Some time ago a paragraph went the rounds of the press, claiming to be taken from The Shepherd of the Valley, which declared that if the Catholics should ever gain a numerical superiority in this country religious freedom would be at an end. It seemed to us a small matter and, withal, nothing new, as the Syllabus said the same thing just as plainly and with more authority. Nevertheless, the Catholic press cried out with one accord that the extract in question was garbled, claiming that the intolerant utterance was followed by the words, “so say our enemies.” On the strength of this assertion, the Catholic journals read the press at large a lesson on the beauty of truthful speaking. The sincerity of all this may be better estimated when we state, on the authority of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, which has files of the paper in question, that the repudiated utterance is followed thus: “So say our enemies. So we believe.” How curious it is that this “so we believe” should have escaped attention!—N. Y. Independent.