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Show "Miss Ellen M. Stone, tne ransomed missionary, writing to tell her mother of her release from captivity," remarks the Sacred Heart Review, "begins her letter, My Own Blessed Mother.' Yet this is a stvle of adilress which Prntpstnnts denv to Mary, the mother of God." . Cecil Rhodes died saying: "So little done, so much to do." If he saved his soul he did everything; if he lost it, he did worse than nothing. That is the one thing necessary. Pittsburg Observer. A recent dispatch states that King Edward Ed-ward VII has decided to dispense with the king's jester (alias court fool) at the ceremony of his coronation. There will be enough Americans there in knee breeches to afford all the merriment consistent con-sistent with the solemnity of the occasion. occa-sion. Freeman's- Journal. Bombastes Furioso Funston, who captured cap-tured Aruinaldo by treachery of the : meanest kind, and who has amazed the cow counties with yarns about swimming a river with a Gatling gun between his teeth to attack the enemy, is a kind of a "hero" in Washington just now. And what a lot of heroes our little war with Spain has produced. Heroes garrulous, heroes osculatory, heroes quarrelsome, heroes absent in the hour of danger and present in that of prize money, heroes of the pen and of the tongue, from Miles all the way down to Funston. The Spaniards gained one other thing besides getting rid of the Philippines for $20,000,(XX; they are not saddled with a brood of tin heroes. Pilot. A Muncie (Ind.)man charged with grand larceny and obtaining money under un-der false pretenses has had the proceedings proceed-ings interrupted in a novel manner. At a spiritual seance the prosecutor was advised ad-vised by the spirit of a departed lawyer to dismiss the action, which she did. Although Al-though it is the first time on record that a lawyer has ever been heard from after death, it mi.-jht be well for some of our boorilcrK to nnt tho fact Tf their or., ,1,1 i induce some of their spiritualistic friends j to get them in touch with the gentleman . it might save them a trfp t m--'-". Switzerland or some' county with which we have no extradition treaty. Churcn Progress. If the influence that the Catholic press exerts on American public opinion were obliterated by the disappearance of our publications, the authorities of the church I would find their difficulties with public ; officials multiplied and intensified. But at present that Influenced not recognized j or appreciated. Columbian. j The scandal of licensing slavery under ! the stars and stripes has at last aroused i legislative indignation. Senator Patter- i son ha3 introduced e. bill to ebo'ish the ! slave trade in the Philippines, and at the same time cancel the iniquitous treaty-made treaty-made between General Bates and the Moslem sultans as they are called ! whom we subnldize to violate our laws on slavery nnd polygamy. Though the bill may have little chance of beinrr enacted, en-acted, its introduction will serve the ex- ' cellent purpose of showing the sinceritv : of those pretensions of high motives which have served as an excuse for barefaced bare-faced rapacity and despotism. Standard , and Times. Marconi, the great electrician, is the ' latest illustration of "the Celtic fire that rarely flags and never wholly flags." An Italian on his father's side, on his moth- . er's he is Irish "kindly Irish of the Irish neither Saxon nor Ttnli.in " Tim ru o.i the Latin make a splendid combination a combination that, because of distance and difference in language, does not occur oc-cur as often as it should. In the good old days, when the Irish brigades campaigned cam-paigned over Europe, the officers intermarried inter-married with "the dames of France." the Spanish senorltas, and the languishing beauties of sunny Italy. From these unions sprang the gallant O Donnells of Spain distinguished in field and forum from sire to son; the MacMahons and Niels of France; the O'Higginses and , Lynches and Donojus of the South American Amer-ican republics. Chicago Citizen. Apropos of the poor opinions' expressed of the Filipinos by certain inflated heroes among us, the Mexican Herald suggests that while the natives "possibly are not exactly high-toned in their methods it is their own country thev are fighting for We used to boast in this republic , that no people could engage in a higher or holier cause than the defense of their country The example of our forefathers in resisting the rule of the British crown was held to be about the proper model for other people aspiring to svern them- nf ?h!' e.Se v,f wsua PP"etl the cour ' or the Filipinos ha3 become "constructive treason" in the eyes of the "new patriotism pa-triotism which came into vogue with our advent among the "world powers " Monitor. ' . I |