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Show A Trench savant declares that Le can prove that lh" Japaiioc ;iro Ihe ten lost iribes of Israel. Xot fit the authoriry of the Book of Mormon can iho Frenchman , so. One of the lost tribes was at Washington the other day, facing old Senator Hoar. The other are .scattered about Utah. A Denver man has figured out that he has had m to right s M il hhis wife in ten years. A Canadian '..m.)i:porarv (Freeman) says This fellow is likely a sample of jhe men known as "street angels and liMUse devils' the class of men who would run ( ,,,'"'k 'Oif-r 'liaii tight a man, but would roll up i his sleeves at home in his endeavor to ill-treat a de fenseless woman. 4 I he Chicago correspondent of the Catholis Union and Times says Archbishop Quigley has nobly no-bly renounced ihe large bequest lately willed him. j rather ihan haggle over it in the courts. A similar occurrence was noted in San Francisco some months ago when Archbishop Rioruan publicly re-; re-; iH.nnc?d a bequest of $50,000. A wealthy gentle man of that , itv was so impressed with the prelate's pre-late's action that he sent his personal check for the unclaimed sum. 4 Frank Damroseh, director of music in the New York public, schools, and director of the Oratorio society of Greater New York, the People's Choral union and the Medical Art society, expresses his opinion of the recent letter of Pope Pius X re garding church music in the current number of ihe Church Economist. Director Damroseh approves ap-proves ihe portion of the pope generally, and says ho beiieves that if ihe instruction could be literally 5 followed the result would be beneficial. In the re-election of Mr. Ed Long to the presidency presi-dency of the Miners' union at Butte tIiat body has indorsed the attitude of Mr. Long in the. matter of the extra session of the Montana legislature, and the objects for which it was called. Mr. Long and his official associates were severely criticised by the political representatives of the United Copper company, com-pany, because they favored the calling of an extra session of Ihe legislature for the enactment of a fair trial law. The re-election of Mr. Long shows that the membership of the Miners' union is in hearty accord with the course pursued by that gentleman. gen-tleman. 4. . , Bishop Colton of Buffalo, in the Catholic Union and Times, reminds the readers cf his column there is more to Lent. 1han that it is a time for fast, and prayer. "These, indeed,'' he says, '"are the j chief requisites for a good Lent, but they can have their consequences in making one economical and thoughtful, and front the enforced curtailing of table ta-ble expenses, one easily finds his means accumu lating, so that lie can lay by something in the savings sav-ings bank. Everyone should be saving and the bauk should be availed of when he would put by securely ihut which he saves." Good advice, at any aud all times. Lake Erie is full of water, and fish should be as cheap as buttermilk in Buffalo, at least until 1 here comes along a fish trust like the beef trust. I Such admonition as the good bishop gives to his Buffalo flock touching the opportunity for saving expenses during Lent, could not benefit the savings banks out this way. Four bits paid for a mounia?n trout not much larger than the "spud"' on the dish beside it, is far different from paying but one bit for a walrus caught in Lake Erie. Bishop Coltou will appreciate the touch of humor we find in his Lenten paragraph, were it applied to this locality. Perhaps a key must also, be furnished our eastern contemporaries for the western vernacular expressing express-ing monev values. "Four bits'' mean fifty cents. ! ...... Pictures illustrating the war in the east help the reader's interest in daily history. The syndicate syndi-cate press furnishes plenty of such, albeit some are reproductions of old plates illustrating the China-Japanese China-Japanese war and the Boxer insurrection. A late picture brings out types of the Chinese army now moving about the empire, ostensibly for the pur-posa pur-posa of preserving neutrality at threatened points. If the picture is true, these heathen warriors present pre-sent anything but a formidable appearance. For every soldier who carries a gun, two others carry some sort of banner, probably to inspire courage or propitiate evil spirits. They have not learned much from the war with Japan if this be a correct picture of their military progress. A regiment of Cossacks could easily rout an army corps of such soldiers. Evidently the Chinaman will always remain re-main a Chink. j l or decades the great powers have been eon- struetiiig armored vessels, and adding to their size, I speed and thickness of armor and the power of their guns, but there have been what navymen would call a provokijiuly small number of opportunities to find what, account these engines of destruction can give of themselves in actual conflict. The Chinese and ; Japanese fleets had an encounter, but that was a j one-sided affair. The Spanish vessels under Cer-I Cer-I vera were disposed of summarily by the American ships at Santiago, but in accuracy of firing and in iseme other essential points the American sailors were far superior to those who manned the Spanish Span-ish shins. It is the impression that when Kussiaus and Japanese meet conditions will be -more nearly equal than when Chinese encountered Japanese or when Spauiards and Americans fought. Xvymen will -be disappointed if there is not an engagement on a grand scale between the Kussian and the Japanese Jap-anese fleets. It may be the end of many vessels and many brave men, but it will furnish information which can be got in no other way. . Where is Martin J. Egan. who illuminated literature lit-erature during the Spanish war? lie is the dean of the war correspondents sent out by the Associated Press to perceive, interview and '"'write up" the trouble in the east, but none of these syndicate articles ar-ticles we. read in the Sunday newspapers sounds like Martin J. Egan. Some day he will give an account ac-count of himself. Mr. Egan was with Dewey at Manila, reported the first of the Philippine insurrection, insur-rection, went with the international column to Pe-kin, Pe-kin, and in this country has done notable work in the anthracite coal strike, at Buffalo during the days that President McKinley lay mortally wounded, wound-ed, and in accompanying such distinguished visitors visi-tors as the present Prince of Wales and Prinee ' Henry of Prussia in their travels on this continent. It turns out that the best descriptive writers for the press belong to the race who got poetic inspiration inspira-tion from the druids of ancient Erin and their faith from St. Patrick. By the way, we are reminded of the death at Xew York last week of Mrs. Barbara MacGahan, ihe widow of Janarius Aloysius Mac-Gahan, Mac-Gahan, the well known war correspondent. Since her husband's death Mrs. MacGahan had been a war correspondent and a fiction writer. |