the printing. It was decided at a meeting of the general committee Friday niht, after receiving a communication from th-3 sisters of the asylum, that the orphan would not attend the picnic. The sisters sis-ters represented that it would be almost al-most impossible to manage the children chil-dren in so large a crowd. They will not be forgotten, however, a,4 donation of food, ice cream and fruit, mure than enough to supply the needs of th booths, were received by the committee, commit-tee, and what was left was sent out to the orphanage. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Flynn welcomed a little son to their home, l'U'J Pearl street, last Saturday. Miss Rose Lougan has returned from. Cripple Creek. An interesting article on "Dependent Children" appeared in Sunday morning's morn-ing's News, from the pen of Eiev. Father Ma'one, who is a nu mber of th State Board of Charities. It was written writ-ten after a visit to the London Foundling Found-ling Hospital. E,ev. Father Nugent Addresses the Chatauquans. Last Thursday was Texas-Colorado day at the Chautauqua. The speaker of the day was Rev. J. F. Nugent of the Diocese of Davenport. Iowa. Father Nugent was to have addressed the Chautauquans the previous Sunday, Sun-day, but did not reach Boulder on time. The subject of his eloquent discourse dis-course was "The Strqgle For Life." In part Father Nugent said: "Many people in the world ask them- selves the questions: What was I burr, for?' 'What does all this struggle foi life mean?' "What is life? Life is physical intellectual health. The whole struggla of the human race is to attain physical and intellectual health. "We used to say that it would be easier to live when W3 had all the luxuries lux-uries of invention and civilization. But high pressure civilization mean3 high, pressure living. The struggle of llf5 is just as intense now as it was in the ages of the past. . "In all ages the sum total ef happiness happi-ness has been about equal. Our superior su-perior advantages have given i3 superior su-perior responsibilities. "Men used to be content to live In their spheres, but unrest possesses the men of today. It is in the order of nature na-ture to struggle for the unattainable. "The days for pastoral simplicity and I nnftrv a.rt nnst anrl ?rnc. Cows ari nr longer allowed to 'wander slowly o'er the lea.' Times are too busy. The cowboys cow-boys round them up and the milkman milks them quickly in the barn. The 'fair milkmaid' and 'sylvan haunts' are unknown today. "Our advancement is bewildering. The conditions of life are being forced, upon us. We cannot remain stasnant; The tendency is for higher life, a quests for physical and intellectual health. "The point of desire 13 always a little ahead of the point of possession. The great misfortune is that culture and education and wealth only increase the unrest. We can never be satisfied in this world. "If the intellect could only be satisfied satis-fied it would not be a human intellect. It would then make us, as Markham says, 'a brother to the ox. What a vast price we have" to pay for the little we get! Is life worth living? Men have to sacrifice the end of living for the saka of living. . "There are inexorable laws lying under un-der every system of economics. There is the law of aggregation, the love of man for man. But the law of hunger keeps the law of aggregation from being be-ing abused. Hunger and the love of people for their children make the race spread out over larger fields. I "The law that decreed that Long's peak and Pike's peak should rise above the other peaks decreed that some men should rise above other men. If the world were level it would be uninhabitable. uninhabit-able. If all men were musicians or phi- . losophers or poets, the world would become be-come intolerable. The normal condition, of men is ignorance. " 'We had hoped that with our system sys-tem of srovernment the native genius of our young men would rise to the surface sur-face very quickly,' is the cry f some. . 'but machines are taking the place of men.' For every machine that is made a new impulse is set in motion, and the hundred hand3 which have been deprived de-prived of work have set in motion brains behind the hands. "The struggle of life must go on, and it means the progress of the world, but it means also pain and labor. We must pay for everything we get. Sometimes we pay for it on the installment plan, and sometimes we pay for it all at once, but all struggle means labor; all happiness happi-ness means pain. "What is it all for? There is only one place where the human life'finds rest and contentment. If this life end.? everything, then the struggle for life ti a farce. "The human intellect is gradually realizing the divinity that is in it. The world is growing better. The gorden thread of charity is running through all our actions. Is life worth living? Life is a gold mine in which are buried all the possibilities of the future, all the good thlugs of the better life." The famous lecturer was applauded most enthusiastically, and everyone felt the better for having heard him. It is rumored that Rev. Father Stafford, Staf-ford, the celebrated lecturer of Washington, Wash-ington, Rev. Father Brannen of Texas and Very Rev. Father Roberts, C. P., will be among the speakers at the Chautauqua next year. |