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Show The second miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed -.Margaret Mar has been obtained.. It is HKflj -Jj-ery fore, that In a year or two we may caa her by the title of saint. Thw would b welcome to the clients of the Sacted Heart. Catholid Columbian. The American Minute Men have taken up the work of the A. P. A. to prevent the union of church and state. "."y.JV find something to do right here in Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, where Protestant religi"US exer" oises are held rTailv In mrr public schools. The heretical Protestant version of tne ,,iv... ... . i. - i ...... ii-ntlf;int mine is reio. uie lutuncvi . "-- - form of the Lord's Prayer is recited, an. I sectarian Protestant hymns are sung. The 'p;ltriotie' Minute Men . cannot get to work too soon in this citq. Pittsburg Observer. j The necessity of religious training dur-I dur-I ing school hours is becoming more felt i and acknowledged day by day. President Charles Thwlng, himself an educator of excellent reputation is. on record as saying: say-ing: "1. a Protestant, would rather have my children taught by a good ratholio nun than by a wise agnostic. We have gone farther in the elimination of religious reli-gious teaching than is necessary." Catholics Cath-olics cannot conscientiously go so far as the civil authority lias chosen to go. Thej- want education in their' schools and will have it even if they have to submit to a double burden. Little by little those who cannot agree with them In faith will come to acknowledge the logic of their position. This will prepare tor a just settlement. Transcript. Attention was called laat week to the gross act of Injustice by which the Catholic Cath-olic cadets on the training ship Monon-gahela Monon-gahela were compelled to take part in Protestant services. Marked copies of th paper were sent to President Roosevelt Roose-velt and the secretary of the navy. We are informed that the president immediately immedi-ately the matter was brought to his no-tics, no-tics, directed the bureau of navigation to investigate the charge. Columbian. ;i Although the king of England did not ; send an invitation the pope to attend his coronation, he did not omn to send a special envov to the pope's coronation eccentric and contradictory behavior, but it would rather "seem to be the outcome of a delicacy of feeling on the king's part. That coronation oath of his stands in the way of courtesy. It would not be very polite of his majesty to invite any one to a ceremonial in whicn personal insult to the invited was a portion of the programme, pro-gramme, and one that could not be omitted- Standard. Senator Hanna is credited with the probable prevention of a coal miners' strike in Pennsylvania. His earnest remonstrance re-monstrance with powerful operators in New York who caretully arrange periodical period-ical labor difficulties at the mines in the interests of their own private pockets. is saia to nave cnecKmaiea mat game ai least temporarily. Senator Hanna will find a reputation arising from efforts in this line, far more agreeable and profitable profit-able than that based on the expenditure of energies in most -other directions. Monitor. Mon-itor. A preacher over in Indiana was last week dismissed from a school over which he presided because he persisted in kissing his female pupils. lie Is indignant, indig-nant, and his female pupils are indignant with him. The Hoosier state is worse than Peru. If these petty assaults on preachers' rights continue Protestant pulpits pul-pits will be voiceless and tenanlless before be-fore very long. Western Watchman. One of the most amusingly impudent arguments on the English side in the South African war business is the allegation allega-tion that th Boers were fierce anti-Catholic bigots. Englishmen resenting antagonism antag-onism to the Catholic church: Satan re proving sin! President Kruger was not compelled, on assuming office, to take an oath branding Cathodes as idolators, which King Edward VII did on his accession ac-cession and wiil do again at his coronation corona-tion next June. Freeman's Journal. General Funston said, at a dinner given to him in New York the other day at the Lotus club, that his capture of Aguinaldo was "a dirty Irish trick." Why "Irish." general? Everybody knows It was dlrty and treacherous, but we should hesitate to characterize It as typical of any European Euro-pean race of the present day.' It is moit j suggestive of the tactics practiced by the , Sioux, but whether learned by them of the errly English settlers or later intruders, in-truders, we do not know. The Irish have been singularly Impractical and slow to learn the art of deceiving their enemies I by means of forgery and false pretenses, j That is one reason why they have failed J in the world, in company with other chivalrous chiv-alrous peoples, who did net play "uirty tricks" in war and joke about them afterwards. |