The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-14
NIsC1LLARY.

/ thousan0s OF tubee in the stem of the tree, and
sends it into the atmosphere in the form Of un-
certain mist, to be condensed and fall in show
| ers-the very water that were it not for the
leaf, would sink in the earth, and find it's way
Percnahce through subterranean channels to
the sea. And thus it is that we see it srorks to
give us the early and the latter rain" 1t
works to send the rills and streams, like lines
OF silver down the mountain aud across the
brooks which tnrn the wheels that energize
machinery, which gives employment to mil
iions-commerce Observation-Disclosures amu-
iated-and intelligence disseminated through
the agency Of this wealth. The leaf does it
oil. 1t has been demonstrated that every
square inch of leaf lifts 3 500 of an ounce
every twenty-four hours. Now large forest
tree has about five acres of foliage, s. 272 $40
square inches. This being multiplied by $500,
the amount pumped by every inch, gives MS
the result--2362 ounces, or III quarts, or 294
gallons, or barrels The trees on IN acI
give 800 barrels in twenty-four hours. An acre
OF grass, or clover, or grain would yield abort
the same result. The leaf is a worker. too, in
another field of labor, where we seldom look
wonderful manner. 1t carries immense quanti-
ties of electricity from the earth to the clouds,
and from the clouds to the earth. Rather dan
is particularly fitted for that work. Did you
ever see q leaf entire as to its edgesf 1t is
always pointed, and these points, whether they
DC large or small. are just fitted to handle this
upon and carry it away with ease and wonden
fal dispatch. There must be no delay it "
time freight" True, sometimes it gathers up
tempt to crowd and pack the baggage, the
trunk gets terribly shattered, and We cay that
lightning struck tho tree. But it had been
struck q Thousand times before. This time it
was overworked.
HOME AND It's QUEsN.-There is probably
not an unperverted man or woman living who
does not feel that the sweetest consolatioDs
and best rewards Of life are found in the loves
do not feel themselves Indebted to the influ-
ences that clustered around their cradles for
whatever Of good there may be in their char
acters and conditions. Home, based upon
Christian marriage, is so evidently All institu-
tion of God, that man must become profane
before he can deny it. Wherever it is planted,
there stands q bulwark of our country.
Wherever it ia pure, and true to the Christian
idea, there lives an institution conservative of
all the nobler interests of society. OF this
realm woman is the queen. 1t takes it's cue
and its hue from her. If she ID in the best
sense womanly-if she is true and tender,
loving and heroic, patient and self-devoted-
she consciously or unconsciously organizes and
puts in operation set of influences that do
any man, uncrowned by power or influence,
can possibly effect. the men of the nation are
wha their mothers make them, as a rule and
the voice which those men speak in the express
sion of their power is the voice of the woman
who bore and bred them. There can be no
substitute for this. There is no other possible
way in which the women of the nation can or
ganize their influence and power that will act
80 benefcently upon the society and the State.
Neither woman nor the nation can afford to
have home demoralized or in any way deterior-
ing of her influence there. AS a nation we rise
OF fall as the character of our homes, presided
over by women, rises OF falls and the best
guage of our best prosperity is to be found in
the measure in which these homes fluid multi
plication in the land. In true marriage, and
the struggle after the highest ideal Of home
life, is to be the solution of more of the ugly
problems that confront the present generation
moral, social and political-than we have
space to enumerate.
labor is more delicate and yet more thankless
han the critics, whether in art music, litera-
ture or the drama. 1t is barely possible for
any man to lay aside utterly his personality
and hold up sharp. clear and accurate picture
Of any work, uncolored by tint of prejudice, !
favor or bitterness 1t is possible, but it is not
universal in any of the branches of criticism. |
That of the drama, dealing not only with
literature, but with suppositious characters |
embodied by real men, is specially hard to con- |
form to any accurate and unvarying standard; |
the columns of our morning dailies after some |
first night" True, most people |
depend upon the columns of the Commercial |
Adrertiser for criticism as well as for news and
advice; but that defuded few who trust other |
papers do so not infrequently to their infinite |
The latest case in point is Pc |
'ullarly funny. 1t would have given Disraeli |
,ere food for q new volume the curiosities of |
critical literature. "A new American drama - |
vas produced at one of the Broadway theatres,
md if the lady manager read next days pa
)ers, she has doubtless been giddy ever since |
: So false to life and character, SO feeble in |
dialogue, 30 CHASTITY in situation" thunders the |
World. "Tbe plot il good, and the principal |
characters we'll selected" declares the Herald |
We are told by the Leader that it lacks wit |
md incident, and uses old devices," while the
Eapress says ''Pluck possesses something rarely
ound III contemporaneous playa motive"
The 1smes proelaims it is sad trash !" and the
Post that "' Pluck has many admirable
POINTS, and is well put upon the stagen
deasured by the comparative Standard we
earn that " a drama like Pluck possesses a
hundred times the power of flippant farce
ike Saratoga"
The feat of enclosing Is, 600 ordinary and
90 8vo pages of official dispatches. in small
Iuill, and attaching cthe latter to the tail
Gather of q pigeon in sucha manner as not to
impede the birds fight, to incommode it,
nd not to cause it to disembarras itself of it's
precious burden, was accomplished in Paris
uring the late siege. The result was not at
aimed by one effort; at first the dispatches
we're written by hand on the thinnest paper
,nown; next the manuscript messages were
microscopicalIy on paper; third
y, the dispatches were set mp in type first and
hen reduced by photography, which allowed
4 greater diminution in size, and afforded
more legibility when enlarged. Lastly, an
Important Improvement was effected by send