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Show At thej sixth Spanish Catholic congress, con-gress, recently held, Cardinal Casanas asserted that the only way socialism could be rooted out of Spain was by church and state uniting to secure full Justice for those who toil. I New York has been posing as the world's money center, having wrested the financial sovereignty from the cities of the old country. But already ' New York is running short of cash and !; the funds are daily moving to the west. First thing anybody knows the world's money center will be Chicago or St. Louis. The Gaelic movement in Ireland is now so popular that legal advertisements advertise-ments are published in the Irish language. lan-guage. The Tuam News was recently give-". j-ear's contract by the board of guarc'.Uns. A feature in the Dublin papers is a page of Irish lessons in the old type with translation. The next public gathering in this region re-gion will be the meeting of the tenth National Irrigation congress at Colorado Colo-rado Springs, Oct. 6 to J. The officials of the organization are showing much energy in working up a big attendance, and ought to have a large and successful success-ful convention. It must be about time for Pueblo to take a hand in that business busi-ness and try for one of the western j gatherings. ! Joseph A. Holmes, chief of the department de-partment of mines and metallurgy of " the St. Louis world's fair, while in ! i s Denver recently, said: "In all matters ; pertaining to gold deposits and gold mining, and in the treatment of gold ores, Colorado's exhibit at the Louis-; Louis-; iana purchase exposition is expected j; , to lead that not only of all the states of the Union, but also all foreign coun- I tries." Members of the Gaelic League in San Francisco recently interrupted Bouci- cault's play, "The Shaughraun," be- i cause of alleged slurs on the Irish race. Across the sea theatre-goers of i Dublin are in raptures over the per- ! formance of American high kickers In i "The Belles of New York." Surely Dublin will not form its opinion of I American life and character from "The Belles of New York." The Jewish' "World says: "It is a fomewhat remarkable fact that in Home, the headquarters of the Catholic Cath-olic church, Jews are received In society so-ciety and have the same privileges in I commerce, the same prominence in I rtnlitifK unrl fho Rama froodnm n I science as other races, while in Prptes- tant Germany they are not recognized I . as equals; in France and Australia they 1 are persecuted, in Russia and Rou- , mania they are subjected to imposi- ; lions that are often cruel as well as ! unjust." The Irish Protestant Bishops, it ap- rears, had a mind of their own with ! regard to the authorized service for King Edward's coronation. "When it was drawn up," says the Liverpool : j , Post, "it was sent to the Irish bishops for acceptance, seeing that the church t- f Ireland, being disestablished, has, 1 ! f course, the power of self-govern- I i ment. it will be remembered that In ! one of the rubrics of the special serv ice it said: 'Here the king is led to Saint Edward's chair, where he seats . ; . himself.' To this the Irish bishops objected. They pointed out that as their church in Ireland had not yet, as a church, accepted Patrick as a saint, she could hardly be expected to accept a mere English Edward. So the rubric was . altered, and In every church in Ireland where the coronation service was .used, the rubri.c read: Here, the king is led to King Edward's chair.' " The decent saloon men of Salt Lake publicly announced their determination to obey the Sunday closing law, and accordingly the saloons were closed last Sunday. The gambling outfits were visited by the police and the proprietors proprie-tors ordered to iuit the husiness. No more gambling is therefore visible. This spasm of virtue may last until we are rid of the hold-ups and somebody complains of the general lassitude and wants the town moved into "Wyoming. William Allen Butler died at his home in Yonkers last week at the ripe age of 77. He was one of the most distinguished lawyers in this country, and for more than fifty years held a record for integrity and ability in the practice of his profession that has been equaled by few men. He was a jurist who in his less busy moments turned to literary work, and it is safe to say that after his name as an able member mem-ber of the New York bar has passed into history, he will be well remembered remem-bered as the author of a poem which. . amuse iiiJiiatrii. in 1857, has continued to amuse people the world over ever since. "Nothing to Wear" appeared in Harper's Weekly Week-ly originally without a signature, but later on it became known that Mr. Butler was the author, and Miss Flora McFlimsey, who The last time we met was in utter despair Because she had nothing whatever to wear, will be in the hearts of all of us for many a day to come. The New York Evening Post says that "we are glad that it has fallen to two American nations, Mexico and the United States, to make the first appeal ap-peal to Its jurisdiction. The case of the 'Pious Fund' is a very pretty quarrel quar-rel from every legal point of view, and it is not so important but that the decision de-cision may be accepted without any strain upon the loyalty of either nation. na-tion. This promises that the First session ses-sion will be of considerable interest, and that the judges will have the great advantage of proceeding imper-turably imper-turably without regard to ulterior embarrassments. As for the Pious fund, its story is a curious one. Originally Origi-nally a private benefaction, it was administered ad-ministered by the Jesuit missionaries of California from 1697 to 1767. After the expulsion of the Jesuits it was transferred to the Franciscans, from whom the new-born Mexican republic took it, guaranteeing, however, by way of indemnity, the payment in perpetuity perpetu-ity of 6 per cent on the capital to the church authorities. "Perpetuity" and the payments stopped abruptly with the cession of California to the United States, and now the church in California Califor-nia sues the Mexican government for arrears of interest amounting to about $1,000,000. |