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Show October, weather is all right, thank you. Be sure you are right and then go ahead and ie your money. Did that error of syntax in our Xew Jersey eon-temporary eon-temporary cause that financial crash ? Why is it that a partisan's candidate is always just a little better than the other fellow? Who wi3 be chief of police after election? Ton I , can't read the answer in the policemen's stars. However, it may have been magnanimity -which persuaded the president not to kill all the hear in the cam-brakes. I One may now find some useful things in the I stores, but the Christmas goods Trill soon be placed 1 on the counters. I Xolwithstanding the present weather, the coal man is optimistic enongh to believe he will hare f Christmas money. I In speaking of the New York clearing house association, the printer who made it '"cleaning" i printed more wisely than he knew. I The action of the government in seizing 8,750,- t 000 cigarettes last week meets with the approval I of the anti-cigarette league, anyway. I . . j With all the vagaries of the weather man as to what the people need in his line, it must be confessed con-fessed that October was a perfect sample. It's about time to resuscitate that war between the United States and Japan. Secretary Taft's good natural jolly ought to be about worn out. Xow comes a Chicago physician with the statement that laziness is a disease. Unfortunately Unfortunate-ly it never proves fatal, though it is seldom cured. It is a wise man who makes the necessary repairs re-pairs to the snow shovel before the season of cold arrives, but anybody who did the work in October is a pessimist. I It appears that one of the embarrassed Xow York banks held quite a lot of diamonds as security, secur-ity, but it had never taken out a pawnbroker's license li-cense nor hung out three golden balls to attract such business. . 201)0 Pius in his recent epistle makes damaging I charges against some shepherds within the fold. 1 Potter for them to honorably leave the church if they have lost the faith than to poison weaker j minds with their heresies. Their damnation at the . ...Is of Christ would be less dreadful. There was great and terrible excitement in Xew-I Xew-I ark, X. J., recently, owing to an error in the Mon- I iter, Reporters could be seen hurrying hither and I timber in bustle and haste. A copy of the Catholic I Fortnightly Review which discovered the error in I the Monitor was posted on every telegraph pole.' I (Japing crowds stood around them in astonishment. I It was current gossip on the streets all day that j' the faitli had been endangered among thousands in Camden and Gloucester. The reputation of the ! brilliant editor of one j the first Catholic papers in America, the Xewark Monitor .is hors de combat (whatever that means), and all because, while in a hurry, he shoved in the word from or shoved it out of a sentence, we forget which. Evidently the Mon- , itor editor needs to go to Wabash avenue, Chi cago, and get his English syntax and grammar in working order, for he certainly lacks nothing in the virility of his articles. The balloon races at St. Louis didn't produce anything to justify an opinion that the problem of aerial navigation has been solved, even if some balloons did go a long way to prove it. Some men and women deny the Immaculate Conception of the mother of God and also original sin. Does it ever occxir to them that in denying the latter they give every child an jmmaculate conception? concep-tion? Dives, that ancient uncharitable millionaire, went to an everlasting hell and Lazarus full of disease, dis-ease, filthiness and rage, because of his patience, went to paradise. There are in this day plenty of Diveses but then there is lots of room in perdition. Oftentimes, when Almighty God desires a man set apart for some extraordinary work that will rectify millions of people and rouse apathetic Christians he looks around the world for the meanest mean-est family in it, and then selects the meanest and most contemptible, from a worldly standpoint, member of that household. |