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Show I t When is humor really amusing ? T lieu Dooley 1 J lalks on "The Simple Life'' and Wagner preaches J ( on "The Simple Life" on the same page of Sun- 1 i day's Herald. t ' 4 I Thursday was the shortest day of the year, ac- Ij : cording to the almanac. That' depends upon your own meaning of the word "short" to be viewed I t either in the astronomical or financial sense. f 1 'Although it is a week since II. S. Goddard was J laid to rest, tears glisten in the eyes of those -who speak his name. Salt Lake could give up much to J the dread Reaper and mourn only for Goddard tak- t en from song. , ; J Only a few lines is telegraphed to the mountain , country from Dubuque, la., announcing that on 1 .Wednesday last, in the cathedral of St. Raphael, 3 Rer. John P. Carroll was consecrated bishop of I ' Helena, Mont. Archbishop Keane of Dubuque of- i ficiated as consecrator. Archbishop Glcnnon of St. Louis preached the sermon. Twenty prelates and ; s 200 priests were present. f Last Saturday's issue of the Deseret News fulfilled ful-filled the object of a Christmas edition along with ! a comprehensive presentation of Utah's commercial " future. The interesting feature lodged in the par ticipation of the early Mormons in all that made' I! this once trackless desert an abode of civilisation. The Latter-day Saints shared the hardships of-pioneers of-pioneers along with the early Spanish monks cf California. ... Trifling bits of rhyme cling firmer to memory I than Scripture quotations. The person who con- I coived the fable of "The Kilkenny Cats'' will prob- I ably never turn up. It's as old as anything from "Mother Goose." The person who composed the I rhyme which is impossible to separate from mem- I ry is Miss Conway. This is the jingle, if you never heard it before: J "There wanst was two eats in Kilkenny, I A itch thought there was one cat too many. I So they quarreled and bit. They scratched and they lit, v I Till excepting their nails I And the tips of their tails, I Instead of two cats, there wasn't any." I I Xature has to pay tribute to commercial van- I dalism. The once beautiful waterfall is now only I an agent to turn a wheel. Niagara is no long- I er Xiagara. It probably belongs to a Buffalo trust. iSo one of the great things in nature will be omitted omit-ted in the list of "seven wonders." Reports from Venice express fear of the stability of St. Mark's cathedral. One of these days the Leaning Tower of Fisa will get, a jerk, and so another "Wonder" will be blotted out. What is left of the great things of the middle ages will be shipped in box cars for I world's fairs somewhere. Cleopatra's Xeodle was I stolen from Egypt and set up in London. The I child of today may live to sec the Pyramids orna- ment our Utah desert at some station on the Salt I Lake t Los Angeles railroad. j I' The report that M. Combes, the infidel premier of France, is an ex-priest is constantly circulated, , in yntc of constant denials. The fact is, as has been many times stated, that Combes never was a priest, never was accepted as a candidate for holy orders. He was educated gratuitously by the Cath-I Cath-I olie clergy and given a tutorship for a time in one I of the Catholic colleges that he might pursue the j study of medicine, aecording to a 'correspondent I who has investigated the premier's early life. What- ever knowledge Combes posseses today he owes it to I the great charity of the defenseless men whom he is persecuting so relentlessly. In his mad desire !for power and fame he has sold himself to the atheists of France, and, like a human-asp, stabs-1 stabs-1 the breasts of ihose who nurtured him.' - 1 Manchuria has a population of about 20,000,000, .-aid is capable ot maintaining a population many I times as large. It ha- immense agricultural re- 1 sources. As yet there is no real Russian coloniza- I lion. Along the line of the railways there arc plenty of soldiers and officials. The Chinese East- j crn railway has l.Gt'O miles of track. The Russians I could transport to Manchuria and. support there a j half million men. The Russo-Chinesc bank is dc- f dared to be a chief agent in bringing about the ab- 1 sorption of Manchuria. That is the real reason for I its existence. Manchuria, it is asserted, is destined to become the greatest wheat producing country in the easi. the greatest lumber field, and the grcat- ! ot gold mining center. At present, however, beans constitute the chief agricultural wealth. The Chi- ' nce of Manchuria are said to be more receptive of new ideas and ideals than the people of almost any !: other part of China. : 4 . Among the messages of sympathy received by the widow of ihc Rev. John White Chadwick, min- ister of the Second Unitarian church in Brooklyn, w-ho died last week, was this poem from the Rev. John B. Tabb, a Catholic priest of Baltimore : AT HOME. "When Time is done and we Behold Eternity, , fJod grant both you and me ' With Him "At Home" to be. Accompanying the poem was this letter: My Dear Mrs. Chadwick What I had just written in the fervor of congratulation I sent you this mornings morn-ings it was all I could say when the sad news reached me. May he rest in peace! Think of me always a.s indeed his Loving Godson, t " . JOHN B. TABB. The "congratulation" was the verse which he had just sent for Mr. Chadwick's fortieth anniversary anniver-sary as pastor, which should have been celebrated Monday morning. . After sending it he learned of his death. The priest often referred to Mr. Chadwick, the Unitarian, as his "godfather." Mr. Chadwick was the first to discover the merit of the priest's lyrics. Neither had ever seen the other. But poetic instinct in-stinct makes a brother of genius, no matter in whom it is found. 4 Sonvething has been printed about the Do Veres. Upon reflection we think it was Father Yorke who wrory a touching paragraph that was copied into this paper. The name of De Vere occupies so much of the attention of the American public in connection with the amazing frauds of Mrs. Chadwick Chad-wick that it may be as well to mention that there is no relation whatsoever between her and old Sir Stephen de Vere, who has just died in Ireland tit Foynes island, his place in County Limerick, at the age of nearly 04. Sir Stephen, an elder brother of the Irish poet, Aubrey de Vere, was for nearly half a century one of the most prominent figures in Irish life and politics, and it rs the experiences which he acquired on a voyage to this country in connection with the Irish famine of 1847 that caused him to start the agitation which resulted in effective legislation against those sinister engines of destruction, the so-called "coffin ships." Sir Stephen and his brother, the late Aubrey de Vere, were such courtly old fellows and personified to so j great a degree everything that was patrician, that it is a shock to learn that the so aristocratic name of De Vere came to them by adoption rather than by direct inheritance. The family Was founded by one of Croniwell's soldiers in Ireland of the name of Hunt, who married Jane de Vere, granddaughter granddaugh-ter of the Earl of Oxford and a member of the noble English house of De Vere, long since extinct, of which Lord Oxford was the chief. It was one of the descendants of this Cromwellian soldier and of Jane de Vere who, on marrying the sister of the first Lord Limerick, dropped the name of Hunt and assumed that of his De Vere ancestress, being .subsequently .sub-sequently created a baronet, and it is his grandson, the fourth baronet, who has just died, without issue, the baronetcy becoming extinct, the estates passing, however, to his grand nephew, Aubrey O'Brien, who probably will now in turn assume the name of De Vere. x |