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Show EDITORIAL COMMENT. Of course Governor Taft doesn't agree with General Miles' report anent the Philppines. Nobody would accuse Taft of wanting to commit official suicide. sui-cide. About the first concern of the returned re-turned president will be to turn the official hose upon the postoffice thieves and round them up for punishment and public scorn. The world has not ceased hearing of Florence Nightingale. Her name is embalmed in the memories of the Crimean Cri-mean war. Still she does not bear her honors single and alone. From the obscurity of the cloister a nun now writes her "Memories of the Crimea." Seldom indeed do we find the name of a religious on the title page of a volume of history or the more pretentious preten-tious works destined to perpetuate deeds of mercy. As a matter of fact a band of Irish nuns went to the battlefield bat-tlefield when the Crimean war broke out. Two or three of the religious survive. One of the nuns wears the decoration of the Red Cross a recog-niton recog-niton which in tardy form came forty years after the campaign drew to a close. All the heroines of charity do . not wear badges from the hands of , royalty or republics. Catholic Tran script. The law is no respecter of persons. Ecclesiastical censure offers no discrimination dis-crimination even when the offenders are seated in high places. The Cardinal Car-dinal Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, saw fit to controvert some decisions rendered at Rome affecting liturgical privileges of his Cathedral. Displeased with the award of the Roman tribunal tribu-nal the Patriarch referred the verdict to the Supreme court, believing that the matter in question violated the laws of the State. Promptly the Papal Pa-pal Nuncio Informed His Eminence that he had incurred excommunication excommunica-tion ipso facto by appealing to a civil court for redress from a decision of the Congregation of Rites. The incident inci-dent was closed a few days later for the Cardinal admitted his error and the censure was raised immediately. Catholic Transcript. There is an unmistakable vergence, las Dr. Holland calls it, observable among all Protestant Episcopal and (Anglican bodies toward T -1 Germany the oposite tenaen Ij ! erywhere noticeable. Thf. C? '3 is towards infidelity Th -V Volkszeitung in a i-.ferr " oln marks: "There wfT(- frr nuicber German Lutherans who' inclination to appmaf-h n,l aie'! a3 I church, but today any .-h lCaH is out of the question iy rv logical tenets are frum',?'9 th more amongst the ; -r' 'n?n aa 'ants, while Professor ii Trj4 jRitschl are pres-im- f,, ay j their followers. R.u ia fhl4 ious advance the y oVsn ' Vlctor-rondists Vlctor-rondists are caught n? n.!" ,? 1Cal Gi. ins. Pastors such as Mr and Steudel cornhar th '-': Kaitloj istence of Christ an.-i h,M r?ncal K ever lived He was r..lt' A nat K H? whom the Christian -f' -'-' Per3oi;a;a to the world. In a .vTZ the Kolnisohe V-,'k :( t n ;n'to English ProtestantUr,;' j.1,- to the right Gerrn-r. l'-;,';f ..'nrc'-'1::? going to the l-r" J-p'." is Watchman. " U(er |