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Show I Brigadier General Frederick D. Grant, commanding com-manding tbe Department of the Lakes, in his annual an-nual report gives further authority for the statement state-ment that the abolition of the army canteen has greatly increased intemperance among enlisted men of the army. A Xcw York writer predicts that the close of the present century will see the extinction of the American race. To which the True Voice of Omaha Oma-ha replies that the only representatives of the American race"' proper are the American Indians. If they are not extinct within the century it will not he the fault of others who call themserVes Americans. The later claimants of the title may pass away, too, but they will be succeeded by others who will he just as good Americans as any who have gone before them. Father Sherman predicts that unless the Church j pots hold cf the working classes there will be con tentions in the country worse than any that have gone before. James K. Randall suggests that the Church should, if possible, also get hold of the party of the second part, the captains of industry, indus-try, the frenzied financiers, the exploiters of the proletariat. The anarchy of poverty, he observes, springs from the anarchy of wealth. If the Church could hold both contending factions she might persuade per-suade them that it is not capital and labor at odds but capitalists and laborers. - The priest Fresenborg, who is going through the country telling how he spent thirty years in hell, has published a copy of a check" which, he ays. Father Harty, now Archbishop of Manila, gave him in July, 1900. He says it was for Masses. The check was sent to Father Phelan, and he was offered $ l,00o if he could prove that it is not genuine.. genu-ine.. Father Phelan says the signature is genuine'; ibe rest is a clumsy forgery. The check was given hi charily. How could Fresenborg now have the 'beck to photograph? Checks arc always returned to their makers. Banks do not give back the check with the money. I Over m Hawaii the Democrats have adopted n platform which favors a pension for ex-Queen Lihuokalani. As a matter of fact, The countrr ts oomcthmg to the ex-quccn. According to our contemporary, the Monitor, the way she was tricked out of office and hurled down was not one of our most creditable deeds. The Hawaii convention further asked federal assistance for the leper settlement set-tlement at Molokai. Since American Franciscan I nuns are in charge of many of the lepers, the gentlemen gen-tlemen are taking great risk. Are they not afraid somebody will rise and declaim against a union of Church and State "The young men of America have in the present pres-ent campaign an opportunity of showing their appreciation of true Americanism bv votin- for the man whose James Bryce calls 'the greatest prudent ince Washington.' When thev are old men they will be proud of having cast that vote " I ays the Boston Pilot. Many converts are prone 1o .lop over in their zeal for the creed just espoused es-poused and this is one example of political slop over. Have the Republicans of Xew England forgotten for-gotten Lincoln, even if Democrats forget Jefferson - and Jackson. Indeed, is lioosevelt so transcendent transcen-dent m greatness that neither Grant nor MeKin-ky, MeKin-ky, if alive, could hold a candle to him? And who this James Bryce? Seems we have seen. such a name, somewhere. .Likely at the bottom of a testimonial for "Pe-ru-na."' n-1 . Tbe naeagre news which Thursday' brought from nt. ( rhole army it now at Mukden, and that he did no utte. ; lose a single gun in his retreat. Kuroki's army is , on his east flank and that of Oku on his west flank, and St. Petersburg officials surmise that a big battle may be fought if the Japanese continue to press on Mukden. Should this move northwest on Kuroki's part continue it is regarded in St. Petersburg that Kuropatkin will be compelled to race him for Tie Pass, a strategic position forty miles north of Mukden. There is nothing in the dispatches,, however, to indicate with any degree of certainty whether the two armies will be forced to again engage at Mukden or whether the Hussions Hus-sions will continue to fall back on Tie Puss. 4 In Chicago more than half of the buildings are of frame construction. In Xewark, a town with a population of nearly a quarter of a million in 1000, two-thirds of the buildings are frame. Even in Boston the frame buildings are more than two-thirds two-thirds of the whole. In San Francisco more than nine-tenths are frame. A magazine gives a list of about seventy towns in which frame construction predominates so greatly that, to use its words, they have a "kindling wootl look." The same remark re-mark might be made of about all the -ICS towns enumerated in the census bureau's computation of the urban population. In Boston and Chicago the conditions, as this expert authority points out.-arc favorable to a repetition of the great conflagrations conflagra-tions from which those towns have once suffered. Xow what does this imply? asks the Xew York Sun. It implies that at least all our more considerable con-siderable American cities have got to go through the process of reconstruction which has gone on in Xew lork for so many years,' and would now be proceeding at a rate more rapid than ever if it had not been checked by building strikes. Architects, Archi-tects, builders, stone masons, iron workers and dealers in materials for iron, stone and brick construction con-struction have a great future before them in this country, for practically all our large towns will have to be rebuilt during the next generation, or at least in the next half -century. I A |