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Show j If there is anything: to Rory O'More's phil- : opophy it is his prediction of luck in odd numbers. , Sunday ushers in; the New Year 1905. All the numbers in the vear are odd but 5he, and that one is nothing. " ; 1 We have received a musical production entitled, "Ecce Saeerdos Magnus," composed by Komi S. Keyzer and dedicated, to Rt. Rev. A. J. Glorieux, D.D., bishop of Boise City, oil the occasion of the first diocesan synod at Genesee, Ida., Aug. 27, 1904. The piece is so printed as to serve either as score or as accompaniment. :. 4 - Where is Admiral Rojestveftsky and the Baltic fleet at this hour? One may run his finger over 1 he atlas, through the Suez canal and into the lied sea, and thence into the Indian ocean. Like the ''Plying Dutchman," the Baltic squadron is everywhere every-where and nowhere. . . v - Don't' throw away your cigar tonight and say that froni Xew Year's day and forever not another will you put in your mouth. Better a cigar in your mouth than a lie, a broken resolution and the consciousness con-sciousness that your will is subordinated to habit. There is too much levity to these Xcw Year resolutions. reso-lutions. Bad habits are most, effectually broken through the grace received in Penance. . It is the vast army of small savers in Prance, ,lhe y,X)J,MX persons whose liames figure in the tax accounts and who" own the millions of small parcels of personal property and real estate, that make the fortune of the country. In comparison with their aggregate "accumulations' the possessions of the' wealthy are insignificant. Such facts as these illustrate il-lustrate in a striking manner the thrift of the masses of the Preneh' people. ' .. : ; ...In striking a balance against Ireland recently, re-cently, some critic discovered that that afflicted island never produced a Shakespeare. It is as true , of England to say that she never produced a Burke, ' aud in looking around for. some equal for Burke, ; after his -death, -a critic of some note places him, as regards imaginative powers, on a level with Shakespeare. Dr. Johnson, who was his uncom-: uncom-: .promising foe in politics, entertained as high an 'opinion of his oratory. One of his acquaintances asked him if Burke did not remind him of Cicero. "Xo, sir," was Dr.-Johnson's reply, ''but Cicero . reminds me of Burke." ; ' : . .. . In .the will of Margaret Perry of Tarrytown, X. Y... provision. is made .for her two old pet cats, .and $250 set aside for'f ceding and caring for them during the rest of their lives. From the viewpoint of the editor of Our Dumb Animals, a sermon ' could be preached with this circumstance for a basis, and the sermon would be all right. From the viewpoint of the ( socialist, the eircurastanctl but-emphasizes the lesson in Tom Hood's "Songi of the Shirt," and his criticism is just. Both being : - right, neither can be 'wrong; therefore, nobody should "throw stones at the endowed eats. Throw thenl at the cats in the alley, as these tramp felines ..never appear iii the records of a probate court. : , Archbishop Messnnr is in favor of the Catholic ' . 'Church co-operating with the local Protestant i : . - 'churches in" what the latter term an evangelistic ' ' ; movement in all the parishes to begin with the Xcw ? , : .: Year and last until Easter. Rev. B. II. Moore of j "the South Baptist church and Rev. Henry Sfauf- ..', fer of the Pilgrki Congregational, church, niem- I ' bcrs of the evangelistic committee of the Milwau- ; - kee Ministers' association, conferred with the arch- i ". , bishop last week and were practically assured that j - he was in favor of the Catholic parishes taking up ; ; the movement. "The plan, as it was outlined to V ' rne" aid ih ar'hbishop, 'is a practical one. The j ! - subjects 'which' arc to be selected, as the universal I , iheme, have to -deal with practical moral reform, ; . S ' . v':: y: .', l 111! I I . I.. Il.ll. II I II .I 'IT and the influence of having them presented in every church in the city at the same time ought to be a mighty one. Of course, it would be impossible for us to join in anj' union services which may be included in-cluded in the plan. I explained this to the gentlemen gentle-men and they understood my position exactly." -t The Boston Herald is receiving deserved commendation com-mendation from churchmen and laymen of all creeds for its refusal to admit questionable "medical" "med-ical" advertisements to its columns. Other leading periodicals are doing as the Boston Herald is doing, at the same heavy sacrifice of money returns. Quack medicines of that kind are injurious in two ways, to the health and to the morals of those who are trapped by the lies of bogus "retired missionaries," "aged doctors," and imaginary philanthropists doing do-ing business in the names of dead men and women. We trust that the Boston Herald's example will be followed by all periodicals patronized by decent people. The Salt Lake Tribune, for instance, could not make a better Xew Year resolution. Thomas E. Rush, leader of the, Tammany organization organ-ization in the Twenty-ninth assembly district of Xew York, at a meeting last week announced that $2,100 was left in the treasury, and asked the pleasure of those assembled regarding its disposal. For some moments there was no response. Then someone suggested "a Christmas dinner for the j poor of the district." "There are no poor in the district," retorted a committeeman. He should have added, "but there arc lots of" grafters." Tarn- many is an open-hearted political organization, but "the poor" are discovered before and not after elect ion. , Opposition to the Anglo-American arbitration treaty has arisen, and it comes from the Irish so- i cicties of Xew York, Chicago and other cities. The treaty of arbitration between this country and Great Brilain was signed by the representatives of the two governments, Secretary Hay and Sir Mortimer Mor-timer Durand, the British ambassador. It will be ready to send to the senate along with ten or a dozen other treaties of arbitration shortly after congress reconvenes in January. If perfidious Albion Al-bion is not shown up in her hypocritical professions of friendship for America, it is because no man of Celtic blood dare raise his voice. But, there's .Senator .Sen-ator Patterson. He's Irish, and a Democrat to boot. . : In an outspoken article, in reply to a recent letter let-ter of Admiral Bierhoff which appealed to the Russians Rus-sians not to openly criticise the condition of the navy, the Russ of St. Petersburg declares the time is past for silence, in view of the fact that the "old system of concealing facts is responsible for the loss of 15,000,000 roubles' worth of warships and has covered us with shame and grief. It would be absurd to hide the defects that can still be repaired in the ships which remain at Cronstadt and Libau. We have already criminally wasted enough time." Language like the abore no Russian would dare to print a year ago. If the anticipated reforms bring nothing else, the freedom accorded the Russian press is worth the agitation of a century. The service rendered the Salt Lake dailies by the Associated Press, complete in details of crime and scandal, omitted mention of the sensational correspondence which passed between the German and British governments during the last four weeks with reference to the warlike and provocative attitude adopted toward Germany by the semiofficial semi-official British press, especially the Army and Xavy Gazette. The kaiser took a vigorous hand in the negotiations and made his personality felt in a positive way. He instructed that the British cabinet cab-inet should be informed, in effect, that if England wanted war it could have it immediately; if it was not desirous of such an event, the talk which Germany Ger-many considered an affront must stop. Both Count Wolff-Met temich, German ambassador in London, and Sir P. C. Lascelles, British ambassador at Berlin, were -ailed home by their respective gov- j ernments to discuss the situation, whicJi reached a most delicate point. The publications which in- I duced the German government to assume its strong attitude were a series of articles in the Army and Xavy Gazette, culminating in the declaration that the kaiser's navy was so rapidly becoming a menace to Great Britain that war would be better declared now in order that the German fleet might be destroyed de-stroyed before it should become still a greater danger. dan-ger. Both Premier Balfour and Lord Lansdownc have now been told that Germany is impatient of this distrust of its naval policy, which it accuses the Xational Review, the Army and Xavy Gazette and other papers of generating among the British people. The fatherland wishes the British to understand, un-derstand, once for all, that it has not the slightest intention of abandoning the development of its navy and, its merchant marine at British behest, no matter how much of a bogey they constitute. . "- |
