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THE LAST. ISSUE of the Journal flew and without putting on its stitches. The sewing machine surldenly got oul of order, and coulC: not be presuaded to do its work without a new spring. The arrangements are now made, and we trust our striker will give us no further occasion of annoying you with our looseness.

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* ACCORDING TO arrangements made by our providertt Director, Rev. M. ,J. Marsile C. 1:). V. we are to spend fortnightly an evening in listening to some entertaning and instructing lecture given before the students and Faculty, by Alumni and friends of the College. These lectures with proportionate accompaniment. in the wav of music, declamation, etc., will much enliven our wi~ter evenings. The idea is a capital one. We regret not to be able to publish the list of lecturers. Be it reserved for a coming number.

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will avail him in writing, but what he has assimilated and made his own; this he can easily fuse into his own language and present as his own, though it be as old as the moon, as indeed most grea.t subjects are to-day.

"NO ONE GIVES what be has not'' is especially true of one who writes. He must possess his subject. He must ha ve made himself familiar with its every point of view. If he has gathered his information from observation, he must be a keen observer; if from books, he must be a careful reader. It is uot the amount he has read that

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* to say a word .of enFEEL CALLED UPON encouragement and of meriteg praise to the singers and singing masters, as there seems to have arisen of late a laudable enthusiasm for that hitherto comparatively neglected deparment, the choir. It seems now a settled fact that we will have some good singing, such as which all will enjoy, because all will sing. Already from what we have heard, we can judge what we may be most sanguine to expect. How very edifying to hear the whole chapel, that commingling of silvery young voices with the more manly and deep-toned ones joined in the Cor J esu, or the triumph-like Laudate 'Dominum! We hope the singing classes will soon be able to render some hymns at the community Mass as well as at the:evening exercises of t4e months of March, April, May, and June. WE

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HEART'S-EASE. I heard it last nigh t in the stillness

A song which I beard in the pastbO my mind recollections Of days far too happy to' last. It hrought back a scene long-forgotten, A pathway, and growing near by Sweet heart's-ease, wh ich then I ~Jcarce noticed '',l'is now dear as life. Years rolled by.

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Su swift s ince that bright s·u mmer morlling I gather ed it fi1'st, when I thought If Death would but co me, ob ! how w elcome! This flower then a sweet lesson taught. It ta ught me that first resignation Must come, ere this cro,;s I could bear Humility, patience would follow Dispelling all shttdows of care. My life seemed a garden where roses Most lovely were blooming the while And hope with bright colors had painted The future. Oft did I beg·uile Hours weary by fanc iful dreaming Of t hings that might be- I ne'er thought How easy it wns to blight roses! How soon we discover dreams naught. Discover dreams naught? ·well, it sometimes Is worse e'en than that for we find The false where we looked for the perfect · E'en Love must then cea~e to he blind'Tis hard after raising an idol To find, after all, 'twas but clay And bitter indeed the awak'ning But darkest hours ju st precede clay. And sooner or later, we find that All hearts t his dread knowledge must gain The sooner we heed the stern lesson T he easier conquered the pain . .· The rosas were blighted, and never Again pJ.ay their bloom gladden meThe dreams- all so fanciful-ended I know now they never can be.

And tnoug h I perchance mourn my roses And wisb tl:!a.t..~ome · dreams had beer. truP. No life could be chl_np without heart's-ease Though ro.3es i n piE:Dty should strew The pathway; for if it grew dreary By reason. 0f shodows dark pall The ~ea! t scea?e o_f comfort., sweet blossom ·w ould make e'en large troubles 'Seem small. 'Vllile roses Wl1en strewn o'er our pathway Will gladden our hearts .with ti;eir bloom Will shed on our hearts their sweet fragrance The contrast will cleer~~u the gloom : When some ruthbciis hand will destroy them And scatter their ieav es to the wind 'Tis then we will value the heart's- ease Which down i11 the valley we'D find. I found it, I know., in a valley .

All sparkling with morning's bright clew Its color- Gocl-giveJY-inspirmg Fresh hopes, wh ile its eyes of deep blue Were brinimiug with t ears for my sorrow (''Twas after the r oses sa·d blight) 'Vhen iife seemed so wearisome, tiresome And dreams could no longer delight. 'Twas the!1 that it broug ht me those lesso ns So lovely that since have sustained · And helped me to bear my cross bra vely Although I find thorns have remained , Which prick when my heart in its dreaming Recalls these lost roses t o mimlThen quickly I reach foa my heart-ease A soot.hing _balm there do I find. The song that I heard in the stillness Last night, brought this scene back t o me, The roses, Hope's pictures and even A dream of what yet I might be. And thoughts of the hearts eare ah! truly The scene had been naught without them Because now this blossom I cherish Mo!'e prized than eartll's costliest gem. _ G.M.


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LABOR- PAST AND PRESENT: No other qttestion is so unsettled, no other question of the presen t day, perhaps, claims and has obtained such close attention both from the statesman and the man of thought as that of labor in its relation to capital and to the well-being of the laborer himself: Books have been written on the subject, theories have been advanced and warmly defined by its frie nds, politicians have declaimed themselves hoarse in discussing it, laws have .been established for its benefit, but notwithstanding all that has been said and doue, the cause of l-abor has advanced put slowly, if it has advanced a t aU, and the questiorf'remains one which perhaps only a revolution wi ll or can settle. That all who labor are fu lly awake to the injustices of which ·they are the victi:ms, that they are d issatisfied and are seeking to right their wrongs, is a fact so evident that he who ean mrty reau. In whn.t other sense can the tel'lns Socialist, Anarch ist, Nih ilist, Communist, be understood than as so many mottoes expressing grievances, and the desire and determination to better the con dition of labor. But has there not been a timewhen therel::ttions of labor and capi tal were more friendly, a time when the worker was contented with his hire? 'T is truesucb. a period once ex isteu and this too during an age which modem civ ilization is accusto med to refer to with contempt a nd to citlt false!y •·the dark ages." In thnt !lge, · when the Catholic f 1ith wus the guide >tnd monitor of Cat holic people the w ealthy possessed their good without fear of disturbance and the poor were not forced by long co ntinu ed wrougs to cry out for justice. T he men of tllosc days indeed , knew a lmost nothing of the science of political economy, were little versed in the q uestion of "supply a ud demand," but deep down in their hearts was a strong l'ense of justice, a living, ever present sentiment of charity and an acknowledgement of a common brotherhood. In our day the l-ohrase " li ve and let live" are mere sounding words, but t ben it was a living active principle. The employer did not amass wealth at the pt'ice of the unjust sufferings of others but wished thooe who served him to share proportionately in his prosperity. Moreover not only did the balance of public opinion not incline towar<ls the wealthy, as is too frequently the case in o nr day, but both it ami the law itself were directly and explicitly in tlle interest of the lower classes. That the case is such may be easily disco.vered by any one who will take the trouble to consult the statutes of Edward and Alfted, or the historic romances in which the customs of tbat 'age are described . Not only were public opinion and the laws favorable

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to the righ ts and causes of labor, but all who lived in cities or villages whether they labored at manu al labor or were engaged in some one of tl1e trades, all were united in organizations ·called "guilds" in which also the employer and manufacturer bad membership . To-day the very proposal of such a thing would be treated as a j est, yet we see that it was not only p os~ib le but a reality in those "dark," unlettered times. In these all the opposing questions which must necessa rily arise between the divergent interests of the employer and his employees "Yere peaceably and satisfactorily arranged. If t he employer ban any. complamt against any of his workmen; if one thought the hours of labor too long, or the other too short; if the former considered the wages demanded as too high, or the latter contended for better wages, the grievances w ere discussed at the meetings of t he guilds, and whatever was decided upon was accepted as final. Not only these questions ·were a.micahly sett l<~d b ut another one also which is such a source of dissension now-a-days betwef,n the mechanic and his emyloyer, the question namely of the number of apprentices to be permitt.ed to a shop employing a certain number of men, was regulated to 'the satisfaction of both parties. Among man uf,teturers also the principle was not cheap goods for a low price , but substantial wares for honest prices; not which could procluce the cheapest · but the best article of merchandise. Nor were these all the ad vantages which the workmen then enj oyed. For the factories were built for the most part not in crowded citi<:'s, but in small villages which often derived their origin and names from the proprietor of the factory. E~,.ch workman also possessed his seperate dwelling with a garden attached w)1icb he could cultivate in leisure hours. Dict he or any meml •er of his fami ly fall sick, d id he me<.::t with any misfortune, did he strive to better his cond ition, be was certain to fbd in his •lmploycr a.friencl desirous of his welfare, one who did not stop at good wishes and ad vices, but extended more substantial aid. In truth the employer lived among his workmen as a good Jatber of fam ily, who considers it his duty to look after the temporal and moral well-being of t.bose engaged in his service. What has been said of thosl~ occupied in trades is _tr ue also of t hose who tilled the soil. Proprietorship of land was not so common then as it afterwards became; yet altllough the land:> cu ltivated by them were for the mos t part held und er the title of rentals, nevertheless the rents demanded were such that the tenants could look forward to their payment without that anxiety, which shortens the life, and d estroy~ the energy of the tenants holding lands in European countries to-day, and

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co uld hope with certainty for a comfo rtable li ving as t b.e r es ult of thei r iabors. Land was ob t~Lna ble at reasonable rent for t he r e1rson that many r eligious orders of t he Chu rch, which w t-r •~ scatteTecl throu ghout the various co u nL ries of E llrope, either posse;;sed lfw d granted to t!Jem d irec;Lly by the crowu, or !tad purchased them from the origina l ownero., or held them as bequest s, b estowed by t he donors perhaps in ex piation of past sin, or in fur Lherance of some pions obj r-ct. .These reli g ious men and wom en, belo i1g in g to religi ons orders, being by t heir mocle of li fe free fr om all ::J.mbitiou s de~ i res , desi ring spiritual nether than ternporal riches, dev oted direct ly as m::w y of these ordet's were to works of ch ~r i ty, it is not to be wonder ed at, if thei r t enants found them to be easy masters, nor that they would clioose rntller to rent land from the mounste ry or abbey than from other hwd erl pl'l.prie tor s. But were not these latter propr ietors o! land inclil;ed from self-interest to keep up the price of land a nd obtain from the r enters · of it the hig llest priceF> ? Perllaps: and they might hav e attempted t o do so , if they were the on ly .owners of land. But from the very fac t that there were other and lenient landhrcl s tlH\.)' were cona pelled by tbe competi tion of rents to con form theirs to that. esta blished by the monast eri es. But there is also a nother r eason fu r the leniency of th e secu lar land-owners and that is, the bon cl offaith comm on to tenant and landi'orcl an d the principl e of clansb ip, which was not yet extii1cl, and whi ch united the master and the vassal by the ties of fideli ty and affection. T he men of t hose clays were indeed men of strong passions, b ut not lef s strOJ~ g was tl.e power of fnith aml conseq uen tly, it is not wonde r fu l that, i f at Li mes they were inclin ed to oppress their subj ects , they gave a r eady ear t o th e voi ce of the minister of r ei igion when he preached me1cy and clemency. But if we read the history of tllat pe riod, we scarcely fiucl a record, except in some few in eli vid ual instances, of any desire , or attempt t o impose unjust burdens on 'those who could ill bear th em. On the co ntrary, as has bee n said, their existed a deep feeling of devotion and affection on the p>trt of the serf towards t!Je master, who in turn, while he t hough t little of devastating the t erritories of !Jis en emy and equal, not only d id not act tyran ni cally towards those who were nncl er his d ominion, but looked to their welf<tre in time of ei ther peace or war. If th e ser f Look up arms to <1 efend his mast er's cause, during bis ab ~enc e, 1be lady o£ the castle mingled among those who were left behind, .;aw to t heir com.fort, healed their ills, (:tor sometimes she was the only d octor in t he neighborh vod ), prepared the lint a nd dressed the wounds of the sold ier, a nd, if the father or son should fall in battle, supported the survivors of the fam ily, unLil they were able to care for themselves.

Ancl it was this protection cit the re rsons , and consideration for the w elfare of their vassals whi ch gave ri$e t o that devoti6l'i~ ·{l.q_d fidelity w'ht c~ the vassal ex hi bi ted to hi s lord. At f10\ tim e an<l in no land except where the Catholi c faith prev?.ileCI, can ther e be "fo und such confirle 1~ ce ·and humble submission on th e one hancl, an•'! s n~;h ·sympatlly and aftection on the other; nmvllCre do we discover similnr mutual ch:trity ancl brotherhood preniling. It cannot be sn.id to owe its ex istence to the politica l condition s of t he times, nor clic! it takE> its rise from ti es of blood; for tho ngh, no dp nbt.. tbe lat te r wss not without its in flu ence, yet we know tb a.t wh erever pro_ t estrwtism hns obtain e<l the control t his oharity and brotherhoorl qnick!y di sn.ppe~ r efl. It owed its origi\1 th en to the influmwe of the Cath olic Ghmch, an d it io only where that r eligion has never lost its hold on the people, that any vestiges of sentiments so conclucive to t:,e peace :~ocl prosperity of n. p@'(')ple, h:we escaped th e mvag<>s of time. Where bnt in Norm andy anrl Brittany, ofFra·n ce (Catholic races) do th e r ich live in the mi.dst of tlleir tenan ts on such :1 footing of equality and love'? '\Vh o that has read o£ the Wllr of the peasants of La Vend ee has not been strnck by th eir dev otion, am irl st the severest trials, to thei r masters? Ancl, on the oth er hand, who does not know of t he uprisings of t.he peasants of the Netherlancls ag,dn st the nobility at the very first ap pearance of Protestantism? Bllt to retur n from this di g ression. Thi s was t he happi est period for th e peas!'tn try and t he artiz:l.n. It W>ts then thrtt E uglancl obtained the titJe of ' ' hnppy Enghmcl," "merry England." But a change cn.rn e gnJdDally over the spirit of the time~ . As men's faith coolecl, self interest g rew strq nger, the landlord 11nd t he employer of bbor beoame more ex nc cing, and the condi t ion of labor more strai tened. The vassals, 'tis tru<>, were bound to t he soil wb ich they Cctltivated in so imwh that they co uld not leave it without the kno wledge and conse nt of their lord. B nt were they less free than those who now delve in th e bowels of th e ea rth for wnges which are tmcertain and scarcely sufficien t to sustain life ? Neither cou ld they acqu ire Lhose comforts which modern machinery and ehea.p labor pL:tces within th e reach of the vast maj i)rity of the people, but th ey possessed that without which even riches i ~ a curs"): they posse ~·sed contentment, somet9ing which, as experi ence daily •proves, is a total stranger t o the modern work man . But it was not until the "blessed" and "gloriods" Reform ation of Luther gave loose rein to man's natural selfis hne ~s, t.bat the condition of the artizan aml in fac t of all who were forced to obta in th eir liv elihood by labor, beca me really serious. F or, altho ugh t he Church cnnnot change the nature of its followers, yet she has always had the power o£ res-

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whose usa~es tbey wel?.e strangers. Then it was and only sence of six months, are with us once more. then tb:a.t the chHth1g alms of tb1e state took the place · -- We fo11got to mention before the much appreciated ofspontaj'leous christian . charity;. theH it was that t.he acqusition of a fine instrutnent, a ne.w Fischer piano for p00r house, 110w the fo.rced and iast refuge of the o:ld the pa1:lor. It is j,ust the thing we needed, and is a veriand friSJndkess poor, usurped tt,le place or that care t~tble "daisy" in touch, tone, and every way. which fo,t·ooerly was1 free ly and bountHuUy bestowed -Alex Prof. Grang-er scored snch a success last sunby h:iurl1y neigh hots ot cb.aritah le masters. day as manager of the ''Juvenile Trot~pe" that he is The law also added its 'burdelil. Statute after statute, thinking of going on the toad. an favoring the tich and the employer, followed each ~ Dannie wants to know. who it is puts in all these Gther in qa.i~k succession;. the public stocks, the brand- "smil1ng" locals. Professional secret, Dan·. ing iron and the whipping post, (mo(lern inventions) - The Singing Glasses were reorganized last Thurs·thei1 first came i11to vogue; and aU who refused to toil day under most favorable auspices·. Ye local Editor views rp.r the wnges which the law established no mntter how- with untold satisfac·tion, exultation, the re~awakeBiug of soever ~mJust, wer(') forced ·to undergo the degradation "The choir," and .chimes in with the chorus of its lauand pain of the tirs1f, or the tortures of the others. ders, wlw with one aceord proclaim the singers a sourc.e But the law, eithel· fearing the growing intelligence hitherto unavailing of edification and of enjoyment. anc} pow·e r of labor, or weary gf settling private disputes, The several classes of the eollegiatu department use as gJ;adually aba11doned its coerCive measures and left. the a text book the "Roman Hymnal." The class of thtl battle to he !ought out by tile parties interested in the theological department taught by Rev. E. L. Rivard · contest. Bcit !'tttbough it no longer forces the workman, c~ S. V. use tbe RomaR MissaL Prof. Therien and willing or unwilling to accept the wages which the Prof. Brouillard teach the senior classes of classical manufacturer determi n(')s,. yet it has never ce~sed to favor students. Prof. Dote. drills the juhiors and minims. - Joe has traded his billiard table for the turning the. prejudice of the other. As a result, the laborer, who is by no means unconscious M the injustiee imposed on pole; and now they say he has a peculiar "turn ot body" him, is dissatisfied with his con<lition and is determined instead o£ mind. - Mr. R. A. BaJlinger, of the Kankakee OhiPf, has 130 longer to en~lure it . .fie may M deceived as to .the means by which J,Je accepted an invitation from Rev . .Fr. Marsile C. S. V. may ol!tah1 what is ju:Stiy owing to him; but who can to lecture before the students on Saturday Feb. the 12th. blame him if goaded to d.esperation by indifference and . We have it for certain that Mr. Ballinger will discourse on ~eftishness of capital, and with no guide ·but his reason, "Elocution," a subject which will not fail t.o interest l;1e adop,t s the prinC:iple 0f force to obtain this end? The and instruct all who will have the cl1ance to heat the taw gives him but 'little protection, is frequently abor- gentleman. We respectfully invite our Kanlmkee friends tive, a:nd is easily put aside by the possessors of wealth. to the treat. - Mrs. Geo. Letourneau, the estimable lady of one Or C<J,l:l fault he found with him if he accept as true the pdnciple of his employer, . i'everyone for himself and of Bourbonnais' ea:rly settlers, and mother of Messrs. the devil take the hindmost?" This is the question George, Robert, Philip, Oswald and Arthur Letourneau, which makes the ruling powers of Europe tremble and all ft>rmet students here, died in Kar.kakee, Wednesday is beginning to disturb the money holders and politicai Jan. 19th .., and was buried Saturday ,Jan. 22nd., in the men of.this country. :Blow it will b~ settled, whether by Grove Cemetery. Her funeral obsequies took place in law or revvl~1tion, (for tQ that i~s~~L it may come) wbo the Village Church; all the students. assisted . 'All the members of the numerous family were present, some ean prop~esy? from very distant homes. We tender the bereaved our O'B. stneere condolences.

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- C. I·hrl!Jour takes a tt·ip to Ch icago this afternoon. ,_ Sam wants to know if that St. Paul I<'e Palace SENIOR DEPARTMENT. won't melt in summ er. ---~h~·~UCT. · . - Rev. Fr. Marsile mane a business trip to Chicago R. Fitzgerald, T. ,J. O'D01111~q, T. Burns, P. Sa.ffer the fore pilrt of tlJe wee!\ . - Am o11g the milny visitors to the college during J. Suarth, P. Granger, and A. Mu.ehleRpfordt. DrsTrNGOISHED-L. Grandchamp, T. E. O'Donualcl. the past two weeks were Mr. and .Mrs. Powers, Mrs. McDonald, q,nd l\Irs . Ti em ey, all of Chi cRgo. JUNIOR DEPARTMENT. - It was all aj ok e about those three breaking the W . Lehman. camera last Thnr.scla.y. DrsTINGursmm-T . Maloney, 0. Bernud, .f,...l\!Iar:cotte. - Mr. John Su:n'th, our new chapel organ ist, execu l\UNIM'S DEPART ME NT. tes very ni cely. -An eleg::tnt Web:;ter's unabridged has been placed L. F all ey, J as . Tierney, J. Bell. DtsTINGUISI-IED- H. Lingle, H. Culver; T. Fri·edma!1, in the reading room. The Scientific American will be on E. McDonald. file n ext week. · - The Allar Soci ety thanks Mr. Suarth for a handsome gift of artifici al flovver~, <·.onsisting of a wreath of roses, two l::trge b :mqnets, lilies, etc., they grace our humble MUSIC AND LITERATURE. altars well. - Rev. M.A. Dooling C. S. V. has in his cosy room It is stili' urrclecided as to where the re mains of Abbe a very beau liful pai-nting, gift of a Chicago lady. The Liszt will be finally removed. picturl'l is a bunch of !lowers executed with mnch naRumor has it tllat Gladstone made more from !lis essay on L ocksla.y Hall than Tennyson on the poem turalness, art, and taste. - The Examinations are going on. Sensations are itself. M. Renan's late drama, L' Abesse cle Jouan-e, was common. - Tbc c::tse of Celeste H., accused by Justin R. and recently hissed off the ParisiaH stage on. accou nt o.f its other sehool fellows of serious breaches ot r eading-room extreme licentiousness. and society etiquette i~ still pending, and will probably .Musical papers all agree that Wagner's music is C<)DS culminate in H.'s being depriver1 Qf pie and cigarettes tantly growing in popu larfavor in spite ofth<;J ridicnle cast upon it by many. for a montl1. - Ang. N[uehlenpfurdt received yesterday a letter The last work of Cardinall\'Iannin g, The Eternal Pnestcalling him home. He had the happiness of pass ing his hoocl, has been transl ated into no less than eight rliffcrent examination before the news. reached him. w·e trust languages: German, Dutch, French, Portuge~e, l:3panish, nothing serious will dcl::ty llis speedy retum to the se- Flemi sh, Italian, and Hungarian. Gen. Lew, Wallace hopes to have his new novel ht cond fiddle stand. - Rev. A. L. Bergeron, and Rev. D. B. Toomey, the hands of the publishers by March. Rev. R Hammer of Chicago, Rev. J. Les[tge, a11d Bro. D. Dionne C. S. V. 0. S. F., of La Fayette, Ind., has just finished a German of St. George, visited the College during the past weelL iranslrlti6n of 'Vallace's Ben -Hu-r. - Charles H. Ball, we regret to say, has beei1 detainGilbert and ::inlli van's long looked for opera !las been ed home on account of the late demise of his father, put on at lrtst. Tile name is Rudely-gore, and the scene Mr. Owen Ball. We offer our heartfelt condolences to is !rtyed in England. It does not ex aclly please the crities, but many ofthem adm ire the Ooertw·e and E11,tr'Acte. our sorrowing clitssmate and the fami ly. - The Devils had a strike last week for lower wages. The pro3pects are very poor for a sensation su ch as the The following are G. R., r. H., V. R, E. M., C. M., lYlilmclo produced . The latest Parisian musieal cr::tze is Salvayre's opera and E. G. - The latest arrival amongst the devils is vVeeds. of "Egmont." The work is · a tr1J,nslation and an adap- At this late hour we are informed that the coming tation of Goethe's poem by that name. lecturers are as follows; Rev. C. P. Foster, of Chicago, Gounocl will soon leave for Rome by orders of Pqpe Ill., Rev. F. Rielly of Gilman, Bev. C. Peborde D. D., Leo XIII to set to music spme of the latter's poems. and Ill. Prof. Finn, of the Faculty, and Mr. R . A. The Pope is a great admirer of Goun-od's Faust, and Ballinger as announced above. has often Pxpressed a desire to have r eligions · words - Some t ime ago we heard Tilaire say that he was · set to the cathedral hymn in Faust, but J:hinks the music devil no moTe; since he stood llis examination he has too th~atrical for tile sarctuary . ... , P . W. changed his mind altogether.

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in the many islands of the Adriat ic, and how in a short time Venice, young and fresh, arose from out of the waters as Venus from the foam of the sea.In two villages 6f westren France the opposition to During the Crusades she developed her naval force the new law for secularizing instruction manifests, and commercial infinance; and it was under one of ber itself very openly . The new in;;trn ctors, who have come Doges that Constantinople was conquered. The discovto stay, are trented to many broad intimations that they ery of a new way by sea to the E ast Indies was a blow are not wanted. In one of these villages there is a pro- to Venitian power. and from that time began her decline hibition to the butcher-s to sell the "man of the new which was consummated by her annexation to Italy in law" any m<>at. ~o Master and fam ily must live on 1866. imported viands at their own cost. After this preambule, the R ev. Fr. told us of his first The thorough French republican who writes these experience of tbe gondolas whose balancing is like the notes to L' Univen of P aris, adds: one thinks he is easy swing of a hammack,-and o£ the principal monudreaming when be reads these things; well, these things ments of the floating city. He spoke of the famous are nevertheless occuring in 1886 in a department of piazza of San Marco, one of the most beautitill places in the vVest which is certainly a part of the republic one Europe, with its long colonnade, its superb cathedral, ancl indivisible. the marble palace of the Doges, etc., not forgetting its In the same place the agreement is also that ?0 barber pigeons with their poetical legend. will shave the too liberal teacher. We afterwards roam with him in gondolas visit.ing At Frossay a sort of interrlict as it were is upon the successively the churches of S. Mafia del Salute the laiCized school, or school-house we better say, for not San Giovanni e Paolo, the Westminster of the Doges, a child has as yet freqnenied it. It is loc•ked upon as a etc., the grand Canal on which we were called to "LepE-r-bouse." Madame Obligat01·e here the head Mistress, admire the palaces of Desdemona, of Othello, of Mocenianrl her Mom>ieur, are on very spare terms with the go in which dwelt Byron, etc. Finally we were taken public functionaries ofthe local ity. The municipality re- to the Lido, .the famous summer resort or Italy. fuses everything like the buteher, SJ the boar(~ must Returning by the setting sun we admired in the dissupply its own feeding, lighting, furnitur e, books, gro- tance Venice clothed with the dying glory of the day's ceries, '111 by importatio:1, and on no salary. monarch, enthroned as a queen on her hunJred islands; but the more we moved forward, the halo that crowned Venice faded, and we saw her as she stands to-day with but a rest of her past splendour. Such was Venice THE LECTURE. once the queen of the seas, the rival of Tyre, the FIRST OF THE SERIES-ON VENICE. bulwark of Christendom, against Mahomet's invading aru,y. "0 for one hour of blind old Dan dolo!" but Br R~:;v . M. J. MARSILE, C. S. V. Dandolo is dead and Venice lies in the grave! The Rev. Lecturer added that he had admired the c0mmercial spirit of London, the beauty of P aris, the On Sunday evening last, the st.ucleuts were treated to immortal souvenirs of Rome ; but in none of those cities · a most enjoyable entertainment, the first of the series had he enj oyed himsdf as in Venice. There when tired of winter lectures. T he band faithful to its plac~ at the by a l'•ng voyage, he found what he had not seen any bead of the lisL opened the programme with the Ga- where, a shelter from dust and noise, an island of peace votte "Gleam of Gold." Master Ricou was next in order on the cool waves of the blue Adriactic, something with a declamation. Dennis proved to us as he has so pleasant as the realization of a dream. often before, that he is a splendid speaker. After a piano selection, Overture to Little Tycoon " The Carnival of Venice," yes, that was the next, and from Mr. Wilsta.ch, which was also very well relished, to say that R ev. Frs. Mainviile and Rivard sang 'l.dmir- the minims under tbe direction of Prof. Granger, ably is by no means wasting the ad verb. This was a produced their sketch entitled "Tried for Bragging." fitting introduction to Rev. Fr. Marsile's lecture which The Mauager deserves a great <:leal of praise, and it is followed . As he had promiscd,~ he spol\e ofVeuice, and sure that tiaicl judge, said witness, said Arthur, said the following is a resume ofwhn.t he said: policemen, and said jurymen aquitted themselves splen':!;he Rev. peaket· opened his lectore by glancing over didly. The band gave as the finale the baritone obligato, the early history of the Republic of Venice. H e told us "Marengo." After a tew moments of chatting, we retirhow in the fifLh century a handfnl of people from ihe ed delighted with the evening's entertainm ent. Nm·th of Italy, fleeing before the hordes of Attila, settled Who is next on the list? A l:>INGULAR CASE OF BOYCOTTING.

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of in~1pi ration for the greatest minds of Christendom, and they ai'e not yet exhausted. Let Catholic literature, then, with its hea.ven and its earth, its God, and spirit,;, the Christian hero, ete," be our vast field. ' In the s~me Review ·''The ,-, Mon'ks and Civilization ," "History of Christian Art;" " Condition of Woman under Pagan Civilization" and other articles on topics· of the day are replete with interest. . BesidestheaboveTheDonahoe's Magazine, B lackwood' s Magazine, TheScientijic .American, and others have lately entered the reading room.

Father Coppen's "Introduction to English Rhetorie" has the merits of being shJrt and at the same time sufficiently comprehe1 sive. It is therefore practical, a very valuable quality in om· age. The work is especially esti mable in that its tenden cy is to ellucat.e the heart of the student, "to throw h!s affections aright." It shou ld be adopted, for its admirab le adaptation thereto, by our Catholic sdwols, Acad emies, and Colleges. We sin cerely thank the editors of the P enman's Art Journal for a handsome collection of"Ames Copy Slips - GOLDSMITH-THE POETfor Self Instruction in ·writing'' which are certainly elegant, and, as Profe~sor Frazer has pronounced them, almost as good as a teacher. Th e slips, some 40 in num·westminister Abbey has }Jeen the last restingplace of ber, are moveable, and may be obt::Lined from D. T . Ames, 205 Btoadwn.y, N ew York. They are sent as a many a glor:ous charttc:ter in the annals of English history. Poet and artist, statesman and orator, quietly premium to snscdbers to Penman:s ATt Journal. We received wrth compliments of Prof. Lyons ofNotn~ sleep, the "sleep that knows no waking,'' side by side, Dame Indiana, the S cholastic Annual as usual full of undtlr the dome of that memorable structure. 'Twas fitamusing and instructive reading. We return Prof. Lyons ting that the ~eene which had opened the well-spring of so much gP.nius slwulrl be the monument of its past an<l our sincere thanks . It would repay any young student to read the article present great.ness. But he who visits these tombs of the on "Nature v'{orship" in the American Catholic QuaTte1·- men who mad~ England the land where dwelled the ly R eview and learn tllence how to be on his guard a- •'lords of humanldnd," will sadly miss the name of him gainst th~ dangerous tendency of modern literature and who gave to a nountry not his own a brigllter halo of of modernize<l art of the so-called " cultured'' school. glory than any trio of poets of ~ore modern times. No, Zolaism, or natural ism, in a word the worship of the I forget: He will see the nam e of Goldsmith, be will behold a monument er6cted to his memory, but the "Travbete humaine, h[ls become the newest ·ideal. This rr,odern iden.J, modernism, does away with an- eller'' lies not beneath it. Wanderer in life, he was descient Greek classica li sm, and mt>diaevahsm, discards tinecl to mutation in death; for what remained of his the deity altogether, or rather Deifies everything. Em- once restless being was to be entombed within the walls erson would substitnte instead of established creeds the of the stately abbey-.but be died a debtor! He to whom sentimental belief that we are "clouds, the air serene, human kind acknowl~dges an unbounded debt o£ gratietc.'' Renan advises the youth "to eat, drink, and make tude, to whose spirit three generations of minds both 1ove; The rest is DOt worth a snap!" . ... Can 1my thing of sw:ain and noble, have owed the inspiratioll of a more rotten, poisonous, be instilled into tbe minds of clleerful contentment and a high order of philantrlropy, youth than &uch doctrine, presented, too, under the fair he died with a debt of a few thousand pounds, and this · mnsk of literature? I£ corruptors of youth were still made effectually debarred him from a ln»t repose among his to drink poison, surely many of our modernists would kindrerl spirits 1 P altry sum! when weighed in the balance with the infinitely precious gifts the Poet bestowbe presen ted their own potions. We must not allow ourselves to Le duped by these ed on mankind. But let us not monm the change! Wbere'er the bodv insincere writers who often despise in their hearts their own p~ges and those who devour them. They present tbe of that unfriend ed lover of hum an nature lie, it matte;s guilded fruit andlmow well that its emptines~ will starve little! His soul still lives in all his writings, and these are us. They hwgh inwardly. at our incrP.asing appetite! they his only fitting tomb, the monument alone worthy of his take nn.ture's God away and make us adore nature. The memory. 0 P oet of human nature! thine is the honor, sun-worship of the Persians becomes poetical, and so the thine the glory of having preached a philanthropy unonions of the Egyptiflns, the majestic oak of the druid known to antiquity, not understood by modern tim es. Though once thou couldst not claim one spot of aU the Celt .. .. What we must do i~ to seek the true, tb e good the beautiful, the grand ideals o£ Catholic Art anrl Cn~ world as thine, now tbou art truly "creation's heir," tbolic L i t~ratnre. These subj ects have bP.en the souretl and all the worl<i is thine! Humanity claims thee as its


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frj·eprl and ben.e factqr; and the sentiments which eve.r uphe·l d thy waveri11g, wandering spirit, w.hich · ha~e found expressi~n in thy writings, are the treasured possession of the millions who ponder them. 0 l.lumble Poet! who clidst confess thyself as hot sharing in the luxury ofdoihg good, and y<;t amirl the ceaseless shifts of thy short .career, ever diclst "pursue the goorl though it did :fl•y tl1y gr%p," thy bumilit,y hal'). raised thee far, far abov·e ih~ wilde~t ambition of the human mind. 0 ilH,lSt ~ilcl P oet! mild amid the tempestuous tossings of advt:rsity~mild in t.hy judgments or men, though trq ubl'ed in thy inner-self-thy after life, tuy career of glory, h:~ s shed (!ver thy name sueh an atmosphere of the good, the touchi:1g, and tb{:) beautiful, tbat, sbielded behind it, the fcwlts and tog sins of thy earthly career are lost to the eye tbat would eondemn! Tbere is :n. pathetic meaningness in the words of Johnson, uttered in fi.ttir)g t·ebuke to the man who coul(l be .so b.eartless as to mention the wild ness of Goldsmith ere the Temple-earth had well closed o'er his remains, "Dr, Goldsmitb was wild, sir, but he is no more." Gold. smith had, indeed , been wild; tbrough thirty years of recklc·ssn.ess, amid the harassing wants of poverty; now making his way throngb the crowded towns ofF'la.nders, with but a pittance in his pocket, now charming ·t he mnsic:loving swain of France with his lute, thus se(:uring his scanty meal, now revelling in the gaudy scenes ofPm is anct throwing himself with the madness of youth into t he vortex of i-t.s seef.h ing pleasures, until after a shoTt sojourn in the snnny clime of Italy we find him p.ensive and sad an'long the Alpine summits pondering on t he soc ial conr1ition of nation.,, and scarce do we recognize the wandering Irish lad in the stfti(l phi losophy of the "Travell er." He was wild; but his wasnotthe libert i11e wildness which ciJ aracterizcd the geni ns of a Byron, anrl which cast a permrment gloom over that othet·wise brilliant. career. Goldsmith's wilJnesss was " not the expression ofbis n·fLture; it was the effect of strong pre-disposing cai.1ses. t-lis Waf? an impulsive, ambitious nature, ann brooked not insult. But poverty is the loadstone for :nsult, and the more refined tlie character of the poor man, the deeper aud more lasting the . pang. V'ire can understand, in l1 manner, the terrible emotiOJlS tanned into flame in the breast of young Goldsmith, when struck by his tutor. We can conceive the cause of that utter disregard of the conventionalities of society, when we consider tbe "spurns that pat i en~ merit of tbe unworthy takes," the frowns of his colleagues and the cold <Hsdain which the uncout h and brogue-speaking lad enC'onntered' on all sides. Add to this his ambition which ·was the guidfug star of his wandering steps, and 'we', can forgiv~ · the errors of a character which und er more favorable circumstances might not . hav:n left to posterity t)le thoughts which shed s<,lace on

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the heart-sick, and render pensive the gay. To one who analyzes it well this character is truly a paradox. That the libertinism ofa Byron should burn deep into f1.!most every page of his writings, is a matter of no wonder; for "Don Juan" and such like are but faithful counterparts of their designer. But that amid the wanc1erings, recldess wanderings too, abroad, and in the midst of gaming- and the bowl, at home in the <·toweled metropolis by the Tham es, there should g leam forth the rays of <t splendid philosophy, of humane gentleness, of an unexampled charity ,- a charity which extended itself to the stn.1ggles and the sorrows and the errors ot manldnd,-here is the paradox, here is a mystery which seeks its explanation only in the various springs of the human !teart, and which depends ·for a<·tion on a mightier than human hand. Here we .face two Goldsmiths; the one revelling in the fle eting pleasures of sense goaded on by the emotions of the hour, sinl{ing himself to that level where the line of distinction between brute and mah is almost obli ter:lted; the other div ing· deep into the heart of man there to search its wonderons workings, guidec;l by the love of truth, until he reach0s that point where the human hlends with the divine. The one is the Goldsmith that was to die and be forgotten with all his frailties; the other lives and perpetuates himself in the minds of millions. The poetic works of Goldsmith are not bulky, but tlley contain a mine of thought and ahound througbout in that spirit of good-humor which was so great a characteristic of the man. As an observe!· of men and mam1ers he ranks second to none among English poets. In t.l.le art ot contrast in heightening the effect of his pi<:tures, he has never been excelled. Who that has read his master-pot-.m, "The Traveller," has not been carried along in spirit by the l ively imagery or' the poet, now resting among the Alpine solitude~ ':looking downward where an hundred realms appear," now foll9wing the search for hap piness among· the sons of rrnitful, torrid Italy, passing on t o the rougher climes of the bleak Swiss, to the kindlier skies of France where gentler manners r.ei'g-n, on to where an ampbi11ious world smiles beneath the pent ocean, until he approaches tbe shore of Britain where "stern o'er each bosom reason holds her. state," and forcibly yet willingly is he finally brought to admit with the Poet that "Still to ourselves in every place ·consigned, Our own felicity we make or find ." This poem may well have elicited the warm approbation of Johnson who pronounced it the "finest since the days of Pope.'' His other great poem "the Deserted Village" completed that long and toi lsome march onward to Fame which the P(let had entered. Often had the poor "Traveller" felt faint and overcome while drearily plodding along that rugged path, but his great, full soul was


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not to be subdued by exterior difficulties though at times it seemed to give to the weight of mE::lancholy and despair. Despite the eriticism of Macaulay the "Deserted Village" has ever been 'recognized a.s one of the most pOiJular and effectiv e poems in the language, and its passages once learned never quitthe memory. In the "village School-master" the school-boy finds the theme of his delight. Th e more sober and sensible man otyears loves to pondet· o'er the picture of the "village Preacher;'' while youth r.web in the delineated joys of the once happy village. Bnt these are gone; and the learned man, the ~co nomist, the philanthropist ·may gainsay the reasons adduced by the Poet, yet the heart of man will ever echo t.he emotion of Goldsmith, who seeing the dreary waste, hearing the ·bittern's cry whtre once all was teeming with healthy life, and filled with sweetS(lund, be was forced to exclaim: "0 lnxury! thou curs'd by Hea.v en's decree How ill exchanged are things like t.hese for thee; How so thy potions, with insiduou3 joy, Diffuse tbtse pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown. Boast of a florid vigor not their own ; At every draught more large and large they grow, A bloated mass ofranl{ unwieldly woeTill supped their strength, :<no evllry part unsound, - Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round.'' J. S.F.

PERSONALS. Kehoe.-Rev. Father James Kehoe, '80, has been appointed Pastor of St. Ann's Church, West Covington, Kentucky. Prior to this he bad been assistant pastor in Lexington. Our congratulations to the new pastor. Keboe-O'Neil-At iliis same time we hear also of the appointment of Rev. Fa~her Thomas Kehoe, '85 brother of the former, as assistant pastor in Newport, Kentucky. Father Tom had thus far remained at the Ca. thedral in Covington. He now changes position with Father James O'Niel, '82, who had lately been assistant in Newport and who is now at the Cathedral. Goulet- Wi.tb pleasure we leam that Father Charles Goulet, '76, has been appointed pastor off\ new French parish in Pullman, Illinois. We are told that there are now about one hundred families in this new city who intend to build themselves a church in the near future and retain among tbemsel ves a resident pastor who may thus be enabled to help and console them. May God bl e~s their good works. McCann-Jennings-At the Christmas Ordination in Baltimore, Messrs. John McCann, '84, and J. Jennings, also '84, both advanced to Deaconsbip. We rejoice with

them at their approach to the goal of their holy ambition, the prie&thoo~ Sadlier-With gt<eat'l>leasure do we Jearn of the· or1 dination to the pr·iesthood (Jf Mr. Richard..Saqlier, '84, who :was sudde~ly caller! from "Baltimor~ last (;hristmas, by his Lotdship, 1.\lgr. Borgess, of Detroit, and s.tatio.ned at Marshal.!, ~Iich., assistant pastor. We wish all su.ccess and happiness to the new priest. • . Mooney-It will affor·d pleasure to his mRny friends of former days to learn that Oliver Mooney, '83, is still living the quiet life of the country at his home near Peoria, Ill. He finds many occasions .to enjoy himself there and takes time easy as it h; clealt to him by Providence. Mosset-Gus Mosset, ' 84, "all tqe way from Kentucky," is working manfully with his father in the boating business on the Ohio. He has grown up to be quite a man and would surprise his former college friends if they were to meet him now. Gillespie- Charles and Andrew Gillespie, '84, are pursuing their studies in St. Mary's, Dayton, Ohio. Hegler- vVe learn that George Hegler, '85, is now employed as second clerk on his father's boat which runs from Cincinnati to New Orleans, on the Mississipi. He finds this a most pleasrtnt job.

EXCHANGES. A home ruler, where we had hardly expected him, writes an enthusiastic "Plea for Ireland'' in the Htgh School Wm·ld. He argues the Irish to be a naturally gifted people whom tba penal laws have crushed, an oft repeated but none the less a too long abiding trntll. The page is written in a lively sty le. The indignan_t writer in one place exclaims-" Why! tongues of fire should recount, and pens of blood inscribe the horrors ofEngland's dealing with that isl and ." But the end of enduring wrongs is near. Soon we can take the silent harp from Tara's wall... The "H~a ven's Gate" jokes are not in good taste. The editorial thoughts on the new year and the old /are put quite tastily. The stude-nt who replied that he sought education "because educated .:uen make t)le best citizens"' gave the shrewdest answer. The World seems to us improved and more h1teresting than heretofore. Who is guilty ofwritingthat little French "Romance" for the lllini? "Ils s'endormissent" is not a French tense. The last two stanzas seem an attempt at blank verse which, you know, is not French either. The Kankakee Chief publishes an interesth:g war story entitled; "At the Front:" We understand that the Chief intends adding a French supplement to its weekly issue running daily issues also. The idea is a C!lpital one and can easily enough, itseems, be carried out. No doubt a 'French page would be much


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the population of quebec. The blind enlightener who wrote tbis article tries to soo1.he hrs infirmity by singing the old tune, np;os ol<l, hnt enduring-, M everything that gOf>s with 1\Crnnk. Enlr since tbe unjustly called reformation was nble lo turn a crnnk, nntl il. hath turned many, it. playerlarno11g 11thers tbi11 false air "The Church is the cause of lhrk Ages." Bystnnrlers, the whole world, cricfl ont to the i111leflltign.hle music cbnrner-'' It is not so: Tbt! Church wn.s even then civilizing harb:lrinns nnrl moulding the nntions of Europe:" ... It is to no purp·~e: the "box'' will play oo other tune, and the churncr still chum~ the s:lme; bad luck to our ems. ln the first plnce \be Catholic Church cloes not enjoy more privileges in Cnnad.\ than the Protestant C'bnreh OOt>;;; enuh llll!i equal prh·ileges in its own sphere. Secondly, wlmten~ r wrnlLb the pilfering Engli~h h:\Ve nut conf~t·nt.ed, nnt to S!\.}" stoler,, that she sti 11 h:l-'1, that ~<be m:tkes tn produC'C ns any eorporation may; 10he acfJnires vn~ter mean!' ll..'! le!{itimatdy ns the Grnnd Trunk Comp:wy f(Jr inst<lncc; an1l this incr en.~e she u~cs in building l.'oll<'g>'s nu1l mainLnining asylums, f'te .• which mostly owe ~beir fouollatiiJII to the g~nNous zeal of the Catholic ministry .... Non Catholics receive their g(J(wily share or the allocation from the .Jesuits' cnnfis{'~'\t~d property, aml rio not ol!lect to it. To s.'ly ~hat. th(' Cbnroh 1!! the cause of thl' ullegcd poverty and ign"ranC"f' of Qu€'ht·c i11 ju~t about as true R8 what is repwaehe<i Ireland aftN the enriching and enlightening tn.•atment of motherly England. Rob th1' nat.ioo nn•t close her bt'(•ks anrl then say she is poor And ignornnt: How m~gnanimously truthful: Aller the deport.fttion, E":t[l")rL'ltion, bllnishment., expulsion, or extermin!ltion if y(l\1 will, of the Af'.'lrfian.."-naturally crune the turn of the t..<tme C:mndians. Who rlncs not koolf that nner tbe conquest all those, naturally 80 eir· cnms\anct:>rl RS to be lc:ulc~ in the politieal, material,ancl t!OCia.llldnocement, iett. de~pniring, for Io'rnnee with their m~na and their talents; 1-:ngl:md, in the mcnntime, pour. in~ in her men and 11hinir.g ~<ilv-er upon \be shore of tbe De'lf conquered. country! All me:ms s~med good to crush \be Jo'rencb, lo take all influence from them. to

depri,·e them of rights guarant"ed by mo;;;t !'O}emn treaties. !She thought of changing their langu~ae ns she cli•l Ireland's ano :tlso their fhith-for with tbe anglo O:axon reUgion, truth is a matter of lil.tle importance; s cbsnge in tbis matter is mach akin to CMting olf an old coat= precisely what the Engli:>h did to plcns ;., the great Henry w that be could change wivc,s M onen M he would fancy it. 'Yhnt an etllcifmt ddlizer, too, 8hc has !'Iince been for the luckle.ss nations who have l:K'en made tributnries t•• her exchN}Uer! Call h<'r a civilizing agencj·? Lf><;k at the iliol·adnring Indians to whose wbor:;bip En~lanol, for n vet:'· modPrate compen!'-nt!on, furnish(';~ go<llet.s. Everywhere hers is n ~Trrthbiny agen!'y. But the wary Kennock knew well the <lP-ci8h-e moment wh<'n be t~houlrl asst'rt his nationality, hi>< religwn. The Cbnrch wamerl him tlf it. The clergy at once set to the ar<luou, t...'l-o;;k of e•lncatin~ men who would fi~ht for the preser· vstion of what they mc.'lnt to make n national inh<'rit.'lnce, their hmguagl', laws. nnrl relighln. This is a f:tet un..~~nit-rl nnrl nnrleni.tble. 'Kow, our university fricn1l, if the French Cann<lians hnve not as much wcnlth as th<'ir Anglo Saxon neighbors pn•ciscly fnr the n•ason that Capital, the mainspring of nil commercial acti\·it.y wns t.'lken from among them, and also hecausilt.be greatsmn of their energy, instearl of being oevoterl to C'ommcrd::ll pursuits, wn.s used to defcml their most sncrcd rights, tbey compare with ndvant:1ge on the reFpcct of intelligence. To-rlay they have as mtJny schools and collf'g<'s n;; 1lw English, anrl their mE>n nf lett<'rs, 8UCh n.s (-;amenu, Ca.sgrain, Frechette, Chapleau, Ht.> llthicr and a sr·ore of others are ample prOl)f for thr- a!'sertion. The Church uses hcrspiritnnll\uthority only in things pt>rtnining to r<·ligious matter, not mntcrial or political mattt'rs. To-llny those .'iO,ODO, who~c grave England hoper! to rlig, hnve after the hp<.e of a Cf'ntur.r incren~­ od t.o two millions who nrc dispos•·d to t.1ke that pnrt of Mtirmal affuirs which rightly hclrmgs to lh<'m anrl in things political the French arc actually the kl'ystonc in the 1\·rt~h of the C'onfcdcmtion. Thrir co-religionists mrty build railroad~, etc., and the Church is fnr trom di.~onnt!'nancing sncb works in fact these nrc only an out-let for the ~pirit of coloni7«<ttion of wbieh she is the most powerful inslrumE'nt .... T o SI'C what we cnn en ll poverty one neeil only gn to the hy-~trc·cts of Lomlvn. ... That freedom of thought, nnrl hrf'!tth of mental training claimed for non-scct.nrinn erlucation, we knnw well what it amount~ to: a desert W;l..qte of godll"ssncss. iPfirlelity anrt its aecumpanying effect., nlrcndy too nhun· dantly app:>rf'nt in our mirlst. The great geniuses in\·<'n· t.ors, rtlseoverors to lm found within the pnlt> of the Church nre pronf that she dot>s not l."nchain intellectual fr~om; she only preserve;> funrbmentn.l truths from the fooli:-h attempt" of other Erostmt~.


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CATHOLIC NOTES. Cardinal Gibbons bas founded a scholarship in the American College at Rome. One hundred negro converts in Uganda, Africa, were burned alive by their pagan king 1\lonango because they were Christians aud :stud ie.d their catechism in spite of his will to the contrary. A project is on foot to raise $100,000 with which to build a house for aged priests in Missouri. TLe intention is to erect a suitable building for $25,000, and the balance to be invested so that the revenue will support the home. Switzerland is to h:we a Catholic University . The lucky spot of that fair lr.nd whieh will have the honor of possessing such a treasure is Fribourg, a city of about 10,000 inhabitants, almo8t entirely Catholic. 2,500 francs h :w~ beea voted for the work. We read that Cardinal Gibbons is writing a book in which will he exposed the true sentiments of tile Church in regard to the many questions whicb:excite the American Catholics to-day. The Knights of Labor and all Labor Associations, will there be considered with maternal solicitude and given the proper ad vices to keep in the path of Justice and Truth. 'Herr Windthorst, supported by his cl4evoted Catholic party in the German Reicbstag, inflicted a severe wound on Bismark's authority by defeating his military bill which rlemand ed for an increase of the army's means of defense. Bismark in return dissolved the Reichstag and new eleclions must be resorted to. The question at issue is: Shnll the Reichstag be counted anything in the government. Elections will be extremely earnest and noisy. The number of baptisms ef Catholic chilrlren in New York City for the year 1886 is 22,000 out of a total number of births in th e city of 31,319 for the same year. Over two-thirds ol the children born in that city are then Catholic. What is the cause of such a disproportion of births if not the greater moraWy of the Catholic parents in general? A Cath0lic Book Club has been organized in a parish of St. Louis which might serve as an example for many other parishes to follow. An assessment of five dollars is made at the beginning of the year upon each member so that a r espectable suw is obtainecl with which the best periodicals of the day are purchased, and also the most notect literary or controversial works, and circulated among 'tbe members accorrling to their tJtstes and dispositions. This produces the be,;t effect desirable and raises the moral standing of ali the Clul: in a most perceptible manner. The rumor is once more afloat, this time crediLed to a private telegram received in Baltimore from Rome, that

St.. Paul Minn., is to be rals¡e rl to the dignity of an Arch. bishopric, with Bishop Ireland as the first Metropolitan, having for suffragans St. Cloud and two new dioceses to be erected, the one at Mankato the other _ at Winona. Dal~ato is to be divid ed into two Vica riates, a Northern and a Southern, of which latter Bishop M:uty will retain the government. It is sa,id that one of the Mil!ses Caldwell, who gave $300,000 to the riew Catholic University atW:J,shington is to enter the religious life. On the 17 ult., Miss Lena Caldwell gave a dinner to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. Besides bringing together the legal guardians of both sisters whose trust has ended so felicitously, the occasion was honored by the presence of the highest dignitary in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Gibbons, an<l of Bishop Spalding, ]:>eoria, Ill, who is foremost in the university to which Miss Caldwellllas been so munificent. At the conclusion of the dinner, Cardinal Gibbons expres;;ed very beautifully a few words of congratulation. (Union and Times) A miraculous fact is recorded as having lately taken place in Philadelphia. The Temple Theatre of that city was burned down and nothing remained ot it but smoking ruins. The firemen began to search among the wrecks wondering at the strength of the fire when it had melteel pieces of iron and left nothing but ashes of the largest beams in the edifice. The third floor of the building had been a Museum, and there was found in all its beauty and freshness a crucifix on which was represented in wax the dying Saviour. The men stood in awe and reverence and other persons soon followed to view the miracle and returned no less impressetl with what had met their gaze. The following touching and striking account of~• confession in articulo mortis has lately been brougtit und er our notice. A -French army officer told a religious that one day after a battle he had found among those left for dead a soldier, holding a Scapular in one hand and a Rosary in the other, and asking for a confessor. His forehead had been pierced by a ball, which had come out on the other side of the head; the brain could be seen through his fractured skull; in fact, be was in such a condition that nothing less than a miracle could have kept him alive for a moment. Assistance was brought to him; he arose, made hiR confession to the chaplain with great piety, and expired after having received absolution. (Ave Maria) The Pope has found proper to declare the English martyrs, whom we mentioned in our last issue, worthy of the title of "blessed," so that we can pray to them with all security. As they are the vi ctims of Protestant England, it is most appropriate to pray to them for the conversion of that their own country, as well as for the conversion of this which is, in regard to religion, the offspring of England.


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JOHN G. KNECHT,

GROCERS

Tinware and Tin work of all kinds. No 3 ·C ourt Street, .KANKAKEE, ILL.

No. 36 Court Street.

C. P. TOWNSEND.

Outfit,,. for CoLLEGE PAPERS.. _

KANKAKEE, ILJ, ,

East Ave. 1 door south of Knetcth's BIQck.

Send for ' «timates.

WAN~yEBER & CO.,

KANI{:AKEE, ILL.

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un)' place else.

. YIH OLESALE .t. !lET AIL

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Stoves, Iron. Nai-ls and Wagqn wood stock.

East Avenue,

Dealer ir. choicest Groceries, choi ~s t brands of Flour. Keeps on hand constantly a large asst•rtment of F eed and Pro.dnce. Please call and see me before gomg

H. L Crawford & Co.,

HAllDW ARE .

T. O'GORMAN.

·A. Ehrich

EA ~T COURT STREET

DEALER IN

General iltore. I>ealer in Groc.e rics, Dry goods, Hardware, CaLl ery, Uh1sswar e. Also lcceps censtantly on hand 11: large stocll of READY-MADE CI, OTHING,

A CARD.

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Merchant Tailor,

READY-MADE Clothing

'to all whom it may concern. Having adopted the One Price Foundry, ~t Printers' Supplies. H ats and C<lps.-GenVs und erwear. I;Jpeciinen Book and E stiinatea upon System to all my Patrons, I will give :tj)plicM;i()(l . W r. i te for Seoond-ha.nd lisi of Trunks, Valises, Furnishiug Goods. Presses and :M a.chines. a further discount of 10 Per cent to 54 & 56 Franklin S ·t ., Chicago, ll,ls• Wilson Bros' Fine Shirts. , all Clergymen, Professors and StuKankakee '>tone and Lim eGompa•~Y­ NOS. 2 AND 4 'COURT STREET. dents of Bourbonnais College. Call INCOltl', :RATED FEB. 23rcl . 1SG7. Proprietors ol n ~ Celebr ated Kankakee fiat 1\:a.n lrakee, Ill. at the Philadelphi::t One Price Clo.th- Lime stones Qu• .-ri es. ing Hall North W. Cor. of Court St. L. DROLET & BROTHER. F ,esh Wood burned Lime and East Ave. Kankakee, Ill. always on h ~ od. Buy the Emery $3 Shoe Jill. Rohrh e im~r , Prop. KANKAKEE, ILL. -AT-

DROLET BROTI-IERS. 25 Court St., ICan kakee, Ill. C. WOLFE. Barber Shop. Under Umb ach's H arness Stor e1 Kankakee, tll. First Class Work gnaran teea. ,. · Stuclents especially. invited, HAND-lV,lADE .Pure Wax'Candles per lb. 45 ctsMoulded Wax Candl es, " " 38 ct s· Stearic Wax, " " 20 cts: Sp ecial Prices to parties buying in large quanti ti es. Catholic .Prayer nooks 25 cts. upwards. ·;~\~

Groceries, Dry Goods, Yankee Notions. BOURBONNAIS GROVE, ILL.

GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.

BENZIGER BROTHERS,

303-404-1'70-:604-3321

Printers to the Holy Apostolic See,

and hiD other stylet mtw ~e had -of all daalers

JTw Oelewated Numbers,

througlwut, the world.

Joseph Gillott & Sons,

PublisheJ·s and Booksellt?J·s)·

I>e-w York.

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CATHOLIC .I?AMILY"'BIBLES,

Also manufacturers and importers of

With two large clasps aad F ancy Edge $9. gg Sent r ee to' any p:.rt of U. S. on recei'pt of price.

GRAHAM & SONS, Importers of Church Good s, Jobbers in School Books and Catholic Booksellers. 11a S. DesF>la ines 3t. Cor. Monroe ; Ch icago, TIL

<A>rrespo1.1denee sollis1ted.

WILLIAM DARCI-IE.

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~t~htuut~.· No. 206 South Fourth St.

ST. LOUIS,

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The "JOUJ!NAL'' is a first class medium for "ADV~RTISING." Special nttention paid to the printing of

. BUSINESS CARDS, BILL HEADS~ E'rC. ~ Tenfls reasonab l e.~

The STUDENTS, Editor&-Prop.


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