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Show 1 ; THE FREXCII POXTIUS PILATE. It is said that when President Loubet.went to Rome, Queen Margaret ,the king's pious mother, i pluniply reproached him about the removal of sa- cred emblems from the courts of justice in France., j M. Loubct, rather taken aback, blurted out: "Ce j n'est pas moi, madame; e'est mon gouvernmenf." ("It is not I; it is my government.") "Ah yes," said the queen dowager, "you wash your hands of if. There was another man who did that long be- fore you." History does not record how the Pon-" Pon-" tius Pilate of Montelimar received his thrust, adds the Paris correspondent of the Dublin Freeman. M. Lbubet cannot even soften the pangs of conscience like the poor police officer who, when upbraided by a non-Catholic foreigner for having evicted a handful of nuns, mostly old and infirm, from their convent, replied: "Monsieur, I have a large family j to keep, and that is on slender pay." |