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Show Bishop Spalding's forthcoming work entitled "Socialism and Labor" is being be-ing discussed and the book promises to be widely read. It was Charles Lamb who first said that mixing- whisky and water spoiled two good 'things. m m Now, Mr. Debs, if you are able to perceive the difference between a real , I labor leader and .the other kind, just ' t take a good' look at John Mitchell. Father Lais of the Vatican observatory observa-tory at Rome has nearly completed the colossal task .of photographing the heavens, on which he has been engaged, for several years. A.n "'event in the sporting world" vas that of the night of Oct. 17, when John u. ouiiivau .tciruiaieu Ills iUl Oirtn- day by drinking seltzer water and gin- J fier ale. "I w as worth $1,000,000 once," ! said Sullivan, "and most of it went on alcohol. No more for me." j John C. Moore, the first mayor of Denver, founder of the Pueblo Daily Press, and one of the most gifted newspaper news-paper men the state has ever known, died in San Diego, Cal., last Tuesday ' of paralysis, according to advices re ceived by Denver friends. He was 70 years old. The sensation of the international tuberculosis tu-berculosis congress at Berlin came toward to-ward the end of the sitting in the form of a paper by Professor Koch, in which he maintained all his former positions regarding the non-transferability of animal tuberculosis to man. Thus is .science victorious one day and Uaffled the next. Meantime the skinny con-. con-. ' sumptive had better stick to "rock and rye," and plenty of it. "If Great Britain and the United States were joined in the interests of universal peace, and if the rest of the world wanted to fight these countries, then let the rest of the world look out." Thus spake Vice Admiral Lord ! Charles Beresford, after his arrival in England from a visit to this country. How such language would fall upon ' the ears of those old soldiers who met in the last reunion of the G. A. R. at Washington! Men ready to take an other four years' turn with the musket to avenge the injuries inflicted by England Eng-land upon this nation struggling to preserve the union of states! Not while these old men live or their sons stand ready to uphold the flag of republican re-publican America will there be an alliance alli-ance with perfidious Britain. Make your speeches to the Mad Mullah, my lord. Reconcile, if you can, the Boer to the pledges broken after honorable terms of peace. . It's a good practice to pay the funeral fu-neral bills before expending money on monuments. This bit of advice could be applied to Ireland at present so long as the people, there are making such heroic struggles for home rule and winning win-ning back their own from greedy landlords. land-lords. Money is needed to carry out these plans and counts as much in their ..vosecution as the best of patriotic (sideavor. Without money there will come the funeral of Irish hopes; but Irish hopes backed by money will build greater monuments to Parnell, Boyle O'Reilly and the Manchester martyrs than stone or brass to crumble with tiie decay of a nation enslaved. We notice in our Irish news movements - going ahead to raise funds for monu ments; John Redmond the otht;r day J x-r"- t New Tork made an explanation con cerning the Parnell fund for such purpose. pur-pose. Far better is It to turn all such moneys into a common defense fund for Ireland. None of these great Irish characters were greater than the young martyr hanged in Dublin a century ago, whose last words admonished the Irish to raise no monument to his memory mem-ory until his country took her place among the nations of the earth. It is not because of his name that Young will be selected to succeed Miles, who will be retired for age in August next. Young- is no spring chicken, either. Monday last President Roosevelt quietly celebrated his forty-fourth birthday. Let's see, Grover Cleveland was a candidate for -sheriff at 44 and had not 44 cents to put up for election expenses. Now he is easily worth 44 times 44 thousand dollars. In the pictures we see of the president's presi-dent's arbitration commission in session, ses-sion, the distinguished group presents an interesting off-hand study in phrenology. phre-nology. High, broad foreheads may be picked out around that table; intellectual intellec-tual and even classical features emphasize em-phasize strength and nobility of character. char-acter. But the noblest Roman of them all is John Lancaster Spalding, bishop of Peoria. |