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I put by the halt-written poem,
While the pen, Idly trailed In my baud, -
Writes on— 'Had i words to complete it,
Who'd read it, or who'd understand P'
But the little bare tpetqui the,stalrway,
- Aad;the taint, antothered laugh in the hall,
And the eerie-low nap on the silence,
Cry up to me over It all.
So I gathered it up—where was broken
: The tear-faded thread of my. throne,
Telling how, as ono night I eat Writing,
A lairy, broke in on_ my dream,
A little inquisitive fairy— - - ~.:',e-•
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My own little girl with the gold f
Of the sun in her hair, and the dewy
Illue eyelet the fairies of old. . - i
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'Twas the dear little girl that I scolded—
" For wad It a moment like Ihis," •
I said—"Wl•cn she knew I was busy,
To come romping In for a kiss! ,
Come rowdrlng up:trom her mother,
And clamoring there at my knee
For 'One 'lt tle kiss for dolly,
And fine Vtle uzzer for me.' "
God pity the:heart that repelled her
And the cell hand that turned her away :
And takci flom the tips that denied her
This answerless prayer of to-day
Take, bird, from Inera'ry forever
That pitiful sob of despair,
And the patter and trip or the little bare feet,
. And the one piercing cry on the stair -
•
I put by the , half written poem,
ZS Lflc~heEpen ,, ldly trailed k lu my hand,
Writes on— , Ilad I words to complete It,
Who'd read It or who'd nriderstande?”
But the litho bare feet on the stairway,
And the faint, smothered lankly in Bic . hall,
And the eerie-low lisp on.the :Bence, "
Cry up to me over It all.
A BISHOP'S CONFESSION.
0. I). KIN.NEY
Untortlinately, Rigobert's• influ
once, 4 as soon as it was definitely
established, did not work to the ends
which Euphrasius and his comrade
Babolinus were pursninff—much the
contrary. Rigobert had b at first ser, 7.
tied Under the missionaries' prOtec=
tion, begging them respectfully to
befriend himv but as soon as - he could
hift for himself, he proceeded to set
up what he was faCetiOusly pleased
to - call — al:kconstitutional opposition.'
He left off going to church on the
ground that he was a freethinker,
and amused himself by indoctrinating
,t-he minds or his Chinese customers
with republican • and - Materialistie.
ethics, 'hec.luse,' said he,_'the clergy
ought not 'to have things entirely
their-own way.' In all this Monsieur
Rigobert intended to be fimny rather
than mischievous; to tease the mis
sionaries rather than to - grieve or
damage; diem, but he did not knOw
the coffntry in which he was living,
and one . of the'earliest results of his
fooleries was to breed schism in the
village.` l the most cunning and
worthless characters, who found Eu
phrasiiis!ii- Spiritual yoke too heavy,
became customers of M. Rigobert's
drink shop, and imbibers of his doc
trine. Then the silly fellow added a
roulette table to his other attraction's?
and opened a regular casino, where
drunkenness and gambling ran .ridt,
terminating not_ unfrennently in:
fights and murders. Therciupon- the
native officials found nnexcuse for
saying that 'these - Christians' (fpr
they confounded the good and the
bad together) were fomenters of -dis
cord - and trouble ; and by ..way of
showing impartiality between what
they termed the sects,' they fell
into the habit of bambooing two or
three well-behaved converts every
time that a like number of Monsieur
Rigobert's 'friends had deserved pun
ishment.
BE-NJ. M. P ikte
]lay 1,'79
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(novll-75
L.ELSBRUE
All this was a heavy trouble to
Euphrasius and.Babolinus i but their
expostulations with their :raffish fel
low countrymen were of no avail.
Babolinus- had tackled the man jovi.
ally, • appealing to-his sentiments as
a good fellow, and urging him that
Frenchmen
. ought to make common
cause in a foreign - land so fat from
-honk; Euphrasius had.remonstrated
more severely, pointing out to
bert that he was guilty of criminal
folly Which might lead to bloodshed,
in which case a, weighty responsibili
ty would rest upon him.
-Ba.bolinus, perceiving how impa
tient - Euphrasius grew at - Bigobert's
misdeeds, tried, sometimes to offer
consolation, and in so doing spoke in
a truer spirit of Christian philosophy
than his friend, though it was-far
from his intention to speak-in a tone
of reproof. 'Brother, out work must
not he made too easy for vs,' he Used
to say, 'else we
.might despise it and
perhaps undertake more than we can
satisfactorily perform. So—long as
this wolf - is amongst us we shall not
-be tempted to abandon the sheep of
out little:
, • flock, arid this, perhaps,
will be a mercy to them.'
'Everything was_ going on so well
before he came;'muttered - Euphr'asius
mournfully. _
Jan. 1,1875
.'I wonder how soon,' answered En
iptitasius with a faint smile.
'Oh ! soon enough for me,' said
Babolinus laughing. 'l= only hope I
may riot be like the prophet who met
the lion in the way, and was. slain
outright, without any fighting ou his
part, from what I can 'bake out.'
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'And everything will go oniveir .
though he is here. AsSuredly nn oc
casion will come for worsting :him.
Let us remain patient in our 'Work,
and we may be. judged worthy- of
'sharper trials than- any that have be
fallen us-yet.' I .
,
'Would that some r-
sharper trial
would' come 1' -exclaimed.Euphrasius
fanatically; then, bedoming aware of
his presumption, ,he- added humbly;.
'if strength be , -vouchsafed us to meet
it. What I.mean,'Babolinus, is that
this man seems tbo mean a foe to
'Cope With. - It is like wrestling with
*viper, and, vristiii - Conels time and
strength over it, Wren one has gone
out to meet lions.'
'Patience, brother! we shall- en
counter our lions in time,'_ replied
the elder monl•..
The lions—that is, the sharp trial
which Euphrasius had invoked—did
come, but not in the manner, or at
the time, when the young monk had
expected.
Once a month an estaftltiused to
come from the nearest European set
tlement, bringing letters and parcels
froni Europe to Seiho, One day, in
fine spring weather, the courier ar=
rived whilst Euphrasius_ was - busy
with his classes in the' school, and
Babolinus presently came running
into the sehool-room i flourishing a
large open document with a seal to it.
' 'Father 1 Father.!' he cried, and,
with tears of . joit starting to his eyes,
flung_him§elf at his friend's feet, 'let
your first episcopal blessing rest on
me, monseigneur!'
'What Weans this P :inquired Eu
phrisius amazed. _
'The Holy Father has -constituted
Seiho into a See, and appointed you
its first bishop,' answered Babolinus,
still on his knees. may say now,
like Simeon, Nunc dintittis, - and re
joice that this has been in part my
doing, though we shall, alas! be sep.
arated.'
'Why should we be separated P
asked Euphrasius. Then, when he
had laid his hands on his friend, and'
assisted him to rise—when he had
appease.' the tumult that had arisen
in the school-room by dismissing all
his cheeritie, hallooing little pupils
for a half-holiday (after ".they, too,
had clustered round him for a bless
ing)—then he_sat down, in consider
able" agitation; to read
.the instruc
tions that had been forwarded to him
from Rome along with his letters of
appointment. The document stated
that, owing to: reports which had
come to Rome (they could only have
been sent by Babolinus) of Euphra
sius's zeal, courage and piety, owing
also to' his success as a missionary,
it had been resolved to appoint him
bishop, and to send out tjvelve new
missionaries to Seiho to undertake
parish work under his directions.
Meanwhile—that_ ,is to say, as soon
as these missionaries arrive&---the
new bishop was to delegaie. Brother
Babolinus as his coadjutor pro tem.,
and to proceed to Rome for his in
vestitute ar.d for further orders. On
his return to China he might, if he
deemed it expedient, take out an ad
ilitlonal staff of missionaries and
hool-teachers with him, so that the
.dew Christian vineyard which he
had Planted in what had once been a
wilderness might not suffer from want
of laborers.
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'And kis too thee I owe all this !'
'exclaimed' Euphrasius, quite over
come, and'embracing Babolinus in a
transport of . gratitude. 'But what
possessed thee to send such. reports
in my favor Withoht informing me ?.'
'Because knew , you would not
have 'written in your own - praise,'
answered Babolinus with an honest
laugh. 'For all this is , Your doing,
brother—these Schools this church;
could not have risen above groqnd
without you.; - and yet, I confess, I
did not think.' my words would so
son have borne fruit. The, Holy
Father. has paid me a-great compli
ment in believing, the thus readily.'
'The bishopric should hVe cone
to you, Babolinus.. I4ould well af
ford to wait," said Enrihrasius, sin
cerely meaning what he said... •
`.'.No, Father; r am an old. man, hav
ing - none of your genius, and I should
have- made a poor bishop.? , Then,
with a g ood - humored twinkle in his
eye, "But l ' noW,4ather you . will be
better armed against the lions'
,than
I, for you will have a crozier to de
fend yourself with.'
'What lions ?' asked Euphrasius
absently. • •
'Why, the lions who were to re
lieve the monotony of our existence
—tlic - lions who were to come under
the form of,new trials to test our
strength and faith.' ,
'Ah, yes,' answered Euphrasius as
absently again, and he did not smile
al, the joke. .
Euphfasius 1 his ambition
would have been cruelly curbed if he
could haVe known. that he owed - his
biShopric mainly, if not,solely, to
the untiring efforts Which Angelo and
her husband had made With the
French government and with the
Vatican on his behalf. The kindly
offices of the good j3abolinus would
have gone • but a small .way toward
getting. - liim a mitm.
It was .some two or three months
after this that tidings reached Europe
of a new and treacherous - massacre
of:Christians by the Chinese. Iti was
reported that a popular rising had
taken place at Seiho-Tchin ; that the
missionary church and schools had
been burned ;'' that two hundred na
tive converts, including children, had
been put to the sword, and that the
newly-appointed Bishop of Seiho,
along,with twelve lately disembarked
missionaries, had also perished, after
having been subjeCted to horrible
tortures. That was the first account
that arrived' anaccount which made
Xngele de Rosenheirn's blood run
celd when she read it in a newspaPer
wifichTher husband banded to her.
'For • several- days the poor lady
mourned 'over her martyred lover
With an;angnisli all the more terrible
as she ?bad to , keep it secret. But
then intelligence came that the
Bish
vp of Seiho bad not been killed
that, in fact, he alone had survived
the general massacre. And with this
news was flashed - the story of how
the Bishop Owed the preservation of
his life to Me fact, of his having
evinced such a sublime courage as,
had shamed his persecutors into ad
miration of him. He had been put
to toreure, his limbs had been racked,
his feet and 'hands; ,had ' been thrust
into the- fire, and molten lead had
been poured upon him ; but though
these barbarous cruelties had been
carried on for three days, no recanta
tion . cohld be wrungfrom him, so
that at length his tormentors let him
go with his life 'out of sheer ponder
and respect. By and by amr de
tails _arrived from the pens of news
paper correspondents at Shanghai,
and it appeared that the catastrophe
at Seiho
.had___be_en brought about
through, the misdoings of the publi
can Rigobert.- A party - of Chinamen,
having lost:their money over that
man's roulette table one. night, swore
that they had been robbed, and cow
menced destroying the furniture of
the casino. The publican drawing a
revolver to protect his property, there
had been bloodshed,atter which :the
rioters set fire to tie casino, 'and
then a cry had arisen of 'Down with
the ' , Christians!' The' missionaries
rushing out to' render assistakice in
extinguishing the firethat had spread:
Ito some cottNes, were - either slaugh-
b" -
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Wed out of hand, or taken captiie
and put to death, subsequently in tor
tures. , Meanwhile the murderers
drunk and infuriated, had pursued
their.ivork of extermination by going
from house to house and slaying all
the nave 'converts who refused to
trampl4on the crucifix. Some two
hundred men, women and Children
had thus died, confessing , their faith;
and of the Eiiropean residents not
one had escaped, save the Bishop
Rigobert, the author of the mischief,
perished with the rest.
These horrible tidings came .to
France at a moment when parasian
society had not much to talk about,
It was in ISO ; Europe wis quiet,
and the Second Empire in its heyday.
Society having no wars or political
sensations to distract it, was in its
humor to give its undivided attention
to a story which made every Catholic
lady thrill as she read it, and which
drew even from hardened cynics on
the Boulevards the confesSion that
the age of dauntless martyrs wart
gone yet. When it was known hat
Monsieur Garderoy (as he was now
called) was on his way back to Eu
rope, and would
.piobably come to
Paris after passing through - Rome,
public curiosity was , stimulated in a
marked degree; when it was reported
at length that the stout-hearted BiA.,
op had actually arrived in 'Paris,
every man and women who had pe
rused the wonderous' record of his
life became eager to seehim and hear
him preach. '
If suck were the sentiments of the
public, one may imagine what were
those lAAngele de Rosenheim.- She
had spent some 'dap in sickening
sorrow; while she thought Henri de
Garderoy dead, and Mlerwards
'had pored with streaming; eyes and
throbbing heart; over: the narrative
of his heroism and endurance.. When
he,returned to France, she resolved
that she must see him.at any.hazard.
To be despised of such a. man *as
more than she. could bear. If only
for his own sake;that he might think
no worse of human nature, as! he had
known it, - than it' .i .actually deserved,
she must tell him - Ahat she.had- not
deserted him for the sordid motives
which he 'had imPuted to her. After
that,she would be at 'peace with,lier
self, and she would be enabled thence
forth to see him face to face 'without
fear ; and to think of him without sin.
For some days Angele hesitated
as' to whether-she should not relieve
herself of her heart's burden by seek
ing an interview with Henri at once.
But she. learned that he had gone
e>tretrage' into the Franciscan mon
astry at Caen, where he had spent
the first years of his monkhood ; so
she wasl'ain to wait until he should
return to Paris, to preach his prom
ised ceurse of sermons at Notre
the Lenten season was approaching,
and it: had been arranged that the
missionary Bishop should preach in
the cathedral, in aid of the foreign
missions, on 'every Friday through
out Lent. Btit first he was to preach
a Sunday sermon, in the private cha
pel of} - the Tuileries Palace, before
the Emperor Napoleon, the Empress,
and Court. This was by the Em
press's special desire, and invitations
to the mass and sermon were issued
by her Majesty's Chamberlain as for
a Court reception.. As a Senator.
the Baron de Rosenheim obtained
one for himself and his wife ; and a
few days before the Solemnity_ the
- Minister c f Public Worship, accost
ing the -Bdron in the lobbies-of the
Senate, cOngratulated him on the
signal Mariner in which Monseigneur
de Garderoy tad justified the enco- .
miums which M. de Rosenheim had
passed 'upon him, in `recommending
him .fcr a bishopric.
How high his name stood in men's
estimation, Henri de Garderoy could
measure for himself when lie returned
to the Franciscan monastery, which
he had left more than three years be
fore. Modern monks are no flatter
ers. The mere elevation of their old
comrade to a bishopric" wilutd' not
have'been sufficient of itself to com
pel. -their respect; , , but Vefore the
steadfast missionary, before the mar-.
tyr, they bowed down with startled
loving reverence. _ _
The old Superior, whO had said to
him at parting . : have a presenti
ment th .t I shall- see you again, Ett-
Plirasius,' knelt down to, crave . his
M essing,'bl and faltered as he did so..
God-be praised that I read your des
tinies aright,
,Monieigneur. I felt
that if—your life was - spared, .you.
would only. live to Christ's glory.'
2 'Don't call me Monseigneur,' said
the Bishop, taking the old man's arm
and lehding him away. t. 'Call me
"son" once more,, and conguct me to
my old cell.' I -
'Your cell ; nobody haS occupied
it since you left,' said the' Superior.
'You will find it just as it was. Does
it bring back happy memories to yop,
my .son
'Very harpy,' answered the Bishop
with altigh. 'Memories ns of child
hood. My conscience wits almost at
rest here; =at least so_it t eems to ine
now.'
As he uttered these words almost
inaudibly the Bishop entered the
small:cell so bare of furniture, and
sat down at the little table where he
had spent so many hours in study.
Then it was that the Superior had a
good full view of his features for the
first time and recoiled at the altera
tions which he noticed in hitn. Henri
was no longer attired in monkish
habit, but in a priest's black cassock,
with the viol et buttons which denoted
his rank, a cassock which added to
the thinness of his appearance. He
had allowed his hair to grow,-and it
was all gray. One of his hands-=the
left—was in a sling, the other was
covered with a black glove which, on
being removed, disclosed fingers an.
palm all scarred with the marks of
scorching. But what affected the
Superior even more than these fear
ful traces of physical suffering was
the look of unutterable melancholy
stamped on the Bishop's features. jt
even seemed to him that a -strange
expression, almost as of = fright, had
crept into the. Bishop's eyes. These
eyes no longer had the steadfast, un-i
glance as of yore. Thi3
light of youth bad gone out of them,
nay, it looked almost as if hope had
fled from them too. Occisionally
EME
AT191.1 FROM ANY QUARTER,
they opened viide and gazed - for a
moment. with'a horror-stricken ex
*salon into space, then suddenly
closed, as if the vision they saw was' .
too shocking "to be borne.
'Ob, my son, how Yon must -have
suffered 1' exclaimed the ,Superior,
clasping his hands. •
'lt is over now,' muttered the
Bishop hoarsely. 'They are in Heav
en now.'
'They ? Your . coutpanjoifs, • you
mean; poOr.l3abolinniand the othersi,
and your , little schoolchildren: Yes;
certainly they're lu Iteavett.' •
'They did so nobly,' murmured
the BishOP, as if he *ere speaking. to
himself. 'Little children.bf sik and
seven, with their; mothers, who re-'
fused to trample: - on the crucifix to
save .their lives, land , as they Were
sweltering in' blood they called on
the name of Chrisit.' •
'What faith!' ejaculated the Supe
rior with '.eniOtion. 'And to'think,
my son, that it was: you who planted
it in the bosoms of the wopien and
children who are
,now with the
angels,'
'But Rigobert died Well ; too,'cried
the Bishop; proceeding with the so
liloquy. Oh, yes, right well, like
a man.' Then a shudder passed over
him. ''YOu .have heard of Rigobert,
Father? I Ile was the publican whose
conduct led to the Massacre. Well,
they brought hini.a crucifix and said
to him, "'Spit on it;"; .not doubting
that he 'Would. He refused. They
for Ced it to his lips, andhe. kissed IL
""I shall-ribt buy my life. by debasing
myself at yOur bidding.- Besides, My
old *mother used to pray-to the cru
cifix, mull I kiss it for her sake."
These were the words which • this
publican.and sinner uttered, and.died
for them. Can you realize that, Pa.
tiler?' •
The Bishop had. raised his voice,
and now stood up With a flashing
glamour in his eyes,. and a shiver
shaking his whole body. The Supc
ricifltrembled tO see' him in such agi
tation, and
. endeavored to soothe
him. 'Bel sure, my son, that God his
had mercy on this unhappy man, and
received him as he did the - penitent
thief.'
'Yes, I believe that,„' . . faltered the
Bishop;'but oh, Father, if you could
know what is on my mind,' and bury
in,,c; 'his head in his hands he-burst
into tears, and sobbed, not—like .
.child, but with the appalling grief of
a, man. .
Ile. sojourned for a fortnight* in
the monastery i ,,leading the 'same life
as the friars, eating of their food and
joining in their labors, and by de 7
grees a certain amount of compostire
was restored .to him. But often he
would walk -alone in the • garden of
the mlinastery, pacing' with feverish
strides -and :talking tO himself as it
Seemed to those wlld'obserVed him ;
and if he happened' to encounter the
Superior alter One of these walks lie
would eye him wistfully, and open
his Bps as if he had something to'say.
One day he went so far as to} mur
mur, ''Father, I must make my, con
fession to you,' but then he suddeilly
checked himself, and when the 'Supt.,
rior gently encouraged him to speak,
he repelled these advances suspicious
ly, almost roughly: ‘.so f I must be a
man, and not Conjure 'up ph Intoms
to Beare myself with,' he said, and his
stay at -the monastery came to an
end without his having .taken the
Superior-into his confidence.
trust be leaves us in . better
health 'than when. he, came , remarked
the old man as he saw him depart.
'But surely God has tried his very
heart andlreins. I would not,. liave
thought that physical torments
have wroght such a change .in any
wan. II ly Mary I how .he must
have suffered.'
. .•
The Sunday had come when the
Bishop of Seiho was to preach be
fore the COurt. - The frivolous socie
tyof the Second Empire had its gay
est and fairest representatives paCked
in the handsome but small' chapel of
the Tuileriei, where scarcely stand
ing room could be found' for states•
.nten, senators and foreign ambassa•
:Mors MSc) were crowded into all the
t si
e rners. Ilhe Emperor was present,
e
sconce(' in his arm-chair, and strok
in.,. his ..mustache . with a reflective
look ; the Empress was there, too,
and the lorinCe Imperial.; and the
Empress,!with a true Spaniard's fer
vor, leaned forward and signed her
self as the martyr-bishop passed her,
preceded .by the verger, on his way
from the altar to the pulpit.
It is; not easy to preach before a
Court, so many are the things that
must be left unsaid, but Monseigneur
de Garderoy acquitted himself of his
duty better than any preacher had
ever done before in that chapel. .
Ile spoke from the text, 'Father,
forgive them, for they know not what
they do,' and having the work of the
Church missions in view,.he dwelt
on the services which the propagation
of the Christian faith was-rendering
to the world. Taking that faith
from its cradle he showed what it
bad done, and tried to prophecy what
it *mild do. `Then by rapid transi
tions (for, he knew that he would
bore his hearcis.if he spoke for more
than .half an hour) he came .to the
drama which had - been enacted at
Seiho, when women and' children,
-almost babes, had died, confessing
their Redeemer, and of these he gave
a stirring picture. Of himself he said
nothing except in this one sentence :
'When my own turn came for being
put
,to the Pkoof, 1 felt how 'little 1
was beside thoseromen and chil
dren.' Thereupon ft long murmur of
sympathy ran round , the chriPel. , It
was felt that this man who had Bur
-1 vived his tortures had really ‘uffered
much ' more than those who had suc
cumbed. under theirs ;- but Henri de
Garderoy checked the, outburst that
was declaring itself in his favor. Ity
Waving his hand and crying firmly :
'God sends -us no mote sufferings
than we can bear. The endurande of
physical Pain is a question of tem
perament, but the touchstone of cour
age le the willingness to die—to take
- that plunge into_ the dark sibyea• Of
eternity about which, we know so lit—
tle, but which yet frightehs us all.!
Thereon he concluded his sermon,
and -the collection bags that were
MEI
KM
sent round in aid Of the Church mis
sions were filled With 'bank notes and
gold. •
The congregation broke up and
filed into the apartments of the pal
ace. Here the Bishop presently ap
peared, led by one of the Almoners
in Ordinqry,_to make his bow to the
Emperor before going away. Napo
leon 111., with the Empress and the
Prince • Imperial i by his side, ap
proached the Bishop and flung the
collar of the Legion of Honor Com
mandantship, round his neck, then
thrust his-letters of appointment as
Bishop of St. Cloud into, his band;
saying, 'Monseigneur, we shall all
remember ytiur sermon.
The Bishop bowed profoundly, but
made no reply. Then he turned to
leave, and the whole throng orstates
men, courtiers, anti fair women bent
low before him as he went out. If
ever there was a man who could have
tasted at that moment the felt cup of
bliss resulting front earthly: triumphs,
it was Henri de anrderoy.
Yet a fevi hours, later. the Bishop
was : sitting alone and Miserably
brooding. in small room of the
Church Mission College, in Paris. • It
was here that he intended to lodge
during Lent whilst be delivered his
sermons at Notre Daine. All th
priests 'and neophytes in the col
lege. - were ready to worship him
as a living saint who would assured-
Iy be canonized • hereafter; but - to,
one. and all he showed -a stern face
and would tolerate -no homage - . Ile
was sitting alone in his. room, at 7;
having stipped• oil a crust of dry
bread, when a young monk -entered
and announced-thatit lady wished to
see him. At the same time he hand
ed-n card bearing the tame 'of the
'Baroness de Rbsenheirn.'
Show her into, the chapel, and
have the chapel lighted,' said the
Bishop; and for a few minutes .he
stood resting his chin in his. hands
And meditating,. whilst a series of
flashes, quick arid
.wild, passed
through his eyes. and over his- fea
tures. '
Now had come the hour of
greatest triumph. on earth, %Angelo
was going to , kneel at his feet!
He doffed his black cassock and
put on his richest ecclesiastical vest
ments which.the'College.could afford
—a sUrplice bordered with lace, a
golden cope; an albe of satin embroi
dered with pearls, and &Mitre. Then
he descended to the chapel ; and - as
he entered saw a woman, lying pros
trate, in deepest abasement, with her
'browion the altar steps.
* 5 *
An hour later Atigele
,had made
her full confession to Henri de Gar
deroy, and he lifted up his hands to
give her episcopal abSolutiOn. Then
of a sudden he took off his mitre and
laid it at. her feet, saying, in a tone
of unimaginable - energy :• And now
I have to make my. confession to
you, Angele. Listen to me, and I
will tell you whatl have told no liv
ing creature before.',
'No.; you are, going to accuse
yourself 'falsely,' cried Arigele, start
ing back in terror at the expression
on his countenance; tell me only
the truth, Henri, once and for ; . all ;
let us have no secrets.'•
There shall be no secrets,' replied
the Bishop with an amid sob. 4 You
think I am a martyr, Angelo, but in
the -hour of mil trial my fortitude
gave way, and f l trampled on the
Cross wishecirto see you once
again ; I could not. bear to die. Ri
gobert, the publidan, let himself to
be killed ; I, the! Bishop, recanted. I
defiled the crucifix, and escaped with
my life because my peiSeeutors des
pised nle. What, do you say to that ?'
How you must have loved me P
exclaimed Apgele, thrilling all over.
'Yes, I did love you . and I do,'
murmured the Bishop. still 'on -his
knees;' but now tell me what I am
to do, for I know not?' .
'Love me to the end,' said Angele,
' but with a better and purer love
than before. Love my children . and
husband, and remain among. us to
preach to Us the, -sad trials of - the
weak, and:the hopes that remain to
them when they have been tried
above their strength:'
I could have no peace, Angele,'
said the Bishop with a desparing
groan, if I had thought that you
continued to think of me as better
than I am. Your husband is a no
bler, honester man than I, and I wish'
you to feel it.' - •
4 I love you better than ever,' an
swered Angele clasping liar hands,
but our love can be that of a .sister
and brother. Is your conscience
clear now ?'
4 -Not'yet, till I have confessed to
the Superior.of the Franciscans, and
to all others who have looked upon
me as a. hero. I must confess my in
famy. everywhere.' .
No,' replied: Angele ecstatically,
' you must not cause scandal in the
ChurCh. You have Confessed to me,
let that be enough. So bear yourself
in future that you shall have nothing
more to confess„„ 'give you absolu
tion' "
And the woman laid her forgiving
hands On thel head of the kneeling
Cornhill. •
. - • V
SVAno' aro tired. ,
OFT of season—An empty spice. box.
THE retired star is always an ex-acting
creature.
A LOVER is like a tug-boat when .he
goes out with a toe.
"Loos lighimm labor," as the man said
when he saw his Wife doing his- work for
him.
WIJEN a man applies for a situation as
a policeman, it is supposed be bas a taste
for a club life,
Ox a child being told that ho niust be
broken of a bad habit, be replied, "Papa,
hadn't 1 better be Pleaded?"
BOuu financial 4*,reEs—When you bare
not - got money eitZugh to buy ointment
for a wound. -
A. CANAL differs from most things in
one respect—it is alwilys filled before it is
opened. • • -
SPEAKING of COll2 planters, .Jones says
be has a pair of new boots that he w
put against , the world.
Trt posts ahordd be set out firmly. - -A
great deal may binge upon them as your
gals grow up. -
CM
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•
=EI
OM
THE PARABLX OF THE 'WEDDINO OAR
SIENT-ACCOADINO TO TUE
RE-REVISED EDITION., -
The kingdom of heaven is like a
certain, railroad king who made [a
marriage for his son:
And sent forth his servants to call
them that were bidden to the, wed
ding, and they would not come..'
Again he sent forth other servants,
saying, tell them which are bidden ;
behold I have killed the old hen, and
prepared the wedding dinner and
opened a keg of nails, and all things
are ready for the blowout.
But they made light of it, and went
their,ays, one to his farm, another
to Ilia drug store, and another to his
grist mill, and the remainder took
the servants and entreated them
spitefully and put a tin car on them
and frescoed them with Michael An
gelo eggs. ,
_ .
But when the railroad kink heard
of it, he bounced the entire outfit and
shut off on their passes and raised.
their freight tariff and 'busted them
up in their business, and smote them
sore on: the gable end of their intel
lects and made it red-hot for them.
• Then said ,he to his servants; the
wedding is ready but they which
were bidden were not worthy.
Go ye thtrefOre down to the side
tracks and into the roundhouses and
the watertanks and cabooses and the
gravel trains and 'gather together 'as
many as . ye shall find. and all them
to come 'over to the wedding feast'
and fill themselves up.
And the servants went feel' and
rounded .up as many.as they could
find, both bad and, good, and 'bade!
them to the feast.',' .
And when the king went .to the
reception - room he found there a man
wholiad not ona,' spike-tail coat and
low-necked sloes and clocked socks.
And he saith unto him, "I,'ardner,
how cometh it thaC thou art • here
Without . any store_ clothes 9n, and
wearing instead fe Been duster and
•
,dim-crow raiment generally ?"
And the man was at
first, but lie answeica yet again i •
"0, railroad kite live forever. I
know that lam here without a wed
ding garment ;- ink behold] I am a
conductor on thy liiie, and _have re-.
formed and have ceased 'knock
down,' and behold :Air seyvant is
p9or,.forhe Is trying to, live on- his
salary." • _
And the king was very 'wroth, and
he took the
.usher to to= gather him in
and to take him by the slack of his
raiment and to '.cast him over the
outer wall, and there was weeping
and gnashing of teeth.
made
while the Weddifig_guests
made ready and whooped it up,. the.
man who was cast out did steal
around to the back door and become
solid with the cook, and
up with, the wedding feast oh the side.
And ~ it came to pass that when he
had eaten of the flitted calf and the
wedding cake 4nd absorbed all the
champagne that, he could carry away
he crawled into a haymow and slept
till the cock crew. '
. And when the morning was come
ie journeyed over the railroad track
oward Salt Lake, for he was a tramp.
Surratt Not Acquitted.
Hon. 'Edwards Pierrepont writes
to the New.Tork Tribune as folloWs:
Various joUrnals in discussing the
propriety of surrendering Hartman
to the Russian goxternment,• stated
-that John H. Surratt was. giv'en• up
'the United States :without an extra
ilition treaty, and that on trial he
was . acquitted. He was not acquitted.
The trial commenced early in June,
and on the 10th -,of August, J 867, the
twelve jurors addressed the following
to Judges Fisher, who presided 'at thetrial.
,
,
Sin The . jtiry in the ease of the
tnited States vs. John H. Surratt
most respectfully state that they
stand preeiselfnOw as when they
first ballotedupon entering the room,
nearly equallq divided ; and 'they are
firmly convinced that they cannot
possibly make a verdict. We deemi
it our duty to the court, to the coun
try, and in view of the condition of
our. private
. affairp- and situation of
our families, and inrview of the fact
that the health of several of our
number is
~becoming seriously im
paired Ander the protracted confine.
went, to make this statement, and to
ask yqur honor to dismiss us at once.
Most respectfqßy submitted.
Each of thvelve signed the pa
per, and they were discharged: Long
after, Surratt teas set at liberty, but
he never 'was acquitted by the jury.
New Way of Sending Money by
- Mail.. •
Postmaster General James,. it is
said; has devised a plan for sending.
small sums of money through the
mats at a cheap rate. The device
consists of a bard having three col
umns representing dollars and cents,
and the amount to be drawn is desig
nated by 'punching ont.figures. Two
denominations will be issued, one for
all sums within $2. _ 50 and the other
for sums within $5. The orders will
be payable to bearer, and the post
office will not be responsible for their
safe delivery any more than for frac
tional currency, for which they are
a substitute. The orders will be
finely printed on bank note. The
postmaster, will sell the $2.50 card
for two or three cents premium, the
$5 card for four or five cents premium,
and will himself punch out the amount
paid, the buyer will simply enclose
the card in his letter, and the receiv
er can -cash it at any office. The
postmaster will - enter the amount of
the order on. a stub, which will be
the only check the department will
need, as the name of the sender and
payee arc not entered. In order to
prevent the'use of the postal cards as
currency they are to be redeemable
only for three months from the date
of issue. •
"Mv watch is a perfect treasure," ;°" 'said.
A. the other day. 'lt never varies a sec-
Isid." "It must be like my theimeme
,., "That never_ varies li t earrt; -!3
Funkelnagelnyebilder
r=
$l.OO per Annum In. Advance.
• GENTLE 'NFLI.TENCES. _
•
Violets, in the leafiest shade, •
By their odors are betrayed ;
Soft winds, over flower fields blown,
By- their fragrant breath ale known ;
Dow, b' freshened, leaves confessed,
Wets unseen earth's slumbering breast ;
Bills, Dom out the bleak I,iiiside,
Swell to rivers,' - deep and wide; .
Rivers, Sowing fast and free,_ ,
Widen to the boundless-sea.
MI great things that move the earth •
To gentle issues owe their birthi
And soft influence still Wheat,
bringing comfort, love and rest. - '
Sweet domestic love is strong—
Leads to right and warns from wrong ;
Kinder whispers mightier prove, .
And to loftier action move,
Thanfho fretful voice of :worn, --
Of contempt and anger born.
G7iarubere' Journal.
•
DOT FRITZEY.
kin saw you, you ship leedloraskel,
A keeklit' ad me drough dat chair:
Como here rigbd away - now urntAiss me—
You doughd I don'd know you vas dere,
You all der dime hide from your fader,
u , ll4bbone ho eared ea* tnit his eyes ;
Yon-vas goin' to' fool tni—eb,.Fritzey—
ind.gare me a grade bigekirlalte"?
Dot boy vas a recklar menkgey—
Dere vas boding 50 high he dined climb ;
Urid ble mndderaho says &dills droners
\rants new bosoms In dem all dero dime.
lie vas shmard, dough, dot same leedle
Unit he slugs all der vlle.ltke a lark, - •
Fro: , vonee ho glds up In der maratn',
DIII ve drofe him to lied arde,r dart.
les der blsslekt.von In dere famly,
Und I hed you dor louder he sings •
fe as raisin' dickens [nit s , nie von—
' Ile vas up do all manner of lugs,
Ir vas heck In' away, dot young raskel, •
Dr , ough de shalr—holy closes: sot's dot?
tut yeung eon-of-a-dun mid aseeesors
Is cut all der dall elf der cat' •
GR , fty fn Sew Turk Te/Fgrostn:
Comets and their Tails.
BY PUCK'S OWN P. ROCTOR
The hypothesis' held by- astrono
mers in the early ages that a comet
traversing the heavens' was simply
the dog-star-with an ignited coal-oil
torch appended to its tail, as plausi
ble its it appeared, was exploded in
the latter part Of the fifteenth eentu+
ry.- Since then the study of. the
heavens has become so simplified,
and carried to such a degree of per
fection, that in our day, when a curv
et makes its appearance, no two is.
tronomeri entertain •the same opin
ion in. regard to • the
. : composition of
its, tail, albeit they may not vary
more than ten millions of miles as to
its length. To the•.unclothed- eye s
the tail of a comet may not appear
more than thirty feet in length, when
in reality , W its more than thirty . Mil
lions of miles long.. This, however,
is' not aslniarvellous as if it looked
to be move-than; thirty millions_Of
miles limo. tO the naked vision, and
was really only thirty_ feet in length.
In ancient-times the appearance of
a comet was reglrdell as a forerun+
ner Otsome great calamity;
perstitioni belinveitthat it berated a-
National Greenback victory, an erup
tion of another English .comic opera
company, an international walking
match, Or some other dire
-. event;
but, in 'this, enlightened age, these
erratic monsters (11t.lie: heavens cre
ate no other alarni than 'to impel
weak-Minded people to commit' sui
cide to escaPe an 'imagined catastro
phe; and thus 'lighten the labors of
the fool:killer. This illustiation'f
, o
the rapid 'progress of science is very
encouraging. . - •
By a singular coincidence, some.of
the most sanguinary - wars of ancient
and modern times have been 'preced
ed•by ar-flaming'-comet in - the Skies,
and the inference -is irtesistiblei that.
if the Ainerican - Peace Society" - ,
whOie members are engaged in the
commendable work of establishing
white;winged Peace throughout the .
'Length and breadth of the- land, -were
to adopt-measures to abolish comets-,
from the firmament; or at least 'to
'prevent their from appearing to the
people of 'out' world, the, grand object
of their endeaVors Would be 'nelfiev- 1
ect: To. bring such a laudable under
taking to a successful: fruition would:
entail a vast amount of. labor, but
not 'as much, certainly, as to accom
plish the same end' by the means the
Society is now employing.
It-, was. a debatable question -with
some of the ancient scientists wheth
er a comet's tail was provided with
-hair, the same as' a 'fkig's. Those
who accepted the theory that the tail
was as ho as
molten metal,. argued
ii ,
that such -a degree of - heat would
singe all the hair off of the most
healthy tail: in existence.: ' . Vhis be
lief has-become quite general. - . , .
.. - Frequently a comet appears very
unexpectedly to astronomers, ; . and
they fail to recognize it, owing. to
i dle . fact' that its first discoverer forgot
' to put his trade-mark on it,
~,or en
grave his initials on its
~bael:,, or it
may . thOughtlessjy have perinitted
itself to be born without a strawber
ry-mark on its left arm..
Thousands of tailless comets arc
floating through space,- - and occasion
ally one is semi - With the aid of a tel i ,
scope ; but, as a general rule, a com
et without a tail is a disreputable af
fair, and is ashamed to show itself to
the naked eye. if it = undertook - 'to
play " u " star " engawnent, it
wouldn't draw a paying house once `a
week, and would be unable" to liqul-,
date its printinebills.
Professor Slow, who has. devoted
years to the study of comets, ,and
never goes gunnin g for 'em without
coming home withhis game•bag full,
asserts that if a' comet's tail weigh
ing 23,000,000,000 tons, and trav4-
fug at the rate of 200,000 miles an
hour. were to hit a man- alongside of
the head, he would never know it!
If a man was struck with a feather,
he wouldn't know it, either;. but the
tax collector would still know where
to find him. This , is the advantage
of being struck by i 4 comet.
In ,the middle ages comets assum
ed startling shapes. We are told
that they appeared as swords of fire
bl"ooc v. crbsses,.dragons, fish, uplift,:
ed arms wielding ponderous swords,
eic.,,thus proving that the whisky
tnanufadurecl in those days was
frightfully adulterated and copiously
imbibed.
The very ginerally accepted then •
ry that comets
,have no influence on
things here below is_ net altogether
in 'accordance with the facts. For
NUMBER 13
instance r whetykeomet is a'
nent object in the sky hundri,
men go home at midnight, - or
with their legibending and totte 6
under the heavy load of "hies "with
which their speech is laden, snit the
only eiplanatipri they • vouchsafe
their wives is the scientific one that
they have been making a" spettro
spopic analysis - of the comet's spec
trum. • •
And. itespect-rum has something,
to do with it.. -
Some aientan't look at a comet
through a glass fifteen, minutes with- -
out their voices becoming thickly in-
terpolatel with "hies," and whether
this influence is due to the nucleus
or .
.t 6 . the 4oldcleus - Thas never been
fully determined ; but Professor Hux
ley, in his exhaustive and exhausting
work on "Nuclei and Nodes," vol.
xxxii, p. 8643 says ord;ri is in a large
measure responsibly for the phenom
enon. - - '
It is .a well-known fact • that if a.
cornet's head wag to be amputated
from its tail, the latter would con
tinue to move through space as If
nothing had happened: . The head,
instead of 'returning, and hitching - on
to its severed.appendage ' would com
mence to growout another tail, But
the abandoned tail would not grow
another head. This is one of the
rules that won't work both ways.
All scientists . agree that it is - easier
to say what a "comet's tin is
,irot,
than.what itis ; hence it iasafe to as
sume that it is not compokd of soda
water, socialists' speeches, beer and
.other gaseonS vaporinga; Albeit, itg
composition is believed to be,-..ex
tternely thin.
It is customary to begtow upon a
comet the name of its discoverer—as
Donati's comet, Halley's comet, etc.
—therefore, when the comet of—l
;--which was simultaneously diseciv - -
ered by policemen, newspaper repor
ters, boot-blacks, scientists and at
least seventeen hundied other p‘.,r
sons—returns in nineteen hundred
and something, it, will require one
entire page of a - newspaper to name
it, but paragraphers will refer to
simply ; as the " Policeman-Smith-He
porter-Jones.et.-al. C'omet."
In summing up, then, we may,
without fear of
. contradiction - , - affirm
a
that the tail.of comet, ifnot
form
ed of the cotuposition indicated—or,
rather,lf it is composed of 'matter of
whi3ll we are not cognizant—appear
ing as a straw-colored_aarter in the
heayens,.foreshortened at the voltaic
arc, the nucleus traveling In con
juction with its coma in their hyper
bolic orbits, missing its elliptic sec
tions, with rising barometer, winds
veering asst by northeast; and -its
conical tail 100 Ia above zercf;: - esti
mating th 4 ration of repulsioi Nifilte.
reaching its perhelion equivalent - to
the velocity of-its coma and scrni•co:
lon, and the—the—er---the, so to
speak, Medulla iihlongatti computed
from the basis of its axis,—thei,i, -. of
course, as the . ..reader must see, the .
compass of Its nebular . d iminishes in
luminosity, and becomes homogene- .
ons after its pOlarization Jias, attain
ed its—its—er—the, as it were, focus
of its orbit; and if; untli.r these anal
ogous conditions, the tail :sere to hit
our earth, it! would biist its crust.
o.r words Ito thateffect;
Much iir6ke mightbe "
said on ~ t he
tAil of a comet—if me could_ only get
on the tail of a comet to say 4.-1.
11. lir. fir
The Next Transit of Venus Over
• the Sun's Rays.
The next transit of Vents over the
sun's surface will occur en the-sixth
day of December, 1882, the
. last t - ine .
rp.:ving - necurred December 9th, Is 7-1.
At that time extensive preparations
were Blade all ; over the world, and
expeditions were sent - to, the most
distant parts of Africa and America
in order to. test fully the improved
instrunientsAlch the ingenuity of:
modern scientists have devised.
On - this account the transit of the.
comity , year iS doubly impOrtant-L , _
first, because the questions which the
application Of new instruments gave
rise to, all miscalculations or indi
vidual differences of .observations
among the '-astronomers - who tool;
part,-will be verified anti set at rest;
and, Secondly,leeause anot . er tran•A
it of this kind will not take - place for
a period of one hundred and twenty
years, when the most: incipient as
tronomer Of our day will have been
forgOtien.
The queStion which is. still in
doubt, and. which the transit of. ISPi2
can (Ye far:toward settling, is the ex
act ' c' distance -from the sun to the
earth=an uncertainty which at pres
ent hinders all exact calculations;
Concerning the. magnitude- of the
' whole polar system. • :-- -
The first transits of Venn& which
were obseryed Were those -of ,- 1631
and 1839, neither of which contribu
ted anything to science. That of
17g1, the next in order, gave no val ;
cable data, an(l its successor
although it-elicited more serious at- ,
tention,kft the precise value of the
parallax in doubt even at the time of
the last observations on Deceinber
the 9th, 1874.
Then the event attracted universal
attention ; scienti fie olners'o,tions were
made at.-varichis points as! far North
and South as possible, and many val
uable data were collected, which
awaits the ; only positive proof) that
can be given the& during this or the.
coming century. For the following
.year still ; more extensive - . prepara
tions are inakin(7, and there is every!
prospect now that the scientific re
sults then to be obtained will settle
all matters now in dispute-or •-dOubt.
Fun, Fact and Facetim.
.. .
,
Tnr. man who can't be angry . is 4 (oni;
the Map who will not allo* himself to be,
is"wise. . . .
Sou one has said that parks aro the
Ireathing places of a city. No one bas
said that parks are the sparking places of
a city. .
"WuEN yesterday r i a - sked you, love,
one little word - to say, your brother inter
ruptid us ; Eo.please say yes-ter-day."
A woltas requested her husband nut
to associate with a certain man who wits
a hard' drinker. " Why," ho exclaimed,
"he's my boosc'm friend." •
A.N Irishman who had been found guil-,
ty of trealing coffee, was asked by thn—
mag'str :to what he did with' it. "Made
tay wii.o it," was the Hibernian's reply.
AN exchange says that "the coming
girl is to be prettier than the one we now
have." Impossible; there can,bo no im
provement upon•the original article.
A. Ritentox exchange says thit small os
trich feathers trim the new hate That's
a blessing. We've always been cOmpelied
to pay the milliner for trimming.thein.
-Truly this is a progressive age - .
...TnE best runs for poultry are *here
grass and gravel aro plentiful., Grass
runs are of -great value where they can
be had, but they roc* • be . large if fowls
have constant access to them or lite grass
will soon cease to grow.
A LONDON servant girl is repniented as
saying : "thud weather, indeed, sir. ' I
wish the Lold would the weather
in his own hands again, initedd of trust
in.., it to them. Yankeo probability men:
We Might get then s , .•inethigl . tit to live
in:" .
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