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Show j ' i,ir"M"M-urorvfnAJMjvvi ivxruxAArijxAAAjij"t j hc lfltc Paul Kruger was not an eloquent man, I ''ut he excelled in brief and pithy sayings. To a 1 nephew who wanted an office he said:' "My deaf I boy, you are not clever enough for a subordinate ration, and all the higher offices are filled." ! . I . , The Xational Cash Register company of Day- -has issued in pamphlet form an account of ho vit.it of Cardinal Satolli to that great plant. I The frontispiece is a masterpiece of workmanship, 1 containing ihe coat of arms of the cardinal and I other insignia of his office. A f f There is a man at Oyster Bay. There is a mummy at Esopus. I Which do you prefer, the man or the mummy? . jj The election in November will decide. J That sounds liko the Ogden Standard; but it I isn'1- It is the language of the Salt Lake Tribune. 01100 edited by the scholarly, intellectual Goodwin. J ! , 1 f e are late, but none. the lec rlrQco, f . . j, . gratulate the publishers of the Catholic Universe f Cleveland, 0., upon the fine appearance of the i j souvenir edition conimcinora"tivc of its thirtieth I anniversary. In thirty years many ambitions have j yielded to despair, many journalistic hearts havc j been broken, but the Catholic Universe survives and remains one of the strongest defenders of the faith I in this country. j i Judge Parker was formally notified of his nom- jj ination on "Wednesday. His reply to the address I of the committee, although not fully covering all the points embodied in the St. Louis platform, J leaves no doubt of lus sincere desire to give to the I people of this country a clean, honest administra- I lion, void of imperialism and the canker of trust ! legislation and influence. The new Paris scheme of street advertising by j , means of baldheaded men exposing pates with ad- I vertisements painted thereon, met with serious com v plication at the hands of the authorities. The law. I ' required all advertisements of this kind to carry the government stamp, which, after being stuck on, must be struck with the official seal. How the bald-I bald-I headed bearers of these inscriptions arc going to I undergo the ordeal of affixing the stamp, then of being hit with the obliterating seal, is not quite , clear. I "ot bince the terrible disaster to the steamer j Slocum has an accident aecurred so quick in de- struction and appalling in fatality as that one on the Eio Grande near Pueblo the other day. A day I of joy turned to a night of horror .succeeded by the j 1 presence of the hearse on every thoroughfare lcad- I ing to the city of the dead outside Pueblo. ' Upon I our Colorado neighbor falls the heaviest blow, near- J ly two-thirds of those picked up mangled ancLdife- I h?ss being residents of Pueblo. The sympathy of ' humanity goes out to the homes made desolate. I f j It turns out that Hon. John Dolan of Spracusc I " 'was re-elected president of the A. O. II. by a ma- j jority of only twenty votes over his competitor, Fa- i ther Kennedy, a well known Connecticut priest I ', v The result is all the better for the order. Int'ellec- tually the priest may be superior to the layman, . ; but for the work that goes to build "up a society more secular than religious in its development, the Ja.vman is the person to be at its head, so as tq give undivided attention to details. TWs a priest epuldV i ' i ' not do without neglecting the missionary work im- ! posed upon all endowed with holy orders. . . . The current Western Watchman of St. Louis (seventh annual educational number) is chiefly valuable val-uable to parents desiring to place children' under the tutorship of trained pedagogues of our faith. Father Phclap's paper enjoys the advertising patronage pat-ronage of all the leading institutions conducted by religious orders in the middle west. Catholic education edu-cation is a department feature with every weekly issue. The cover of the educational number is illuminated illu-minated by an engraving of "the sweetest flower of Catholic education in France'1 St. Louis. The Western Watchman is a great Catholic paper. Its editor an intellectual giant. : : A Pennsylvania tobacco syndicate proposes io build a factory in Salt Lake and utilize bect leaves in the manufacture of stogiea and cigars. That should start every man who has a garden back of his woodshed into planting beets. Behold the result! re-sult! What is under ground makes sugar. What is above ground goes into the pipe. What is neither above nor below ground makes politics. But by the time a barrel of !"two-fors"' can be sold for the price it takes to buy a watermelon; some Republican congressman con-gressman from Logan or Provo will introduce a bill to put a tariff on beet cigars, ftlong with a two-ccht stamp on every bos. . In -our funny picture papers we had the big Russian Rus-sian bear strapped down so tight that the little Japs jumped all over him, pulled his nose, slept in his whiskers find did all the tricks of the brownies upon the prostrate form of Gulliver. Xow comes the intelligence in-telligence that General Kuropatkin, in spite of superior su-perior numbers, in spite of the many corners in which Kuroki had him corralled, got away from the enemy and is pushing north. Anyway, his army is safe and will be ready to give battle at the proper tiniCj which means Tvhen reinforcements reach him oveV lhat snail railroad in Siberia. Meanwhile. Port Arthur remains in their hands, and the stories of big battles like Austcrlitz or Sedan must wait for a few days longer. . . 4 . According to Hi Porvenir, published in Chile, thirty-nine priests who were formerly friars in the Philippines are now engaged in missionary work in Brajil, and twenty-seven in similar work in Peru. Brazil has been thirsting for missionary help for many years, at least from the time it threw off the amiable yoke of Dorn Pedro and set up a republic on the volcanic South American plan. Since the church troubles began in France, Catholics in our own country have been amazed at the relrfctance of banished French priests and religious orders to take up their residence in Brazil. Priests are needed in that vast .wilderness, most of it yet unexplored priests like Father Marquette, if there be any such left in France. ... ; We gladly, place on our exchange list "The Monthly Monitor," a neat little publication giving the parish news of our Protestant Episcopal brethren breth-ren in this city. The following, taken from the current cur-rent number, is accepted in the, kindly, tolerant spirit it is offered : The Monitor congratulates, most heartily, our Roman Ro-man Catholic brethren and friends on the prospect of a speedy completion of their magnificent cathedral. It will stand, not only as a monument to the good bishop, ivho for many years has labored and planned for it. but it will stand a monument to the devotion, liberality, self-denial, faith and prayer of a Christian congregation and these things are part of our common com-mon Christian heritage, which, in spite of all differences, differ-ences, help to make us one. Every institution that makes for righteousness and the realization of the kingdom of Christ is a benefit to the community and a blessing to every Individual. . X Capt. Thomas Allnut Brassey, editor of the Xa-val Xa-val Annual, speaking at Catfield, Fng., said ho was convinced that within ten years the command of the seas would have passed from Great Britain to the United States. The latter country, he declared, is now building more battleships than England, and its resources are greater than arc those of Great Britain, whose only hope of maintaining her supremacy su-premacy on the sea was a federation through which the colonies would aid in the building up and maintenance main-tenance of the navy of -the mother country. Wonder Won-der if this English editor with tho significant name of Bra3sey has been approached by the brassy promoters pro-moters of the Ship Subsidy bill in this country? The buidlng of battleships has nothing to do with the extension of commerce. Or does he mean by "command of the seas" the floating of an imperial American nayy? ; 1 |