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Show .The Mad Mullah is again on the war path. Easy enough for British valor to overcome the timid hermits of Tibet, but when it comes to facing the Mad Mullah, Tommic Atkins looks to his horse for a flank movement that will separate him from the intrepid barbarian. 4 That was a neat and soft impeachment of American sincerity for universal peace which Edwin D. Mead brought out before, the international inter-national peace congress in session at Boston. He hinted that our own government had not given an example of disarmament, but yielded rather to the temptation to become a great naval power. Senator Hoar passed away peacefully at his home in Worcester, Mass. His ashes repose in "Sleepy Hollow," the historic cemetery of Con-' cord, X. IL It is no slight to Massachusetts to say that the state which produced so many great and noble Americans finds none within its borders to take the place of the statesman just buried in 'Sleepy Hollow.' Indeed, who in the senate can nil the void? A . I Rabbi Hirsh, of Chicago, was riding in a crowded street car, and rose to surrender his seat to a lady. Before she could take it a young man plumped himself into it. The rabbi looked at him in disgusted silence. ''What's the matter" demanded de-manded the man; "what yeh glarin' at me for? Yeh look as if yohd like to eat me."' ;I am forbidden for-bidden to eat you," answered the rabbi; 'I am a Jew.' October is the month especially given to the devotion of the Rosary, and as devotion to the Rosary 2nd the Sacred Heart are so closely en-' en-' twined, it is a month particularly dear to the heart of every League member, who should make ife a : point, if it is not already their custom, to say the ! Kosary every day during this month. "In alfjour '. wants, turn to the Blessed Virgin," says Blessed Clement Maria Hofbauer, the Redemptorist. "She is the mother of mercy, and will obtain mercy for you from her Son. Xever has the Son refused His Mother a grace." : ' A discussion has arisen as to the comparative losses of the Japanese and Russian forces during the rrcent engagement at Liao Yang and those of the Union and Confederate armies at Gettysburg. There, are no authentic figures yet available of the ? losses at Liao Yang, nor will there be anv until long after the war is over. Published estimates hare been mere guess work and have ranged from ?0,000 to 70,000. During the three days' fighting at Gettysburg the federal army, according to ol ficial reports, lost 3,072 killed. 14.497 wounded and 1,454 captured or missing. The Confederate losses, according to official reports, which have been called in question, were 2.092 killed, 12.709 wounded wound-ed and 3,150 captured or missing. ' . The newspapers associate the recent death of Barlow, the old-time minstrel, with the negro melody cf -Old Black Joe." Barlow often sang ihat sweet air, but he did not compose it. Stephen . G. Foster was the author, who wrote "Suwanee Tuver," "Old Kentucky Home," "Hard Times Come Again So More," and more than a score of other pieces, whose melody has never been rivalled hy any successor. It's a pretty safe bet that when any. new. song comes before the public and develops de-velops Staying qualities, the. music has been stolen from that unfortunate but incomparable master of melody, of whom Patti said, '"his songs come straight from and go straight to the heart." It may be worth noting that the first negm mekv j written by Foster Vas ;-Ut!ele Xcd," whiHfh prc- senred to a friend for whom it formed the foundation founda-tion of a fortune. - : A contributor to -Donohoe's Magazine makes interesting reading of life on the stage. We arc surprised at the number of Catholic artists who have amused and are yet amusing American audiences. audi-ences. Included in the list are only those who devote de-vote their talents to the legitimate drama, stars of the first magnitude in high class comedy and histrionic his-trionic portrayal. The bam stormers arc omitted, and it might be prudent to absolve them from any religious affiliation. In the Pueblo Chieftain wo observe mention of Miss Jane Corcoran, apparently appar-ently a new light in the dramatic firmament. The j sale of seats for her performance of "Peggy," ae-I ae-I cording to the Chieftain, indicates a record-breaking audience at the Grand Opera house. Corcoran sounds like a Catholic name, and perhaps it is an Irish name, but" on this point we arc willing to abide the decision of our friend M. 1. J. Griffin. If Corcoran is neither Catholic nor Irish, then-surely the play of "Peggy" must have an Irish heroine. Whoever heard of any but an Irish '"Peggy j" ; ; 4 Louis Fleischman, the famous Xew York baker, died the other day. He left Aveckh, but every dollar was an honest dollar. The best known of Mr. Fleisehmamvs works is the Broadway Broad-way "bread line,' the long single file of unfortunate and hungry men who wait every night for the midnight mid-night dole of bread and coffee at the back door of the bakery. For many years after Mr. Fleisch-mann Fleisch-mann established his bakery he disposed of the unsold un-sold bread which was returned to him at the end of each day by selling it at half price. While his health. permitted he always superintended all the work of the bakery and restaurant. Once he saw two or three hungry tramps hanging about the" doors of the bakery in the early morning, sniffing the odor of freshly baked bread. He fed them. More came- The inspiration came to him that the so-called stale bread, which wa3 really but twenty-four twenty-four hours old, might well be fed to the poor. It was made the duty of one of the employees of the bakery to superintend the dole. To the bread, which was handed out half a loaf at a time, was added a cup of hot coffee for each man. So many applicants that the distribution came to be the whole duty of one man. Louis Fleiselvman was not near "so rich as J. Pierpont Morgan. Xcithcr was he nor could he be as prodigal of gifts as Andrew Carnegie. But the poor he had with him, and their prayers and blessings are worth more than stolen copes and public libraries. - Gorernment engineers who recently . analyzed the waters of the Mississippi at Vicksburg found that the amount of solid matter passing that city, every year would make a square mile of solid earth, 300 feet. high. In fourteen years this block of earth would be a mile high, and if it stood in the Great Salt lake inhabitants of Utah would consider the highest peaks of the Wasatch mountains moun-tains as ordinary buttes in comparison. But supposing sup-posing at Yicksburg, by some chemical process, the water and solid matter were separated, the solid matter or moving landslide would be five feet deep and nine feet wide, and this"" sliding along day and night as fast as men ordinarily walk. This would give in an hour a strip of land four miles long, five feet deep and jiine feet wide. Who could figure what the effect of this waste of earth would be in a thousand years? TI113 continual drainage is, for the most part, emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. Mex-ico. Here, too, the incessant storage in time will produce its effects. We have not learned the num- -ber of loads of earth supposed to be removed in constructing the Panama canal, but, figuring out the solid matter that passes Vjcksburg every year, it would require 25,000,000 wagons to haul it" and 50,000 men working eight-hour shifts to load it. |