The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-30

! in PASSING

The Duke of the Abruzzi is heard
from again. 1t is now reported that
King George of Greece will resign the
throne and the Duke will succeed him.
Miss Elkins, Steves daughter, may
yet be queen of "the isles of Greece
where burning Sapho loved and sung"
according to the late Lord Byron.
Sir Thomas Upton, the yachtm~n
and teaman, is again in the United
States on business. He says in an in
terview that he is Scotch-Irish. That
is why he has a handle to his name.
Tom is all right and a good fellow,
in spite of being Scotch-Irish, but
he should be one or the other.
While Bishop Keane, of Cheyenne,
was in Milwaukee giving a course OF
lectures to non-Catholics at the AL
ditorium, young fellow bearing
fine Catholic name took his overco,,t
and sold it to a pawnbroker. The
thief. was arrested and the coat re-
! covered. Bishop Keane refused &c
appear. against him in court, but he
got two months in Jail just the same.
The petty thief needed the coat badly
and said he would not have stolen it
had he known it belonged to the dis
tinguished prelate.
The special attention of our secular
exchanges, including Bryan's Com.
moner, is directed to the article On
the first page anent the execution OF
Francisco Ferrer, whom they look or
as a martyr to liberty like Hofer,
Emmett and other revolutionists of I'M
dying fame. Long live the modern
schools" are said to have been the
last words of the Spanish anarchist
The shorter such schools exist, tho
better for humanity. Such schools
graduate anarchists, and any govern.
ment is justified in abolishing then
by the strong hand of the law.
| The paragrapher of the Minneapol.>
Journal asks why Mrs. Pankhurst, ].
3. Redmond and T. P. O'Connor ID
not stay at home and talk to thei,
own folks" Let us inform the bril-
liant young man that Mr. Redmond j..
in England, and that Mr.. O'Conno,
is here to make six speeches to his
Hown folks"-the Irish Americans
TOR the purpose of raising funds to
defray the expenses of the forthcom-
ing elections in Ireland and GfGat Bril-
tain. AS for Mrs. Pankhurst, the Eng
lish suffragette, she can answer fo1
herself. She is evidently here on the
invitation of the followers of Susan B.
Anthony, and in their company she
will be among her ''own folks"
| Prof. George B. Foster, of the Chit
| cago University, is still talking against
Christianity, and the Baptists have not
yet ousted him from their comnu:1-
ion. His latest utterance is that
Christ founded no church at all de.
spite the biblical statement Upon
this rock will I build my church and
the gates of hell shall not prevail
against her." But Foster denies the
authenticity and inspiration of the
Bible and does not believe in revealed
religion. And yet he is an ordained
minister of the Baptist denomination!
Rockefeller's college has reason to feel
proud of the agnostic, but he is not
the only freak in that Baptist institu-
ton.
The discovery of the North Pole py
DR.. Cook, who lectured in this city
last Monday night, furnishes new in
SEPARATION for religious effort. The pol
ar regions are under the jurisdiction
of the apostolic delegate at Stock
holm. There has been Catholic
bishop in Norway for over half a
century, but the distance and diff
Guilty of reaching "Greenland's lev
mountains" have stood in the way of
converting the Eskimos to christian
ity. Like other semi savage races
that have never heard of Christ, the
Eskimos live good moral lives and are
faithful and trustworthy There is
| a bright future dawning for tho IN
habitants of the higher ATTITUDES.
That comparisons are odious" was
illustrated few days ago in a lee
ture delivered by Prof. Albert f.
on the different races that comprise