New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20
THE TALK OF THE DAY.


about score Of years ago by Chicago banker,
and has just held its nineteenth annual convention
in Philadelphia. The Churchman" says Of the
convocation that to-day. as always. demand
and respond reality IN religion. The society now
embraces seven national organizations. seventy To-
cal assemblies twenty-five hundred chapters and
twenty thousand workers. The recent convention
was the largest held. and was attended by
more thar two Thousand delegates
He reading about the latest society Wedding
They have a lot say about what the bride wears,
but they have nothing to say about the poor bride
she-They have no need to. because it is a well
known fact that he usually wears worried look
(Boston Globe
The "Voce Della Verita" Of Rome. It's Oldest
Catholic newspaper. has just ceased publication,
and its staff has gone over to the "Osservatore
Romano" the only Catholic paper which the
capital contains. and which is but little read. On
the other hand there swarms of secular papers.
the "Giornale d'Italia," "Tribuna." ''Messagero."
"Patria." Italia" ''Avanti and on. all wrang
ling and fighting with each other constantly, but
at one their hostility the Pope and the Church.
The Catholic party in Rome is more numerous than
all other parties combined. and It therefore seems
surprising that It should not be able TO sustain
active and able newspapers. a sufficient reason.
however for its failure TO do is that the Church
papers have never contained any news. But new
trial is to be made in a short time based the
theory that piety. orthodoxy and news go to-
gether without exploding. Up TO this time the
A GRATEFUL MEMORY
Do you think Of that hour in the twilight,
When Hesper was beaming above?
When needed no Hesper for my light,
Being lit with nluSOry love?
D9i 'f fed d Nth 9 9F 9d you on t sy view
OF your chin that slightly retrousss,
And now has developed 10 two
I recall with what passion pleaded.
When l told YOU my love only needed
To live to die your slave.
he ma
remember you fatty declined me
remember you might have said Yes
punch
Illinois has had law on fits statute books for
long time decTeeing that robbery with violence or
the threat Of violence when the robber had dead
y or dangerous weapons about his person. should
carry penalty OF life Imprisonment But this has
practically become obsolete in recent years, espe-
Cially in Chicago, where till lately the lawmakers
and the criminals have been hand and glove together
in the Tammany manner. Now. in the face Of an
outbreak OF the 'hold-up" industry particular vlo-
lence the statute has been resuscltated and under
It's provisions In n single week nine hold-up men
sent to prison for life They have been in the
habit OF getting off rather easily heretofore but
that time Is evidently past. for a certain term
at any rate. Chief of Police O'Nen. who is In sym
pathy with this revised treatment OF the hold
ups says 1t is to be efflcacous and that a
great Improvement IN conditions has been manifest
since the grinding out of "ufers by the local courts
began. The indeterminate sentence. he thinks has
been the OF much Ill in the administration of
Justice Punishments have been too light, and have
been evaded till the criminals were encouraged to
acts OF boldness. which have SO stern a
reprisa
Compariissons.-'M nose is sore" said the e!o-
PhfGant That's nothing" remarked mar the giraffe.
at all, PIT in the kangaroo. II have rheuna tsn,
the octopus. my vaccination Is taking in eight
places."-schcago Tribune