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Show CATHOLIC OPINION. The Protestants may call themselves Catholics, as some of them propose, but the man in the street, and the woman and the child, too, will still direct the inquiring stranger to the right place when he asks the way to the Catholic church Freeman's Journanl. -- A man was arrested in Omaha whose specialty is robbing Catholic churches. He served in the Philippines, where he became proficient In the work of selecting select-ing rare "souvenirs." Progress. In a' supplementary report to his annual an-nual statement. Governor Taft opposes op-poses the establishment in the Philippines Philip-pines of an independent Catholic church. The governor thinks that the action of "Bishop" Agllpay's robbers in seizing church property will cause the United States some embarrassment, and no doubt it will. Progress. "Make it a rule," advises the Catholic Cath-olic Citizen, "at the end of each year to get all your small bills paid up. Carry no petty accounts over the new year. The laborer and the merchant are worthy of their hire. Do not ask them to wait." An exchange says: "This includes newspaper subscriptions subscrip-tions also." The Leader. From accounts just received It appears ap-pears that the "Independent Catholic church" in the Philippines, which was started with such a flourish of trumpets trum-pets a short time ago, is rapidly falling fall-ing to pieces, and the leaders in the movement are now returning to the true fold. American Herald. '-&- The Minneapolis Standard states that the Gaelic league Is bust up. The wish, no doubt, is father to the thought with out patent inside and scissors outside out-side contemporary. It will take more than the ill will of such sheets to hurt the Gaelic league. The Leader. The new year will see another addition addi-tion to the li5t of American archbishops. archbish-ops. Omaha Is 'to be the new arch-iepiscopal arch-iepiscopal see, .and Bishop Scannell Is to be its occupant. The progress of the Catholic church in this country continues unabated. Pittsburg Observer. The Presbyterian Banner has the following fol-lowing in regard to the work of Doctor Lorenz: "There is beautiful unselfishness unselfish-ness in this. We know not whether Doctor Lorenz is a Christian or not, but he is doing a Christlike thing." Doctor Lorenz is an Austrian Catholic, Cath-olic, and occupies, an honored position in his profession in Vienna. Observer. The dailies had it that King Leopold was shot while on his way to attend a Te Deum for his deceased wife. The old man has a pretty hard reputation in some quarters, but it was too much to believe that he had a public thanksgiving thanks-giving for his deliverance from matrimony. matri-mony. Our learned and esteemed Catholic, Cath-olic, contemporaries are with much Insistence In-sistence rebuking the ignorance of the (Jellies for saying that the king was attending a Te Deum. They knew it must be a requiem mass. As a matter mat-ter of fact it was a te deum, though not for the queen. The day was St. Leopold's day. The Leader. If we desire our prayiirs should be heard, our actions must be suitable to our petitions; we must exert ourselves both before and after prayer in rendering render-ing ourselves worthy of the favor we ask. . The influence of a kind act never dies. It enters into our lives, increasing increas-ing in us the power of gpod and lessening les-sening the hold of evil on us. It may be set aside for a time by other influences; influ-ences; but they cannot wholly destroy it. After long years of oblivion it comes back to us with the same sweet j attraction as when it first cast its spell over us; and if even then it produce no other effect, at least it makes us bless the name of the giver. Reverend Bernard Feeney. The greater a man is the less he is disposed to show his greatness. True nobility of soul rises above and suppresses sup-presses the love of show. ? There is something beautiful in great and pure affections. After the pleasure pleas-ure which they afford has passed away there remains the happiness of recollection. recol-lection. One hour a daypersistently devoted to one thing, like a small seed, will yield a large increase at the year's end. j hZ? .hau never been a 6reat and beautiful character which has not become be-come so by filling, well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed to God. Every life is a work of art shaped py the man who lives it; according to the faculty of the artist will be the quality, of his work, and no general rules can supply the place of his own direct perception at every turn S "A Pocketful of Sunshine." A pocketful of sunshine Is better far than gold; ..It drowns the daily sorrows : Of the young and of the old; It fills the world with pleasure, In field, in lane, and street. And brightens every prospect Of the mortals that we meet. .. A pocketfu? of sunshine Can make the world akin, And lift a load of sorrow From the burdened backs of sin; Diffusing light and knowledge ' Tt ,rugh thornv Paths of iife; . It glides with silver lining Tie storm clouds of strife. |