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Show TRIBUTES TO THE LATE FATHER JOSET. All the Catholic papers of the country pay fitting tribute to the life work of the late Jesuit Father Joseph Joset, whose death at the Coeur d'Alene Mission Mis-sion in Northern Idaho was recorded in The Intermountain two weeks ago. His whole life Was devoted to the elevating ele-vating and development of the Indian character, and in his passing he leaves a name that for good will be associated with the other great Catholic Indian missionaries who have gone before. Father Cronin. in the Buffalo (New-York) (New-York) Union and Times, says: "After fifty years of apostolic labores among the Couer d'Alene Indians, the Jesuit Father Joset, confrere and friend of the famous Father de Smet, has at last gone to. his" reward. We read that "calmly, peacefully, as one in a sweet sleep, he gave up his great soul into the hands of his Maker, exhausted ex-hausted by long years of faithful service. serv-ice. Oh, for a blessed death like his! Such are the : Catholic missionaries mission-aries that lead to heaven, rpt to wars." rrohabiy one of the most beautiful tributes to the memory of the deceased missionary from the secular press appeared ap-peared recently in the editorial columns col-umns of the St. Paul Globe, as follows: "Father Joseph Joset went to his work before Minnesota was on the map, before two-thirds of the people of the United States were born. He never held a public office, never made a political polit-ical speech, never shot off a gun or sunk a ship. He went among a people whose business was war, and whose hands, red with the blood of neighbors, he taught to build homes, schoolhouses and churches, and hold the plow. His weapons were the Book and the Word, the Golden Rule, an earnest heart and an honest purpose. "He was not known outside the little world in which he lived for nearly two generations as time is measured in the life of man. He sat by the bed of the sick and dying and spoke words of comfort. com-fort. No night was too dark, no road too wild and rough and long to prevent his attending every call. He baptized tne Dames, performed the marriage rite for the youth and -buried the old. The people venerated him, and when they stood by his grave there was genuine sorrow in every heart and every lip said a prayer for his soul. "He was an upright man, and conquered con-quered a people by peaceful means; he did not destroy, as the average hero does. He found them savages and liv ing by the chase,. When he died they lived from the products of farm life, and many of them had bank accounts. "This man was Father Joseph Joset, a Jesuit priest among the Couer d'Alene Indians of northern Idaho. He was one of the unknown heroes, and the story of his privations and dangers may never be told and his name will not live in books with heroes of daring but chance incidents, trifling in their results; but he was a hero whose hero-jsm hero-jsm covered a time extending far beyond be-yond the average period of human Jife. "The first church he preached in, and it is in plain view from the train on the Couer, d'Alene branch of the Northern Pacific railway, was put up by the Indians In-dians forty years ago under his supervision, super-vision, and it stands today a substantial substan-tial structure, in which not a nail or a Piece of iron was used. The church under which he was buried at New Mission was built twelve years ago at a cost of over $20,000. For him its An- followers will continue to bow at their, sound, as they have for many years. "Peace to the name and memory of Father Joset. His name is written alongside that Ahou Ben Adhem. He well earned the plaudit, "Well done." |