She made great efforts to remember all the king's wise thoughts, and

kept repeating his good laws over and over again to herself as she went

along. She was now back again in her own country, and the first person

she met was a very miserable-looking old woman who lived in a little mud

hovel in a forest, and supported herself wretchedly by gathering a few

sticks for sale. She was so weak, and so often ill that she could not

earn much, and she was dreadfully lonely, as all her children were dead

but one; and that one, a brave son whom she loved dearly, had gone away

across the world in hope of making money for her. He had never come

back, and she feared that he too was dead. Pet did not know these

things, of course, until she had formed her wish and was living in the

old woman.

This was the saddest existence that Pet had experienced yet, and she

felt very anxious for the month to pass away. After the happiness she

had enjoyed in Silver-country, the excessive hardship and loneliness of

the old woman's life seemed very hard to bear. All day long she wandered

about the woods, picking up sticks and tying them in little bundles,

and, perhaps, in the end she would only receive a penny for the work of

her day. Some days she could not leave her hut, and would lie there

alone without anything to eat.

"Oh, my son, my dear son!" she would cry, "where are you now, and will

you ever come back to me?"

Pet watched her clock very eagerly, longing for the month to come to an

end; but the clock still kept going and going, as if it never meant to

stop. For a good while Pet thought that it was only because of her

unhappiness and impatience that the time seemed so long, but at last she

discovered to her horror that her key was lost!

All her searches for it proved vain. It was quite evident that the key

must have dropped through a hole in the old woman's tattered pocket, and

fallen somewhere among the heaps of dried leaves, or into the wilderness

of the brushwood of the forest.

"Tick, tick! tick, tick!" went that unmerciful clock from its perch on

the wall, all through the long days and nights, and poor Pet was in

despair at the thought of living locked up in the old woman all her

life. Now, indeed, she could groan most heartily when the old woman

groaned, and shed bitter tears which rolled plentifully down the old

woman's wrinkled cheeks and over her nose.

"Oh, Time, Time, my friend!" she thought, "will you not come to my

assistance?"

But though Time fully intended to stand her friend all through her

troubles, still he did not choose to help her at that particular moment.

And so days, weeks and months went past; and then the years began to go

over, and Pet was still locked up in the miserable old woman.

Seven years had passed away and Pet had become in some degree reconciled

to her sorrowful existence. She wandered about the forest picking up her

sticks, and trying to cheer herself up a little by gathering bouquets of

the pretty forest flowers. People passing by often saw the sad figure,

all in gray hair and tatters, sitting on a trunk of a fallen tree,

wailing and moaning, and, of course, they thought it was altogether the

poor old woman lamenting for her son. They never thought of its being

also Pet, bewailing her dreary imprisonment.

One fine spring morning she went out as usual to pick her sticks, and

looking up from her work, she saw suddenly a beautiful, noble-looking

young figure on horseback spring up in a distant glade of violets, and

come riding towards her as if out of a dream. As the youth came near she

recognized his bright blue eyes and his silver mantle, and she said to

herself:

"Oh! I declare, it is the young Prince of Silver-country; only he has

grown so tall! He has been growing all these years, and is quite a young

man. And I ought to have been growing too; but I am left behind, only a

child still: if, indeed, I ever come to stop being an old woman!"

"Will you tell me, my good woman," said the young prince, "if you have

heard of any person who has lost a little gold key in this forest. I

have found--"

Pet screamed with delight at these words.

"Oh, give it to me, give it to me!" she implored. "It is mine! It is

mine!"

The prince gave it to her, and no sooner did it touch her hand than the

clock ran down, and Pet was released from her imprisonment in the old

woman. Instantly the young prince saw before him a lovely young maiden

of his own age, for Pet had really been growing all the time though she

had not known it. The old woman also stared in amazement, not knowing

where the lady could have come from, and the prince begged Pet to tell

him who she was, and how she had come there so suddenly. Then all three,

the prince, Pet, and the old woman, sat upon the trunk of a tree while

Pet related the story of her life and its adventures.

The old woman was so frightened at the thought that another person had

been living in her for seven years that she got quite ill; however, the

prince made her a present of a bright gold coin, and this helped to

restore her peace of mind.

"And so you lived a whole month among us and we never knew you?" cried

the prince, in astonishment and delight. "Oh, I hope we shall never part

again, now that we have met!"

"I hope we shan't!" said Pet; "and won't you come home with me now and

settle with my Government? for I am dreadfully afraid of it."

So he lifted Pet up on his horse, and she sat behind him; then they bade

good-by to the old woman, promising not to forget her, and rode off

through the forests and over the fields to the palace of the kings and

queens of Goldenlands.

Oh, dear, how delighted the people were to see their little queen coming

home again. The Government had been behaving dreadfully all this long

time, and had been most unkind to the kingdom. Everybody knew it was

really Pet, because she had grown so like her mother, whom they had all

loved; and besides they quite expected to see her coming, as messengers

had been sent into all the corners of the world searching for her. As

these messengers had been gone about eight or nine years, the people

thought it was high time for Queen Pet to appear. The cruel Government,

however, was in a great fright, as it had counted on being allowed to go

on reigning for many years longer, and it ran away in a hurry out of the

back door of the palace, and escaped to the other side of the world;

where, as nobody knew anything of its bad ways, it was able to begin

life over again under a new name.

Just at the same moment a fresh excitement broke out among the joyful

people when it was known that thirty-five of the queen's royal names,

lost on the day of her christening, had been found at last. And where do

you think they were found? One had dropped into a far corner of the

waistcoat pocket of the old clerk, who had been so busy saying "Amen,"

that he had not noticed the accident. Only yesterday, while making a

strict search for a small morsel of tobacco to replenish his pipe, had

he discovered the precious name. Twenty-five more of the names had

rolled into a mouse-hole, where they had lain snugly hidden among

generations of young mice ever since; six had been carried off by a most

audacious sparrow who had built his nest in the rafters of the

church-roof; and none of these thirty-one names would ever have seen the

light again only that repairs and decorations were getting made in the

old building for the coronation of the queen. Last of all, four names

were brought to the palace by young girls of the village, whose mothers

had stolen them through vanity on the day of the christening, thinking

they would be pretty for their own little babes. The girls being now

grown up had sense enough to know that such finery was not becoming to

their station; and, besides, they did not see the fun of having names

which they were obliged to keep secret. So Nancy, Polly, Betsy, and Jane

(the names they had now chosen instead) brought back their stolen goods

and restored them to the queen's own hand. The fate of the remaining

names still remains a mystery.

Now, I daresay, you are wondering what these curious names could have

been; all I can tell you about them is, that they were very long and

grand, and hard to pronounce; for, if I were to write them down here for

you, they would cover a great many pages, and interrupt the story quite

too much. At all events, they did very well for a queen to be crowned

by; but I can assure you that nobody who loved the little royal lady

ever called her anything but Pet.

Well, after this, Pet and the Prince of Silver-country put their heads

together, and made such beautiful laws that poverty and sorrow vanished

immediately out of Goldenlands. All the people in whom Pet had lived

were brought to dwell near the palace, and were made joyous and

comfortable for the rest of their lives. A special honor was conferred

on the families of the spiders and the butterfly, who had so

good-naturedly come to the assistance of the little queen. The old gowns

were taken out of the wardrobe and given to those who needed them; and

very much delighted they were to see the light again, though some of the

poor things had suffered sadly from the moths since the day when they

had made their complaint to Pet. Full occupation was given to the money

and the bread-basket; and, in fact, there was not a speck of discontent

to be found in the whole kingdom.

This being so, there was now leisure for the great festival of the

marriage and coronation of Queen Pet and the Prince. Such a magnificent

festival never was heard of before. All the crowned heads of the world

were present, and among them appeared Pet's old friend Time, dressed up

so that she scarcely knew him, with a splendid embroidered mantle

covering his poor bare bones.

"Ah," he said to Pet, "you were near destroying all our plans by your

carelessness in losing the key! However, I managed to get you out of the

scrape. See now that you prove a good, obedient wife, and a loving

mother to all your people, and, if you do, be sure I shall always remain

your friend, and get you safely out of all your troubles."

"Oh, thank you!" said Pet; "you have, indeed, been a good friend to me.

But--I never found that jewel that you bid me look for. I quite forgot

about it!"

"I am having it set in your Majesty's crown," said Time, with a low bow.

Then the rejoicings began; and between ringing of bells, cheering,

singing, and clapping of hands, there was such an uproarious din of

delight in Goldenlands that I had to put my fingers in my ears and run

away! I am very glad, however, that I stayed long enough to pick up this

story for you; and I hope that my young friends will

"Never forget

Little Queen Pet,

Who was kind to all

The poor people she met!"

ROSA MULHOLLAND.

IN THE SNOW.

Brave little robins,

Cheerily singing,

Fear not the snow-storms

Winter is bringing.

Each to the other

Music is making,

Courage and comfort

Giving and taking.

"What," cries Cock Robin,

"Matters the weather,

Since we can always

Bear it together?"

"Sweet," his mate answers,

Ever brave-hearted,

"None need be pitied

Till they are parted."

On the other side of the Atlantic, the little boys used not to celebrate

Christmas by blowing unmelodious horns. They would assemble in gangs

before their elder friends, and sing such Christmas Carols as the

following, which seldom failed to bring the coveted Christmas gift:

"God save you, merry gentlemen,

Let nothing you dismay,

For Christ Our Lord and Saviour

Was born on Christmas Day."

A LITTLE BOY'S GREETING.

Behold a very little boy

Who wishes to you here,

In simple words of heartfelt joy

A happy, bright New Year.

May heaven grant your days increase

With joys ne'er known before;

In simple words of heartfelt joy

To-day and ever more.

BOYS READ THIS.

Many people seem to forget that character grows; that it is not

something to put on ready made with womanhood or manhood; day by day,

here a little and there a little, grows with the growth, and strengthens

with the strength, until, good or bad, it becomes almost a coat of mail.

Look at a man of business--prompt, reliable, conscientious, yet

clear-headed and energetic. When do you suppose he developed all those

admirable qualities? When he was a boy. Let us see how a boy of ten

years gets up in the morning, works, plays, studies, and we will tell

you just what kind of a man he will make. The boy that is late at

breakfast, late at school, stands a poor chance of being a prompt man.

The boy who neglects his duties, be they ever so small, and then excuses

himself by saying, "I forgot; I didn't think!" will never be a reliable

man; and the boy who finds a pleasure in the suffering of weaker things

will never become a noble, generous, kind man--a gentleman.

HOUSE KNOWLEDGE FOR BOYS.

The Governor of Massachusetts, in an address before the Worcester

Technical School, June 25th, said some words that are worthy of noting.

He said: "I thank my mother that she taught me both to sew and to knit.

Although my domestic life has always been felicitous, I have, at times,

found this knowledge very convenient. A man who knows how to do these

things, at all times honorable and sometimes absolutely necessary to

preserve one's integrity, is ten times more patient when calamity

befalls than one who has not these accomplishments."

A commendation of "girls' work" from such an authority emboldens the

writer to add a word in favor of teaching boys how to do work that may

be a relief to a nervous, sick, worried, and overworked mother or wife,

and be of important and instant use in emergencies. A hungry man who

cannot prepare his food, a dirty man who cannot clean his clothes, a

dilapidated man who is compelled to use a shingle nail for a sewed-on

button, is a helpless and pitiable object. There are occasions in almost

every man's life when to know how to cook, to sew, to "keep the house,"

to wash, starch, and iron, would be valuable knowledge. Such knowledge

is no more unmasculine and effeminate than that of the professional

baker.

"During the great Civil War, the forethought of my mother in teaching me

the mysteries of household work was a 'sweet boon,' as the late Artemus

Ward would say. The scant products of foraging when on the march could

be turned to appetizing food by means of the knowledge acquired in

boyhood, and a handy use of needle and thread was a valuable

accomplishment."

Circumstances of peculiar privation compelled the writer, as head of a

helpless family, to undertake the entire work. The instruction of

boyhood enabled him to cook, wash, starch, iron, wait on the sick, and

do the necessary menial labor of the house in a measurably cleanly and

quiet manner. This knowledge is in no way derogatory to the assumptive

superiority of the male portion of humanity; a boy who knows how to

sweep, to "tidy up," to make a bed, to wash dishes, to set a table, to

cook, to sew, to knit, to mend, to wait on the sick, to do chamber work,

is none the less a boy; and he may be a more considerate husband, and

will certainly be a more independent bachelor, than without this

practical knowledge. Let the boys be taught housework; it is better than

playing "seven up" in a saloon.

THE BEAN KING.

In the year 1830, the feast of the Epiphany was celebrated at the court

of Charles X., according to the old Catholic custom. For the last time

under the reign of this monarch one of these ceremonies was that a cake

should be offered to the assembled guests, in which a bean had been

concealed, and whoever found that he had taken the piece containing the

bean was called the bean-king, and had to choose a queen. Besides the

king, there were several members of both lines of the house of Bourbon

at the table. The Duke of Aumale distributed the cake. All at once the

Duke de Chartres called out:

"The Duke of Bordeaux (Chambord) is king."

"Why did you not say so, Henry?" the Duchess de Berry asked her son.

"Because I was sorry to be more fortunate than the others," replied the

prince.

The little king chose his aunt, the Duchess of Orleans, for his queen of

the day.

The accession of the little king was made known to the people without,

and shouts of joy filled the streets of Paris. Charles X. was well

pleased, and asked many questions of the little Duke de Bordeaux, the

answers from a boy of ten years old already showing his noble character.

"As you are now a king, Henry, which of your predecessors do you propose

to imitate?"

"I will be good like you, grandpapa, firm like Henry IV., and mighty

like Louis XIV.," replied Henry, after some consideration.

"And whom would you name as your prime-minister?" asked the king again.

"The one who flattered me least."

"And for your private adviser?"

"The one who always tells me the truth--the Baron von Damas."

"Very good, Henry," interposed his mother, "but what would you ask of

God in order that you might be able to reign well?"

"Mamma, for firmness and justice."

Providence has not willed that the Duke de Chambord should realize the

ideas of the Bean king; but for the whole of his life he remained true

to the promise of his youth.

GO TO WORK, YOUNG MAN!

The present age seems to be very prolific in the production of numbers

of young men who have somehow or other, educated themselves up to the

belief that they were created to make their living by doing nothing.

Every city, town, and village in the land is filled to overflowing with

young men who are idle--hunting clerkships, or some place where they

hope to obtain a living without work. Numbers are hanging around, living

from hand to mouth, living upon some friend, waiting for a vacancy in

some overcrowded store; and, when a vacancy occurs, offering to work for

a salary that would cause a shrewd business man to suspect their

honesty; and when remonstrated with by friends, and advised to go to

work, they invariably answer, "I don't know what to do."

We would say to these who want to know what to do, go to work. There is

work enough to do by which you can earn an honest living and gain the

respect of all those whose respect is worth seeking. Quit loafing about,

waiting and looking for a clerkship in a store with a wheelbarrow-load

of goods. Get out into the country on a farm, and go to work. What to

do? Why, in the Mississippi bottoms there are thousands of acres of

virgin growth awaiting the stroke of the hardy axe-man, and thousands of

acres of tillable-land that need only the work of the sturdy plowman to

yield its treasures, richer far than the mines of the Black Hills; and

yet you say you don't know what to do?

Go to work--go to the woods--go to the fields--and make an honest

living; for we have in our mind's eye numbers of men whose talents are

better suited to picking cotton, than measuring calico; to cutting cord

wood than weighing sugar; to keeping up fencing, than books, and to

hauling rails, than dashing out whiskey by the drink; and we can assure

you that the occupations you are better adapted for are much more

honorable in the eyes of persons whose respect is worth having.

* * * * *

A little girl asked her father one day to taste a most delicious apple.

What remained was ruefully inspected a moment, when she asked: "Do you

know, papa, how I can tell you are big without looking at you?"--"I

cannot say," was the reply. "I can tell by the bite you took out of my

apple," was the crushing reply.

* * * * *

DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE.

BOSTON, FEBRUARY, 1886.

NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS.

The Poles.

We have been taught from our boyhood days to regard the Polish people as

second to none in obedience to their church; except the Irish, they have

suffered more for the Faith than any other peoples in Europe. We are,

therefore, grieved to see in some of our Western cities a spirit of

rebellion unworthy of the sons of De Kalb and Kosciusko. There is

something radically wrong. In the following article, from our esteemed

contemporary, the _Lake Shore Visitor_, published at Erie, Pa., the

editor hints at the causes of the troubles, which, we trust, may be

corrected by the ordinaries of the dioceses where the troubles have

occurred. The _Visitor_ says: The Poles, who seek a living in this

country, are men determined to make times lively in their old country

fashion. In Buffalo, Detroit, and other cities, they have turned out in

fighting trim, and expressed a loud determination to have things

ecclesiastically their own way or perish. These church riots are a

scandal, and, if the truth were known, they have their origin in nine

cases out of ten in the encouragement and conduct of the men who are

placed over these people as pastors. A bad priest can make mischief,

and, generally speaking, a bad priest can not make his condition any

worse by making all the trouble he possibly can. If he knew anything at

all he should know that he can hope to gain nothing by inciting a set of

ignorant people to riot. In Buffalo the fuss had its origin from a

clerical source, and in Detroit a man with an outlandish name, whom the

herd seem to admire, is acting anything but prudently. Perhaps only

one-half of what is sent over the wires can be regarded as true, but

even that would be bad enough. The Poles by their conduct are not making

for themselves an enviable name; and they will soon be regarded, even by

the civil authorities, as a rebellious people. Surely, in this free

country, they can have nothing to complain of. They have all the rights

and privileges that other men have, and if they were sufficiently

sensible to mind their own affairs and take care of themselves, they

would get along quietly, and soon make their influence felt. They cannot

expect a free church, nor can they expect that any priest who is not

what he should be will be allowed to lead them astray. When a bishop

sees fit to make a change, these people should regard the action of the

bishop as a move made in their interests, and should not only be willing

to submit, but even pleased to see that such an interest is taken in

them. When people such as they are, or any other for that matter,

undertake to pronounce on the fitness of a pastor they, as Catholics,

know they are going too far. In their youth they were taught the

Catechism, and that little book certainly tells them whence the approval

must come. The riot in Detroit will not, in all probability, amount to

anything; but the few who were killed or hurt, will rest upon some one's

shoulders as a responsibility, and that load cannot be very suddenly

laid down. Unfortunately, for the poor people, they are not blessed,

generally speaking, with the guidance of the good priests they knew in

their own country, and having too much confidence in every man who

claims to be a priest, they are easily led by the designer. The danger

will pass over in a few years, when the Polish churches will be supplied

with men as priests every way reliable, and men not forced from any

country to seek a livelihood amongst strangers.

The Catholic Mirror.

The _Catholic Mirror_ of Baltimore, Md., is now the leading Catholic

journal of the United States. Its recent achievement in being the first

paper to publish the Pope's Encyclical _Immortale Dei_ was something

remarkable. Its Roman correspondent is a gentleman in the inner circles

of the spiritual authorities of the church, while its Irish

correspondent enjoys the confidence of the National party leaders. Among

its special contributors is numbered Dr. John Gilmary Shea. In all

respects it is a model Catholic newspaper, and it promises further

improvements for this year.

* * * * *

Shortly after we commenced the publication of our MAGAZINE, we received

a similar letter to the following from Mr. P. S. Gilmore. After more

than a quarter of a century's acquaintance, the friendship of our old

friend is as fresh as ever. His congratulations, we assure him, are

cordially reciprocated:

NEW YORK, DEC. 19, 1885.

MY DEAR MR. DONAHOE:--Enclosed please find check for $10.00 which place

to credit for MAGAZINE, and may I have the pleasure of renewing it many,

many times, to which, I am sure, you will say, "Amen," which is equal to

saying, "Long life to both of us." Wishing you a merry Christmas and

many a happy New Year, I remain, dear Mr. Donahoe, always and ever,

Sincerely yours,

P. S. GILMORE.

* * * * *

RT. REV. JAMES A. HEALY, Bishop of Portland, Me., sailed for Europe in

the Allan Steamer Parisian, from Portland, (accompanied by his brother,

Rev. Patrick Healy), on the 31st of December. The brothers will spend

most of the winter in Naples, and will proceed to Rome.

* * * * *

THE LATE FATHER MACDONALD.--We give an extremely interesting article in

our MAGAZINE this month on the life and labors of good Father MacDonald,

lately deceased at Manchester, N. H. The authoress, we learn, is in a

Convent of Mercy in New Orleans.

* * * * *

Fault has been found with the translation of the late Encyclical letter

of the Pope. Why could not arrangements be made in Rome for an

authentic translation of all such documents for the English-speaking

Catholics throughout the world? We are sure the Vatican would furnish

such a translation if requested by the heads of the Church in America,

Australia, etc. Will the _Catholic Mirror_, who has a correspondent in

the Vatican, see that, in the future, we shall have an authorized

translation for the English-speaking Catholics throughout the world?

* * * * *

ST. JOSEPH'S ADVOCATE.--The fourth year commences with the January

number, which, we think, is the best issued. The _Advocate_ is devoted

to a record of mission labor among the colored race. The price is only

25 cents a year. Just send 25 cents to Editor _St. Joseph's Advocate_,

51 Courtland St., Baltimore, Md. Here is a notice from the last issue,

which should encourage every Catholic in the country to subscribe not

only for the _Advocate_, but send donations for the conversion of our

colored brethren. "What thoughtfulness and charity, all things

considered, for the Most Rev. Archbishop of Boston to send ten dollars

to this publication! The gift was, indeed, a surprise, total strangers

as we are personally to his Grace and without any application or

reminder, directly or indirectly, beyond the public appeal in our last,

suggested by similar kindness on the part of two esteemed members of the

Hierarchy! Will not others follow suit? What if our every opinion is not

endorsed, so long as faith and morals are safe in our hands, and

promoted in quarters _never reached before_ by the Catholic press. Let

it be remembered that the sphere in which we move is traversed in every

direction by a non-Catholic press, white and colored, the latter alone

claiming from one hundred to one hundred and thirty periodicals edited

and published by colored men who have naturally a monopoly of their own

market. Is the first Catholic voice ever heard in that chorus to be

hushed when those very men welcome us, quote us, thank us, actually

watch the point of the pen lest it wound Catholic feelings, employ the

most emphatic terms to attest our sincerity as true friends of their

people, and pointing to our episcopal and clerical support, assure their

readers that 'the great Catholic Church' has ever been the friend of the

poor and the oppressed? For all this, thanks to the Catholic spirit in

the _course we have pursued_!"

* * * * *

A CHINESE INDUSTRY.--_New York Tablet:_ It is not alone the Irish and

Americans who are combatting against England's monopoly of the world's

trade. She has met with an enemy in an unexpected quarter. Ah Sin has

struck at one of her staple commodities, and promises to become an

energetic competitor for one of her most flourishing branches of

business. For many years Birmingham was the great depot for the

manufacture of idols for the heathen nations, and thousands of

Englishmen lived on the profits of this trade. Now, we are told, a

Chinaman at Sacramento, California, has established a factory for

manufacturing idols and devils for use in Chinese processions and

temples. If this be true, thousands of workmen will be thrown out of

employment in Christian England.

* * * * *

_The Catholic Columbian:_ If no Catholic has ever yet been elected

President of the United States, the widow of one President, Mrs. Polk,

is a convert, and three cabinet officers were Catholics: James Campbell,

Postmaster General from 1853 to 1857; Roger B. Taney, Attorney General

and Secretary of the Treasury, from 1831 to 1834: and James M.

Schofield, Secretary of War, from 1868 to 1869.

* * * * *

This year, Easter Sunday falls upon St. Mark's Day, April 25th,--which

is its latest possible date. The last time this occurred was in 1736

(old style), and it will not fall again on the same day of April until

1943.

* * * * *

Mr. Parnell considers William O'Brien's victory in South Tyrone, and T.

M. Healy's conquest of South Londonderry, the two greatest personal

triumphs of the Irish parliamentary campaign.

* * * * *

_Chicago Citizen:_ It is officially announced by Mr. Alexander Sullivan

that the Hon. Richard J. Oglesby, governor of Illinois, has accepted the

invitation to preside at the monster meeting to be held in the

Exposition Building on the occasion of Mr. Parnell's visit to this city.

The date is set for January 21. By a unanimous vote of the committee of

arrangements it was decided that no resident of the city of Chicago

would speak at that meeting. All the honors will be given, as they ought

to be, to the governor of the State, the Irish leader and his

lieutenants, and to distinguished Irish-Americans from outside cities as

may desire to address the people of Chicago.

* * * * *

PRIESTS IN POLITICS.--_Montreal True Witness:_ There are those who

object, with all generosity, to the clergy taking part in political

movements. There could be no more illogical cry. It has been the too

great severance of religion from the affairs of the public that has

enabled so many unfit persons to obtain parliamentary election and

tended to degrade politics. These people go to make laws affecting

morality, education, and the conditions of social existence too often

without the slightest fitness for that great duty and task. The clergy

are the spiritual guides of the people, the custodians of the most

important influences which affect humanity. To say that they should

abstain from endeavoring to affect administration in a beneficial

manner, is to say not only that they should de-citizenize themselves,

but that they should violate their pledges and abandon their sworn duty.

Those who think the clergy are not doing honor to their office by

participating in politics take a very narrow view of the case. Without,

perhaps, intending to do so, they play into the hands and promote the

ends of those conspirators who are endeavoring to destroy Christianity

and the moral system based upon it.

* * * * *

In reply to a letter, calling Cardinal Newman's attention to the recent

revival of the vigorous old lie which attributes to him the statement

that he regarded the Established Church as the great bulwark against

atheism in England, his Eminence has written as follows: My dear ----.

Thank you for your letter. I know by experience how difficult it is,

when once a statement gets into the papers, to get it out of them. What

more can I do than deny it? And this I have done. I always refer

inquirers to what I have said in my "Apologia." The Anglican bishops say

that Disestablishment would be a "national crime," but Catholics will

say that the national crime was committed three hundred years ago. Yours

most truly,--

J. H. CARDINAL NEWMAN.

* * * * *

DROP THE OATHS.--_Milwaukee Catholic Citizen:_ Labor organizations ought

not to be lightly condemned. Our American trade unions are among the

most salutary associations that we have. In Chicago, recently, they

incurred the displeasure of the Socialists, because they would not allow

socialism to flaunt itself at one of their demonstrations.

They all tend to promote providence, social union and independence. They

"keep the wolf away from the door" of hundreds.

The case of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is one in point.

During the twenty years of its existence the Brotherhood has paid out

nearly $2,000,000 in insurance to the families of engineers who have

been killed or permanently disabled. The motto of the brotherhood is:

"Sobriety, Truth, Justice and Morality."

The more stress that is laid upon sobriety in all labor organizations

the better.

It is to be regretted that some trade unions take the form of secret

societies, and thus tempt Catholic workingmen (of whom there are

thousands), to violate dictates of conscience. Labor leaders ought to

reason that this is not right. These organizations need Catholic

artisans, and Catholic workingmen need these organizations, provided

they are honestly, soberly, and candidly conducted.

* * * * *

The number of members of the new House of Commons never before elected

to Parliament is 332. This has had no parallel since the first

Parliament under the Reform Bill of 1832. The ultimate figures of the

election are: Liberals, 334; Conservatives, 250; Parnellites, 86. The

coalition of the last two has thus a majority of two. This, compared

with the last Parliament, will leave the Liberals weaker by 17 votes,

and the Conservatives stronger by 12 votes. The Liberals have gained 80

votes in the counties and lost 91 in the towns. An immense number of

Liberal members of the last Parliament are beaten. The list is over 80,

including 11 Ministers.

* * * * *

AN HEROIC SISTER.--Mgr. Sogara, Bishop of Trapezepolis and

Vicar-Apostolic of Central Africa, telegraphs that a despatch has

reached him from Egypt containing the gratifying intelligence of the

liberation of two sisters who were imprisoned in the Soudan, and whose

freedom has been procured by Abdel Giabbari, Mgr. Sogaro's envoy in the

Soudan. The striking historical spectacle presented by General Gordon's

long and lonely journey on his camel across the desert to Khartoum has

been eclipsed in its sublimity by the feat which has just been performed

by Sister Cipriani, who has just traversed the same weary, arid waste on

foot, accompanied by a single Arab attendant. Gordon's name will live

forever in story, side by side with the great knights, historical and

legendary, of the olden time. The labors of the noble and heroic Sister

Cipriani, though attended with as much personal danger, and performed in

a higher sphere, will, perhaps, meet with little earthly recognition. Be

it so. She wants no fleeting fame. Sufficient for her is the

consciousness that she has done her duty by those whom she was sent to

soothe and comfort by her gentle and devoted ministrations.

* * * * *

The _Catholic Citizen_, Milwaukee, Wis., has entered upon its sixteenth

year. We are pleased to see it is well sustained, as it deserves to be.

Long life to the _Citizen_.

* * * * *

RIGHT REV. DR. SULLIVAN, recently consecrated Bishop of Mobile, declined

to accept a purse of one thousand dollars from his late congregation in

Washington, advising them to present it to his successor for the benefit

of the church. He said he came among them with nothing, and preferred to

take nothing away with him. Such admirable unselfishness shows what a

devoted pastor the parishioners of St. Peter's, Washington, have lost

and the Diocese of Mobile has gained.

* * * * *

CATHOLIC "SOCIETY."--Some of our people, especially among those who are

rich in worldly goods and deal in worldly literature, are heard to

complain that there is no "society" among Catholics. Well, every one

knows that most of our people are poor, and have not time or occasion to

study the laws of etiquette or the language of diplomacy. Those good

people who seek society elsewhere, however, would do well to lend their

fellow-Catholics the light of their example and shine by the contrast

they create. Better far than cutting a very poor figure in Protestant

society will they find it to teach their own co-religionists the

amenities of social life. They had better be first with their own than a

poor second with strangers; honored among the faithful than despised by

the dissenter. Ah! this aping after society, besides being pitiful and

ridiculous, soon takes the faith out of our people. Their children

marry outside the household of faith, and, with their children's

children, are lost to the Church. What does it profit to gain the whole

world and lose your soul?

* * * * *

MR. JOHN DILLON presided at a meeting of the Nationalists in Dublin, and

spoke warmly in praise of the courage of the Ulster Nationalists, who

had fought their battles throughout with vigor and determination. The

Protestant farmers in Ulster were men whose promises could be relied

upon. He could never forget the sacrifices they had made for him at the

last election, or the fact that five hundred of them had voted for Mr.

Healy. Though he himself had been defeated in North Tyrone, he had been

gratified even in defeat. The men who had voted in those places, where

there was no chance for a Nationalist, deserved the thanks of the Irish

people for the loyalty with which they had obeyed the command of the

leaders, and trampled upon their old prejudices and local feelings.

Whigs had disappeared from Ulster, and would never re-appear, unless in

honorable alliance with the Nationalists.

* * * * *

The grand old man, Gladstone, celebrated his seventy-sixth year on the

29th of December. May he live to accomplish the pacification of Ireland.

* * * * *

ORANGE BLUSTER.--Mr. John E. Macartney, who was the Tory member for

Tyrone in the last Parliament, but who was ousted in the late elections

by the National candidate, declares that the adoption of any form of

Home Rule would be in direct violation of the Constitution, under the

provisions of which thousands of Englishmen and Scotchmen have invested

money in Ireland. To grant Ireland Home Rule, he says, would be to

destroy the minority in Ireland, and the English people would be held

responsible for the consequences. An Orange demonstration was held in

Armagh, where several prominent "Loyalists" made violent speeches in

opposition to the Home Rule doctrine. Following its leaders, the meeting

adopted a series of resolutions declaring that a resort to Home Rule

principles would be certain, sooner or later, to end in civil war, and

exhorting the "loyalist" party to do its utmost to resist the efforts of

the Home Rule advocates. The resolutions also commended the "loyalists"

in Ireland to "the sympathy of all Protestants throughout the British

Kingdom!" "The Ulster Orangemen are ready to come to the front," said

one of the speakers, amid great applause, "and when their services are

wanted sixty thousand men can readily be put into the field, for active

service, in the defence of the cause of loyalty to the government."

* * * * *

VERY REV. JOSEPH D. MEAGHER, for years pastor of St. Louis Bertrand's

Church, in Louisville, Ky., has been elected Provincial of the Order of

St. Dominic in the United States, at St. Rose's, Washington County, Ky.

* * * * *

The article in the _Dublin Freeman's Journal_, said to have been

inspired by Mr. Parnell, beseeching Irishmen to remember Mr. Gladstone's

difficulties, and to "be prepared to accept a reasonable compromise on

our extreme rights, if a sacrifice of our principal rights be not

involved," is in the true spirit. If this advice be followed, the

outlook will be hopeful for Home Rule.

* * * * *

The most remarkable thing about the Irish elections is the fact that not

one supporter of Mr. Gladstone was elected.

* * * * *

The College of the Propaganda announces that up to November 1st, in the

vicariate of Cochin China, 9 missionaries, 7 native priests, 60

catechists, 270 members of religious orders and 24,000 Christians were

massacred; 200 parishes, 17 orphan asylums, and 10 convents were

destroyed and 225 churches were burned.

* * * * *

On the occasion of the Pope's Jubilee in 1887, ten cases of

beatification will be decided. Three "Beati" belonging to the Jesuits

will be canonized, viz.: Blessed Bergmans, Claver, and Rodriguez. The

Venerable de la Salle, Clement Hofbauer, C. SS. R., and Ines de

Beningain, a Spanish nun, will be beatified.

* * * * *

LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.--At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation, Mr. T. D.

Sullivan, M.P., editor of the _Nation_, was elected Lord Mayor of the

city for this year. Mr. Sullivan is known all over the world, wherever

Irishmen congregate, by his fine and stirring humorous and pathetic

ballads for the Irish people. Personally, Mr. Sullivan is a gentle and

gentlemanly man, much beloved by his family and a large circle of

friends. He has always preserved the high-minded and patriotic

traditions of the _Nation_ newspaper, the columns of which were enriched

by many of his brilliant songs and ballads long before he succeeded his

brother, the late Mr. A. M. Sullivan, as its editor. Mr. Sullivan is the

father-in-law of Mr. Healy, M.P., Mr. Parnell's able lieutenant.

* * * * *

THE LATE KING OF SPAIN.--A Madrid correspondent gives an account of the

ceremony at the Escuriel, on the occasion of the funeral of the King of

Spain. "The procession from the station," he writes, "wound slowly up

the hill to the monastery. When the funeral car reached the principal

door it was closed. The Lord Chamberlain knocked for admittance. A voice

inside asked, 'Who wishes to enter?' The answer given was 'Alfonso XII.'

The doors were then thrown open. The prior of the monastery appeared.

The body was carried into the church and placed on a raised bier before

the high altar. The coffin was then covered with the four cloaks of the

noble orders. A thousand tapers were lighted, and the church assumed a

magnificent appearance. Black hangings embossed with the arms of Spain

covered the stone walls. The Mass was said and the _Miserere_ sung. The

coffin was raised once more and carried to the entrance of the stairs

leading down to the vaults. No one descended there," continues the

correspondent, "except the Prior, the Minister of Grace and Justice, and

the Lord Chamberlain. The coffin was placed on a table in a magnificent

black marble vault, in which the kings of Spain lie in huge marble tombs

all around. Now came the most thrilling part of the ceremony. The Lord

Chamberlain unlocked the coffin, which was covered with cloth of gold,

raised the glass covering from the King's face, then, after requesting

perfect silence, knelt down and shouted three times in the dead

monarch's ear, '_Senor_, _Senor_, _Senor!_' Those waiting in the church

upstairs heard the call, which was like a cry of despair, for it came

from the lips of the Duke of Sexto, the King's favorite companion. The

duke then rose, saying, according to the ritual, His majesty does not

answer. Then it is true, the King is dead." He locked the coffin,

handed the keys to the prior, and, taking up his wand of office broke it

in his hand and flung the pieces at the foot of the table. Then every

one left the monastery, as the bells tolled, and the guns announced to

the people that Alfonso XII. had been laid with his ancestors in the

gloomy pile of Philip II.

* * * * *

The Catholic committees of the north of France, assembled in Congress at

Lille, have addressed to the Pope a letter of adhesion to the

Encyclical, in which the whole teaching of the Papal document is

recapitulated at considerable length.

* * * * *

The question of submitting to arbitration the case, "Ireland _vs._

English Rule in Ireland," is again mooted. One man is named as arbiter.

He is known as Leo XIII., whose master-piece of power and wisdom

appeared in our January MAGAZINE.

* * * * *

A letter from South Mayo tells that on the polling day a curious sight

was the descent from the mountains of Partry of one hundred voters,

mounted on hardy ponies, who arrived in a body at the polling station

with National League cards in their hats.

* * * * *

News from Gorey tells of a wonderful welcome given to Sir Thomas

Esmonde, on his arrival at home after his election. The horses were

taken from his carriage, and he was drawn by the people amidst a

multitude cheering and waving hats in wild excitement. The town and

surrounding hills were illuminated, and the young baronet was escorted

to his residence, Ballynestragh, by bands of music and a torchlight

procession, including many thousands of people. His tenants came out to

meet him before he reached Ballynestragh, bearing torches, and a great

display of fireworks greeted his entrance into his demesne. Sir Thomas

Esmonde threw open his entire house for the night, and dancing was kept

up by the tenants till morning.

* * * * *

President Cleveland, in his recent message to Congress, makes allusion

to the rejection of Mr. Keiley by Austria. He says: A question has

arisen with the Government of Austria-Hungary touching the

representation of the United States at Vienna. Having, under my

constitutional prerogative, appointed an estimable citizen of

unimpeached probity and competence as Minister to that Court, the

Government of Austria-Hungary invited this government to cognizance of

certain exceptions, based upon allegations against the personal

acceptability of Mr. Keiley, the appointed Envoy, asking that, in view

thereof, the appointment should be withdrawn. The reasons advanced were

such as could not be acquiesced in without violation of my oath of

office, and the precepts of the Constitution, since they necessarily

involved a limitation in favor of a foreign government upon the right of

selection by the Executive, and required such an application of a

religious test as a qualification for office under the United States as

would have resulted in the practical disfranchisement of a large class

of our citizens, and the abandonment of a vital principle in our

Government. The Austro-Hungarian Government finally decided not to

receive Mr. Keiley as the Envoy of the United States, and that gentleman

has since resigned his commission, leaving the post vacant. I have made

no new nomination, and the interests of this Government at Vienna are

now in the care of the Secretary of Legation, acting as _charge

d'affaires ad interem_.

* * * * *

INAUGURATION.--Monday, January 4, was inauguration day in the principal

cities in Massachusetts. In Boston, the usual ceremonies took place.

Mayor O'Brien delivered one of his best addresses. Rev. Father Welch,

S.J., of the church of the Immaculate Conception, acted as chaplain on

the occasion.

* * * * *

Michael Davitt, in a recent interview, said: "If Home Rule is granted to

Ireland, it is difficult for me to see how the Irish members can

continue to sit in the parliament at Westminster, unless the colonies

are similarly represented in that body. The appointment of a prince of

the royal family as viceroy of Ireland would be a mistake, as Ireland

requires a statesman of tact and brains to administer the government,

not a royal show.

* * * * *

"ONCE A CITIZEN, ALWAYS A CITIZEN," is what Bismarck says. The great

Chancellor is determined to have no fooling. If a German becomes an

American citizen, or a citizen of any other land, old Bis. thinks he has

no business in Germany, and will not have him there. When a man runs

away from his native land rather than carry arms for her protection, and

flies to another country, becomes naturalized, and then returns home to

make a living, the scheme is so thin that the example is dangerous. An

iron-handed man knows how to deal with such cases, and he winds them up

with a bounce.

* * * * *

The Sacred College at present consists of 60 members, of whom 26 were

created by Pius IX., and 34 by Leo XIII., and that there are 10

vacancies. Of the Cardinals 34 are Italian; 11 Austrian, German, or

Polish; 5 French; 4 English or Irish; 4 Spanish, and 2 Portuguese.

* * * * *

The _English Catholic Directory_ for 1886 says there are at present in

Great Britain no less than 1,575 churches, chapels, and stations; not

including such private or domestic chapels as are not open to the

Catholics of the neighborhood--an increase of 11 on 1884. These places

of worship are served by 2,576 priests as against 2,522 last year. Since

the beginning of the year 91 priests have been ordained, of whom 56 are

secular and 35 regular.

* * * * *

A ROSY OUTLOOK.--_Chicago News:_ The new year dawns upon the United

States as the most favored nation in the world. Business is reviving in

every department. Our storehouses and granaries are full to overflowing.

We are free from all foreign entanglements. The public health is good,

and with reasonable care there is nothing to dread from foreign

pestilence. We can look back upon 1885 with grateful hearts, and forward

to 1886 with hope and confidence.

* * * * *

CATHOLICS IN PARLIAMENT.--Catholics have no need to complain of the

result of the elections, so far as it affects their special interest,

observes the _Liverpool Catholic Times_. In the late House of Commons

representatives of the Faith had sixty seats. In the new House they will

have eighty-two. Of these, Catholic Ireland contributes seventy-nine,

England two, and Scotland one. We have already commented upon the return

for the Oban Division of Argyllshire of Mr. D. H. MacFarlane, who enjoys

the distinction of being the first Catholic member of Parliament

returned by Scotland since the so-called Reformation. English Catholics

cannot, however, be congratulated upon the part they took in the

electoral struggle. To the last Parliament they sent but one

representative, Mr. H. E. H. Jerningham; and to that which will commence

its labors in a couple of months they have returned only two--Mr.

Charles Russell, Q.C., for South Hackney, and Mr. T. P. O'Connor, for

the Scotland Division of Liverpool. And more than half the credit of

securing the return of these two gentlemen is due to the Irish electors

in this country.

* * * * *

For the first time in the history of Boston a colored man has obtained a

political office--he has actually received a policeman's baton. This is

wonderful news, indeed, for, although Massachusetts has been prominent

in denouncing the South for her treatment of the colored man, whom she

has extensively favored with office, Boston, at least, has now had the

first opportunity of practicing her doctrine; and let us hope that the

man's name--Homer--will be classical enough to counteract her

surprise.--_Baltimore Catholic Mirror._

Massachusetts has done more than that for the colored race. Several of

them have been elected to the general court; one has been on the bench

for some time; and there are several practising lawyers in our courts.

Can Maryland say as much for our colored brethren?

* * * * *

THE POPE CONGRATULATED.--Emperor William of Germany and Queen Christiana

of Spain have sent telegrams to Pope Leo, expressing their thanks for

his services, and for his equitable decision as arbitrator in the

Carolines controversy.

* * * * *

OUR MAGAZINE.--This hearty notice is from Father Phelan's _Western

Watchman:_ DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE, for January, came to us last week as

bright as a new shilling, much enlarged, and, as usual, overflowing with

such original and interesting reading for Irish-Americans as is to be

found in no other paper or magazine published on the planet. We predict

for the publisher many years of prosperity to continue the good work.

* * * * *

NEW ENGLAND MEN AND WOMEN are dying out, or they are not producers. Even

the fisheries no longer breed American seamen for the naval service.

Three-fourths of the crews that man the fishing fleets are Portuguese,

Spaniards and Italians.

* * * * *

_Boston Herald:_--Ireland would be better fixed politically, if its

condition should be made like a State in our Union, rather than like a

province the same as Canada. Canada has no representation in the

imperial Parliament. Great Britain ought to have a Parliament for

imperial purposes, with representatives from her dependencies, and

another for her local affairs. It has long been apparent that the

British Parliament cannot properly consider both general and local

matters.

* * * * *

It appears that the reported wholesale boycotting of Irish workingmen in

England stated in a dispatch of the New York _Sun_ to have been resolved

upon at a meeting of a Liberal Club, was entirely without foundation in

fact, not even heard of at the National Liberal Club or at the London

Office of the _Freeman's Journal_, the chief Nationalist organ.

* * * * *

PARNELLITE MEETING.--A day or two before the opening of the new

Parliament this month, a general meeting of the Irish parliamentary

party, including as many of the Nationalist members as are then in

London, will be held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, when, it is stated

in London Nationalist circles, a definite course of parliamentary action

will be decided upon, and the Parnellite programme for the session will

be finally adopted, subject only to such deviations as the exigencies of

the political situation may render admissable and desirable. In the

event of a short adjournment of the House, after the election of the

speaker and the swearing in of the members, it is understood that the

January meeting of the Irish parliamentary party referred to will be

adjourned to the day previous to that on which the business of the House

will begin about the usual date in February.

* * * * *

HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.--The new house is progressing favorably, and

is nearly under roof. There will be a lecture in aid of the building on

Sunday evening, January 17. Hon. Mr. Keiley, lately appointed Minister

to Italy and Austria, will deliver the lecture. Subject: The Present

Prospects of Irish Freedom. The lecture will take place at the Boston

Theatre. Tickets, 75, 50, and 35 cents. The announcement of so

interesting a subject, and the fame of the lecturer should fill the

house to overflowing. His Honor, Mayor O'Brien, will preside.

* * * * *

OUR MAGAZINE.--_Notre Dame Scholastic:_ With the January number,

DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE begins its fifteenth volume. It is an interesting and

instructive periodical, and deserves well of the reading public. The

"Memoir of His Eminence John Cardinal McCloskey," by Dr. John Gilmary

Shea, which appears in the present number, is a priceless memento of our

first American prince of the Church, and imparts valuable information

concerning some points of the early history of the Church in our

country. Besides, there is a collection of readable articles, which it

would take too long to name. The editor promises still greater

attractions for the new volume, and we sincerely hope his enterprise

will meet with all the encouragement it so well deserves. The MAGAZINE

is published at Boston, Mass.

* * * * *

The Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, of Detroit, Treasurer of the National League in

America, announces that he has sent $80,000 to the League in Ireland

since Oct. 1.

* * * * *

THE FUTURE OF FRANCE.--In answer to a question on the eventual solution

of the French political difficulty, the Bishop of Angers says: "When I

spoke of the affairs of French Catholics, and, above all, of those of my

diocese," said his Lordship, "I was within my domain. But of the future

of Catholic France the less conversation and the more prayer the better.

I believe that Providence will bless the Apostolic spirit of our

missionaries, and the obscure zeal of our Sisters of Charity. I believe,

with Monseigneur Dupanloup, that the French Church, with fifty thousand

priests, and more, daily saying Mass, and hundreds of thousands of

innocent children praying in her churches, must emerge triumphant from

this terrible crisis. Ask me nothing of Pretenders or of the Republic.

The work of a Catholic Bishop in France is too absorbing to be

overwhelmed by difficulties of political detail. We must be patriots,

worthy citizens, and faithful Catholics, and leave the rest to God. The

great bulk of the French people is not deceived. A cloud is passing

over the nation; but the bright sun will soon pierce through that cloud,

and a reaction will set in. The sooner the better, say I."

* * * * *

CATHEDRAL T. A. & B. SOCIETY.--The Cathedral Total Abstinence and

Benevolent Society is making extensive preparations for its third annual

social, which takes place in Parker Fraternity Hall, Wednesday evening,

February 10th. Tickets are selling very rapidly, and the committee of

arrangements will spare nothing to make the occasion an enjoyable one to

all who attend. The officers of the society are as follows: Spiritual

director, Rev. James F. Talbot, D.D.; President, John F. Marrin;

vice-president, William J. Keenan; recording secretary, James P. Gorman;

financial secretary, Jeremiah Conners; treasurer, Patrick Cooney;

sergeant-at-arms, Dennis Desmond.

* * * * *

ABSTEMIOUSNESS AT CHRISTMAS.--The following circular was issued by the

Cardinal Archbishop of Westminister:--A Plenary indulgence may be gained

by all persons who--besides making a good Confession and received

worthily the Holy Communion, and praying for the intention of his

Holiness--shall, on Christmas Eve, on Christmas Day, and on the

following day, abstain from all intoxicating drinks. The faithful are

earnestly exhorted to endeavor to obtain the Plenary Indulgence; and to

offer up this little self-denial as an act of intercession, reparation,

and expiation for those who sin against God by drunkenness and

intemperance especially at this time.

* * * * *

We regret to learn from the _Catholic Mirror_ that Mr. William Doherty,

formerly of St. John, New Brunswick, is lying dangerously ill at his

residence, No. 142 Edmondson Avenue. Mr. Doherty came to Baltimore about

eleven years ago, in part on account of the climate. He has been

suffering for years with heart disease. He has received the last

Sacraments from the hands of his son, Rev. William J. Doherty, S.J.,

rector of the Church of Our Lady, at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, who

reached Baltimore the day before. Mr. William Doherty was born in

Ireland, June 8th, 1800, and went to New Brunswick when a young man. He

was for many years one of the most prominent Catholics in St. John, and

was president of St. Vincent de Paul Society in that city. He has two

daughters with him, and two who are nuns. One of the latter is Madame

Letitia Doherty, assistant superioress of the Convent of the Sacred

Heart, Kenwood, Albany, N. Y.; the other is in the Elmhurst Convent of

the Sacred Heart, at Providence, R.I.

* * * * *

There are at present two hundred "widowed" parishes in the Diocese of

Posen, Germany. Of these, only forty-five have any auxiliary supply, so

that no less than one hundred and fifty-five parishes, with a population

of 200,000 souls and more are without any priest at all.

* * * * *

If the Associated Press may be trusted, Bishop O'Farrell has expressed

the opinion that the two American cardinals will be the Archbishop of

Baltimore and the Archbishop of New York.--_Catholic Mirror._

The Associated Press is not to be credited on Catholic or Irish matters.

It is more than probable that one of the hats will crown the head of the

venerable Archbishop of Boston.

* * * * *

NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY has received ten thousand Rosaries from Belgium.

They are blessed by the regular canons of the Holy Cross Order, and they

have the extraordinary indulgence of five hundred days and the

Bridgetine indulgence of one hundred days, together with the Holy

Father's blessing, attached to the devout recital of every "Our Father"

and "Hail Mary" upon them. Address Rev. A. Granger, C.S.C., Notre Dame,

Ind.

* * * * *

The Italian Government has just published the list of deaths from

cholera during the years 1884 and 1885. In the former year, there were

27,000 cases, and 14,000 deaths. In the latter year there have been over

6,000 cases, and 3,000 deaths. Palermo was the great sufferer this year,

as Naples was in 1884. Better nutrition during both epidemics caused a

noted diminution in cases and in deaths.

* * * * *

The _Germania_ says that the Holy Father has expressed a wish to know

the state of Catholic Missions in the German Colonies. He feels very

keenly the arbitrary conduct of the Imperial Government, and has

expressed to the Prussian Minister his astonishment at the prejudice

exhibited in Berlin.

* * * * *

Referring to the Letter of the Holy Father to Cardinal Manning and the

Bishops of England, which we give elsewhere, the _Moniteur de Rome_ says

that it constitutes "the recompense and the consecration" of the noble

and heroic efforts of his Eminence and the English Episcopate in the

cause of Christian education.

* * * * *

The 22nd of February is the anniversary of the birth of George

Washington. We give many incidents of his life in this issue of our

MAGAZINE.

* * * * *

THE IRISH CONVENTION.--Patrick Egan, president of the Irish National

League of America, has received a cablegram from T. M. Harrington, M.P.,

secretary of the National League in Ireland, in which he states that Mr.

Parnell will not be able to attend the League convention intended to be

held in Chicago in January next, and that he is "inclined to think it

best to postpone the convention until after the meeting of parliament in

February." It is, doubtless, the desire of the Irish party to know with

some definiteness the probable outcome of the present situation before

making any authoritative announcement of their plans, or before sending

any message to their American brothers; and it also seems that they

regard Mr. Parnell's constant presence on the scene of negotiations as

indispensable. The convention, in accordance with this suggestion, is,

therefore, postponed to a date to be determined upon hereafter between

the executive of the American League and Mr. Parnell. Mr. Egan will call

the National Committee of the American League together some day in

January, by which time there may be information from Ireland enabling a

definite date to be fixed for the convention.

* * * * *

MUNSTER BANK.--In reply to a letter from Mr. T. N. Stack to the

liquidators, inquiring when the sum of L500,000 now in their hands would

be distributed amongst the creditors, the liquidators of the Munster

Bank have written to say that there is L650,000 in hands, that the mere

routine work of arranging for a dividend occupies a considerable time,

but that they expect to pay an instalment in March.

PRIVILEGES FOR MAYNOOTH.--In reply to a petition from the Irish

Episcopate, the Holy Father, through the Sacred Congregation of

Propaganda, has granted to the Superiors of St. Patrick's College,

Maynooth, the privilege of presenting students for ordination to the

Diaconate and Subdiaconate on days which are ordinary doubles. This

important concession, however, can be made use of only once in the year.

* * * * *

GRANT'S EVIL GENIUS.--The enemies of the Catholic Church should get up a

big purse of bright new dollars as a testimonial to Parson Newman,

as--only for the influence of his evil genius--it is very likely that

General Grant would have died a Catholic. The _Saint Joseph's Advocate_,

in a brief notice of the death of General Grant, says that Grant was not

a bigot--his Indian Agency policy and Des Moines speech to the apparent

contrary notwithstanding. Parson Newman was, in matters of religion, his

evil genius; and the evil genius had this apology (though no excuse)

that he was pushed at him from _behind_. It is our sincere opinion that

if the Catholic side of this great man's family had possessed a Newman

in zeal, eloquence and polish, Mount McGregor would have witnessed its

most historic _Catholic_ death, July 22, 1885.

* * * * *

THE CHINESE MUST GO.--_San Francisco Monitor:_ There seems to be a

general determination among the people all over this coast that the

Chinese must go. Already they have been forcibly expelled from several

towns in Washington territory and Oregon, as well as from towns in this

State. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and the laboring

portion of the white race will not suffer their right of life, liberty

and happiness to be destroyed by the interference of Chinese coolies.

* * * * *

FOREIGN MISSIONS.--A large and commodious seminary for the Foreign

Missions is about to be opened in Bavaria. In the latter country a grand

old abbey has for years stood empty and deserted. Father Amhreim, a

Benedictine, under the auspices of the Propaganda, and with the consent

of the Bavarian Government, has restored the abbey, and is now fitting

it up as a seminary. The students who will enter this new Missionary

College will devote themselves to the African missions, as their

brethren in the college of Steil give themselves wholly to the Chinese

mission. German Catholics may be proud of their missionary enterprise.

* * * * *

DYNAMITE!--Millionnaire Cyrus W. Field, of New York, raised a monument

to Andre, the English spy, with great pains and expense. Some other

party razed it, a few nights ago--with a dynamite cartridge. Robert

Simons, while trying to kill fish at Little Rock, Ark., with dynamite,

exploded some of the stuff in his pocket, and his right arm was blown

off in a jiffy.

* * * * *

ARCHBISHOP CROKE says: "Politics now simply means food and clothes and

decent houses for Irishmen and women at home; they mean the three great

corporal works of mercy; they mean the protection of the weak against

the strong, and the soil of Ireland for the Irish race rather than for a

select gang of strangers and spoliators."

* * * * *

THE LANDLORD WAR is raging in Ireland. The Boycotting campaign is being

pushed. This chorus is intoned by "T. D. S." and caught up throughout

the land:

"Tis vain to think that all our lives

We'll coin our sweat to gold,

And let our children and our wives

Feel want and wet and cold;

We first must help ourselves, and then,

If we have cash to spare,

Let landlord, and such idle men,

Come asking for a share;

So landlords, and grandlords,

We pledge our faith to-day--

A low rent, or no rent,

Is all the rent we'll pay."

* * * * *

A CHEERFUL PROSPECT.--Sympathetic Friend: I say, Toombs, old man, you're

not looking well. Want cheerful society, that's it! I shall come and

spend the evening with you, and bring my new poem, "Ode to a Graveyard!"

* * * * *

THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.--One of the unexpected effects of the public

excitement consequent upon the general election has been the revelation

of some of the most grotesque vagaries of Protestantism that have ever

come under our notice. One clergyman told his parishioners not to

scruple about telling lies as to the party for which they intended to

vote. Another characterized the Liberals as "a set of devils."

Archdeacon Denison, an octogenarian ecclesiastic, informed his audience

at a public meeting that they "might as well cheer for the devil as for

Mr. Gladstone."

* * * * *

Mgr. Seghers, who, imbued with apostolic zeal and self-sacrifice,

resigned the archdiocese of Oregon, to dedicate himself to the

conversion of the Indians, has arrived at Vancouver Island, and has

already begun his holy work assisted by a party of devoted Belgian

missionaries.

* * * * *

The decree for the introduction of the cause for the beatification and

canonization of Joan of Arc has been signed at last. The late Mgr.

Dupanloup labored hard in this affair, and doubtless the progress made

is partly owing to his unwearied efforts.

* * * * *

A Scotch Colony is about being planted in Florida. A man named Tait is

the organizer of the projected settlement, and is expected to bring

fifty families with him from Glasgow. These are only the pioneers, and

it is expected that in two years one thousand families from Scotland

will be located in Florida. We welcome every industrious emigrant who

comes here to better his fortune, and hope the projected colony will be

a success. But we also hope they will be more patriotic than were the

Scotch in 1775, who raised the English flag at the Cross Roads in North

Carolina, and fought against American Independence.

* * * * *

THE LATE VICTOR HUGO.--Very noble, and certainly very true, was the

appeal which Victor Hugo made for religious instruction in 1850: "God

will be found at the end of all. Let us not forget Him, and let us teach

Him to all. There would otherwise be no dignity in living, and it would

be better to die entirely. What soothes suffering, what sanctifies

labor, what makes man good, strong, wise, patient, benevolent, just, at

the same time humble and great, worthy of liberty, is to have before him

the perpetual vision of a better world, throwing its rays through the

darkness of this life. As regards myself, I believe profoundly in this

better world; and I declare it in this place to be a supreme certainty

of my soul. I wish, then, sincerely, or, to speak strongly, I wish

ardently for religious instruction."

* * * * *

It is thought that the Parliament which has just been elected will be

short-lived. In a comparatively brief space of time there will be

another appeal to the constituencies.

* * * * *

Reminiscences of Irish-American Regiments in the Union Army during the

Rebellion, are spoken of in an article elsewhere. The article is

furnished to us by the editor and proprietor of the _Sandy Hill_ (N. Y.)

_Herald_, John Dwyer, Esq.

* * * * *

BANK OF IRELAND SHARES.--Shares of the Bank of Ireland, which a year ago

were quoted at L340, are quoted at L274. This is a government Orange

Bank. It refused to assist the Munster Bank, which was the principal

cause of its failure.

* * * * *

A Statue of the late Lord O'Hagan will shortly be placed in the hall of

the Four Courts, Dublin.

* * * * *

A Catholic ceases to be a Catholic the moment he becomes a Free Mason.

He may continue to believe all articles of Catholic faith and even go to

church; but he is cut off from the body of the faithful by the fact of

excommunication, and cannot receive the Sacraments while living, nor

sepulchre in consecrated ground when dead. By resigning from the lodge,

and giving up the symbols,he can be restored to the communion of the

Church.

* * * * *

The Lady Mayoress of Dublin has been presented with a silver cradle,

commemorative of the birth of a daughter during her official year. The

gift was from the members of both parties in the Corporation and the

citizens.

* * * * *

T. P. O'Connor, M.P., says that Ireland will be satisfied with nothing

less than the same amount of independence granted by England to Canada.

Mr. Justin McCarthy, M.P., says that the same amount of independence as

New York or Illinois has in the Federal Union would do. These two

declarations may be regarded as the maximum and minimum of the present

national demand. Mr. Parnell has, very wisely, made no sign. He lies in

wait for future developments.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

_Lynch, Cole & Meehan, New York._

THE IRISH-AMERICAN ALMANAC FOR 1886. Price, 25 cents.

We refer the reader to the advertisement on another page for the

contents, etc., of this Irish year book. It is indispensable in every

Irish family at home and abroad, like our own MAGAZINE. The publishers

are also the editors and proprietors of the _Irish-American_ newspaper,

which has stood the tug of war for nearly forty years. The price is only

25 cents. It is worth three times 25 cents. Address the publishers or

any bookseller.

_Fr. Pustet & Co., N. Y. and Cincinnati._

THE POPE: THE VICAR OF CHRIST; THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH. By Rt. Rev.

Monseigneur Capel, D.D., Domestic Prelate of His Holiness, Pope Leo

XIII. Price, 25 cents.

The preface explains the scope of the work, which we give:

Is the Pope possessor of supreme and universal authority over the whole

of the Christian Church, is the Pope the Vicar of Christ: are questions

of the greatest moment to all believers in Christianity. If the Pope

holds such power and position, then is there the absolute need of

subjection to him in things spiritual. The subject has been treated by

me from different stand-points during my tour in the States. The

substance of such discourses is now given to the public. To meet the

demands on time made by the active, busy life in America, the matter is

presented as concisely as possible, and in short chapters. The

intelligence and general information displayed by the people in all

parts of the States which I have visited permit me, while presenting a

small book for popular use, to treat the subject for an educated people

anxious for solid knowledge. To those who wish to prosecute the further

study of this question I recommend the following works, to which I have

to express my indebtedness: Archbishop Kenrick's "Primacy of S. Peter,"

Allies' "See of S. Peter," Wilberforce's "Principles of Church

Authority," Allnatt's "Cathedra Petri," and "Faith of Catholics" (Vol.

II.), containing the historical evidence of the first five centuries of

the Christian era to the teaching concerning the Papacy.

T. J. Capel.

_Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1885._

_McGowan & Young, Portland, Maine._

ECHOES FROM THE PINES. By Margaret E. Jordan.

Maine should be represented among the States which has a large Catholic

population. The first, and the only, Catholic Governor of the New

England States, was Governor Cavanagh in Maine. There were few Catholics

in that State during his administration. To-day, Maine would not give

her suffrages to a Catholic. Why? Because in Governor Cavanagh's days

the Catholics were in a great minority, and the Puritans did not fear

them. As the Catholic body increases, hatred springs up; but Maine is

coming back to the old faith.

She has now a prelate who is alive to the necessities of his people, and

is doing everything in his power to establish the Faith of Kale and the

other martyrs who died for their religion.

Who would have thought in Governor Cavanagh's days (a half a century

ago), that there would be a grand cathedral, convent, schools and a

Catholic publishing house in Portland? But such is the fact. The house

has issued an excellent book but a few months ago, and now we have some

sweet poems from the genial pen of Miss Margaret E. Jordan. The

authoress has not so many "flourish of trumpets" as some others, but her

Muse is pathetic and heartfelt. The critics may not give her the meed of

praise they would confer upon others, but her Catholic heart will endear

her to the love she bears our Blessed Mother, and her devotion to the

poetic visions of the "old land." We believe Miss Jordan hails from the

beautiful vale of Avoca, where the poet Moore imbibed his inspirations.

_Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind._

SCHOLASTIC ANNUAL FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1886. By Prof. J. A.

Lyons, of the University of Notre Dame, Ia.

This is the eleventh year of this publication. Our good friend, Prof.

Lyons, gives his readers an excellent New Year's dish. "Capital and

Strikes," by our friend, Onahan, of Chicago, is timely. We wish it could

be read by the strikers and the Knights of Labor, all over the country.

There are also articles on the late Vice President, by William Hoynes,

A. M. "A Nation's Favorite," by Rev. Thomas E. Walsh, C. S. C., and

other excellent articles both in prose and verse.

_John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, Md._

NOTED SANCTUARIES OF THE HOLY FACE; or, the Cultus of the Holy

Face, as practised at St. Peter's of the Vatican and other

celebrated shrines. By M. L'Abbe Jouvier. Translated from the

French by P. P. S. With preface by Most Rev. W. H. Elder, D.D.,

Archbishop of Cincinnati.

The devotion to the Holy Face is spreading throughout the Catholic

world. The Discalced Nuns are foremost in their efforts to spread this

devotion. This little book is published at their urgent solicitations.

We recommend to all devout Catholics the purchase of this book.

_D. & J. Sadlier & Co., New York._

SADLIER'S CATHOLIC DIRECTORY, ALMANAC, AND ORDO, FOR THE YEAR OF

OUR LORD 1886; with full official reports of all dioceses,

vicariates, prefectures, etc., in the United States, Canada,

British West Indies, Ireland, England and Scotland. Unbound, $1.25.

Bound, $1.50. An edition comprising only the church in the United

States, 50 cents.

This is the fifty-fourth annual publication. It composes a great body of

information interesting to every Catholic. All families should have it

in their houses.

All of the above books may be obtained of Messrs. Noonan and Co., as

well as of the publishers.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THEFT OF A VALUABLE BOOK.--A valuable book has been stolen from the

library of the Minerva, Rome. It is one of the very few copies of the

works of Lactantius, which were printed at the Benedictine monastery of

Santa Scholastica, near Subiaco, in the year 1465. So rare are the

copies of this work, that the price of a single copy has reached 15,000

francs, or L600. The most minute inquiries have been made, but the

missing volume has not been traced.

A Selection of the late Lord O'Hagan's speeches, as revised by himself,

will very shortly be published by Messrs. Longmans & Co. The volume

opens with a speech on the Legislative Union delivered at a meeting of

the Repeal Association in 1843, and closes with Lord O'Hagan's speeches

in the House of Lords in 1881-82 on the Irish Land Laws. The work is

edited by Lord O'Hagan's nephew, Mr. George Teeling, and contains

numerous biographical and historical notes.

THE ANGEL GUARDIAN ANNUAL FOR 1886.--Seventh year. Published by the

House of the Angel Guardian; Boston, Mass. Price 10 cents. Besides the

matter contained in Almanacs generally, this little annual has also a

collection of interesting and instructive articles. There are several

excellent engravings, prominent among which are portraits of Cardinal

McCloskey, Archbishop Williams, Daniel O'Connell, Rev. G. F. Haskins,

and Hon. Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, accompanying biographical

sketches.

MR. T. P. O'CONNOR'S new book, _Gladstone's House of Commons_, will be

issued by Messrs. Ward and Downey early next week. In the preface the

author says:--"It would be too much to ask the reader to believe that

these sketches betray none of the bias natural to one who took a

somewhat active part in many of the scenes described. But an effort was

made at impartiality." The volume is called _Gladstone's House of

Commons_. The justification of the title is the commanding position held

in the last Parliament by the overwhelming personality of Mr. Gladstone.

MUSIC.

_From White, Smith & Co._

_Vocal:_ "Trusting," Duet, by C. A. White.

_Instrumental:_ "Only for Thee," Polka Mazurka, by Fliege. "Chant du

Paysan," by Alfonso Rendando. "Silver Trumpets," by Viviani, viz.: No.

1, "Grand Processional March." No. 2, "Harmony in the Dome," as played

at St. Peter's in Rome. "Gavotte," by Rudolph Niemann. "Potpourri," from

"Mikado," for four hands, arranged by C. D. Blake. "Chimes of Spring,"

by H. Lichner. "Mikado," Galop by Geo. Thorne. "The Banjo Companion,"

viz.: "Nymphs' Dance," by Armstrong. "Rag Baby Jig," by same. "Gavotte

du Pacha," by F. Von Suppe. "Always Gallant Polka," by Fahrbach.

"Carlotta Walzer," by Millocker. "Happy Go Lucky, Schottische," by De

Coen, and "O Restless Sea," by C. A. White, all arranged for Banjo.

"Rosalie Waltz," by Pierre Duvernet. "Morning Prayer," by Strealboy. "La

Gracieuse," by Ch. Wachtmann. "Mikado Waltzes," by Bucalossi.

_Books:_ "The Folio," for January, 1886, brimful of good reading

interspersed with excellent music. "Ferd. Beyers' Preliminary Method for

Pianoforte." Part 2, "Melodies for Violin and Piano," and "Melodies for

Flute and Piano." All these works issued in Messrs. White, Smith & Co's

best style.

Obituary.

"After life's fitful fever they sleep well."

CARDINAL.

CARDINAL PANEBIANCA has lately died in Rome at the age of seventy-seven.

He was not a society cardinal, as he lived a hard life, slept on the

boards, his board being also simple bread and water, with a morsel of

cheese now and then by way of a luxury. He despised riches, and has died

rich.

BISHOPS.

RT. REV. F. X. KRAUTBAUER, bishop of Green Bay, Wis., for over ten

years, was found dead in his bed at the Episcopal residence, morning of

the 17th of December. He had recently been a sufferer from apoplexy,

which finally took him off. The suddenness of his death has cast a gloom

of sadness over the entire Catholic population. Bishop Krautbauer was

born in the parish of Bruck, near Ratisbon, Bavaria, in 1824, being in

his sixty-first year at the time of his death.

At half-past six o'clock Friday morning, December 4, Rt. Rev. Dominic

Manucy, third bishop of Mobile, Ala., died after a lingering illness. He

was born in St. Augustine, Fla., in the year 1823, and received his

education in Mobile, at the College of St. Joseph, Spring Hill. On the

20th of January, 1884, he received his appointment from Rome to the

bishopric of Mobile, and on March 30th, of the same year, was duly

installed. In the July following his health failed, and he was compelled

to send his resignation to the Pope. The Pope, however, took no action

on the resignation until more than a year had passed. Then Bishop

Jeremiah O'Sullivan was appointed as his successor to the Bishopric of

Mobile, and to him Bishop Manucy delivered up the keys of the cathedral

on the first day of November, 1885. Since the succession Bishop Manucy

has remained at the episcopal residence, where he has been at all times

carefully attended by the priests of the parish and the people of his

congregation. Bishop Manucy was no ordinary person, but, on the

contrary, his whole life and its actions stamped him as a man of more

than usual ability. As a man he showed himself, when in health, to be of

strong and decisive will, possessed of an open-hearted, frank nature,

and charitable to the furtherest degree. He was a man of thorough

education, a profound and able logician, and was reckoned as one of the

best theologians of the Catholic Church. In his various offices as

priest and bishop, he was at all times alive to the interest of his

church and its people. The spiritual needs of his flocks never escaped

his observation, and were never left unsupplied.

PRIESTS.

German literary papers report with regret the death at Kilchrath, in

Holland, of one of the most learned Jesuits of our times, Father

Schneemann, at the age of fifty-six. He was chief editor of the

well-known periodical, "Stimmen von Maria Laach." When the Jesuits had

to quit Germany in 1872 he came to reside in England, but the climate

not agreeing with him, he went to Holland, where he taught divinity in a

diocesan college.

Rev. George Ruland, C. SS. R., who died a few weeks ago in Baltimore,

was provincial of the Redemptorists for many years. He was a fellow

student of Archbishop Heis, of Milwaukee, and a pupil of Doctor

Doellinger. He was a man of marked talent, and his influence will be

greatly missed.

Rev. Philip J. McCabe, rector of the cathedral at Hartford, Conn., died

in that city on the 9th of December, greatly regretted by all who had

the pleasure of his acquaintance.

Rev. Father Jamison, S. J., the well-known and highly esteemed Jesuit

died at Georgetown College, D. C., on night of 8th December, after a

very long illness. He was born in Frederick City, Md., on June 19, 1831;

in 1860 he was ordained to the priesthood in the Eternal City, by

Cardinal Franson. Then returning to the United States, he labored at

different times, as assistant pastor in Georgetown, Md., Washington, D.

C., Philadelphia, Pa., Boston, Mass., Troy, N. Y., and Alexandria, Va.

The Rev. John S. Flynn, pastor of St. Ann's Church, Cranston, R. I.,

died of pneumonia, at the parochial residence, on the 10th December, in

the forty-ninth year of his age, and the eighteenth of his ordination.

He was a native of the County Cavan, Ireland, and came to this country

when eleven years of age. His early education was under the supervision

of his uncle, the late Rev. John Smith, of Danbury, Conn., with whom he

resided. He continued his studies at Mount St. Mary's, Emmittsburg, Md.

After finishing his classical course, he spent some time at St. Sulpice

Seminary, Baltimore, and completed his theological studies at the

Provincial Seminary, Troy, N. Y.

The death, November 8, of Very Rev. Wm. J. Halley, V. G., Cincinnati, is

greatly lamented. In him, for more than twenty years, we have personally

known a noble, pure, devoted and beautiful character. Born at Tramore,

Ireland, he was taken off at forty-eight.

* * * * *

PRESERVATION OF A SAINT'S BODY.--The body of the late venerable G. B.

Vianney, Cure d'Ars, was exhumed in the presence of the Bishop of Belley

and Mgr. Casorara, _promotor fidei_, and of all those interested in the

cause of his beatification. The body was found entire, as it was buried,

and was recognizable at the first glance. The flesh and hair still

adhered to the upper part of the head; the hands, shrivelled, preserved

their full form--the sacerdotal vestments had undergone no alteration.

To give an idea of the enthusiasm displayed by the people, we may say

that every object of devotion to be bought in the shops of Ars was sold,

so that the people might bear away with them a relic that had touched

the holy body. Ars seemed to have recovered its former happy days, when

pilgrims flocked thither, and penitents thronged the venerable cure's

confessional.

* * * * *

LORD CHARLES THYNNE, second son of the Marquis of Bath, has during the

week received the tonsure and three minor orders at the hands of the

Cardinal Archbishop in the chapel of the archbishop's house,

Westminster. Lord Charles is an ex-clergyman of the Church of England,

and is close on seventy years of age.

* * * * *

An interesting ceremony took place in the Church of Piedad, Buenos

Ayres, recently, when an entire Jewish family named Krausse, the parents

and two children, abjured the Jewish religion and were baptized into the

Catholic Church. They had been instructed in the catechism of Christian

doctrine by a Jesuit Father. Senor Gallardo was godfather of the

parents, and Senor Leguizamona and Miss Larosa godfather and godmother

for the children.

* * * * *

The ideas of English noblemen upon the subject of national gratitude,

and the causes of it, must be decidedly unique. In a speech, delivered

in Glasgow, on Dec. 3d, Lord Roseberry declared that he thought "Ireland

had shown great ingratitude toward Mr. Gladstone." Considering that, in

addition to a worthless Land Bill, Mr. Gladstone's principal gifts to

Ireland consisted of five years of the most grinding coercion

government, under the operation of which some two thousand of the best

and purest men and women in the country were thrust into jail like

felons, we fail to see the particular claims that grand old fraud has

upon the good-will of Ireland or her people, says the _Irish-American_.

* * * * *

Bishop Bowman, of St. Louis, in the annual conference of the Methodist

missionary committee, says that it costs $208 to convert an Italian

Catholic to Methodism. Yes; and he would be dear at half the price, says

the _Western Watchman_.

* * * * *

In the British Empire there are 14 archiepiscopal and 81 episcopal sees;

35 vicariates and 10 prefectures; in all, 140; and the number of

patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops throughout the world is

1,171, the residential sees being 909 in number.

* * * * *

GREGORY'S PILE REMEDY.--It is not very often that we say anything in

favor of advertised medicines. We cheerfully make an exception in the

case of Gregory's Pile Remedy. It is so highly endorsed by some of the

best known citizens in Boston and vicinity, who have been permanently

cured by its use, that we recommend it to all sufferers. It is a

distinctly Irish remedy, the formulae for its preparation having been

left with Mr. Gregory by an esteemed old Irish lady, who died in August

last, and who used it with the greatest success for many years among her

friends and neighbors.