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Show I An important decree promulgated by i the. recent synod of the clergy of the i St. Louis diocese prohibit!? festivals, ! vuchres, picnics, excursions and all manner of church entertainments on Sunday. Archbishop Kain character- ized all such exhibitions as shameful ( and scandalous. ', ! King Alexander and Queen Draga of ; Servia recently had a "rought house," : j according to a telegram from Bel- ; grade, the capital, because the king stopped the queen's "pin money." She ! i even boxed the royal Servian's ears. I We are apt to make sport of the rev olutions In our South American republics, re-publics, but a firecracker government like theirs is preferable to a. monarchy mon-archy headed by the descendant of a swineherd, who gambles his wife's pin money. - Idaho 'is coming to the' front and is already well advanced. A gentleman who left Cripple Creek for Thunder Mountain saw Boise on his way thither : and concluded to plant his fig tree in the valley and leave the gold in the ( mountain for others. This is what Mr. Jones of Cripple Creek said of Boise: "Boise is a good town and I intend to settle up my affairs and return there in about two weeks. There is not a cottage for rent in the whole town and although three business blocks are now in course of erection there every office has been spoken for. I regard Idaho as being the state m the Union which has more opportunities opportu-nities for the young man than any other, and I intend to make It my future fu-ture home." The American contention in the Pius Fund case has won and the Hague tribunal awards Archbishop Riordan, the trustee, $1,200,000. While this is pleasing intelligence- to Catholics, especially on the Pacific coast, the decision de-cision aossesscs more value as an object ob-ject lesson of national arbitration than double the intrinsic worth of the award. Rather is it a victory for ; peace through argument than a vic- ' tory for any contending party to the j dispute. A great light is shed through this first historical incident of international inter-national arbitration. It may descend to the litigations of civil life, so that after awhile we can get along without with-out lawyers or at least with a few of the ablest of that profession. Many races are represented among the bishops of this country. There are, ! for instance, the Anglo-Americans like f Bishops Williams, Northrup and Cur- , ; tis; the French, like Bishops Chapelle, Durier, Glorieux and Rouxel; the Germans, Ger-mans, like Archbishop Katzer and Bishops Alerding, Eis, Fink, Haid, 1 Horstmann. Maes, Schwebach, . Moel- ler, Richter; the Dutch, like Bishops Janssen and Van de Vyver; the Irish, like Archbishops Ireland, Keane, Riordan, Rior-dan, Ryan, Bishops Scanlan, Ho-gan, Ho-gan, Burke, Donahue, O'Reilly and Phelan; and the peoples represented by Bishops Gabriels, Matz, Messmer, Meerschaert and Arobec. Strafige to say, says an exchange, there are no Spaniards, although some of the sees were founded by Spanish missionaries, and there are many Spaniards in the United States. But Archbishops Chap-! Chap-! elle and Bourgade and Bishop Gran- jon and other prelates speak Spanish. Span-ish. 1 The English papers seem to take it lor raateti that Mr. J. F. X. O'Brien L ' i 1 - i;;:-y. .--.. is about to retire from parliamentary life; and, of course, they recall some of the chief ' incidents of his past career as an Irish Nationalist. "From his placid, patriarchal and benevolent countenance," says the Daily Chronicle, Chron-icle, "a stranger would swear he was a Quaker, whereas he is an Irish revolutionist rev-olutionist of more than fifty years standing, and was in 1S67 sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for leading a Fenian attack on a police barrack. He imperiled his own life in saving the women and children, of whose presence in the building he was unaware, and the fact was favorably commented on by the judge. His sentence sen-tence was commuted to penal servitude servi-tude for life and he was offered the alternative of going to western Australia Austra-lia (then a penal colony) with other Fenian prisoners, or of remaining in England. The former was the freer life; he chose the latter. Like his brother Nationalist, M. P., Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, he has seen some fighting in Cuba. Evidently there is a decided difference differ-ence between the policy of the German socialists and that of the socialists in France and Italy. Every opportunity of displaying hostility to Christianity is seized by the French and Italian socialists, and the cruel expulsion of nuns from the schools In France has been clamorously approved of by socialistic so-cialistic bodies. The German socialists, who have just been holding their annual an-nual congress at Munich, took pains to assure the public that they do' not interfere in-terfere in religious affairs, and that they have no sympathy, with the imposition impo-sition of penalties on account of religious re-ligious opinions.' In their programme they manifestly prefer practical reforms re-forms to chimerical schemes. The main feature of a series of resolutions which they passed at Munich was a demand for the extension of municipal power. They advocated the acqulsitiyn' by municipalities mu-nicipalities of building land for the erection of workmen's houses, generous support of the poor and the unemployed, unem-ployed, public baths and parks, an eight-hour day, the wages to be fixed according to the trade union scale, the establishment of snecial schools for backward children, public libraries and meeting halls and free burial. The opposition op-position to the socialists . would be quickly reduced were they to confine themselves to proposals of this character. Marquis de Fontenoy contributes ihis piece of news in his interesting European Eu-ropean gossip: "Sir Wilfred Laurier. the Canadian premier, has given grea offense in government cirdes at Rome by his deference to that strict rule made by the Vatican to receive no Roman Catholic personage who had held any intercourse with the king's officials. of-ficials. Although it was reported in all the Italian papers that the object of Sir Wilfrid's visit to Rome was for the purpose of conferring with the Italian minister of foreign affairs on the question ques-tion of Italian emigration to Canada j and of discussing the tariff with the object of increasing Canadian exports to Italy, and although the ' minister awaited Sir Wilfrid, the latter never went near him. and, indeed, the only notice that Sig. Prinetti and the Italian Ital-ian government - received to the effect that Sir Wilfrid had been in Rome at all was an announcement in the official offi-cial organs of the Vatican to the effect that Sir Wilfrid and Lady Laurier had been received by the pope and by Cardinal Car-dinal Rampolla, the papal secretary of state. "It seems that the Italian government govern-ment made representations about the matter to the English embassy, and was informed by the latter that it had been in ignorance of Sir Wilfrid's stay in Rome, and that he had never gone near the embassy. As some 48 per cent of the population of Canada are members mem-bers of the church of Rome, Sir Wilfrid's Wil-frid's action in pleasing the Vatican by pointedly ignoring the Italian government govern-ment was perhaps good policy from a Canadian point of view. But I understand under-stand that it has created some annoyance annoy-ance in England, where just at present the government is. particularly anxious to remain on friendly terms with Italy." |