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Show J Mrs. K. L. Wilbc-r of Dolores, Colo., ; ; writes to The Intel-mountain Catholic: 'Rev. Father Carroll from Tclluride is - building a line Catholic1 church hero. : , i and expects to have- it ready for ser vice by April." To put a stop to further noise about j . ; Noyes. President Roosevelt bounced ; the corruptible judge from the bench ; 1 ' nt Alaska. What relief will be given 1 I t to poor miners whose claims were ad- ' judicated by this Fame Noyes? t i he police judge of Lynn, Mass., i fined 112 men $13 each for playing the jwmc culled "policy," to teach them ' lhat no man had a show tor his money ! in such a same. "Now. a man playing ;okor has some chance for his money," ' paid tb.e judge, before imposing the I fines. That remark would go as sound ! . jurisprudence jn Montana. A mountain of arsenic has been Ii found fifty miles outside Taeoma, enough to extinguish the demand heretofore here-tofore supplied by Cornwall, England. One by one importations from England ' ' are dropping off. and soon nothing will be kit but Bass' ale. John Hull beaLs the Yankees brewing ale, so long as we 'aven't got the 'ops. ; ' The people of the United States, na- J f i ! tive and naturalized, are apparently I 11 pleased with the visit of Prince ; Henry, except the Englishman. The 1 Senna n is crazed w ith enthusiasm. ; , Thi Irishman is delighted because of England's vexation over the affair. The American likes Prince Henry be-3 be-3 cause nf the absence of snobbery and I : ine presence or democracy in their , royal guest. i , The hundredth anniversary of Victor i Hugo's death was celebrated with great brilliancy in Paris. The Parisians are I certainly loyal to the memory of their i literary celebrities. How few Irishmen ! remember the birthdays of Maria lidge- f ' worth or Gerald Griffin the authors of I "Castle Rackrent" and "The Colle- gians" respectively! Yet Hugo never : ' wiote anything better, from a literary f and national standpoint, than these two j works. i I Patent medicine vendors, who appeal to Catholic patronage with a picture of ' a holy (?) nun. dressed in all the regalia re-galia of a cloister, should be discour- " aged. "When a religious community f )K-rmits one of its members to don the I holy habit and have her charming face and coarse dress used as an advertise- ment it becomes a gross burlesque . "i ' upon religion. Catholic instinct naturally nat-urally revolts at such degradation of t religion. 'What will not people do for ' . ' ' monev? f It must be difficult to persuade Mrs. Ellen Devine, a widow, of No. .163 Ave- J nue A. New York, from attaching un- ; due importance to the number 13. The reason is this: Her husband received 13 fractures of the ribs in the accident I lhat killed him. He died April 13. His ' ; wages were $13 a week. On May 13 . 1" 1 action was brought for damages. The ,; wise was No. 13 on the calendar and wsf tried 13 months after the accident. 5 Irs- Devine recovered damages to . 1 : the extent of $7,500, so that f,500 is a i ' '' ' '. ', significant number, too. j , ; ! ! ; Eord Kitchener, though he be devoid j ' : of truth, is not without a saving touch i I . f humor, if an English correspondent i ni"y 'e believed. The generalissimo ; . has been much worried, it appears, by dispatches from enthusiastic subalterns out on petty Boer hunting raids, who have wired him at Pretoria that "during "dur-ing the action several Boers were t-een to droD from their saddles." The phrase became the consecrated one when there were no important results to chronicle and those "seen to drop" rarelv oroved to be seriously dead. Kitchener, wearied of the vain farce, adopted the plan of telegraphing his .sarcastic "hope that when the Boers fell they did not hurt themselves." j Several subalterns are feeling distinct- ly more hurt than the wily Boers, and the weekly "bag" does not total up so high as of old. The anecdote is sug- treStiVP- rVm tinr-ntol rritirc havo lnnr been wondering how the Kitchener figures fig-ures of "Boers killed and captured" tallied with the numbers that still remained re-mained to fight another. Nothing is more certain that In Butte copper circles a more friendly feeling is in existence and that low-priced copper cop-per has had a tendency to bring all conflicting interests together, says the Inter-Mountain. Nothing is surer than that the only way to stand off low prices is to eliminate the tremendous cost of litigation and the dead work it entails. Self-preservation and self-I self-I interest all indicate an early and permanent per-manent settlement of the present conflict con-flict on some basis that will restore peace, good will and prosperity in Butte. In the meantime, however, the yarns sprung on the Boston curb should be discounted. As jokes, they are excellent, ex-cellent, but the victims are the newspapers news-papers which print them, not the excellent ex-cellent gentlemen who figure In copper litigation in Butte. One might almost despair of the future, fu-ture, so far as American freedom is concerned, were it not for the speeches of such men as Senators Hoar and Teller, and a few others, on the Philippines, Phil-ippines, says the Catholic Standard. The venerable senator from Massachusetts Massachu-setts has no uncertainty in his opin-I opin-I ions. They are those of the founders I oi mis republic, and not those of its i modern betrayers. He occupies just the same position in present American politics as Edmund Burke did in British Brit-ish while America was battling for freedom; but his words carry far more weight. They may not affect the banded conspirators against the constitution consti-tution who have the upper hand in the government, but they must sink deep into the minds of the people and in time bear good fruit, like the words of Lincoln. There are many points of dissimilarity dissimilar-ity between King Edward and his nephew, the kaiser some in favor of one. some of the other. But it is a curious fact that while King Edward has recently been bitten by the Christian Chris-tian Science humbug, the kaiser has determined to deal with it as a soctel disease and stamp it out. The cult has made great strides of late in Berlin, Ber-lin, especially In court circles, and the Christian Science professors have been making piles of money. In London society it is also gaining a firm hold. The leaders of the movement there are Lord and Lady Dunmore, while the young Marchioness of Bath is also very prominent at the seances held every Wednesday at the meeting house in Bryanstort Square. At these meetings the faithful stand up and relate the marvellous cures effected through their agencv or that of fellow Christian Scientists, Sci-entists, and some of these achievements art- strange enough in appearance to baffle the colleges of physicians and surgeons combined. The king had heard of some of these wonders, and he has had several conferences with Lord Dunmore and other members of the sect. He has not committed him self, for, as head of the established church, it would be rather awkward if he took up with Christian Scientism. But he has caused it to be known that he is interested in the doings of the faith healers. |