The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19

md, CATHOLIC MESSENGER. I
who is compelled to rely or, hia own re-
sources forms an Independence OF character
to which he could not otherwise have at
| tanned. qdf IN
Fourth, to be q growing man when YOU
look to your post for influence, instead Of
| bringing influence to your post. Therefore,
prefer rather to climb up hill with difficulty,
than to roll down with inglorious ease.-
PRIDE OF A Cow.-A gentleman informs
| us that, while on a visit at the house of a
lady, it one day happened that they were
passing the cow-house just at the time when
the dairy-maid was driving home the cows
to be MIXED. They all passed in quietly
enough with the exception of one, which
stood at the door and resisted every effort
of the maid to induce her to enter. When
the maid was Intercepted as to the cause
of this obstinacy, she attributed it to pride /;
and when surprise was expressed, she ex-
planned that whenever any other of the
cows happened to get in before this COW she
would seem quite affronted, and would not
enter unless the others were turned out and
she had an opportunity of walking in be-
fore them. This statement having excited
curiosity and wish to ascertain it's accu-
racy, the maid was desired to redouble her
exertions to induce the COW to enter; on
which she chased the COW through every
corner of the yard, but without success,
until she mt last desisted from want of
breath, declaring that there was no other
remedy than to turn out the other cows
She was then permitted to make the exper-
iment, and no sooner were the others driven
out than in walked the gratifed COW with
stately air, her more humble companions
following meekly in her train.
MEN WANTED.-The great want of this
age is men,. Men who are not for sale; men
who are honest, sound from centre to. cir
conference, true to the hearts core; men
who will condemn the wrong in friend or
foe, in themselves d. well as others; men
to the pole; men who will stand for the
right if the heavens totter and the earth
reels; men who can tell the truth and look
man, the world, or even the devil in the
eye; men that neither boast nor run; men
that neither flag nor finch; men who can
have courage without whistling for it, and
joy without shouting to bring it; men in
whom the current OF everlasting life runs
still, deep, and strong; men too large for
sectarian bonds; men who do not strive
nor cry, nor cause their voices to be heard
in the streets; but who will not fail nor be
till judgment be set in the
earth; men who know their message and
tell it men who know their duty and do it !;
men who know their place and fill it with
out aspiring to acquire that which would
but show more wildly to the world their
ignorance and vain-glorious pomposity, as
surance, and excess of cheek; men who
mind their own business; men who will not
lie nor scandalize those to whom they should
whisper "wOrds of wise counsel )" men who
should remember that it is but human to
err, and that their faults are as huge as the
faults of others seem to them. Finally, we
want men to do unto others, rs they would
that others should do unto them.
SELF-DEvoT1oN.-Adr dreadful fire occurred
recently in Saxony, ut q small town named
Youngerstard, where, on the top of church
tower, in a small room, lived a man and
wife and two children, a boy of twelve, and
girl of ten years. The business of this
man was to cry out the hours, tolling the
bells for the marriages, baptisns, and buri-
ais, and to sound the alarm in the case of
fire. A fire breaking out in a distant part of
the town, he gave the usual note of alarm.
The wind being high, the fire spread with
rapidity, and in the course of an hour
threatened the unique residence of the bell
ringer. Leaving the bell-rope in the hands
of his children, he and his wife hastened to
goods to place of safety. In the mean
time the flames approached and began to
lick the tower itself. The children saw
their danger, but remained like faithful
sentinels at the post which had been en-
trusted to them, ringing and ringing on
till the parents returned, at which time the
tower was so completely enveloped in flames
that they could not enter, and the children
cried in vain for succor. The parents lin
gered upon the spot in vain attempts to save
their children, but soon the tower fell and
crushed the whole Of the devoted family to
death. At the same fire, which consumed
three hundred houses, an idiot hearing the
cries of a mother for the rescue of her little
child from blazing house, rushed into the
house, and seizing the child threw it safely
into its mothers arms, but fell Immediately
afterward victim to his heroism, being
crushed to death by the falling of burning
beam.
LITTLE THINGS IN RELIGIOUS LIFE
Little words, not eloquent speeches nor SER
mons; little deeds, not miracles nor battles,
| nor one great act or mighty martyrdom,
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