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Show : I . " ' Sound business the telephone. Football makes merry undertakers. J Insomnia has no terrors for a man at getting- i ; I' ; up time. : Some people hope for the best while others help ' f ' f ! themselves to it. 'I Si j i At primary elections the candidates learn the I ah c's of politics. I ; ? Some men think the curfew whistle is the time J i for them to get out. I ' Even funerals have to be conducted stylishly if ' the deceased is well off. Generally, though, the average man has a little the best of the best of us. i Thank goodness the humble pumpkin has not i i yet been corralled by a trust. j Many a man sews his own buttons on, and tries j to make out that he likes the job. i Coming events cast their shadow before, but none of the candidates can see it. Christmas presents are already a source of wor-riment wor-riment to many who "have to give." The Thanksgiving turkey may well view his ; j present market value with contentment. Ir Anyway, an immunity bath is better than none : at all, especially since the season of laving is pass-' pass-' ing- I With a tariff protection averaging about 150 per I cent, profits in the oil business are easily main- . taincd. i Speed limit laws do not apply to running can- I ' didates. but even at that, there will be a few left in I t ' the ruck. j When a candidate stands for things the people I 1 i won't s-t.md for, though he may be right, is sure 1o be left. I ; I One advantage a young man has over an old man is that he still has time to learn that he doesn't ' know it all. On which subject did Christ discourse the most? On eternal loss for some of us beyond the dark gate- I way of the grave. I' The widows and orphans of whom Wall street was recently so solicitous are still in need of sympathetic sym-pathetic assistance. When a man is arrested, it is presumed he is guilty, but when he goes before the jury he is presumed pre-sumed to be innocent. The recent special edition of the Omaha True Voice reflects great credit on its able and tireless editor, Rev. Father Peter C. Gannon. One good boost deserves another, and every-, every-, body seems moved by a desire not to be outdone bv his neighbor in his effort to get rich quick. Do not say Christ was a great moral teacher and a good man and then deny his divinity. If he is not God he could not be a great moral teacher ibecausc he said he was God and he led multitudes of people, including his apostles and disciples, to so consider him. Thank goodness, though history repeats itself, a repetition of last year's windstorm has failed so far to put in an appearance. Economy is a very commendable virtue, but it is hard to economize on anything controlled by economists. They get first whack. There is a whole lot of satisfaction in knowing that the waiter doesn't know any more about the French on the menu than you do. Every prospective discoverer of the north pole has a new method of approaching his goal, but the pole is as shy as ever and just won't be found. Modern house builders make the closets big enough for something besides the skeleton; but the poor beast has to be taken out and aired anyway. Prohibition is growing so rapidly in the south that the rivers actually need improvement in order or-der to supply the ever-increasing demand for water. wa-ter. Every time we turn a hungry man away unfed and with a harsh word added when it is possible to do otherwise, we corrupt the nobiilty of our own souls forever. However, the A. P. A. and the Junior Order will not cause a financial panic by refusing to uc-cept uc-cept the money tainted with the likeness of an Irish Catholic girl's face. Assurances are extended that the world's coal supply will last only a century or two longer, but even so, there won't be enough money in the world to buy it in a year or two. The only surprise that should be occasioned by the disclosures of Standard Oil methods brought out in the Xew York investigation is that anybody else has anything of any value. Try to remember that the most contemptible men or women, prostitute, drunkard or enemy, were once babes upon their mother's breasts who became a ppectacle to men because of the world, the flesh and the devil. Politics will always lack something it sought to have until Christian men and women, regardless of sect or partisan affiliation, get out at the primaries and set up honest, able and Christian candidates for the public offices. It is unfortunate that the welfare of the nation and the public good are so strenuously sought and advocated by unscrupulous politicians, and yet so easily surrendered when opportunity for private gain or furthering partisan interest presents itself. It is regrettable that sectarian ministers, at an advanced age, find themselves more or less objects of charity. Good and able men though they may be, for their misconceptions we are impelled to extend the mantle of charity to them at all times. Whether tobacco is a luxury or a necessity has caused much mental distress to the United States comptroller, but he finally decided it is a necessity. Of course he is wrong, and if his decision were opposite op-posite he would be wrong again. Tobacco is both. If the president can't find sufficient sport in hunting lean and mangy bears in the canebrakes of the Pelican state he might go out into the country around Washington any time between Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing and Xew Year's and try his luck at a pig-kill-iug. Mud-slinging and character assassination will never bring Protestants into the Roman Catholic fold nor call back the apostate. Editorials can be I bitter and sarcastic, yet be free from the above offenses. The command divine to pray for enemies holds good in this respect as well as in all others. Another grave question which threatens to cause a schism in an eastern church is whether the collection col-lection plate shall be abolished. Advocates of abolition abol-ition no doubt can secure quite a following, but the nature of the question leaves no doubt as to the short life of the movement. A schism can't live without money. Xo matter how much we spend on clothes, tooth powder, paint, whitewash, etc., we will never reach Solomon's glory, nor be clothed in as brilliant a. raiment as the lilies of the field, but a pure life, keeping the vessels of our body unpolluted, will make us more beautiful than the colors of the setting set-ting sun in twilight's frame. On the occasion recently of the dedication of the remodeled St. Augustine's church of Kalamazoo, Kalama-zoo, Mich., a sublimely beautiful souvenir was issued is-sued and sent to us by Rev. Father O'Brien as a commemoration of that asupicious event. The sponsors of this handsome souvenir deserve unstinted un-stinted praise for their production. The engravings shown in its pages testify what a splendid temple to the honor of the Eternal Creator St. Augustine's church is. The mercy and great generosity of Christ were given a twentieth century illustration recently when Mrs. Cassie Chadwick was permitted to die a peaceful and penitent death confessing her life's crimes to the Catholic chaplain of the prison in Columbus, O. While a death bed repentance is not the best, still it is better than no regret or sorrow for the multitudinous misdeeds of a long lifetime. She had given public scandal, she had wrecked the lives of others, but the last few years of her exist- ence were intensely purgatorial. She was a wife and a mother, and may her spirit and the spirits of those whose hearts she broke, rest in the quiet vales of Paradise forevermore. A horrible conspiracy against the president was unearthed when it was discovered that some evil-minded evil-minded individuals had planned to "salt" the Louisiana Louis-iana canebrakes, in which the chief magistrate was to hunt, with Teddy bears. The vigilance of the secret service sleuths who foiled the dark plot is worthy of bouffe immortalization. American bankers have suggested that the trers-ury trers-ury department seriously consider the advisability of printing bank bills of different denominations in different colors, so that the' value of a bill can be told at a glance. Inasmuch as the average man doesn't get much more than a glance at the bills, the need of characteristic colors is at once recognized. recog-nized. Combinations in restraint of trade are so widely wide-ly variant that about every line of industry is affected. af-fected. The principle is not to supply the needs of the world, but to Jimit the supply so there will be increased profit to the producer. Consumers of goods must pay the bills, and the charges are limited lim-ited only as the supply of money the consumer may possess. Too much profit and not enough humanity human-ity afflicts the world. We often hear and see sarcastic comments about labor unions limiting production and demanding more pay for less work. It is universally condemned. con-demned. But when lead or copper gets too low in price, the magnates close down the mines and wait for the demand to stimulate the price. Of course, the miners are thrown1 out of employment and their income ceases, but business expediency makes it more profitable for 'the lead and copper producers to limit the supply, and the miners are only men, anyhow. The classic city of Bostpn uses coal and lots of it. The coal is shipped to the city mostly by boat. From an investigation of its coal shipments it has been discovered that barges billed at Philadelphia with 1,354 tons or 7,294 tons turn up to the city as 1,534 tons or 7,5)24- tons, a simple transposition I of two figures which grafts the city out of quite a bit of money and incidentally keeps the Hub of the Universe before the public eye. And now a few Bos-tonians Bos-tonians are going to take up their residence in the penitentiary. Flimflam alere flammam! With a vast and ever increasing amount of legislation, leg-islation, it is painfully evident that laws cannot altogether abolish the economic evils they are intended in-tended to destroy. The penitentiary is no doubt a good place for rascals, but the accommodations afforded by these hostelries are inadequate to supply sup-ply the demand put upon them. An aggressive Christian fight for justice and mercy and a square deal is the only solution that will really meet the evils complained of, and this happy result will fol-j fol-j low only the realization that temporal power and wealth, the love of which is the source of all the world's troubles, are as fleeting and ephemeral as man himself. |