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Show Capita anl labor after an encounter are always j in ore respectful of each other. ; i j Our spring poem we have placed in the drawer to await a more propitious season. Xo matter which club win?, it is evident that the national game is a sure winner. The water in the stock market is fine for big fish, ! but the little ones frequently get frozen out. Undertakers" prices make us rather bear the in- freased cost of living than the increased cost of V dying. I 1 ' ; 1 hose burglars who carried off nearly 150 i watches may be considered very deliberate in tak ing1 plenty of time at their work. 'Only the journalists are for war," says Wil-Jiani Wil-Jiani T. Stead, editor of the Review of Reviews, of A-ondon. Mr. Stead is not for war. Tiious'h they drink deep at the fountain of jnmwled.se. some men's heads may still remain as empty a a cistern with a leak in the bottom. Cattle and sheep men. considering their differences differ-ences beyond the arbitrament of The Hague, did nt send any delegates to the peace congres. .lohn Temple Graves may claim to be the original origi-nal Roosevelt Democrat, but we claim precedence "ii the Bryan and Roosevelt ticket for the people. Belgium is proposing to appoint women to the police force. Thus another fcnap is being taken from the lords of all creation by the invasion of the fair sex. If strav. indicate the direction of the wind, those in the windows of millinery and men's fur-uishing fur-uishing stores and at. the soda fountains show which way the money goe. Last week the last echo of the Swettenham incident in-cident sounded over the press wires, in the -announcement of the publication in London of all the official letters concerning the affair. Governor Swettenham had to come down and apologize when j 1 lie British colonial secretary got after him. ''The First Society of Eternal Youth" is a new Iowa organization which proposes to banish sickness sick-ness and death from the earth and to overcome ihe inexorable laws of nature by continually asserting as-serting that old age and death are habits that have grown into the human race and may be eradicated by "thought' Great stuff, this "thought." Some people are entirely too particular. Here's the Bank of England returning to America a shipment ship-ment of $1,500,000 in gold because it was below the required standard of fineness. Practically no one i in America would refuse such a shipment, and thus put the government to needless expense of fixing the responsibility. Even virtuous editors would be pleased to receive any part of the money on subscription sub-scription accounts. Telegraph reports say that 20,000,000 peasants of Russia are starving. Another story is that the czar and grand dukes will give $7,500,000 from their private purses to help build a couple of battleship? bat-tleship? of the Dreadnought type. Xo wonder Russia Rus-sia is a decaying nation; no wonder anarchy is-rampant is-rampant and that the bureaucrats are in danger of their lives. The sadness of the situation is that the government does not realize it, and appeals are made to America and other portions of the civilized i --- world for money and foodstuffs while the Russian government goes on building battleships to destroy the nation that charitably feeds the subjects of the czar. Between battleships and beans, the peasants prefer the beans. Distillers of whisky must obey the law, says the secretary of the department of agriculture. The frequent pointing out of certain individuals who must hereafter obey the law suggests that we must be a nation of outlaws. Why not make everybody prominent citizens and all obedient, by arresting the prominent citizens without these warnings to be good? Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture agricul-ture wants the manufacturers of the land to stop their eternal lying in their advertisements about the merits and perfections of their products or he will do a little advertising himself. ' A censorship of the advertising agent's productions extended to cover the paper of the Great American Circus would rob it of half its attractiveness and leave the circus poor indeed. I The cold and wintry blasts of Jan. j Were no more cold or wintry than I The Arctic winds that last week blew And chilled the marrow through and through. But let us not be discontent But crown it all with merriment; If April rains are turned to snowses. j May (be) flowers will be June roses. We have received an extremely interesting little lit-tle volume from the facile pen of the Very Rev. Abbot Gasquet, O. S. B., D. D., entitled "The Question Ques-tion of Anglican Ordinations."" In the small space the Rev. Father has allowed himself, fifty-two pages, he has most ably explained the historical ground work of the decision given by the late Holy Father, Leo XIIL, in the Bull, Apostolical Curae and clearly convinces the reader that the recognition of Anglican orders by the Holy See is an utter impossibility. This little work possesses the. merit of making one "long for more." We strongly recommend its perusal to our Anglican friends and those of the faith. The publishers are the Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. If the Christian missionaries in China have accomplished ac-complished no other good, their reports of the famine fam-ine at least must awaken the humanitarian instincts in-stincts of western peoples. The efficient organization organiza-tion of church workers has been and will continue to be one of the great factors in the collection and j distribution of relief for the sufferers. Catholics, Protestants and disciples of Confucius are working together to supply the needs of the people. Their efforts show plainly that they recognize the brotherhood brother-hood of man, and out of the calamity may grow a realization of the fatherhood of God. The work in China is essentially humanitarian, and the church is now, as it always has been, the greatest force in the world making for humanitarianisni. In every walk of life are men who attempt to fool the world by covering up their wickedness by the display of a few assumed excellencies which they prominently display for their own gratification ' and the deception of their neighbors. Especially do public men assume a virtuous appearance and make fair promises which they hang upon the thorny branches of their career to cover up the knavery which if exposed would send them into political oblivion. Pretense of working for the public welfare, professions of love for the good and true and a mighty outward show of religious fervor befuddle the public office-holder's constituents, who are deceived by the smoothness of his intellectual activity as easily as is a child by the baubles put upon a Christmas tree. The show-down which must come when final results are asked for finds the politician with a well lined pocket assiduously pointing to. the other fellow, denouncing the practices prac-tices of the opposition, yet still hiding behind the showy pretended virtues which ill conceal the imitation imi-tation and the false in his own life. The measure meas-ure of honesty is not well balanced when a public office holder with no other visible means of support than his $500 or $1,000 a year salary can live luxuriously, lux-uriously, wear fine clothes and own an automobile. He is dishonest, either not paying his debts or paying pay-ing them out of graft money extorted through the operation of the beneficent political machine. Men do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles, but there seems to be a never-ceasing and altogether altogeth-er sufficient income' attaching to some low-salaried public offices. |