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Show I They had real fighting in the harbor of Panama the other day, with real I shins and real cannon. On 'Feb. 20, 1902, Leo XIII will begin the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate. Preparations are making for the sol-j sol-j emn celebration of the event. It is announced in Missoi ri that the I peach buds are killed. Well, there will I not be a total failure next year; the I, exposition at St. Louis will be a peach. II There are twenty-four Catholic archbishops arch-bishops and bishops, and 3,500 priests in Great Britain, according to the 1 Catholic Directory (England) for liK'2. ! f We read that the Paulist Fathers have determined to go to the rescue of the Catholic faith of the Filipinos. and thus counteract the attempts of the preacher-wolves who howl for the spir-1 spir-1 itual life of that people. Kansas prairies covered deeply with snow, and Colorado mountains bare! t This country is surely getting all turn ed around. They will he building cog railroads in Kansas, next thing says the Pueblo Chief ton. There are, according to the latest census, 11.4L'0,000 Catholics in the Russian Rus-sian empire. Hut the czar has never called them idolators, as King Edward ' VII stigmatized his Catholic subjects 1 , : on nis accession to the throne a year ago. Father Jeremiah Crowley has brought an action for damages against the Chicago News for saying that he : had left the city to do penance in a western monastery. So we have not ' heard the last of Crowley. Having managed to secure the disapproval dis-approval of the Rev. Dr. ParkhuYst. I Mayor Low of New York City is now I going ahead with some confidence. Yesterday was the day for denying i ; the story that the Boers have made : overtures for eaee. I After July 1, 1002, the only kind of ' pistol that can be sold lawfully in South Carolina will be a formidable affair twenty-two inches long and ,; weighing not less than three pounds. There will be some bootlegging in pis tols done in South Carolina after that dale. There is still enough left of the Grand Army to light a case of drunken incompetency. in-competency. The (I. A. R. uf Ka-tsas has risen in wrath against its stale commander, Norton, and kicked h'm ' out of office at Topeka as completely :! as Pembcrton was fired out of Vicks- bur-. Senator Hoar wants to know what is going on in (lie Philippines. He would have witnesses, the most competent obtainable, brought before a special committee .f the Upper House, and ; asked to tell what they have seen and , beard. Our knowledge, or supposed i knowledge, of existing conditions in : t '. lhe Archipelago is more visionary than ; real. "What we accept today for fac will be denied tomorrow. i The Kansas City Star, alluding to ; tho earthquake in Mexico, notes that i ', ; : ; the Twentieth century is doing fairly 1 i vvp11 in continuing its predecessors rec- i ; i "rd in the matter of disasters. The '. ' Star recalls that the Hoboken wharf i I ' ' . 0re ani1 tbe Galveston Hood both oc- x"-s. curred in 1900, and last year and so far in 1!02 there have been unusual railway and mine accidents, both as to their number and the destruction of life involved. in-volved. According to Les Missions Catho-liques, Catho-liques, nine Catholic bishops and 102 priests died in 1900 on foreign missions in heathen countries, three of the bishops bish-ops being murdered in China and fifteen fif-teen of the priests dying violent deaths. Thus the Church still continues contin-ues to give testimony of the faith. The driving out of France of the religious re-ligious orders has already closed S3 houses of maternity, 97 asylumns for incurables and a home for leprosy, 172 poor asylums, 229 asylums for the aged, 393 dispensaries and hospitals, 398 works for assisting the unfortunate, 512 night lodging-houses, 570 works for the infirm, 691 orphanages, and 1.42S other houses of beneficences. Frederick Harrison has been saying some unpleasant things to his fellow countrymen. If he reflects well the sentiments of the people, the present war and its remote causes do not fur-nis'h fur-nis'h much food for cheerful reflection. He writes: "In all the fifty-two years Jie writes: ill mi mr iui--" of my memory of public affairs I recall no time which has filled men of right mind with anxiety and pain so deep as the present. We have a cruel, chronic war, which can end only in generations genera-tions of bitterness and strife. Parliamentary Parlia-mentary government has become the scorn of the civilized world. Our cherished cher-ished principles of military service and financial economy have been repudiated. repudi-ated. Industrial decline and disaster are imminent. The public tone is sinking sink-ing into a low kind of vulgar materialism. material-ism. The ministers of every religion almost but one are encouraging much that is inhuman, coarse and immoral. We still are in the crazy mood of the Oriental tyrant who would not treat for peace, but was bent on subjugation, subjuga-tion, which can only mean the extermination exter-mination or the transposition of an entire nation.' |