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AMERICAN. n D EM r iviicl 1518 Oipitol A.vGmie. IE 0 ? n rv Ml iwwi, I mm I Household Goods . . Lobeck Merchandise Company, ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN. Priest O'Carroll Declares It Is Through the Roman Church. Protestant Treated to a Tongue Lash ing at a Funeral in Pell a, Iowa. The Pella (fowa) Times ol the 23d inst. contained the following account of a funeral held, in that city one week before: Last Friday, as noted in our last is sue, occurred the funeral exercises of Mrs. John Welch, but as the occasion proved to be one of more than usual im portance, on account of the ecclesiasti cal complications, we feci disposed to note the facts of this good lady's funeral ceremonies. She had lived in this community about half a century and was well known as a kindly de s posed, charitable, believing Christian. Her husband, John Welch, had in his early life been a Catholic, but long years ago he threw off and repudiated the usurpations of the priesthood of that church, and declared his disbe lief in the power of any priest to decree the saving or losing of any soul, and to this day stoutly refuses to accept the ministrations of the Catholic clergy. The old couple were not members of any church, though charitably in clined toward all except the Catholic, Roke and Daughter He Can't Live Said my friends and neighbor. I had Dye. pwpsia 18 years; physicians and change' ol eilmate did not help me. But Hood's Sarsapa- Hooas Sarsa parilla - rllla did me more good than all the doctoring. I ean now eat, sleep and and work. My daughter c ures also had distress and rheumatism. Hood's Bar aparllla made her stout, well and healthy. B. t. 0. Kokb, Falrrlew, Kansas. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, and it ot purge, pain or gripe, told by all drug gitta B. F. O. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 4 toward which the old gentleman has always been hostile since his with drawal from it. Accordingly, when the last rites were to be performed for Mrs. Welch, Rev. Westfall, of the Methodist church, and Dr. Stoddard, for the Baptist, to which churches mem bers of the deceased lady's family ad hered, were invited to hold services at the home, which they did. But the Priest O'Carroll, of Oskaloosa, had been summoned, and having previously by a sort of "ex-post-facto" ratification confirmed the rite of baptism adminis tered by a relative to the deceased dur ing her sickness, came to celebrate mass for the repose of the soul of the good woman which had passed to its rest and reward two days previously without his let or hindrance. Upon arrival at the house of sorrow, the priest discovered the presence of the Protestant clergy, and beat a hasty re: treat lest he be contaminated by asso ciation with heretics, and hastened to his parish church, leaving word that he would await, the coming of the funeral procession at that place. In due time the body of the deceased, borne by the hands of life-long Protes tant friends, accompanied by the sor rowing relatives, filed into little St. Mary's, in deference to the wishes of the Catholic relatives, to permit the rites of that church to be performed for the dead. After the priest had celebrated mass and before beginning his sermon, he said he wished to make a few explanr- tions, and recalling the services of the Protestant clergymen who sat before him, he told the relatives that had he known that others would have offici ated, "I would not have come at all You might have known better, if you have a particle of sense! Are you all idiots.' Think of It! Two roads to heaven, one Catholic, one Protestant! Don't that look ridiculous? There is only one church, and that is the Catho lic church, and there is only one way to heaven, and that is through the Catholic church." And so it came that the priest's "explanations" were drawn out into about two hours of the most bitter abuse of Protestants and Protestantism; the most dogmatic de fense of creed and priestcraft and the bitterest Invective against everything in opposition to Catholicism. Not one word on the Immortality of the soul; not one word of cheer to hu manity; not a star of hope was allowed to gleam and glitter and guide to the mansions of light; not a word about the Saviour of man, or the potency of his blood that trinkled on Golgotha for the saving of the race. Only the cracking of the whip over the backs of the .4 .-W Patt Police SKATES 1 iog quiescent faithful; only the flaunting of the "keys to the kingdom" in the face of the Protestants; only the boasting of the bigoted self-Btyled vicegerent of Jesus, such as woul gladden the hearts of the most thirsty pope that ever speculated in the "stocks" in the heavenly kingdom and trafficked in the bloood of Jesus in the middle ages. The Protestants who were present' still live, enjoying good health and happy in th hope of salvation, yet quietly humming: 'And are we still alive, and do we still rebel? 'lis , wondrous, us amazing grace that we are out of hell.' And the soul of Aunt Rachel Welch has gone with confiding trust into the presence of that Judge, the quality of whose mercy is not determined by the frailty of human judgment, though emanating from the mind of priest, prelate or pope. John Welch still lives, wearing com placently his crown of more than ninety years' scorning priest and pope, and giad that it is not in the power of man to bar him from mercy and justice, and more willing to accept da no nation at the hands of a just Judge than wear the chains of human creeds coupled with man's impotent and impudent promise of salvation. In the death of this good old woman, and the sadder ending of the life of Joseph Gregoire a short time ago, was it the Church of Rome that showed its claws, or was it simply the mad roar ing of the irresponsible and insulting priest known as Mr. O'Carroll? A few more sermons (?) like his last and a few more exhibitions of his priest-ridden creed like he has recently given will suffice to dissolution more than a few of his parlshonera in Pella who have been greatly enlightened by bis recent de liverances. No Men Like the American Men. ' I'm glad I live in America," said a pretty young woman, talking to a Philadelphia Enquirer reporter, "be cause I am never afraid to travel by myself. .Last year I was in London and went abroad with a friend who is married, and we were spoken 1o in an insulting manner every time we went out. Paris was still worse. Pwinl speak of the French politeness, but it is only a veneer. The men would get in front of us on every street corner and ogle and chatter like monkeys. I'm giau 1 am not understand anything they said. There are no men like the American men, and I never was so fullir able to appreciate it as I am now, after having seen those of other nations in their own lands. Besides, the girls are treated better here than aov Dlace on earth, and I don't want to cross the ocean any more." Exchange. 16 WELL KNOWS IN HUSTON. Ilraye Old Veteran Patriot, Iter. J. U. White, Assailed by a Tough. Lexington Ky., Nov. 22. Rev. J. G. White, of Stanford, 111 , leetured at the Auditorium here, his subject being "Kjmanism Not of God." He spoke under the auspices of the A. P. A. When two-thirds through his lecture Mike Scully walkel down the aisle nearly to the rostrum, and In a loud voice began calling the venerable min ister vile names and abusing him In the vilest language. Forty hands in stantly went to the handles of forty re volvers, each man waiting for Scully to attempt to strike the speaker. This he failed to do. The greatest excite ment prevailed and a number of people left the house. The ladies present were badly frightened, and a panic was barely averted by R9V. Mr. White's coolness and assurance that there was no danger. Finally an officer was se cured and Scully was arrested. lioHton Daily Standard. Reforming the World. If, as we are told, charity begins at home, it is a fact even more to be em phasized that reformation should begin at the same place. Reformers, as a rule, take very little of their own medi cine. They deal in theories that are warranted to fit somebody else, and never once dream that ihey are in much greater need of their own minis trations than those for whose enlight enment they labor so tirelessly day after day. Especially are there people in plenty who desire and profess to believe in a universal religion. They want to meas ure all humanity by their own yard stick, and weigh them by their own scales. They do not eoem ever to have thought that religion, as well as pota toes and posies, is affected by environ ment, and that it is scarcely possible to raise in one soil and under one sun the identical product that an opposito'part of the world produces. Truth is Hhe germ of all good, and from it comes every form of religion and most of the characteristics of civlli zition. Go where we will, seek it in whatever country we may, the good can be traced back to the same original idea, whether it be the blind idolatry of the heathen, the wsthetio piety of the priestess of old, the stalwart honesty of the backwoodsman, or the fire and fer vor of the evangelist. It is all one. and with one inspired and inspiring sentiment as a fountain-head. With the shortsightedness that be longs to human nature, we are dis turbed at the lack of uniformity in re ligious matters. Cautious and troubled FLOU Silver Dollar Flour. Made from Best Minnesota Hard Wheat, 1'atent KoIIed, only and every sack entirely satisfactory, money will be re funded. We also have a Choice Patent Flour at 90c a Sack. GOOD FAMILY FLOUR AT 65c A SACK. AND 1518 Capitol Avenue. about many things, we give more time to worrying about differences in J liglous and moral ideas than to tlie propagation of the ideas themselves. What is wanted is a persistent, intelli gent and dovottd cultivation of the truth, a careful planting and watering of the highest type of morality. And with these we must not forget that there is a personal fastidiousness that goes a long way toward stimulating growth in grace. Every child should be taught daintiness of mind as well as of person, and impressed with the idea that it Is a great deal better to culti vate Christian truth in a clean mind than in one that is overgrown with the tares and weeds of vicious thoughts and evil habits. There is a great deal of time con sumed nowadays in arguing as to which "ology" is true and which "ism" Is most worthy of adoption. It matters not a whit whether any or all of these doctrinal points are adopted or re jected. Indeed the world would be quite as well off if nlnety-nlne-bun-dredths were swept from its records. They neither make nor mar the beauty of holiness; neither do they 'insure sal- .tion nor guard against the destruc tion that awaits those who pursue the ways of sin, regardless of truth, right or juetice. The thing that is needed most of all is that all religious bodies, wherever they may be and by whatever name they may bo called, shall ignore de nominational differences, forget the hair-splitting of doctrines, and give more attention to the planting and pro duction of pure and simple gospel truth. Reforming is conducted very much on the principle of painting, which is laid on as a surface coat, instead of be ing a thorough clearing out from the very marrow of the bones. When the material dwelling gets shabby and un sightly, and shows evident need of re forming and reconstructing, the painter and decorator come in, scrape the walls a little to make them smooth, or sand paper the paint off for the same pur pose, and then goon to produce beauti ful and artistic results with paint and kalsomine. This is precisely what a great many reformers do in their zeal for accomplishing something. They seem to lose sight of the fact that the entire inner and outer man must be re generated and purified. This, under ordinary circumstances, is the next thing to a hopeless task. While it is true that the outer ap pearance must be improved in ordar to correspond with every inward change, it is equally true that there is far too much stress laid on outward indica tions. A reputation and a character o) In a Sack, for full weight fifty lbs., warranted, and if not are widely different things. One Is the estimation in which men hold the in dividual, his standing in the commu nity and his general effect as viewed from without; the other is what the man really is, judged by his intrlnBlo value, and it is this and this alone that should be alnpted as the true standard of the worth of the individual. JVew York Ledjer, A'w. S3. A RomUh Insult. One of the most insulting conten tions of the Romish church is that wherein the Protestant mothers of the country are regarded as concubines and their children as illegitimate. Arch bishop Riordan, of San Francisco, in a pastoral letter, says: "There are Catholics who, despising the authority of the church of Jeaua Christ, and almost abjuring their faith, apply for the celebration of their mar riago to a civil officer or a Protestant minister, not only exposing themselvea tiereby to make a contract that has no force before God, and consequently does not prevent their Intercourse from being a horrible concubinage, but also committing really a gin of sacrilege, partaking of the enormity cf a sacri legious communion received at the hands of a minister or a magistrate. We therefore ordain that in no case whatever can a Catholic be married by any officer other than a priest without subjecting himself to excommunica tion." Illiteracy in Portugal. The Portuguese census of-1890, the results of which have only just been published, proves the astonishing fact that among 5,049,720 inhabitants there are more than 4,000, 00O who can neither read nor write. The census states that there are in Portugal oaIy938,165 per sons who can read and-write, in addi tion tj which there are 110,607 who can read only. These statistics prob ably account for the royal : decree en acting the organizing of 500 schools un til the end of 1895-and SOmore normal schools until the end of next year. dmcricoH Patriot. Eat Dyball s delicious cream candies 1518 Douglas street. A Lady Makes Money. Mr. Editor:! am always interested in readiBg of the successor others and will tell of mine. I tried school tearhlnir. clerking and sewing, all hard work for small pay. I met alady making fl"a week selling the Na tional Dish-washer--best made. I ordered "4 doaen. washed mother's dinner dishes in two minutes sold all flrst afternoon; profit 112. The next week I made 137, In a month I am a good talker. I buy of the World Mfg. Co.. Columbus. O.; they are very ' Jn1 to me they manufacture aluminum a.,J electrh ;foods, many new, rapid selling am, les for agents. Others can do as I hare by writing them. CORA M I LTON. ti i i t I N I, .' 0 ' I e: tt i