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Show I Spring- will soon smile on this valley. The robins have already done so. This is the season for clipping our meals; why not give the clippings to the poor? "Whose Easter will be happy? The I man's or woman's, who will not miss the morning Mass nor the evening devotions. de-votions. These being faithfully observed, ob-served, the rest will come spontaneously spontaneous-ly and the fruits of Lent will be a hundredfold. I One caller at this office 'the other day hrld his breath for some seconds, and Ihen exclaimed: "AH this for $2.75 this big book (Father Elliot's Life of I Christ) and a whole year's reading of The Intcrmountain Catholic!" Well, truly, it is a marvelous, offer and what is more it still holds good. But hurry up they are going like hot cakes. I An exchange has the following: "It is said that Colonel Arthur Lynch Ts a Protestant. His name has figured in the annals of Gahvay for centuries. The Lynches were one of the tribes that bothered the English in that grand old city in bygone times. A Lynch was mayor of Galway in 1492. They were all loyal Catholics. How is it that he is not one?" No prize has been offered for tne best guess, however, we venture one: Perhaps he is a "souper," or the son j; of one. The number of lives lost daily by fire, railway accidents, poisoning, as- ; sassination and other causes is appal- ing. After the Paris convention of anarchists have concluded their deliberations de-liberations we are assured by a New j York delegate that the list will be in creased. Had the society existed in the days of King Herod his command to massacre the babies would be neutralized neu-tralized by those who have chosen him for a patron saint, and whose first victim vic-tim would be the royal founder. 1 - j An amicable settlement between ten- I tnt and landlord in Ireland is pre- i I dieted. The representatives of both I parties have agreed that it should have j taken place 'ong ago. John Redmond I gives the assurance that the plan J agreed on will give entire satisfaction. I We hope the prediction will be ful filled. Seven hundred years is a long time to be violating the seventh commandment. com-mandment. The settlement, to be sat-isafctory, sat-isafctory, "should make some provision for restiution, or it may be that JoTin ' Redmond is satisfied that an adjust ment has been made before the bar of infinite justice. I A regular furore of excitement has been caused not only here in Utah, but throughout the length and breadti. j -of the country by the sensational charge made against the newly-elected senator for Utah by Rev. J. L. Leilich In a sworn statement, which was presented pre-sented to the United States senate by Senator Burrows on Thursday. The local guardian-angel of moral rectitude and of the Constitution, by the way, a Methodist by fame as well as by persuasion don't you smell it? charges that the Honorable Reed Smoot is a polygamist, that he has been living with a plural wife, . although then and there having a legal wife, furthermore that he en-I en-I " tered into this uiflawful marriage ! tsince the admission of Utah to I . statehood- and that the records of i '. Baid ".marriage are kept In the Mor- r .. of said marriage are kept in the Mormon Mor-mon temple, under the guardianship of the first presidency of the Mormon church and the quorum, of the twelve apostles, of which body Reed Smoot is a member. He further prays that the United States senate or its committee compel the first presidency and the quorum of the twelve apostles' to produce pro-duce such secret records for the consideration con-sideration of the senate. Here we have two parties to a seri- .ous charge the charging and the being charged. Both are under oath;' the one in giving evidence of the violation of a law, and the other to keep and observe the law of whose violation he is charged. The complainant confesses his want of proof, at least legal proof, but points to a source from "which it may be drawn; the defendant denies both the charge and the existence of its proof. , Thus the matter stands, and like the rest of our countrymen, we anxiously await the outcome of the affair. Not only the veracity, but the piety and religion of the parties are at stake, and at the issue the perjurer snould be dealt with as he deserves. In Massachusetts the ratio of births of children whose parents are foreign and native is the inverse of the marriage mar-riage of the same parents. There were 2,000 more marriages last year of natives than foreigners, but the proportion in births was entirely reversed, there being 35,370 babies whose parents were foreigners, and only 22,516 babies whose parents were natives. This alarming decrease is not confined to the Old Bay sta'fY Dooley , assured his friend Hennessey that the ! disproportion, was still greated between Michigan avenue and Achie avenue, Chicago. He gives statistics, which ari vouched for by the family physician and the spiritual director. They will be found in his interesting letter of last Sunday. |