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Show Catholic Opinion Wanted A definition of the phrase "strenuous life." Here is a Bavarian nobleman. Prince Ferdinand Ludwig. described as "strenuous" on the ground that he is Va physician, a musician and a nephew of the regent of Bavaria." Bava-ria." He practices medicine, it is explained, ex-plained, and plays the saxe-horne in a theatre. It may. be- a trying condition to be nephew to a regent, but we would, be astonished if President Roosevelt would find anything to fulfill ' his idea of strenuousness in any of the j things enumerated. There is no re- lation, so far as we can see. between ! hunting mountain boars and practicing medicine; and as for playing the saxe-horn. saxe-horn. in a theatre, it requires much longer wind to deliver speeches on a 15.000-mile trip. Standard and Times. I ine tsuitan or r?uiy iahiks ieiiiuu j apparel exerts a good influence on all ( who come in contact with the wearers. I What a piry the great state of New York can't trade Superintendent Skinner Skin-ner for the sultan of Sulu. Catholic Sun. The Independent, noticing the fact that 600,000 persons visited the shrine of the new Russian saint on the day of j his canonization by the holy synod and emperor, that .many had come without I provisions for a long stay and conse-i conse-i quently suffered for something to eat: ' and that among the miracles reported as having occurred on that day the saint had not thought of supplying tho hungry with food, soliloc;uizos that it is very strange that the saints always j use their supernatural powers to supply sup-ply their devotees with things of little or' no practical value. Strange! It was the devil who first made that observation. ob-servation. In urging the propriety of a miracle .on Our Lord he suggested this commercial consideration: "Command "Com-mand that these stones be made bread." Western Watchman. If the president of the French republic re-public were to address the members of a Catholic society as the president of the American republic did recently he would be forced to resign his office, so bitter is the popular hatred there of all th;U is Christian. The reason is that in this country we have a real republic, while in France there is a masonic tyranny which hypocritically cans itself it-self a republic Pittsburg Observer. In dealing with non-Catholics no good comes from the self-conceit thai, we are the whole of God's universe worth anything in ourselves or in God's plans. Until a wider charity takes hold of us and moves us to include in-clude everything emanating from God as dear to God and to those who love him, will we become the leaven for that true life that makes Catholic Christians out of men. Catholic Uni- 1 verse. ' , . . . . Derry Orangemen have now taken to cursing the King as well as the Pope. At the ceremonial known as "relief of Derry" recently they passed resolutions denouncing King Edward as a Popish monarch. This is hard, after all the hard swearing against Popery at the coronation. ' - The respect which some . Protestant ministers have for the sacrament of marriage has been shown at Bingham-ton. Bingham-ton. New York, during the week. In entertaining the members of his church at a social the ir-Reverend Thomas Hayes of Chicago unwittingly inarried his own wife to a stranger: While performed per-formed as a joke the ceremony is found dangerously close to binding, and now there are cries and protestations. Making Mak-ing such mockery of marriage scarcely becomes a minister of the gospel. New World. - Distributing trading stamps to the congregation is the latest sensational device of the Tonawanda preacher for the purpose of drawing a crowd. What is the Protestant pulpit coming to when it stoops to such antics as this? Fven the devil laughs at this ."Christian ."Chris-tian farce." Union and Times. f Sir Thomas Lipton takes good or ill fortune with equanimity, but he waxed righteously wroth the oiher day when a sensational newspaper printed the wanton lie that he had objected to an Irish flag decorating his stopping place. He is Irish and shows it. Boston Pilot. j I Information is published to the effect j that the Mad Mullah's forces in Somali- ; land are armed with modern weapons j supplied by an English linn through I its foreign agents. Business is busi- I ness. This is not the first time such a thing has happened. Our friend the enemy in the Philippines preferred I American arms and got them without j I difficulty, having the price, the only j j requisite recognized by trade. The j j current commercial conscience is In- I different to patriotic as well as moral ' motives. That is part and parcel of our j modern materialistic education. Monitor. |