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Show ..Our Boys and prl$..' Edited by Aunt. Busy. This department is conducted solely in the interests inter-ests of our girl and boy readers. Aunt Busy is glad to hear any time from the nieces and nephew s who read this page, and to give them all the advice and help in her power-Write power-Write on one Bide of the paper only. Do not have letters too lone.,. Original stories and verses will be gladly received nd carefully edited. The manuscrips of contributions not accepted will be returned. I Address all letters to Aunt Busy, Ir.terniountain -f Catholic, Salt Lake City. THE BE AVE LITTLE MAN All' torn, but sweet, is the old straw hat, As it hangs on the wall in the hall, There's mud from home on two little shoes. Where he played on the hills last fall; There's dust on the kite and the little stick horsa Stands still as ever he can. Listening, perhaps in the corner there, For the voice of the brave little man. There's never a song of bird, nor bloom - Of rose that blows in the spring, Nor shout of joy, nor gleam of sun But where some tears wiU cling. v There's never a flash of the evening star On the hearthstone's fireside Of winter night but will bring some tears For the brave little man that died. Kind friends they were; we kiss them for him And lay them out of sight The two little shoes, the torn old hat, The little stick horse and kite; . And down in his pocket a rusty nail, A bit of chalk and stiing, A broken knife, an alley or two, Oh! the birds, the bloom and the spring! And star of God at morning's song, Noontime and twilight tide, One sweet little face, some tears will come For the brave little man that died. William Page Carter. AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. Pear Nieces ami !NYplipvs: Did all the Salt Lake pirls and boys attend the Utah slate fair? Aunt Busy hopes they all visited points of interest on the grounds. Aunt Busy I ihouprlit the fruit exhibit was splendid, and did not ' ; the dear children think the school work very good i : 1 Aunt Busy liked the work of the primary grades and the training- schools ihe best of all. Just sis Aunt Busy was leaving the fair building she saw the prettiest exhibit of all. What do you think Aunt Busy admired so much? Two dot-, sweet : twin baby girls! ! One was fast asleep aud the s other was wide awake; one had blue eyes and the I other black eyes. I The blue-eyed baby with her thumb in her tiny I mouth would laugh and coo with every one who j ( noticed her, but the other darling slept soundly I i through all the noise including the baud; her I ' funny little wrinkled, red nose looked like a small red, cherry. Auut Busy followed those dear babies around all evening and she came homo from the fair believing lhat the fairest, sweetest and most interesting sights she saw were those two girl babies. Others might have preferred the dry farm, the mining, the art, the woolen goods, the candy, the every other kind of exhibit, but Aunt Busy thinks that the twin darlings deserved all the prrizc. medals and prize money given. What do the girls and bovs think? Why not send your opinions in writing, to AUNT BUSY. LETTERS AUD ANSWERS. Ogden, Utah, Oct. 1. Bear Aunt Busy: The boys are so smart they ihink they can get ahead of us girls in writing to you, but I will show them they are not a's smart as they think. I had a very nice time during vacation, I still go to St. Joseph's school and I suppose I will go to the Sacred Heart academy next year. Our Sunday school started a few Sundays ago. AVe have a big crowd, I wish you could see us all marching march-ing out after Sunday school. I am iu the First Communion class and I hope I shall make my First Communion soon. We have four swings in our school yard and everybody has a good time. We are all very glad that Father Cushnahan has returned for avc missed him. very much. Tomorrow Edna Hcaly and I are to stand the boys in a contest. ricae say a prayer that we will beat. 1 am iu a kurrv, so good-bye. Your loving niece, TERESA O'COXXOR. Aunt Busy has a very high opinion of her dear Ogdcu girls, but of course she is extremely fond of the .Ogden boys because they have always remembered remem-bered her. Aunt Busy will certainly visit Ogden some day just to see. the splendid Sunday school ;ilone. Write frequently to Aunt Busy, Teresa, lecause she is sure you are a bright, dear little girl or vou would not be an Ogden girl. . i . Ogden, Utah; Sept. GO. Dear Aunt Busy: After having such a long vacation va-cation I will write you a little letter. Wc are get-Sw, get-Sw, t ing along fine in school. The boys are having a ' good time playing football. Wc got a new ball. Father Cushnahan plays with us. I tell you wc .have fun. I like school. I have a very good papa. J am not a Catholic, but 1 am starting to study catechism. In winter we play ball to keep us warm aand in summer to keep us cool. 1 hope you feel good to get this letter. WELLIXGTOX COOPER. Aunt Busy has a warm welcome for the dear new nephew f rom Ogden. Indeed. Aunt Busy did feci good when she received your bright letter. She is sure that the "good papa'' has a dear, good son, too in Wellington Cooper. 1 Ogden, Utah, Sept. 28. Dear Aunt Busy: The boys think they arc the only things on ihe face of the earth you care for, but I want to show them that you have sonn? regard for the girls. I think girls are lots quieter and more polite than boys. Don't you.' The boys of .ur school are pretty good, but then they are encouraged en-couraged every day. Father Cushnaham bought them a great big football and they have lots of fun playing with it. Father plays with them too. When I sec them playing I almost wish my brother was big enough to belong to their team. Our school u crowded with nice boys and girls. We are working work-ing very hard. You must come to some of our contests con-tests lliis year. I know you will enjoy them. Love from all the girls. Your loving niece, , ESTHER GRAVES. Really, dear little girl, Aunt Busy agrees with T ihe deaOgdcn boys, that they arc the "salt of the earth" (Utah earth.) She is very fond of them and would love the Ogden girls just as dearly as the bovs if the girls would not neglect her. Of course the Ogden boys are good and lovable so people can not help but encourage them. Yes, dear, boys are not as quiet and polite as girls, but the girlies are expected to be gentle, sweet and lovely. Some day ihe boys will realize and appreciate how sweet the girls are; then Aunt Busy's nieces will be able to-influence to-influence the dear fellows and make them quiet and polite. . : ' - Aunt Busv thinks that if the girls have pretty V. mannncrs the boys will be more polite. But- dchr, dear, how Aunt Busy. docs dislike quiet boys. ( She . dearly loves the fellows who say "golly, gee vim, 'jimijiHiy'. "bully," etc Ihe iioisy chaps who arc 4 both seen and heard. She also loves the dear little girls, who want to be !ittlc ladies, and one of these, Aunt Busy is sure is Esther Graves. THE GIRL SHE LOVED BEST. ' Edith came across the above line in her parsing lesson, and after puzzling over its meaning for some time, carried it for explanation to her mother. "I do not understand it at all, mamma," said she. Said her mother: "Among your mates arc your dearest friends the most beautiful girls V "Oh, no, mamma! The girl I love the very best of all is Alice, Maxwell, who says 'she is sorry for her friends because she is so homely.'' ''Does she look unlovely to you. Edith f, "Why, no. mamma; 1 know she has a large nose ami some' other imperfections, but I like her so well I never think of them, or notice them." WHY HE CHOSE SANDY. "There will be room for one more boy,"' said the children's uncle, "as Phil is not well enough to go. Phil, you may choose a boy to take your place." Uncle Travers had promised the Moore children a moonlight ride and now Thil was laid up with tonsilitis and couldn't go. "I choose Sandy Magill," said Phil. "Sandy!" cried the others in surprise. "Why do you choose Sandy? We never play with Sandy." Phil wouldn't say at first why he wanted Sandy to have his ride; he seemed to be shy of telling the little story, but after some coaxing he did tell it. "I know Sandy is a quiet sort of chap," he said, "and the fellows have always said he hadn't any spirit; but when the school got into trouble "the other day about breaking Mr. Mason's window, Sandy was the only boy that didn't run; he didn't throw the ball, but he was in the game and he paid for it out of his own money that he earns by carrying car-rying milk. He said it wasn't fair to Mr. Mason, but he didn't seem to care that it wasn't fair to himself. I liked him for that." "I like him for it, too," said Uncle Travers. "It is a good sign to see a man or boy looking out for other people's rights; he may not have the sort of spirit that passes for pluck in this world, but it is the spirit of the Christian, who 'socket h not his own'; and there is something God put into all our hearts that makes us admire that spirit. You see, as soon as Philip saw it in Sandy, he liked him for it and wants to do him a good turn." "We'll send for Sandy to come to take tea with poor Phil," said Phil's mother; she hated to see her bov miss hid ride. "Mother hopes that 'seeking not his own' will be catching, though tonsilitis isn't," said Phil, smiling to himself from his white pillow. THE HAPPIEST LITTLE BOY. "Guess who was the happiest child I saw today." asked father, taking his own two lit tic, boys on his knees. , "Oh, who, father ?" "But you mtist guess." "Well," said Jim, slowly, "it was a very rich little lit-tle boy, with lots and lots of sweets aud cakes." "Xo," said the father, "lie wasn't rich; he had no sweets and no cakes. What do you guess. Joe C "He was a pretty big boy." said Joe, "and he was riding a big, high bicycle." "Xo," said the father. "He wasn't big, aud of course he wasn't riding a bicycle. You have lost your guesses,' so I'll have to tell you. There was a flock of sheep crossing the city today; and they must, have come a long way, so dusty aud tired and thirsty were they. The drover took them up, bleating bleat-ing and lolling out their tongues, to the great pump in Hamilton court to water them. But one poor old ewe was too tired to get to the trough and fell down on the hot, dusty stones. Then I saw my little man, ragged and dirty and tousled, spring out from the crowcLpf urchins who were watching the drove, fill his hat and carry it one, two, three oh, as many as six times, to the poor, suffering animal, until the creature was able to get up and go on with the rest." "Did thet sheep say, 'Thank you,' father ?" asked Jim, gravely. "I didn't hear it," answered father. "But the little boy's face was shining like the sun. and I'm sure he knows what a blessed thing it is to help what needs helping." "Men with a reputation- for learning, as Har-nack Har-nack and Secberg-, also regard Luther's statement as true and rely on his alleged quotations. They appear not to have examined things for themselves. Father Dcnifle's solid erudition enables him to set them right in innumerable instances. If an ordinary ordin-ary person differed from them in their estimate of Luther's knowledge, they would probably ignore his remarks. But a scholar of world-wide fame cannot be treated in this way. His words command attention atten-tion and will be listened to. whether Kolde, Buch-j Buch-j wald, Kawcrau. Ilarnack. Secberg and others like or no. "It can easily be understood that a work such as this would raise a storm of indignation in Protestant Protest-ant Germany. In fact, writers of every calibre and of every religious species have joined in denouncing denounc-ing Dcnifle. The Lutheran papers, Bcryiu "Post." "Krcuzzeitung," etc.. have .--welled the chorus, and the "Evangelisches Bund"' lately distributed 1W,- U00 copies of an inflammatory pamphlet. Xalurally enough the author took no notice of these worthies, but when "from devotion to history and from love of truth" university professors entered the lists to do battle for Luther, he considered it a duty to re- . fute them. Ilarnack's and Scoberff's united attffk was repulsed in the pamphlet published last Apiil, 'Luther in Rationalist ischer uud Christlicher li-euchtung: li-euchtung: Prinzipiclie Auseinanderset.ung mit. A. Ilarnack und R. Secberg.' It is enough here to say that neither of them was able to discover any error in Denifle's work; they abused him. however, for pointing out several in theirs. Other university professors have followed the Berlin champions; but with no better success." We trust an English translation of ihis great book may be soon forthcoming, since it is those who speak the English tongue are the most numerous numer-ous of those who have been vitiated by Luther s false teachings. As a French writer observes: "It will no longer be possible to speak of Luther" without with-out having read IVniile." This sentence is the measure of the book's worth. MISTAKES OF MYERS. A new interest in the truth of every person and thing connected with the great tragedy called the Reformation has been aroused by the appearance of Father Denitle's great work on "Luther and Luther-ism." Luther-ism." To ibis work we refer in another place; and while we wait for the result of the wider diffusion of such an eye-opening and conscience-awakening book, it is well to clear the way by showing what is already available, by way of preliminary, for popular popu-lar use. Some time ago it was our pleasure to direct di-rect attention to n singularly helpful controversial work by Rev. William E. Randnll, of the Church oC the Assumption, 817 Sydney street, St. Louis, Mo., entitled "Mistakes and Misstatements of Myers." In this book the patient and learned author tracked through its every falsehood, colossal or pigmy, the text-book called "Myers' History," which is being foisted 'upon the American public through the facilities afforded by the public school system and the latent bigotry of many of those upon whom the selection of public text-books depends. Father Randall points out in his introduction that, as under the provisions of the American constitution guarantceing-religious liberty and freedom of conscience, con-science, is the right of pupils in the,' public schools to reject this text-book of Myers. He gives a thousand thou-sand reasons why it should be rejected, not only by Catholics, but by every student desirous of learning the truth of history, not its travesty. Though we selected some specimens of his method, in a notice . of his hook, the renewed interest in the Luther legend le-gend 1 erupts us to add some bearing directly upon the life and work of the arch-apostate and his companions. com-panions. We follow the reverend author's own plan of giving first the literal text from the book and then his own gloss or comment on the same: Marjtin Luther. Myers: "Years oi study, reflection and mental conflict within the cloister had awakened in Luther's mind doubts and questionings as to many of the doctrines of the church." Comment. It was not study and reflection that ruined Luther, but pride and passion. Luther wa3 angered by the selection of Tetzel, rather than himself, him-self, to preach the indulgences. He sought a pretext pre-text to oppose Tetzel, and engaged in public controversy con-troversy against his methods with wonderful ardor; but enthusiasm and passion bore him onward beyond be-yond his calculations, and he had not the humility to acknowledge his extravagances and retrace his steps. Myers: "His last' lingering doubt respecting the matter of ecclesiastical penances and indulg-entitled indulg-entitled "Mistakes and Mistatements of Mvcrs." In enccs appears to have been removed while, during an 'official visit to Rome in 1510, he was penitenti-ally penitenti-ally ascending on his knees the sacred stairs of the Lateran, when he seemed to hear an inner voice declaring, de-claring, 'The just' shall live by faith.' " Comment. So wc are seriously told that Lu-thcr's Lu-thcr's "last lingering doubt" was, removed in lolO; no longer can he believe Catholic doctrine. Yet on . October 13, 1518, at the conference at Augsburg he publicly professed his faith in all the doctrines of the Catholic church; and openly declared that he had never, intended to teach anything offensive to Catholic doctrine, to the Holy Scriptures, to the authority of the Fathers or to the decrees of the pope. ' Again, he broke with the church, the author says, beeli use "he seemed to hear an inner voice declaring de-claring 'The just shall live by faith.' " But that is Catholic doctrine, and iu no way conflict ive with the doctrine of indulgences. The 'error of Protestantism Protest-antism on this point is that it teaches, as did Luther, thai. "The just shall live by faith alone." It is the appendicitis that kills the living body of truth. The Ninety-Five Theses. Myers: "The form which church penances had taken in the hands of Tetzel and his associates, making sins past and prospective an article of merchandise, was so opposed to reason and the teachings of the "Scriptures, that Luther determined deter-mined to make an appeal to the conscience and intelligence in-telligence of the world." - Comment. Two pages back the author, wrote: "It is, and always has been, the theory (doctrine) of the Roman Catholic church that the indulgence remits merely. temporal penalties." Why, then, does he nqw say that Tetzel and his associates made "sins past and prospective an article of merchandise?" It is very certain that they did no such thing, and no proof has ever been adduced to show that they sold either indulgences or sacramental absolution. And even if they had, their conduct, being in direct violation of ecclesiastical laws, Avpuld 'furnish Luther no argument for rejecting the church. The author's accusations seem to us to be not only dishonorable, but dishonest. - Myers: "He drew up ninety-five theses or articles, ar-ticles, wherein he fearlessly stated his views respecting re-specting indulgences." Comment. These foolieh propositions over which so much fuss ' has been made, disclose neither originality nor profundity. As to the spirit in which they were proposed arid defer; dod, Luther's own words declare. Under date of Trinity Sunday, 1518, he thus wrote to th-; pope: "The propositions .which I put forth', Most He!1," Father, are in the form of thr-ses, .and not of doctrines: of enigmas propounded, in an enigmatic - e" These, ninety-fi,ve ninety-fi,ve puerile and false theses, Mr. Mvers distorts into' "truths'boldly and eloquently proclaimed." We can understand Luther's excitement' aud intemperance,, for he was a party to a hot discussion; but. Mr. i Myers' enthusiasm over a number of absurd arid j wholly indefensible articles which he himself -dogs j, ;-ilMt. hclievc, seems to indicate some mental abnorin- i ulify.- " ' . ' j |