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Show I In his forthcoming- message the president will urge a larger navy. The "big stick' will be used only for peace, to go along with the white doves in the museum of The Hague tribunal. . 4 1-ootbnll players, according to Jere Dolaney, iiraimr of .Northwestern university eleven, are. subject. sub-ject. 1o an ailment similar to softening of the brain. t : That trainer has a head not found among the play- I crs. $ A gift of . 100,000 for the Episcopal cathedral ! in -New York is announced, and ihc- donor is I "anonymous" That is to say, the identity of the I individual is concealed. The newspaper rule rebuk- 1 ing and rejecting the anonymous" is evidently not j applied to church subscriptions. ! The lnincrs' strike in the San .luan district of Colorado has been called off, and there is great re- juicing in Telluride. Air. Mover, president of ihe I Western Federation of Miners, claims that all that 1 was contended for lias been won. The strike just I declared off began as earlv as September, IJMK'J. : . I ihe hostility of trades unionism to the soeial- I -f!S' propaganda Mas emphasized at the meeting of I 'he American Federation of Labor just adjourned j at S;in Francisco. To ihe various propositions ' 1 presented by the soeialisl side, onlv a little over I lliirty votes were counted in their favor out of a I number execoeding two hundred. I j!' I 'lie spokesman of ihe socialists at ihe recent meeting of ihc American Federation of Labor was a printer, Victor Borger. To find a printer advo- I eating a doctrine which enslaves individuality and I rejects the nalural right which opportunity prc- I scuts, is to turn tip an anomaly which could be j ' spelled freak. 'Bcrgor lives in Milwaukee. That ( , accounts for it. I : '; . I ; ; Thanksgiving day a Kansan named Meyer ! ' tlooc in front of the capiiol building at Toeka, j look off his shirt and burned it. William Allen i White, tl le author of "What's ihe Matter, with Kansas," applied the torch. Twenty years ago I Aloyer promised to burn his shirt when Missouri w'Jit Kepublican. and he made it good in this dra- I iiuiiic niHinir. Surely such a sight should arouse j ' 'ho muse of the Boston poet who edits the Pilot.-- j A dispatch lroin Elgin. 111., says that "proteet- I f(l Jrom jiolice interference by an injunction sc- . cured laic Saturday night, the vaudeville porform- I atice under the auspices of St. Mary's Roman Catholic, church was given Sunday evening."' The I protection invoked of ihe law will not release these T.lgin Catholics from the censure of ihe large num- j her of other Catholics who perceive in 1 his vaude- ville performance on Sunday night a cause of scaii- I dal to ihe church and one inviting the just rebuke I of Protestant neighbors. I ' : 1 lie Washington correspondent of ihe Xcav York jj Pres. assuming to have inside information, says I ihc case of Senator Peed Smoot will drag along I i::!i:l just before the adjournment of congress next J March, when he will be declared entitled to his seat I in 'he United Slates hen a to. The committee, it is v;1iJ. will prepare a lengthy report, most of which will le addressed to the legislature of Utah as to I noM' Car it should go in electing self-professing i Mormons to congress. !;. . According to the Labor Cazette of London for ibis month, a comparison with a year ago shows-a j general decline in employment, though there is im- f provemcnt in the cotton, woolen and tin plate in- I . dustries. From the trade union returns it appears 1":' the .percentage of unemployed, which for last h year was r.S per cent, is this year C.S per cent. All ,,v"r 1,10 counlry and in London special prepara- tions are being made by local authorities cither to f i meet the distress which already prevails or which is anticipated as the winter advances. And this is the condition which cocs to make bocialists of En-glishmen. En-glishmen. 4- , Should the president escape open criticism by evangelical ministers because of justice rendered his Catholic fellow citizens, the brethren can go for him on another count. The other day he put on ihc gloves along with his brother-in-law, an army officer. The unholy dispatches state that the president smote the other man good and hard, and laid him out with a "stiff right."' Really the country coun-try is going to Rome and the devil. The. armies of Kuropatkin and Oyama are facing fac-ing one another on the Shakhe river, where they have beeen stationary for over a month. There are occasional reports from Russian sources of Japanese Japan-ese setbacks and repulses at various points, but the Japanese are silent as to their doings and intentions. inten-tions. All that is positively known is that botli armies arc receiving reinforcements. General Xo-gi Xo-gi announced Thursday, according to a Takio dispatch, dis-patch, the capture of "203 Meter hill,"' the key to the Russian fortifications at Port Arthur. The war officers at St. Petersburg are not prepared to accept the report, but if it is officially confirmed it will lie a desperate blow for the gallant-defenders of the fortress. : j The paragraphia of the Milwaukee Catholic-Citizen Catholic-Citizen tells ''Congressman Fitzgerald's latest story' which is somewhat crude and refers to an Irish couple in Boston whose connubial bliss was occasionally disturbed by violent misunderstandings. misunderstand-ings. They were devoted in, their own way, however, how-ever, and when the husband died he left an inconsolable incon-solable widow. A friend dropped in to see how she was getting along, and in the course of a chat remarked: "I'm glad to hear that poor Mike died happy, anyway."' "Indeed he did, Mfs. Lafferty." was the reasonably cheerful reply. "Sure the lasht thing he done was to crack me over the head wid a medicine bottle, ihe darlin'." 4 There appears to be mystery about the reported abandonment of the Catholic faith by the Marquise do Moustiers (nee Mary Gwendolyn Caldwell). Most of our Catholic contemporaries are inclined to doubt its authenticity. The Western Watchman says there is no secrecy about the mental condition of the lady, and has been none for ten years. ''Her condition is one of imbecility," adds the Watchman, Watch-man, "and her physician at Carlsbad ten years ago 1 expressed the opinion that her ease was a hopeless one. But she is harmless, and the flamboyant letter let-ter published as coming from her was written by some newspaper adventurer, and should not p considered con-sidered hers for a moment." The Catholic Citizen of Rochester, X. Y., says the Baroness Zedwich. the other Caldwell sister who figured in the dispatch dis-patch from Rome, lives in Xew York' and is a do- vout Catholic. fc ; The Catholic diocese of Xewark, X. J., was incorporated in-corporated last week. Bishop O'Connor, with the other trustees, will haAe full control of all diocesan dio-cesan properties and titles. When a bishop died heretofore all of the property of the diocese was bequeathed to his .successor, and it was necessary for the executors of the will to deed the property over to the new bishop. Under ihe provisions of incorporation the title to the diocesan property will be vested in the corporation, and no transfer will be necessary when a bishop dies. "This move is deemed desirable," said Mr. Kearns, the legal agent, of the diocese, ''because otherwise the bishop, who is the frequent recipient of gifts of laud and other goods, must devise them to some one, otherwise at his death the property intended for the church would go to his heirs. In Xew England property is all vested in one diocesan corporation. In Xew Jersey ihc different church parishes have their own ecclesiastical corporations, of which, of course, the bishop is the head. With this incorporated association asso-ciation these other bodies can transfer their hold- 1 ings, if they desire, to the new association." 1 The labor unions are agitating Japanese exclusion exclu-sion along lines laid down for the exclusion of Chinese, Chi-nese, contending that the former menace white la- bor as much as the other heathens do. Perhaps they do at present; but the greater peril after all is not from the Japs within as it is from the Japs without. When they get so far advanced in western west-ern civilization as to make everything we use in this country at a price so cheap that tariffs and trusts I cannot keep their products out, then we will appreciate appre-ciate the "yellow peril" in its truest sense. If Japan iliould be triumphant in her war with Russia she would find an outlet for her surplus population in the new possessions she would obtain. If Japan were defeated her people might be reduced to such straits that a great wave of emigration to the Philippines, Phil-ippines, Hawaii and this country would result. In the one case a Japanese ''invasion" of this country would not be imminent and the agitation for anti-Japanese anti-Japanese legislation would be likely to cease. In the other the situation would become acute, and a uew and difficult political-diplomatic situation would arise. x l T Though the Italian election is a month old, our Catholic contemporaries still speculate on the papal pa-pal break with the uon-expedit, some protesting for and some against the accuracy of news received through irregular channels. It is not known positively posi-tively whether the pope withdrew the mandate which in Italy ever since the papal states were annexed an-nexed to the royal domain has forbidden faithful Catholics to approach the polls. All that is known positively is the defeat of the socialists through Catholic votes, and no rebuke from the Vatican followed disregard of the non-cxpodit. Xo other way was discovered to rout the common enemy of church ami state. Hence socialism has done more lhan any other force to reconcile the King of Italy and the pope, if so it be that they arc, and affairs turn out as optimists predict. ' y : Supplementary news of the fire which destroyed de-stroyed Missouri's building at the vorld:s fair contains con-tains this paragraph: St. Louis, Nov. 21. Unharmed by flames, the life size oil portrait of the late Pope Leo' hangs upon the charred walls t of the Missouri bulletins, while all about it the evidence of the fire that raged Saturday evening can be found, in the remains of other nlc-tures nlc-tures and the great hole burned entirely through the wall within a few inches of the nail upon which the . portrait is hanging. The preservation of this portrait por-trait was the wonder of all who visited the ruins. Remarkable as the incident appears there is nothing noth-ing in it which would incline Catholics to view the circumstance in the supernatural order. A picture of Martin Luther, hung in the identical place that the other stood 'immune from fire would come out unharmed as did the picture of Pope Leo. A score of reasons could be advanced to sustain this contention con-tention to the one denying its possibility. , Protestants Protest-ants who believe that such incidents or accidents have much meaning for Catholics will be disappointed disap-pointed when it turns out that, the apparent miraculous mira-culous preservation of the picture will not promote the canonization of Pope Leo at Rome this month. Incidentally this disappointment will invite the conclusion that the Roman curia, like the Missou-rian, Missou-rian, "must be shown." |
