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Show S ' TbP Boer "guerrillas' contrive to put up a fairly good imitation of a pitched battle. Father T. McGrady. pastor of St. Anthony s church. Bellevue, Ky.. has issued an open letter challenging Archbishop Arch-bishop Corrig-an to a debate on socialism. social-ism. Our pood Protestant frends will have 'f ' to eat their church oysters twice here after once to send a missionary abroad and again to liberate her from brigands. I - Up to date Sir Tommy has blow n in i at least a million on cup challenges. F.ut Sir Tommy is a good loser, etc. Now let Kaiser Wilhelni take a turn at blowing in a part of his royai sal- j ary. On this side of the water "we I need dot money Is our peezness." I The little city of O'Neill, Neb., the ! former home of Senator Thomas ! Kearns, turned out en masse to greet a ml welcome their "Tpm" the other day. ; As the name of the town would indi cate, i's people gave him a rousing "i.'aed Mille Falthe." English newspapers take comfort because the man who beat the Shamrock Sham-rock was a Scotchman' That's true, but Skipper Rarr is an American citi- zen, who glories more in the fame of John Paul .Tones than anything connected con-nected with British sovereignty or al-j al-j b'giance. What has become of Mrs. Tslika. the Bulgarian convert held by the brigands as a hostage along with Miss Stone, according to the lirst report? No mention men-tion is made of her in later dis- j paches. and the conclusion must be that she cither got lost in the cable or has n ransom value on the Balkan stock board. , Since above was written report comes that Mrs. Tslika has given birth to a , child, and is still in captivity with Miss j Stone. No chanse in ransom quota- j timis. ' "Whatever may be thought of the rea- ! son given by Bis'hop Jansen for his op position to the Knights of Columbus, it s clear that he does not condemn the society as secret, or in any way objectionable objec-tionable in itself. He simply opposes iny increase in the number of societies socie-ties of whatever kind in his diocese. In this view of the case it does not appear that the bishop has gone beyond his " legitimate authority: as 'he is free to admit or not into his diocese even the religious societies recognized by the Church, such as the Jesuits, Franciscans, Fran-ciscans, Dominicians. etc. A bounding patriot of the A. P. A. brand has made an important discovery. discov-ery. He has found out that Rear Admiral Ad-miral Winfield Scott Schley Is an Irish Catholic and consequently a traitor to th United States. The reason why Schr?y "turned tail and ran away" from the Spanish ships was because the Spaniards were Catholics end he ; did not want them defeated. He says the admiral should be hung, drawn . and quartered as a traitor, and that ' Counsel llaynor should be subjected to the same fate for defending him. This man is the prize idiot of the season. comments the Boston Republic. 1 A half-tone picture of Ellen M. Stone I was published in Sunday's Herald. Did I j not the name appear underneath,, one I would go on wondering where he ever I . saw the face before, on or off the stage, I and would probably make a small wager that it was a picture of Louis James, or that of a well-groomed E;ig- i ; . lish bishop. There is not a line of femininity fem-ininity in any feature of that strong countenance; the large nose and mouth indicating force of character and the eyes benevolence. If this be Miss Stone, the captive missionary, the chances are that the bandit husband selected for the unwilling -spinster would have to walk Spanish ere he came off his perch in the Balkans. Old King Christian of Denmark ought to be, and probably is, the happiest monarch in Europe, even with his weight of S4 years. : No father of a family in ancient or modern history ever succeeded so well as he did in settling set-tling his children in most comfortable positions. One of his daughters is the dowager empress of Russia, another is the queen of England, while the other, the duchess of Cumberland, is the rich-est rich-est woman in the world and the owner of the grandest castles on earth. His eldest son is king of Greece. Yes, for a sovereign of a little kingdom like Denmark, King Christian has done remarkably re-markably well. i The young king of Spain, who is nearly near-ly 16 years of age, begins presently a series of visits to the courts of Europe, Eu-rope, and makes his debut in the world as a finishing touch to 'his royal education. educa-tion. Next May he ascends the throne. He has been described within the week as a thin, pale and nervous lad, with a marked likeness to the ill-fated house of Hapsburg. He has been carefully educated, ed-ucated, and knows English, French and German as well as Spanish. It is not believed, "however, he is likely really to develop into a "ruler." He is too frail and delicate, too much given to dreams, though withal positive enough and fully realizing the dignity of his position and its responsibilith.es. Mrs. Diss de Bar, who became notorious noto-rious about twenty years ago by selling a lot of oil paintings, which she said had been made by spirits, to a senile rich man in New York, and afterwards posed as a victim of "Romish" tyranny tyran-ny in Chicago, has turned up behind the bars in London, charged with swindling by means of fortune telling. Commenting on this, the Boston Pilot observes that nearly all the male and female "escapes" and "converts'' turn up sooner or later in dear old England, where there is always a demand for anti-Catholic humbugs. Some of them, like Margaret Shepard. get acquaintel with the jail in the beginning of their careers: others, like Ruthven, achieve it in middle life: and yet others end there: but there is always a new crop of no-Popery fools to support every new no-Popery rascal. I Those of our readers following out the logical deductions presented by the writer on "Church and the Bible" in these columns, showing the absurdity absurd-ity of private interpretation, can appreciate ap-preciate the awkward position of Dr. Reed Mackay. who preached a sermon to the crew of the Shamrock one Sunday Sun-day just before the race. The reverend rever-end twister of biblical texts took this verse from Isaiah xxxiii, 23, which reads: "Their tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast: they could not spread the sail; then is the prey of a great spoil divided: di-vided: the lame take the prey." Dr. Mackay said this was a prophecy of victory for Shamrock, the last clause being especially applicable to Sir Thcmas Lipton. who at the time was lame from the effects of a recent accident. ac-cident. But, as it turned out, "the lame" did not happen to "take the prey." And Dr. Reed Mackay now concludes that poker is a better game to gamble with than Scripture. |