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Show ' The legislature of the state of Ilanna has again awarded the senatorial toga to Senator Ohio. . 4 : . Xews of the approaching conflict between Japan and Russia varies every day. Somebody toss up . : a penny. Heads for war, tails for peace. : Turkey accepts the scheme of reform, if we are I to believe: a dispatch frr va Constantinople. The I ' i . scheme will last about as long as somfc of those Xew I ; ; Year swear-offs alj jjf us make. . I ! ') St. Louis, Chicago and Xw York were bidders I ; for the Xational Democratic convention. St. Louis j j won out and the convention, will be held in the I ! exposition city, July G. It may change luck to 1 J hatch our chickens in old. Missouri. ! .' ft - : I ! : ' If F. Augustus Heinze were to die in Butte, i there might be a rush for livery carriages to at- f ; tend his funeral. But there could not be that I t ' genuine sorrow among old-timers which manifested y- itself at the charity funeral of ''Broken Xose?' f I ' Jack Miller, the old-time 6Cout and guide. i A dispatch from Aden, Arabia, gives the par- f ticulars of an engagement in Somililand between I a British force of 3,000 and the forces of the Mad , ' Mullah, numbering 5,000. The British killed 1,000 1 I dervishes, according to the dispatch, the victors !j ; losing but 3S men. Bah! What an advantage the telegraph gives to a long range liar. i ; The n'. governor of the Philippines, General I ;; Wright i T : essee, is not a Catholic, but his : wife and !ilcren are Catholics. This is as near as Cathode will ever get to the throne in the : Philippines, y.hose. people are almost wholly Catholic. Cath-olic. Goreri r Wright's wife is a daughter of the ' Confederate Admiral Semmes, who sailed the fa- , : ; mous cruiser Alabama. lie died in 1877. . : . ; j t: Again it has been proved that the most suc- pcssful way for a woman to masquerade as a man " is to ccuc-oai ner luenmy unaer me garo ot a I I cowboy. Her sex is revealed only when she gets : ready to die. The latest is "Joe Monochan," a wo- man who las ridden the ranges of eastern Oregon f ; for twenty-five years, and died the other day iri I i a frontier town of western Idaho. She made a will, . : but did not leave her breeches to Carrie Xation. J j .. . I f Cardinal Gibbons preached at St. Patrick's I church, Washington, D. C, last Sunday, and Sen ator Smoot was present, chaperoned by Senator and Mrs. Kearns. Services over, Senator Smoot was introduced to the distinguished churchman by Mrs. Kearns. A correspondent of the Salt Lake Herald . was good enough to say that the cardinal and sen ator shook hands! Well, why shouldn't they shake : hands? But there is no reason why the brethren I should get gay over this trivial social incident. ; r Perhaps the cardinal even offered the senator a ;; pinch of snuff. i The testimony presented at the coroner's inquiry info the causes leading to the loss of life at the Chicago Chi-cago holocaust, reveals a criminal negligence that merits the severest punishment upon the guilty. The stories daily told of parents who sacrificed I their own lives in vain attempts to rescue their j loved ones, would draw tears from the most stony- I 'hearted. It remained for a Catholic bishop, how- I ver, to emerge from the fearful holocaust a hero. I , He is Bishop Muldoon. The Xew World says , he !' ; was just returning from the funeral of Mrs. Mar garet F. Sullivan when he learned that hundreds cre perishing in the burning theatre shut in like rats in a trap and with all hope of escape cut off. .Without a-moment's hesitation he. instantly forced his -way into the hell of flame :and. mounting the blazing'ljalcony gave absolution "to all those piteous onos 'destined never again to see "the . light of day alivei He never stopped .-tb-.oonsidery the . per iFin which his own life might be. "An unquail-ing unquail-ing soldier of God he went forward where duty called and stood unappalled amid the dying and the dead. The Catholic Church has always produced such examples of heroism, and the present instance is but another added to the thousands of the past. "Wherever danger is there the Catholic deer stands unshrinkingly at his post or hers, showing the world that all the heroes are not dead. Let us thank God they are not." ' Up to date th'e expense of maintaining military forces in the field in consequence of the strikes which began last summer in Colorado, has been . nearly $500,000. Every cent of this sum spent to Eussianize Colorado will be I assessed against the people of the state. Event cent of it should be, collected from the association of mine owners who alone derived tho benefit of protection, if ever it was needed which ismuch doubted. 1-4 , r The Spanish-" 'friars first demanded $15,000,000 If or their lands 'and property in the Philippines. ' Governor' Taft - offered them $6,000,000, after an appraisement: A couple of weeks ago a bargain was struck on Mhe basis of $7,000,000, which the friars accepted.,.. JNow that the transaction is ratified rati-fied and American bishops are over in the islands, we trust we have heard the last of the Spanish friars'. But doesn't this business between Uncle Sam and tlie friars remind you of the fellow who goes into a cheap Hebrew store to haggle over -tho price of a suit of hand-me-downs? ) : - -' A Salt Lake rounder just recovered frorn a ; prolonged pro-longed debauch, was approached by a friend who kindly inquired after his physical condition. ;Oh, T feel pretty well for a man who has been on the edge of the grave and got a peep into hell," replied the rounder. "Ah ! And what did you see in hell?'' "I saw a good many things, and a good many people who died and got there in spite of tho statuto of limitations, but I discovered no fire there.". Then, in an absent-minded way, the rounder round-er added: "Xo fire there, but that may be owing to the strike in the coal mines." . . . : The London Spectator says: "French electors have never .yet punished representatives for anti-clerical votes, and we think it may be accepted without exaggeration that the majority ma-jority in France is opposed to the monastic system." sys-tem." Commenting on the above the" Xew York Freeman's Journal asks: "Can any French Catholic Cath-olic or defender of the Church in France g'ainsny this statement of alleged f act and conclusion there from?" , The above query is suggestive, as the answer -will suggest other queries which would be apropos just ndw.- - - . 4- , . t ; The council of :Albion, a college town in central-Iowa, central-Iowa, has adopted an ordinance which prohibits dancing unless the young people desiring to in-'dulge in-'dulge first visit the town "clerk", present a certificate' of good character "and deposit a license fee of $15. The constitutionality of . the act is not likely to bo tested in court. Some of those Puritanical notions -f Iowa people aru all right. A person without $15 to his name should think of things other than dancing, and if he could present nothing to show that he is a person of good repute, his presence in a ball room of decent people is a menace to the vir- . tue of innocent girls. There is no harm in dancing danc-ing itself, providing the amusement is conducted so as. not to be offensive to morals. The temptation lies in the mixed company which promotes the occasion oc-casion of sin. If such an ordinance were introduced intro-duced in Salt Lake, the effect would be to inhibit those dances where young girls, almost children, learn their first lessons in vice. On the e-ther hand, the city would derive a revenue which would, soon enable it to build that reservoir we talk so much about. '"' - " ' . ; ; : . . j |