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Show I I Senator Vest was great in his clay, but the I crowning glory of a grand career is the knowledge I that he died poor. I . . The fact is interesting- that the atchitect ot the S Liverpool Protestant cathedral, the foundation Mono of which was laid a few days ago by King 3vl- ! w;ird VII, is a Catholic. . . I : . I In !LisouIa. Mont... the Lutherans have erected I ji new school house next to the church property, j ccirrespoudiiig to ihe Catholic parochial tc'oool. .n- I ! her straw indicating dissent to godless od .vat imi. j even at the expense of tubrnision to the double f crns for school support. ! t (i-ovcriior Joseph K. Toole is to deliver the La- 1 hor day ,-i.idress at (treat Palls, Mont. It is reason- ably certain that Governor IVabody will deliver no Labor day address in Colorado. Is it because Colo- ; rad is different from Montana, or is it a difference I v.i the make up of the governors ? 4. j The great joy in the Pctcrhof palace over the f birth of a male heir to the czar reminds us of the ; excitement over a similar event in Paddy Miles' family back in Tipperary. ' "Ts it a girlf asks ihe j parish priest, "Guess again,"' said Paddy's father. ? f :fhen it's a boy." "Arrah, ycr reverence, somc- b-tdy must have told yo." ! Thomas F. Walsh, the Colorado mining million- aire, i a native of Tippcrary county, Ireland. 31c I was born there about fifty-three years ago, and was educated in the national schools. lie learned the e 1radc .f a millwright, which has been o? great use to him in his mining operations in the liock.v moun-, j to ins. lie has never had a strike and observes the eight -hour day. Mr. Walsh, therefore, cannot be I connected with the Mine Owners' associations and' Citizens' Alliances of Colorado. The action of his grace Archbishop Quigley in f voluntarily offering 1o pay taxes on his archepis- I copal residence is a Striking object lesson to liun- cit'eds of millionaires and wealthy corporation? in i Chictigo and vicinty. Por weeks the latter have ihr-eu appealing that ihe local board of review may pity their appnling poverty; his grace places 2sO,-I'l.iO 2sO,-I'l.iO worth of property subject to taxation, although it has always been exempted hitherto. It is Another I evidence, says ihe New World, lhat Catholic citi- zomdiip does not shrink from bearing its share of ! the common burden. i Pause awihel. yc cartoonists and editorial adu- I lators of Japanese courage. Digest the news of that encounter between armed Japanese and un- I armed Kussians aboard the Ryeshitelni, one of the I car's torpedo boat destroyers. Her commander i jj (with a name as long as his courage k strong) put into Chef oo, a Chinese neutral port, after the night escape of the Pussian licet from Port Arthur. The vessel was dismantled and the crew disarmed by ihe Chinese authorities, although the crew remained aboard. The same evening a Japanese boat, armed to the teeth, was sent from a torpedo boat destroyer. The brown men boarded the Russian vessel.. The captain with the long name was insolently ordered to surrender. Por answer he struck out his good right fist under the Jap's chin, and lQth tumbled over into the sea. The Russian crew followed the example of their commander and started in -with i bare fiVts. Opposed to them were bayonets. Of course, in the end bayonets overcame fists, and sonic Russians received mortal wounds. But if these Japanese pirates had any game in their skins they would have thrown the bayonets aside and taken their punishment' with bare! knuckles. The ftyeshi-telni ftyeshi-telni was finally towed out of the harbor under the guns of Chinese cruisers that offered no effective resistance a plain violation of international law. Russia has been called down for searching vessels and confiscating what she had reason to suspect was freight destined for the enemy. Japan, at Chef oo, violated one of the rules of modern warfare. war-fare. She should be taught the importance of the old saying that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. But who is to teach this oriental pirate the ethics of warfare? Who but John Hay, the author of "Little Brceeches" and other profound works on international law. 4 : Our poverty of verse and verse writers in these days of commercialism is in keeping with our poverty pov-erty of patriotism. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote best in the dark days of tho civil war, when the soul, of the great Lincoln, burdened awhile by the thoughts of foreign intervention to crush the armies ar-mies of the Xorth, was cheered at length by the presence of Russia's fleet to thwart the designs of England and France. It is better that Oliver Wendell Wen-dell Holmes now sleeps in a Xew England churchyard church-yard than live to witness the repudiation by Americans Amer-icans of the poem he wrote on the occasion of the great meeting at Boston to welcome the Grand Duke Alexis some years ago. In the poem this crsc was sung; Bleak are our shores with the blasts of December, Throbbing and warm the hearts that remember Who Avas our friend when the world was our foe; Fires of the North in. eternal communion. Blend your broad flashes with evening's bright star; God bless the empire that loves the great Union, Strength to her people! Long life to the czar! That the spirit and peaceful disposition of the leaders of the meat strike in Chicago are very different dif-ferent from what is attributed to them in many of -the daily papers is shown by this notice, posted up throughout ihe city: "We can win if we stand by the union. If we obey the union rules to molest no person or property and abide strictly by the laws of this country. All men on strjke should retire to their homes and attend their various union meetings meet-ings for all information. If you follcvv the above instructions you will'be of great assistance in helping help-ing to win the strike. Your organization will not assist you if you get into unlawful trouble." - : The election of tho Rev. Edward William Osborne Os-borne as coadjutor bishop of Spfingiield, HI., is a notable event in the Protestant Episcopal church. "Father"' Osborne is a very advanced churchman, and belongs to the celibate order known in England as the "Cowley Fathers." He occupies the saiue position as that which was held by the present bishop bish-op of Vermont, Dr. Arthur C. A. Hall, shortly before, be-fore, his election o the episcopate. As in the case p t- it ii i." ii v-i t. .. i:i, I 01 X)V. nail, xaiuer vsuoruu cauuoi urtvjn a uiau- opric without a dispensation from the superior of his order at Cowley, in England. This, however, will doubtless be granted. 4 : It is said that Charles M. Schwab has returned a quarter of a million taken by the ship building trust from a widow living in Xew York. If this be true, it is another example of the efficacy of the sacrament sa-crament of penance. Xo Catholic is absolved from tin until he makes all the reparation in his power to the injured jsecond person. Mr. Schwab is a Catholic. He had no intention to defraud the poor woman, no intention to defraud any individual. But he got into bad company. Tho ship building trust was controlled by a robber outfit. Schwab does himself credit and cnobles his religion by making reparation repara-tion for his share in the huge swindle. 4 . : The Kleine Journal, published at Berlin, says it expects that the birth of an heir, to 'tho Russiau throne will be followed in a few days by c proclamation proclama-tion of a constitution, claiming to have been Informed In-formed that Emperor Xicholas vowed he would give a constitution to Russia if the empress gave birth to a son. This may be just the right time to give Russians a constitution. Again, it may be the most inopportune period. But if, after the christening of the heir, the czar should promise a constitution to be initiated after the close of the war, it would have a happy effect on the empire. 4 : Senator Vest dead.. Senator Hoar dying. The glory of the United States senate departing. Quays come and Quays go; Deitriehs fall into dishonor, Xot in our time will the United States senate be again the senate of Hoar and Vest. - a ,-, -. |