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Show i Fresh oysters on the menu cards of J our restaurants this week remind one that there is a place in the United States named Baltimore. Next week ushers in our glorious Utah September. Likewise the school ma'am, the politician and the oyster. Dow n in Georgia it brings the mocking bird to sing "o'er the grave of Hal-lie." Hal-lie." t Colorado still leads the mineral states j in the output of gold and silver. Utah i stands, fourth in the list of the pro ducers of the precious metals, being surpassed only by Colorado, California and Montana. A sensational statemf nt has been going go-ing the rounds to the effect that Joan ' - . ' of Arc has been denied the honors of . beatification. The grounds on which ? the statement is based is declared to be I false. It is pointed out that she has ' already been declared Venerable and j Blessed. The third step is merely de- I layed. I In a Roman Catholic church in Ha- j zleton. Pa., one morning during the I present coal strike the priest preached j . . an eloquent sermon on moderation. 1 When he had finished, he called upon I t all the men to rise and take the oath J I . of total abstinence, to be kept so long 1 I as the strike should last. With almost I I no hesitation every man in the congre- i ! ; gation took the oath and afterward ' fcigned the pledge. 'ur venerable contemporary, the C tholic Mirror of Baltimore, is shocked because this paper gave welcome to ; the Elks in light-hearted language and designated the brotherhood as "the best people on earth." Evidently the editor of the Mirror is one of those persons per-sons who take life too seriously. Were he to inject more ginger and less breviary brevi-ary into the Mirror, the paper would be appreciated better than the average diocesan "organ" which makes one tired. Parents interested in the education of their children will find in the list of colleges and academies advertised in the Intermountain Catholic first-"v first-"v class institutions in every Respect. To any of these institutions they can J trust their boys and girls and have ' , i the assurance that their children's morals will be safely guarded, along with receiving a thorough knowledge in all the ordinary branches of learn-. learn-. ing. A letter to the heads of these institutions will secure all necessary information. The Salt Lake Tribune is not pleased over the fusion of Silver Republicans and Democrats in Nevada et the recent state convention. Once upon a time the Tribune was the' recognized advocate advo-cate of such politics in this intermoun-: intermoun-: ; '' , ,ain country. In its report of the fu- ; fion convention, the nominee for gov ernor Siarks) is charged with being a Gold Democrat and" one who voted for McKinley and Roosevelt. What if he did? Is it not clear that if the Democrats Demo-crats hope to win, they must persuade to their side a great many electors who voted for McKinley and Roosevelt? ; The Catholic "Summer School" at Cliff Haven has been eminently successful. suc-cessful. The lectures during the past week were unusually attractive and frequented. Among the lecturers were the Rev. Gasson, Rev. James T. Fox of St. Thomas Aquinas college, Washing ton; Thomas Walsh, Ph. D., of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, and Dr. Pallen of Pittsburg. Father Fa-ther Gasson lectured on "The Spiritual Ideals of the Middle Ages." Father Fox on Metaphysics, and Dr. Pallen on Milton's poems. Not long ago a reception re-ception was tendered Admiral Schley. Professor E. Benjamin Andrews assertion as-sertion that the state of celibacy promotes pro-motes crime seems to be confirmed by the ' figures found in the semi-annual volume of statistics compiled for Chicago Chi-cago by Hugo S. Grosser, municipal librarian and statistician. According to Mr. Grosser's figures, of the persons arrested this year 18,157 males and 3,310 females were single, while 8,097 males and 1,948 females were married. During the six months of 1901, 22,634 persons arrested were single and 9,505 married. One of the notable figures of the German Ger-man revolution of 1848 and of the American civil war has passed away. General Franz Sigel died a few days ago in his 78th' year. The failure of the revolution of '4S was a happy event for the United States. It drove into exile on these shores a choice body of educated, -ardent, -liberty- lovinc Ger- I mans, .who lost none of their devotion to freedom when they crossed the ocean' and who fought as bravely in its cause with tongue, pen and sword in this country as in their native land. Again the cable is busy with a red hat for Archbishop Ireland. The "Roman "Ro-man correspondent of the New Tork Tribune cables his paper that the recommendations rec-ommendations under solicitations to the Vatican to have- Archbishop Ireland Ire-land nominated as a cardinal have now assumed proportions, 'as setting forth that the red hat would be a due reward re-ward for the success the Papacy obtained ob-tained through him by the Taft mission mis-sion coming to Rome. A project that is widespread, continues the correspondent, correspon-dent, is that Bishop Quigley of Buffalo, having refused the archbishopric of Chicago, Archbishop Ireland .be appointed.. ap-pointed.. there as a. fit field for. his activities, ac-tivities, and being created a cardinal, he would have the west under his Jurisdiction, Ju-risdiction, s while Cardinal Gibbons would have the east. In the early days of Vermont, "in good old colony times' a Catholic priest, under severe penalty, was prohibited pro-hibited from saying mass. Popish worship was pronounced a device of the devil, and children were put to bed and admonished to go to sleep lest a priest appear with hoofs and horns iu...jiwiitiii iui uisuueuience. What a marvelous change has taken place in New England! The other day a Catholic priest was nominated for the legislature in- the' old Granite state upon a "high license, no option" platform, with good chances of election elec-tion should he accept the nomination of his party. We have no word of the priest's acceptance; neither have we heard of his declination, although al-though such is anticipated. Yet if he would rather be a politician than a priest, let him first resign his sacred office in the church'. In America, at least, we should steer clear of sanctuary sanc-tuary politics and avoid the troubles which have overcome France and made the Philippine friar an enemy of the people. One day this week there appeared in the most expensive columns of London's Lon-don's newspapers of the biggest circulations circu-lations one of the most curious advertisements adver-tisements ever published. It consists of along prophecy, occupying two and a half columns, and describing a series of momentous events which are to occur oc-cur between 1908 and 1929, and which will culminate with the second coming of Christ and the beginning of the millenium. The prophet is an individual indi-vidual who describes himself as "the Rev. M. Paxter of London," and his screed is another of those elaborate deductions de-ductions from figures and signs in the books of Daniel and Revelations. He declares that what was formerly Caesar's Cae-sar's empire will be divided between 1906 . and 1917 into ten kingdoms, including in-cluding France extended to the Rhine. taking in Great Britain, without Ireland Ire-land and India; Spain, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and the Balkans. These ten kingdoms will form a Latin confederacy, which will be leagued against Germany and Russia. The prophet says that a lot of terrible things will happen in the ensuing ten years. Poor America does not figure in the awful chronicle, presumably. because be-cause she finds no place in biblical history. |
