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Show Jucopimo To meditate on the mysteries of the rosary is more Important than to say the "Our Fathers" and the "Hail Marys. But some persons act as if they used the beads right when they recited the prayers pray-ers without thinking at all of the incidents inci-dents in the life of Christ that they were meant to recall. Catholic Columbian. "A damned incendiary document" is what a United States military officer in the Philippine islands has called the American Declaration of Independence, which he prevented from being circulated among the natives. Will the "Incendiary document" be excluded from United States histories to be used in the American Amer-ican schools being established out there? Does the administration at Washington approve of the designation of the "document" "docu-ment" as "damned" and "incendiary?" Freeman's Journal. 'The English secretary of war, Mr. Brodrick, made the following- remark or suggestion in a recent speech on the South African trouble: "If industry could be re-established over a large tract of the new colonies, we could afford to allow the Boers some portion of the country in which they could not interfere with us." A British comment has been made on this that "If the words mean anything, they are an, offer of independence to the Boers with the gold district cut off for the use of the British." No doubt the commentator is right. Auri sacra fames thirst of gold was clearly the motive of the war. But how much of it would take to pay the cost? Perhaps honesty might have been the best policy. Freeman's Free-man's Journal. King Edward wll have to ask parliament parlia-ment for a grant of money to complete the Queen Victoria memorial, her late majesty"s subjects having failed to supply sup-ply it by popular subscriptions. Surely the English people will not permit this humiliation, so long as there Is the American Amer-ican nation to beg contributions from. Pilot. A rabid Baptist paper declares that th? moment the Presbyterians strike from their standards the assertion that the Pope is Anti-Christ and the Man of Sin. that moment they apostatize from Protestantism and from all the traditions tradi-tions of the reformation fathers. We believe be-lieve that is true. Western Watchman. |