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Show The Boer war is over and the "Transvaal "Trans-vaal republic" is no more. A noble people have given up the right for lib- 1 erty. But they did not fight in vain. They have made England a second rate power, and the United States of Africa a possibility of the near future. Western West-ern Watchman. , . . - . It is sometimesahardship that an innocent party is compelled by the church to be true to the marriage vow made with a party who has been false to it.' But better that a few ' should suffer than that the monster of divorce should be let 'oose and 'the act of God in making matrimony Indissoluble, except ex-cept by death, should be defiled. Besides, Be-sides, to them who must suffer, grace is given according to their need. Catholic Cath-olic Columbian. : - -4 The rumor that the dowager queen of Italy is to enter a convent is again revived. Should she quit the court for the cloister she will experience little consolation in meditating upon the scenes which she will have abandoned. In her position and with her acknowledged ac-knowledged piety, it must cost her endless pain to note the drift of events in her country. But there is yet some hope for a nation which can produce such splendid types of womanhood even while the worthless are seated in high places. Catholic Transcript. The rich and "aristocratic" fools who make a practice of driving automobiles at full speed through crowded streets and roads in New York and vicinity are Inviting trouble which will not be long In overtaking them If they do not heed the murmurs of the people; Several accidents ac-cidents and some-deaths have occurred within a few clays, the reckless drivers cheerfully paying : nominal fines for their deadly pastime. Last Saturday one Of the machines at Staten Island, while trying to "beat the world's record" rec-ord" for a one-mile run. dashed into a crowd' of spectators, killing one man and wounding ten or eleven other persons. per-sons. The only legal penalty for recklessness reck-lessness of this kind is a money fine or an indemnity to the family of the slain, which is nothing to the rich homicide. : The automobilists are not wise, and the lawmakers are no more so; that is, if : both desire to make themselves and j the law respected and safe. Pilot. |