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Show ; ; Crenei-al Longstrect is dead, lie is the last of the I . : great corps commanders of the- confederacy. If I ; ' ' : Father Evan were alive, what a bouquet of song . : could he lay on the grave of the only Longstreet. ! ''!' . " f- President Roosevelt's special message to congress con-gress justifying his action in recognizing the revolutionary revo-lutionary government of Panama is tantamount J, 1 to recognizing the right of secession. The right to , secede is a recognition of the right of self-goverh- .: ' ment. Ergo, the southern states possessed the right of secession when they withdrew from the Union in . 1 Ergo, again, the United States has no right to impose upon the inhabitants of -the Philippine islands the government of the conqueror, because it is in opposition to the logical attitude of the president:; recent message, and because it nullifies v the right of self-government. ' - f- , 4 It was a mean man who first declared that vro- i man wa? at nc bottom of all mischief, yet too many '' instances turn up to verify the mean man's declar- ' : ation. The fair name of Kentucky is blighted by I : family feuds in the mountain portion of the state ! ': chiefly. Civilized people in the Blue Grass region I I i wonder what motive lays behind the assassinations i so frequent in Breathitt county, which is the hot- ! ; f bed of the feudalists. What started the reign of I ' terror in eastern Kentucky? A woman. Miss Je- rie Trinible, gives us the genesis of one family feud I ; :n the Wide World magazine, and, sure enough, a f woman is 3t the bottom of it. Rather, two women, -, according to the story, who fell out in a dispute over the proper method of paring apples! IIus- 1 .nds. brothers -and sweethearts took up the quarrel. quar-rel. Some man was shot and killed, whereupon the-r.icn the-r.icn on both sides vowed to exterminate every male in the opposing faction. Strange coincidence .,.''.' which links ihe woman and the apple in the garden of Eden with the woman "and the apple in Breathitt county, Kentucky. : -f j Judge Goodwin is an ardent admirer of -Daniel ; ; Webster. In Goodwin's Weekly appeared a splen- , I did description of the grand statesman from the pen r ( of Senator Hoar, and a shorter paragraph describ- r ing the iin)ressions of uSeT Marshall of Calif or- .; j tiia. A good many stories could be told about Web- j ster, a man as scrupulous regarding national honor - 'i : . find national credit as he was careless regarding his i - own affairs.' In that respect he reminds us of the I happy-go-lucky litcrateurs who flourished and fam- ' ished with Oliver Goldsmith and Doctor Johnson. !;.'"' Webster's hobby was. the national debt; at least this was frequently on his mind and found expression ! in puonc speeencs. it is related that one time, at a ; banquet, he rose to respond to a toast, feeling pret ty mellow. He traveled over a variety of subjects. , finally reaching the national debt. With vehement and eloquent insistence, lie dedr red the debt should . Ik? paid. Stopping a moment in his speech and looking at the toastmaster, Daniel rammed his hand I ' " bis pocket, and said: "Mr. Toastmaster, to show j ; my sincerity in this question of the national debt, I ! I believe I'll uay it myself. Tow much is it r" He then sat down amid roars of laughter, and soon Mas soimd asleep in his chair. It is only right to say I hat Judge Goodwin does not reiK?at this storv. ' What a grand example Archbishop Harty presents pre-sents to tliose Spanish monks of the Philippines; Ihoso monks with chests of gold and who hagglelike haggle-like Shylocks over the price to be paid for their possessions. All the money ha received as gifts t Jrom the generous of St. Louis he turned over to ; the pastor of St. Leo's parish, to be applied to the ; . church debt. Sf. Loo's was Father Harty's church ' V P"0 to Father Harty becoming Archbishop 'Harty. - And the example is emphasized when these monks behold an American archbishop as poor a the pooirst'Filipino in Manila, with but one suit of clothes to his back. Enough money was taken to j pay his fare, across the Pacific and pay for the baro necessities of life. . Only such clothes as were ab-: sblutely necessarj- for the trip were carried, with the exception of a few vestments indicative of his church rank. Here is a man'truly appointed by (rod, one who literally carries out the advice the Master gave to the person who asked him what he should do to obtain eternal life - "Go and sell what thou hast and give to the poor, and then thou shalt have treasures, and, com? and follow me.' Oh. for more Hartys, and the world is ours! 4 : Complimenting this, paper on the excellent descriptive de-scriptive review of the churches, schools and religious re-ligious institutions of the Salt .Lake diocese,-, a friend regrets that the history did not embrace some mention of those priests of strong individuality individu-ality and talent, now members of the Church Triumphant Tri-umphant in Heaven. Father Scallon was one of church, remarks our friend, lu reply, our friend should understand that the Xw Year article contemplated con-templated the terrestrial in its application to the. spiritual, and went no further. Were the reviewer to attempt it, more than half the area of The Intermountain Catholic would be pre-empted i:i order to comply with a request like that which comes from our friend. Those were strong men ox the Church who passed, away, and their footprints foot-prints are not obliterated on the sands of the Salt: Lake diocese. Father Scallon was a remarkable nan. a majestic priest. His was a singular personality. per-sonality. Plain, almost ugly in feature, to the-casual the-casual observer, but angelic to his admirers, and grand as' a Loyola when he stood in the pulpit. One Sunday night, before Candlemas? day in 1-S91, the writer, accompanied by a Protestant friend, first entered the little cathedral of Salt Lake. This iihite-luxired priest preached from the altar, explaining ex-plaining the significance of the candle. Beginning p with the god Pan, gathering i;i the pagan vestal virgins, analytical and descriptive by turns, he waxed most eloquent as he approached the Christian Chris-tian idea of the candle as one symbol of faith. It was reallya classieal discourse, and astonished tho writer's' Protestant friend. "That man should never be a priest," he said. "Any man who" can talk an hour over such a trifling thing as a candle, can-dle, ought to he in the senate of the United States.'' . One page of last Saturday's Deseret Xews is reminiscent of the Walker OpeTa House fire here about ten years ago, supplemented with opinions of cur theatrical managers regarding the best means of preventing accidents and " avoiding calamities like the one which brought about the slaughter of the innocents at Chicago. All of which sounds very well, but is soon to be forgotten. The mind of man has conceived nothing that is absolutely perfect; the hand of man has wrought nothing which can bid defiance to accident, jxime time, in spite of vigilance and fancied security, the unexpected unex-pected will happen. Some little thing will be misplaced, mis-placed, like the hatchet which might have saved the Walker opera house if the stage hand could have used it instead of his jack-knife. All the better bet-ter if more ways of - egress are provided, yet such will not banish the instinct' which makes man escaping es-caping from a fire resemble a sheep following the bell-wether. It is difiicult to conceive how a calamity ca-lamity like the one at Chicago could take place in one of the old California mission churches, constructed con-structed after the Spanish style. Such a church existed, either in Santiago de Chile, or in Lima, Peru, about tnvcnty-nve years ago a church devoid de-void of iews or any other obstacle to speedy and safe agress. A fire broke out r.mid the altar decorations. dec-orations. It produced a panic among the congregation. congre-gation. The result was precisely the same as that which took place at the Iroquois theatre. Merrily Mer-rily we go along, with Death er,er at our side. To imagine' we can cheat him by providing against accident, is to mock the wisdom which bids us always al-ways to be ready. . 4 L'ntil the coroner finds out the first and real cause of the Chicago theatre holacaust, the person per-son who cried "Fire!" is blamed for the panic and cursed for its results. One Salt Lake newspaper, the Telegram, is almost savage in its denunciation denuncia-tion of the "villain" who raised the alarm. Its language lan-guage indicates that the "villain" had a purpose when he shouted "Fire!" He should be run down tnd severely punished, and nothing short of strangling would satisfy the Telegram. Writers who leap at conclusions like this one, furnish strong proof of the panicky nature of man. Sober reason rea-son would convince him that the blaze was visible to everybody present in the theatre when the cry cf "Fire!" was heard. There is no evidence that the person who shouted the alarm was a villain, nor that the cry concealed a purpose. On the other l and, it is the most natural thing in the human to give expression to the sense of pain, or alarm. Even a Christian Scientist would involuntarily involun-tarily cry "Ouch!" if he sat upon a tack, although denying the existence of pain. The cry of "Fire!" has come down from the ages, as far back as the burning of Home by Xero. Alarm will find expression, ex-pression, in spite of legislation, and so long as man is the creature of habit and fools make up the majority ma-jority of the human race. |