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Show "Lr i"'r"'t--,ri n-a-fi-i. w. . . . . . .- I mn Forty-five thousand harvest hands arc called for this year in Kansas. Xow who is ready to place a wager on the vote of Kansas for president I f The Russian- general who will supply his soldiers sol-diers with three meals a day when ZWfiOO men are massed on the banks of the Yalu river will develop into another Peter the Great. -t ; lung Charles of Fortugal is, figuratively speaking, speak-ing, between the deep sea and the devil, and has fo few xcally devoted partisans that people should be prepared at any time for the news that a revo-Iu,io" revo-Iu,io" lias broken out at Lisbon, deprived him of '.J his throne and driven him into exile. T -4 A paragraph in an exchange says the khedive of Egypt neither smokes nor drinks, is an early riser, and speaks six languages. That's not extraordinary. extraordi-nary. James Clarence Mangan, the Irish poet, spoke wwn, and he drank and smoked and did not go to bed till the cows came home. ' The present labor troubles in the coal regions of Carbon county, Utah, are not in realitv troubles ! prow,n,r out of. the wage system, but the result I i wunuons oi the quarantine to prevent the spread of smallpox. "Mother" Jones is much to blame for the excitement among the Italian miners in that region. 'Twas ever thus from the creation of man. A woman is at the bottom of all mischief. ' 1 . : The treaty tvith China for the exclusion of the coolies will expire Dec. 7 next by the act of the Chinese Chi-nese government: That government is believed to be under the impression that it can secure another and less exclusive treaty. It is a mistaken impression. impres-sion. On the- other hand, new legislation will be more rigorous, if Tom Patterson of Colorado is ahve and on his feet in the senate at that time. ' f- The Washington end of the hearing in the Smoot inquiry hfls come to a close until next December. . The committee of investigation, or part of it, will visit Utah, some time during the summer, for the purpose of gathering additional information to complete their report. The grave and dignified senators, sen-ators, win be received with- open arms. They will discover that conditions here are not so bad as represented in the cast. They will hear the big organ or-gan in the Tabernacle and listen to the greatest "v-J choir on this continent. And, no doubt, Senator ! ' 1ub01,s y?11-ih to -Elks' headquarters. to (j 6ffmi,le Uah's Valley Tan, the old Mormon liquor that promoted the growth of whiskers so much in evidence in the newspaper caricatures of Utah's people.. . . : . Today (Saturday) President Roosevelt touched -the electric button at Washington which set. in mo- tion the machinery of the Louisiana Purchase ex-' ex-' position and formally opened the stupendous slibw. All aboard for St. Louis ! : . ' - W ith the kindest of feelings toward the clever writer of "Breakfast Food"' in the Salt Lake Heraldic Her-aldic suggest that he read up a little of Suemas MaeManus, so as to obtain a correct knowledge of style and orthography in the production of the mellow mel-low Irish brogue. - Werd this paper other than a chronicler of Catholic (Cvoiits and .such .news as interests the people peo-ple universally, no task would be more agreeable to the writer than spreading the Teport of the debate de-bate betwten Congressmen Dalzell and Bourkc Cockran in the house of representatives recently. It was a ht personal encounter, but itadded immensely im-mensely to the American stock of literary invective invec-tive and sarcasm. . 4 V .Although Senator Tom Patterson of Colorado is the idol of the Colorado miners, at the banquet of the Federation the other night in Denver he did not hesitate to point out the mischief along with lir n-.-u-.rl in tliniV m-.V-mi 7n t Inn of !. enrun fliim urging a kindlier rapprochement of employer and employe. Tho regret is .that Bishop Spalding was i not there to follow along'the same lines. Or some j other distinguished Catholic divine of Colorado. - -1 : In the past few months Pueblo, Colo., has gone through an experience of hard times as a result of the closing down of the tee 1 works. And according ac-cording to the opinion of some of the leading business busi-ness men of the city the strain and doubt have been in some respects even more trying than they were in the panic year of But jt is now generally agreed that the worst is over, and the city is rapidly regaining the confidence and activity that prevailed in the early months of 11)03. Acting upon the theory that '"industrial education edu-cation tends to develop with greater rapidity the staenant minds of defective children." tho f'hinatm board of education is about to introduce practical mechanics into the public schools. It is proposed to equip a plumbing shop in one. Xow look out for more trouble with the trades unions. What senseless sense-less folly this which sets up that it is more important impor-tant to teach children at school to do things with their hands than to think with their brains. ; ; A dispatch from Havana states that the waiters and cooks in the hotels have gone on a strike because be-cause employers demanded that they shave off their mustaches. This seems a small mattorto precipitate precipi-tate so serious an issue as a strike, especially when it is contrasted with the action of a certain regiment regi-ment of dragoons in the Austrian army, whose chief distinction is" the privilege of shaving their upper lip, a privilege which. they have jealously guarded ever since the battle of Colin, in 1T5G. r There was little sea fighting .(luring "the last week. The Japanese have been feinting up and down both sides of the Liaotung peninsula with transport fleets. They mean to bewilder the enemy as to their eventual landing place, and, if possible, to weary him by inducing him to shift his troops rapidly from one point on the coast to another. an-other. The Russians will be unable to prevent a landing. They cannot forfify and garrison the entire south Manchurian coast. They will have to permit the landing, and thereafter try to make the Japs sorry they ever came off the water. . . -: . : I Senator Burrows has f rcpared for introduction a joint resolution'providing for an amendment to the Constitution absolutely prohibiting polygamy. He will ask that it lay on the table and will "call it up early in December and make a speech on it. If anything comes of it at all it will probably be i in the nature of a provision for uniform marriage and divorce laws, the debate extending over the entire en-tire short session. So if the twin evils are corrected and fall under the control of federal law, the morals mor-als of the nation may be improved. All the same, the proposition squints in the direction of a centralization cen-tralization of power and attacks the sovereign rights .of the states. . : : : Archbishop P. W. Riordan has officially announced an-nounced that picnics in tho interest of Catholic churches and' Catholic organizations shall not be I held on "Memorial day and occasions of similar import.. im-port.. He also prohibits the use of intoxicating liquors and dancing entertainments, given for the benefit of religious work. The last is in accord with a provision of the third plenary council of Baltimore. Years ago Bishop Scanlan of this diocese dio-cese set the seal of condemnation upon fairs and ! dances as a means to raise funds for any religious or charitable purpose; and the trees in his spiritual garuen mossom and bring forth fruit as though the angels of God planted and cared for them. The very sensible arrangement that has been affected between England and France with regard to Newfoundland and West Africa is being made i a great deal of by foolish people in the English j' newspapers, says the Dublin Freeman. Olie would, think, from' some of the comments, that the two countries had made an alliance. What they have actually done is to strike a bargain by which the ridiculous Newfoundland dispute will come to an end, in favor of England, while, as a quid pro quo, France will be given facilities in West Africa which will immensely increase the value of her colonies there. It has been a sensible bargain on both sides. But those. who have run to the conclusion that it settles the question of Egypt, or even that of Siam, should more carefully read the reports France is not likely to give, up her rights in Egypt without some substantial compensation, nor will she give way on the Mekong any more than she will give way on the Kile. : - Men with lofty minds' do not always breathe the air of great cities and mingle in the intellectual intellec-tual socety of their equals. At Chippewa Falls is.-whKh 1night or might not be some sort of a lumber, campa little paper is published called the Catholic Sentinel. It has anything but a prosperous pros-perous appearance; nevertheless it comes out every week, and apparently has done so for the past seventeen sev-enteen years, if we take the printed volume number for proof. The editor is evidently an old printer who has been puttering about country newspapers all his life, picking up and developing his knowledge, knowl-edge, through that source alone. Once in a while we find in this obscure paper something worth remembering re-membering and preserving, and here is one under the head "The Fate of Reformers"': "Once, while talking with an old man upon the political and social so-cial evils' of the day, we remarked -that it was a glorious thing to make war upon tho abuses of the hour. The old man took our hand, led us to a corner cor-ner of the room, removed a curtain, and said: 'Be-holdUhc 'Be-holdUhc fate of reformers There before us was a beautiful cross with the image of Christ hanging hang-ing upon it. That was fifty years ago and, though we did not cease to help the cause of liberty, we 'never ceased to see that cross and its victim before our mind's eye." |