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Show Readers of Sunday's Herald might detect a nfoioty of humor in its Xational Guard 'comedy" if the writer had gone to Dooley for his Irish brogue instead of taking lessons from a Chinaman. : A strike among the employes of the Unique Paper Pa-per Box company. Whippany, X. J., which for two weeks threatened to assume serious proportions, has j been settled by the arbitration of the Her. J. T. Brown of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. -t- Xobody but the old boys consider September in any but the prosaic sense. To the old boys it is the month reminding them of September in Dixie's hind and the mocking bird singing "o'er the grave f Tl ally." To others it is the month for shedding straw hats and eating oysters. 4 The Russians managed to get through the war without having an embalmed beef scandal. As great rogues as the beauracracy are reported to be and undoubtedly are. their graft did not descend to putrid beef for the. army. Russians in Manchuria were not poisoned as our soldiers were in Cuba and as Tommy Atkins was in the Boer campaign. , The hat is being passed around for the bene-lit bene-lit of Bret Harte's family in London. The matter is in the hands of a number of the late author's British literary friends, who ar counting on the assistance of American admirers of the former Californian. The llarte family appear to have been singularly unfortunate since the death of the autlx.r and are represented as being but a few removes re-moves from actual destitution, says the Monitor. The Hartford Courant says: "Those stories I J II ! 1 . .ijom -uanna auout tne glorious conversion of Bourke Cockran to American rule in the Philippines, Philip-pines, and of those white-haired old sinners, Payne and Grosvenor, to free trade for the Philippines, remind us somehow of the suggestion offered by the .ynical spectator at the baptizin'. X"ot a bit of use just putting that fellow under the water,' he said: "you should anchor him out there over night.' Au anchor would be inadequate in Bourke Cockran's ase. lie has worn out half a dozen of them. After all, Cockran is very much of the lawyer, and a Democrat only when he gets the lawyer's fee. : i .Nowhere is the censorship of the press more se- j vere than at Constantinople. Xot one of the local newspapers, native or foreign, has been permitted to make any reference to the recent attempt on the life of the sultan. The latter will not even allow al-low the words "anarchist" or "socialist" to be used i in any Stamboul newspaper. The words "pest," "plague" and "cholera" al,o are barred, the people tuccumbing to one of these maladies invariably being be-ing described as having fallen a victim to "an unknown un-known disease." Another rule insisted upon by the lultau is that as far as the press is concerned, "every toyal personage or monarch's death should be described as having been due to "natural causes." . The literary executors of Cardinal Xewmau have made arrangements with Wilfred Ward to write, his life. Biography which is always interesting, is, however, among the most difficult forms of composition. com-position. The power to condense and the ready judgment which knows with certainty what to omit, are qualities as necessary in a writer as is sympathy sym-pathy with the subject. Mr. Ward has made all of ! Us his debtors by his two noble volumes on Wise- man, and whenever his life of Xcwman shall ap- I pear it will, indeed, be a welcome gift to the age. if not a classic for all time, says the Western Watch- man. During the last half of the nineteenth cen- l UT' wuian was the most interesting personal- j ity in the English-speaking world. Perhaps he was ; the greatest. He was always a gentle influence, and f m his prime moved intellectual England far more j than any prime minister ever did. - His countrymen knew he had at last abandoned his belief in tho validity of his Anglican orders when he simply changed the color of his trousers. Anthony Kalt, who was received into the Franciscan Fran-ciscan order at St. Anthony's monastery, Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, Aug. 15, is the third member of his family to join the Franciscans. His two older brothers are already ordained priests in the order the Rev. Hubert Hu-bert Kalt, O. F. M., who is stationed at Peoria, 111., and the Rev. Robert Kalt, O. F. M., who has gone to Roswell, X. M., on the missions among the Indians. Another brother is about to enter the order of the Brothers of Mary, at Dayton, and four sisters sis-ters are nuns. Out of a family of nine children, eight are members of religious orders. -r- in a letter to the Catholics of his diocese of St. Paul, Minn.. Archbishop Ireland announces that he has decided to erect a new cathedral in that city. The .work Avili begin next spring, and the cost will be at least a million dollars. "In 1S5(," says his grace, "the diocese consisted of its bishop, Joseph Cretin, two priests and a few hundred Catholics. Since then it has given of its territory to Jive other dioceses, each bearing rich harvests of spiritual work in the service of God and of souls; and itself, it-self, honored as an archdiocese, has today in its two hundred and seventy priests, its two hundred churches, its many flourishing institutions of learning learn-ing and of charity, its Catholic population of two hundred and thrty thousand figures that at best are only the inadequate outward marks of its opulent opu-lent wealth of inward life." |