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THRE DECLINE OF FAITH.
As In some half-burned forest, one by one,
We oateh far echoes on the dreary breese,
Born of the downfall of its rained wrees-—
While even through those that stand slow
shudderings run,
As if fate’s hand were sternly laid thereon :
Thus, in a worid smitien by fou! disease
That pest called Doubt—we mark by sad de
grees
The fall of lordileat faiths that wooed the sun:
Bome, with low sigh of parted bough and
leaf,
Strain, quivering downward to the abhorred
ground;
Some totter feebly, groaning, toward their
doom ;
While some, broad-centuried growths of old
: Belief, :
Sapped as by fire, defeatured, charred, dis.
crowned,
Fall with loud crash and long, reverbant
boom |
Thus, fated hour by hour, more gaunt and
bare,
Gloom the wan spaces, whenoce—a power 10
bless
Unbourgeoned onee, in grace or stateliness,
Some ereed divine, offspring of light and air
What then 7 Aa! must we yleld to bleak de
spalr,
Beholding God himselt wax less and less,
Paled In the skeptical flame-cloud’s whirl
and stress,
Till lost to love and reverence, hope and
prayer?
O Man! When trust is blind and reason reels
Before some flery, fleres loonoeclast,
Turn to thy Heart that reasons not, but teels ;
Creeds fall, surines perish !| “Still” (her In-
stinot salth)—
#81111 the Soul lives; the Soul must eonquer
Death!
Hold fast to Gol, and God shall bold thee
fast I”
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Priests and Bishops.
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Important Decision in the Supreme Court
in Michigan.
In the Bute Bupreme Court the fol-
lowing decision was filed at the June
term :
Alphonse Rose, plaintiff in error, vs.
J hn Vertin, Roman Cstholic Bishop
of Marquette, defendant in error.
The Bishop of a Diocese is not, from
his position as Bishop, personally lia
ble for the salary of a priest in charge
af a church in such Diocese.
Error to Marquette.
F. O. C.ark, for plaintiff in ercor.
W. P. Healy, for defendant in error.
Graves J. The plaintiff sued in the
eharacter of assignee and owner of a
claim of Joseph F. Berube for $300 on
account of services by sald Berube as
a priest in the now Diocese of defend-
ant. A verdiet in the defendant's
favor was ordered by the Court,
Berube was placed on duly as an
officiating priest by defendant’s pre-
decessor, Bishop Mrack, and the en-
tire claim in suit arose during that
Bishop's time and before the defend-
ant came in. The main facts of the
case are undisputed, and the enly
question is concerning their effect,
and in my opinion they show dis-
tinctly that the relation between
Bishop Mrack and the priest was
never that of hirer and hired in any
sense implying an obligation on the
Bishop to pay the priest. The Bish-
op was the priest's superior, and ac-
cording to the established order of
things in the economy of the Church
government, regulating the degrees,
subordination and the methods of
administration, it was the province
of the Bishop to designate the place
for the priest to exercise his fune-
tions, and prescribe under certain
limitations the rules and precepts for
his guidance and control. But both
were common servants of the Church
and the service of the priest was not
then a service for the Bishop, nor was
the Bishop in respett to the employ-
ment a principal. In the cour:e of
the administration the Bishop assign-
ed the p lest to a theatre of duty and
gave him certain rules and instruc
tions, and it was manifestly under-
stood on both sides that the Bishop
was not to be held responsible in law
for the salary.
On the contrary, the conclusion is
anadvoidable that the council of the
congregation, on whom the Diocesan
regulations cast the duty to provide a
support for the clergy, were wholly
trusted to supply the necessary means
to pay the plaintiff's assignor. I. was
surely competent for Berube to serve
in reliance on that resource, and run
the risk of failure, and there is no
doubt that he did so. Exactly simi-
1ar arrangements are taking place
every day. Men are constantly oing
into positions under appointment by
superior agents,and where no liability
for comipensation rests in the employ-
ing agent, and the means of psy nent
if they came at all are to come frem
another source,
Cases of llustration are infinite. —
They sbound in business operations,
and marked instances msy be seen
in the great missionary enterprises
which are carried on, No one sup-
poses the existence of a legal labil-
ity. Tals view decides the case, snd
makes it unnecessary to discuss the
question whether in any event the
present Bishop could be held as the
* successor of Bishop Mrack,
The judgment is affirmed with
costs, ;
(The other Justices concurred.)
Michigan Paper.
The Yellowstone Park,
———
The Yellowstone Park is simply a
land of wonders and surprises, Such
photographs sa I have seen totally fall
to give the slightest conception of it.
There is nothing like it in the world.
The Bwisa Alps appear small and in-
different to me afterseeing these mam-
moth sulphar springs and geysers.
They are literally indescribable, Their
extent, their variety, their infinite ir
regularity must be seen to be realized.
Their incrusted forms seem t+ have a
law of their own construction. [mag-
ine a series of huge basins, formed as
regularly as the fountains ia the Eu-
ropean city, leaning over each other
hundreds of feet in height, and each
varying in color from a dull lake-red
to snow white.
There are high hills of beautiful
cryatallized sulphur, countless geysers
of hot sulphur water, that throw up
jets and columns from 20 to 200 feet.
As a great sanitarium it seems to me
the park will some day be a national
resort. It is bountifully watered by
clear streams that abound in fish, and
game is plentiful.
Except the Marshall House, a rude
frame structure, there is no place of
accommodation there as yet, and
while the trails and road ways obvious
enough and fairly passable for vehi-
cles, there has been a strange omission
on the part of the government custo
dians to erect signboaris ut the cross-
ings giving the distances and the
directions to the various points,
A government police is sadly need-
ed to prevent wanton and careless
conflagrations, which have already
destroyed vast bodies of valuable tim-
ber, and disfigures the face of the
country, There can be no doubt of
the abundance of game In the park,
I saw a herd of elk on three different
occasions, scattered antelope every
few days, and bear tracks were plenty
in the snow, We had no diffisuity in
procuring elk meat, and what was
far better, the meat of the wild moun-
tain sheep. It was the best mutton I
ever tasted ; in flavor and delicacy 1
think it was superior to the famous
Welsh mutton. Capt. Gorringe count-
ed more than three hundred sight
seers ; they came principally from
the Pacific coast, We also came
across companies of men engaged 1n
fishing snd shooting and drying and
salting the trout 0 winter use.
Bagging a Bull Elephant,
A correspondent of the Cape Times
gives the following account of an ele
phant shooting expedition undertaken
by fopr Europeans from the neigh-
borhood of Kuysna: “The party en-
tered the forest spd after crossing
numerous spor: finally came upon
that of a veritable patriarch, which
they followed for about an bour; but
the old gentleman's wanderings be-
coming too tortuous and intricate the
periy decided on taking sa straight
course through the forest toward the
sea. Finding traces of a numerous
herd, the spoor of these was followed
until about twelve of our canine as
sistants in the proceedings lifted up
their voices and announced the vicin-
ity of the mighty game. As a warning
of approaching danger, such an ex-
pression of feeling on their part was
hardly necessary, as the noise of
falling trees, the crackling of brush.
wood and the shrill and peculiar
trumpetings of these huge creatures
was quite suffizient to cause every
one who had not already raised him-
self to a safe elevation to wish that he
had devoted some of his idle hours to
practicing the art of climbing. Buch
a serious view of the case was hardly
necessary this time, however, aa the
berd scampered off, leaving one of
their number, a fine bull, to square
matters with his tormentors,
The party. then rushed forward,
each anxious to secure for himself the
best chance of a shot, but their ardor
was somewhat chilled by a sudden
and angry trumpeting on the part of
the elej hant, which always indicates
that he is in the act of charging.
Then followed s succession of extra
ordinary manos uvres on his part, the
huge brute tearing up trees, some of
them sctually nine inches in diame
ter. Two of the party just gained a
friendly branch for the purpose of
reconnoitering, when the elephant,
persecuted by the dogs, charged
straight up to the tree and stood right
under the branch where they were
standing. In this position it was con-
sidered inadvisable to fire, as if death
had not been instantaneous the ele
phant might have easily osught
them. Almost immediately (he ele
phant was seen coming straight to.
ward the party. Oa he came in good
style and aftr a fashion that left little
doubt as to his intentions. There was
no cover of any kind, so the party
stood their ground. The elephant
was now within less than 20yards dis
tance, aud one of the party fired, but
the shot falled to stop him. The mat-
ter was getting rather serious; he was
now within eight yards, making
straight for the party. Another gen-
tleman, who was armed with a double
gun of powerful calibre, now fired but
having only a very imperfeet footing
*
on the stamp the recoil pushed him
off and he fell right in the enemy's
Way,
His shot, though splendidly aimed,
passed, as was afterwarde ascertained,
through the elephant’s trunk, and
glancing off under the ear, did him
little actual damage. He was now
within a stride of the stump upon
which all were standing. The others,
who seemed to be reserving their fire
too long, now let him have it, and six
bullets were put nto him; these
told, he turned outside of the tree snd
stubbornly retreated. Bo close did he
pass that almost every one of the party
could have touched him with their
rifles. As he retreated, the gentleman
who fell had recovered himself, and
gave him a parting shot in the side,
the result of which wasa very percepti-
ble stagger on the part of the elephant,
and was the first ¢y nptom he had y t
shown of getting the worst of it. He
now charged at the dogs, and having
covered a distance of about thirty
yards was again brousht to bay; this
time he received a volley of bullets snd
displsyved as much indifference about
the matter a3 if he only received a
shower of mealies, Up to this he
showed great coolness a.d command
of temper. Another volley at aboat
fifteen yards distance efl:cted a won-
derful change.
Then commenced such terrific
screams and yells of rage—the brute
knocking over everything he came in
cantact with—as surpass description
He was now thoroughly aroused ; the
firing became general, and it was
every man for himself, Right snd
left he charged, the thick bush giving
way before him like bulrushes before
the wind. His course could be easily
seen by the swinging motion of the
trees as he pushed by them or smashed
them beneath his feet. This, the fir:t
really serious exhibition of temper on
his part, caused the entire party to
draw together. They took up a posi-
tion between two small trees, and
upon an old stump about eighteen
inches high. It took ten more shots
to finish him. He made his last stand
at the foot of a large yellowwood tree,
against which the sagacious brute
leaned for support. Three times he
charged from this tree, and as many
times returned. He was now showing
signs of weak ness and his trumpeting
became less frequent. Collecting all
his strangth he made another rush for
his enemies. This time he was hit
hard ; he staggered, trumpeted ones
more, and with a tremendous yell
sank heavily to the ground and died
in 8 few seconds. He had twenty
seven bullets buried in him.
i AAAI cs sons
A Human Monster,
Mr. Paul Bert has lately sent to the
editor of La Nature from Geneva, two
photographs of a human monster ex-
hibited there, living and sged five
years, having been born at Turin in
1877. It has two heads, four arms,
and two chests, but one abdomen and
pelvis, and two legs ; that is, it is deu-
ble above the middle of the body.
The fusion of the two bodles begins at
the sixth rib. From due examination
and from what has been observed In
previous monsters of the kind, they
were named Xiphodyme by Isodore
Geoffroy, 8t, Hilaire, It may be af-
firmed that there are four lungs, two
hearts, and two stomachs ; the small
intestine is double at ita commence-
ment, but is in grester part simople.
They are really two individuals
The right leg obeys only the right in-
dividual, who alone feels any one
pinching it; and similarly with the
left. The sensibility of half the body
is in exclusive rapport with the head
of the same side. The two individuals
were baptized doubly under the names
of Jean and Jacques. They are equally
developed from physical points of
view, except a slight club foot on
Jacques’ leg, and intellectually they
are much alike, Their intelligence is
normal ; they reply the questions of
visitors in French, Italian and Ger
man, They seem to be gentle and
amiable, alse lively, often playing to-
gether while lying on cushions, or on
the knees of cheir reputed father, It
is said that they have never been ill,
It has been shown in the case of
other double monsters, that one may
have an Inflammatory fever, while the
other oontinued well; but the like
could not occur with infectious dis-
ease or poisoning. Beveral cases of
these Xiphodyme monsters have been
recorded in history, but very few of
them have lived. Irish Times.
The Cock-Tails Did It,
Invisible lemon: A man recently
fell down on Warren street, He was
a large Individual, and took up lots
of the sidewalk, and a bystander
thought it the proper time to be fun.
ny. “How did you come to fall?’ he
inquired. “Oa a bit of lemon—
“Yeu, sir; ona bit of lemon,” replied
the corpulent one. “Bat I see no
lemon,” replied the funny man.
“Well, who said you could ?" savage
he got up and dusted himself off
with his handkerchief. “Can any
one see the lemon in half a dosen
cocktails, say
A Smmple Way of Making the
Stars Regulate Your Watch,
It is not generally known that there
is available to every one a most simple
and accurate method of regulating a
clock or «atch, when acoess to stands
ard time at short intervals is inconve-
nient cr impossible, It consists sim-
ply in observing the time at which
any particular star sets, or passes the
range of two fixed objects on different
nights. It is necessary to have the
gorrect clock time to start with ; after
that, a clock may be kept within a
very few seconds of standard time for
any number of vears without any
difficulty. The sun cannot be used
for this purpose, for the reason that
there are only two days in the year
when it is on the meridian of a place
at noon by elock time, It may be a
much as fourteen and a half minutes
fast, or sixteen and a quarter minutes
slow on different days; and besides,
the determination of its alt’ tude with
any degree of accuracy requires the
use of special instruments, and much
skill in observation.
To determine the time by observa.
tion of a star, on the contrary, is a
matter of great ease, and no instru-
ments are necessary. The mode of
operation is as follows: Beleot two
fixed points fora range of observation.
If a westerly window can be chosen
which faces any bullding anywhere
mors than twenty-five to thirty feet
distant, we have as good a post of ob-
servation as we can desire. Drive a
nail or stick a pin into the window
jamb ; or, if anything more substan-
tial is wanted, fix a thin piece of
metal with a very small hole in it to
sight through In any convenient
place, so that you can observe the time
any star sets or sinks below the roof of
the adjacent bullding, or whatever
may be chosen as the more remote
sight. Then choose some well-defined
star, the brighter the better, and with
your timepiece set right, to start with,
observe the time it passes the range of
your sights. The exact time, as well
also as the date of this observation,
should be recorded ; then to flud out
at any subsequent time, how much
your watch has varied from correct
time, observe the same star, and recol-
ject that it sets just three minutes and
55.90014 seconds earlier on any given
night than it did the preceding night,
Thus {four first observation was taken
some night when the star set at nine
hours, fifteen minutes and twenty-
three seconds: and at our second ob-
servation, taken just one week later,
set at elght hours, foriy-seven mine
utes, and fifty-two seponds, we would
know that our watch bad kept oor-
ract time, If it set at eight hours,
fcr y-five minutes and fifty-two sec.
onds, we would know that our watch
or clock had lost two minutes during
the week. And similarly for any
other variation, If the time at which
it had set had been eight hours, forty-
nine minutes and fifty -‘wo seconds,
we should see that our watch had
gained two minutes, and so on.
If the location of our sights admit of
it, we should select a star 90° as nearly
sa possible, from the pole star, for its
apparent motion will be greater than
that of one nesr the pole, and the
liability of error will be diminished.
If a suitable selection ean be made,
the error need not be more than three
or four seconds, and it will not be
accumulative,
From the fact that any given star
sets nearly four minutes earlier each
night, it is evident that it will after
as while begin to set during daylight.
Before this occurs it will be necessary
to transfer the time to some other star,
which sets later, Thus we see that
the later in the evening our first obser.
vation is taken, the longer the same
star may be used. To transfer the
time, of course is very simple, you
merely have to observe the star you
have been using, note thejtime, and
also the error and rate of variation
of your watch ; then as late as con.
venient the same evening, select the
new star, not too near the horizon,
observe its time, and from the data of
the first observation, calculate the
exact time of ita setting, or passing
the range of your sights, This is a
very simple matter and requires no
explanation. Then use the new st.r
as long as possible, and transfer to
another, and so on,
To facilitate observation and calcu.
lation, the following table from Trot.
Ngnt. Hr, Min,
6 50.47
10 46.88
14 42.29
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Love's Echoes.
——
Her Answer,
Through a garden decked with myrile
Wandered I one Bummer day,
B ¢prd above the robis slinging
To bis male a tender lay
Hoard the reaper's merry whistle
As he glewned the golden wheat
Walching oft a dark-eyed maiden
Binding sheaves about his feet,
Man and bird alike are happy,”
Bald I, “darling, this is love,”
To sweet Neille walking near me
This, whieh life por death ean move.
“Can you doubt 117” then I asked her,
As she gaged In silence still
At the busy Ruth before us,
And the reaper on the bil,
“Doubt 11?” and her blue eyes softened,
As she raised them to my face,
With a timid, witching shyness,
And her nalive maiden grace,
“Doubt iL 7” and I bent to iisten ,
An she whispered under breath,
With her head agalost my bosom
“Love 1s stronger, dear than death,”
Swinburne.
Iflove were what the rose is
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together,
In sed or singing weather,
Brown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pleasure or gray grief,
If love were what the rose is
And | were like Lhe leat,
1f 1 were what the words are
And love were like the tune,
With double sound and ingle
Delight our lips would mingle
With kisses glad as birds are
That get sweet raln at noon,
If I were what the words are
And love were like Lhe tune,
1f you were April's lady
And [ were lord in May,
We'd throw with leaves for hours
And draw for days with Sowers,
Till day and night were shady
And night were bright like day,
If you were April's lady
And [ were lord in May.
Only Then.
I read a poet's tender lay;
The printed words seemed bright,
Bo wisely eloquent were they
Of love's deiight ;
Then heard it, wedded 10 a strain
Most musically sweet ;
The blende! meaning of the twain
Grew more complete,
But when [ turnsd 10 look on you,
Who listened toere bedde,
And met your eygs of violet hue,
My love, my bride,
Then, only then, that song's deep heart
Lay beautiful and bare,
I felt the ears unbidden start
With raplure rare ;
For words tell much, and music more,
But despest meaning lies
In those clear fountains of lovelore—
A woman's eyes,
A Ghost.
Love will you let sae In ?
Iamikaoxia: ai the door,
Lowe, ean | shelter win
Close bexide you, as of yore?
Of my grave | am aweary,
Narrow narrow, dark and dreary
Wildly from (ls clasp | flew,
Love, just 0 look at you,
iam so white and enti
Love, will you slirink away ?
If you wil not kiss me still
Do pot let ma in, 1 pray.
I have crosa’d Lhe mighly river;
Wiliyou fear me? Do you shiver?
If your arms refuses 10 woo,
Death 1s more kind than you,
Love, if YoU were a ghost
And | were alive and warm
Ab, perhaps~] will Bot BORE
i might shud ler atl your form ;
I might fles befure the presence
Of an unembodied essence,
Hush! hush! it is not true,
Love, I should know "twas YOU,
The Wolt Boy.
SR
One morning, many years ago, Mr
H—, who happened at that time to be
a magistrate and collector of Etawah
distnot, was oul riding, sccompanied
by two sowars, or mounted orderlies.
They were passing over a portion of
the road that lay in the vicinity of the
river Jumna, when two half grown
wolf cubs crossed their path, and, fol-
lowing them more slowly, came a
very remarkable looking creature,
which shambled along on all fours in
an extraordinary uncouth fashion.
This proved to be a wolf child.
Letting the other two go en their
way unmolested, the thr:e men pro.
ceeded to huntdown the human cub,
ard succeeded in bringing it to bay.
As they wished to take the creature
alive, and were altogether unwilling
to hurt it in any way, they found the
greatest difficulty in attempting to
secures, as it fought, bit and clawed
with extreme flerceness and pertina-
city. Indeed, having driven it into
a corner, Mr, H— and one of the so-
wars had to mount guard, while the
other native proceeded to the nearest
village and got a stout blanket for the
purpose of throwing it over its head,
and it was by this means that the oap-
ture was at length eflected.
All the way home; the wolf child,
behaved like » mad thing, screaming
and howling, now piteously, and now
in a paroxysm of impotent rege. It
was, however, taken to Mr. Hs
house, but it would not be comforted,
and for a long time it refused every
kind of food, Including raw meat.
The creature was & boy of about
eight years of age; and it may here
be stated that no female child has ever
been heard of or seen. It is not easy
te assign a sufficient reason for the
faot that no females have never been
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ingly repulsive; his features were
blunt and conrse, snd their expression
brutalized and insensible. As to his
habits they were exactly those of »
wild animal,
Mr, H—— caused minute inquiries
to be made throughout the neighbor-~
ing villages as to whether the inhabit
ants had lost any children through
their having been carried off by the
wolves, and if so, whether they could
recognize the human wall thai had
been recovered by means of birth.
marks or other indelible tokens, Iu
the course of a few days, the father
and mother of the lad were discovered.
They identified him by means of cer.
tain well defined marks about the
breast and shoulders, and stated that
he had been carried away by the
wolves when he was about twe years
of age,
His parents, homever, found hiw
most fractious and troublesome—ix
fact, just a caged wild beast. Ofien
during the night, for hours together;
he would give vent to most unearthly
yells and moans, destroying the slum.
bers of hie neighbors, and generally
making night hideous. On one oo
casion his people chained him by the
waist to a tree that stood near the hu!
which was situated on the outakirte of
the village, Then a rather curious
incident occurred, it was a bright
moonlight night, and two wolf cubs
undoubtedly, those in whose come
panionship he had been eaptured--
attracted apparently by his cries
while on the prowl, came to him, and
were distinctly seen to gambol about
and play with him with as much
familiarity and affection as if thay
considered him to be quite one of
themselves, They only left him ow
the approach of morning.
The woll-boy, however, did ue¥
survive long. Accus‘omed fo the wilde
f r at least half a dozen years, esp
tivity, and the change in his mode o
life appeared not to agree with him
for he gradually pined away and died
He neyer spoke a word; nor did»
single rav of human intelligence ever
shed its refining light over his poor,
debased features.
Bn A A oT — -
Showing His Displeasure,
Col. Fergusson cites a most amusing
instance of the exaggerated import
ance which the Earl of Buchan at
tached to his public censure. The
then youthful Dragon of Whig idols
try, the Edinburgh Review, published
in October, 1808, an article on Don
Pedro Cevallos' account of the French
usurpations in Spsin, the unpatriotic
tone of which alarmed even those
Whigs which bad been diligently
lending their countenance of Bons
parte as a means of embarrassing the
Tory ministry. This article was the
work of Brougham ; and though Jef
frey had endeavored to take the sting
out of the more offensive passages, it
raised a tempest little less violent than
that excited by the Chaldee manu-
script nearly ten years afterward.
“It is recoreed that Lord Buchan, at
his abode in Castle street, with the
utmost solemnity after having directed
his servant to open the door and $e
take a number of the Review contain
ing the offensive article, and in techni
cle phrase, fee it in the innermost
part of the lobby, personally kicked
the book out of his honse to the centre
of the street, where he left it to be
trodden under foot of man and beast
He never doubted that this perform.
ance would be the death-blow to the
entire work.” We have heard thst
Jeffrey in person happened to be pas-
sing when the “blue and yellow" like
stone from a oatapault was hurled out
at his feet; but the conjunction i»
probably too apt to be true,
Fault-Finding at the Table.
W cee etic © man married to's
man who systematically growls at the
table. Life brings her neither peace
nor happiness? three times a day her
tyrant growls and snarls like any other
wild animal over his food. I knews
man of this kind once, and how I pitied
his wife and daughters. One of the lat
ter married in haste, one day--joined
tively poor man, not exscily in the
same set as she was accustomed to live:
in, mumply to have her meals in peace.
It is said she made her future husband:
swear that he would never make fase
over his dinner, and I understand thas
today they are the happiest couple lw
ing. Reconcilistion took place before:
they were married, but they left before:
the nuptial break fast—we ali remarked”
that-—-and now, though of course she.
visita the house, nothing could ever in
duce her 10 take a meal there, She ln
poor woman! Maybe in younger
daysshe might have thought of possible
relief by means of divorce, and they
do say, but [ do not sssert ic, though 16.
came from a distinguished jurist, thet
on at table—he wa
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