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the fate of the Archbishop and his friends,
and they themselves were preparing Tor
death. When they heard Ramain reading
out the names of those who were summon
ed, they knew what lay before them. He
happened to mispronounce the name of the
Pere de BeDgy, an eminent Jesuit; but
that priest did not take advantage Of the
momentary mistake; lie stepped forward.
said in the tone'of aquestion, "De Bepgy Z
I am he," and quietly took his place with
the doomed. This was an example Of mere
coolness; but another. priest, the Pere
Guerin, displayed that highest heroism
which consists in complete self-sacrifce:
Daring the previous night he had occupied
the same cell as NJ. Chevriaux, and he said
to that gentleman, "You have q wife, you
have child to break such ties would be
full of grief; leave me, then, to serve you.
They will not verify your identity, and,
like you, am dressed as layman. My
life is devoted to martyrdom, and it will
have been useful if it should preserve,
yours. Leave me, then, to reply for you"
NJ. Chevriaux would not accept the noble
offer. 1t was again made as Ramain was
reading out the names of the doomed, and
again refused.
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How EDGAR A. Poe DIED.-Eugene L.
Didier has written thus in Appleton's Jour
nal:
The true story of Poe's death has never
been correctly told. 1t is this: In the
summer of 1919 he left New York for Vir-
ginia. In Richmond he met Miss Elmira
Shelton, whom he had known in his youth,
renewed his acquaintance, and in few
weeks they were engaged to be married
He wrote to his friends in the North that
he should pass the remainder of his life in
Virginia, where the happiest days of his
youth had been spent. Early in October
he set out from Richmond to fulfll liter
airy engagement in New York, and to pre-
pare for his marriage, which was to take
place on the 18th of the month. Arriving
in Baltimore, he found that he had missed
tho Philadelphia train which lie expected
to take, and would have to wait two or
three hours for the next train. He went
into q restaurant near the depot to get
some Refreshments. There he met some of
his old West Point friends, who invited
him to a champagne supper that night. He
accepted the invitation and went. At first
he refused to drink, but at last he was in
duced to take a glass of champagne. That
set him of, and in few hours he was mad
ly drunk. In this state he wandered off
from his friends, was robbed and beaten
by raffans, and left insensible in the street
all night. The next morning he was pick
ed up and taken to the Maryland hospital.
He was delirious with brain fever. He
was we'll cared for by the physicians of the
hospital but he was beyond the skill of the
doctors. He fingered two or three days, and
died on Sunday, October Z, 1s49, in the 3sth
year of his age. His funeral was attended
nv the Hon. z. Collins Lee, DR.. Snodgrass,
Nelson Poe (his cousin). ard Henry Her
ring This uncle).
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A Literary curiosity-s. s. cox's "sunset. /"

At the request of many readers we re-
publish from the Ohio Statesman, of May
10, 1853, the brilliant piece of descriptive
writing which won for Mr.. Cox the immor-
tai name of "Sunset:"
A GREAT OLD SUNsET.-What storm
full eunset was that of last night! How
glorious the storm, and how splendid the
setting of the sun. We do not remember
ever to have seen the like on our round
globe. The scene opened in the west,
with q whole Rorizon full of golden, en-
terpenetrating 1ustre which colored the
foliage and frightened every object into
its own rich dyes. The colers grew deeper
and richer until the golden lustre was
transfused in o storm cloud, full of finest
lightning. which leaped in dazzling zigzags
all round and over the city. The wind
arose with fury, the slender shrubs and
Some even snapped before its force. The
strawberry beds and grass plots "turned
up their whites" to see Zephyrus march
by. AS the rain came, and the pools
formed, and the cutters hurried away,
thunder roared grandly and the fire bells
caught the excitement and rung with hearty
chorus. The South and East received the
copious showers. and the West all at once
frightened up in a long, polished belt of
azure, worthy of Sicilian SKY.
Presently cloud appeared in the azure
belt, in the form Of a castellated city. 1t
DCCbhS N'Ntu, revealing
forms of peerless fanes and alabaster tenn
pies, and glories rare and grand in this
mundane sphere. 1t reminds us of Words
worth's splendid verse in his Excursion:
THE appearance instantaneously disclosed,
%Saess % Of f5aG Hsy D sntn say FAR
And self withdrawn into q wondrous DEPTH
Far sinking into splendor without end !"
But the city vanished only to give place
to another isle, where the most beautiful
forms of foliage appeared, imaging Para
disc in the distant and purified air.
The sun, wearied with the elemental
commotion, sank behind the green plains
of the west. The "great eye in Heaven"
however, went not down without dark
brow hanging over its departing light.
The rich flush of the unearthly light had
passed and the rain had ceased wien the
solemn church bells pealed, the laughter ct
children out and joyous after the storm is
heard with the carol of birds; while the
forkcd and purple weapon of the skies still
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Baptism, Of Clovis.

On Chrlstmas Day, A. D., 496, the City
of Rheims was all astir. A grand Christian
tapestries carpeted the streets and hung in
festoons round the windows and porticoes.
The cathedral was brilliantly lighted with
scented tapers exquisite perfumes exhaied
from the sanctuary; the baptismal font
and the holy oils were prepared; Bishops
and priests stood ut the principal entrance
in joyful expectation. A solemn procession
chanting ltanies and hymns, issued from
the royal palace. At its head were borne
the cross and the book of the Gospels; next
walked the sanity Bishop Remi, leading a
barbarian chief by the hand; then came
the queen and two princesses, sisters to the
chief, followed by 5000 barbarian warriors
crowds of pagans hocked to gaze at the
strange spectacle. Enchanted and awed
by the religious pomp ard sweet
solemnity that breathed around, the chief
said simply to the Bishop, Father, is this
the kingdom Of Jesus Christ which you
the Bishop, it is only the beginning of
the road which leads to it." On their
arrival at the cathedral, the chief asked
| for baptism, wbereupOn the Bishop said,
"Sicamber, bow thy head meekly; burn
what thou hast adored, and adore what
thou has burnt" After publicly protesting
the Catholic faith, the chief stepped up to
the font, and the three thousand warriors
! with their families followed him. The
chief was Clovis, the Lopg-Haired Nero
vingian king of the Salian Franks; and
this day was the birthday of the French
Catholic nation.
Mrs. Hope shows the significance of this
event in the words of St. Remi to Clovis on
the eve of this memorable day, which have
received their fulfilment in the history of
the last 140O years.
But though the Merovingian kings and
their personal followers became Christians,
they did not cease to be barbarians. Their
lives were constant struggle between two
contrary principles, and thus they furnish
o curious chapter in the history of the hui
man race. On the one hand are found
cold-blooded murders, even of their near
est relatives, relentless cruelty aud re-
| veDge, polygamy and unrestrained sensu-
atty, with every passionate excess that
would naturally spring from savage feroci-
ty and barbarian pride. But, on the other
hand, there are fine acts of simple faith and
humility, a remarkable appreciation of
supernatural virtue, and a strong sense of
Gods presence and retributive justice,
which often serve as a check to their
widest bursts of passion.
The Merovingians were like self-willed,
passionate, and impulsive children, full of
great faults and noble instincts and the
Church treated them like children, re-
proving, encouraging, making excuses for
them by turns, and above all laborirg to
inspire them with Christian motives and
principles.-Fron, Mrs. Hopes new arorE on
the Conversion Of the Ieutons and Franks.
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French Communist Massacre.

Nothing 80 wildly reveals (says the
Daily Ne,cs) the hell of passion which
ragged in Paris during the Commune ae the
homely. rough, disjointed stories of the
men and women who give their evidence
in the Courtsmartial of Versailles. The
story of the Rue uaxo massacre displays
more wildly than any other incident all
that was vilest in Paris of the Commune,
and likewise all that was noblest in it's
victims:
A crowd Of hostages remained in the
prison of La Roquette after Archbishop
Darboy and the five others had been shot.
Two days after the massacre, band of
- sixty Federal troops came to the prison,
and the officer presented an order that
Francois, the Governor, should deliver all
the hostages, and as many other prisoners
as the guard could conduct. The order
was signed by Ferre, the man who was
shot ct Satory side by side with Rossel
and it was executed by Francois and
RamaiH, who have already stood their trial
for the murder of the Archbishop. Either
fifty or forty-seven prisoners-it is uncer-
tain which-were given into the keeping of
the Federals. The group of doomed men
was made up, so far as the prison officials
can state, of twenty five gendarmes, ten
Galdes de Paris, ten persons who were
with the priestly order, and two laymen.
All these victims were led through the
streets to the Marie of Belloville, which
had become the headquarters of the Com
Mune after the burning of the Hotel de
Vile. Among the remaining members was
RanVlen, and that ruffian gave an order |
that the hostages should be taken to the |
rampant, allowed quarter of an hour to |
prepare Tor death, and shot. On their way |
to the place of execution they were accom-
panied by crowd of men and women, who |
had been drawn from the worst districts of |
Paris by the prospect Of a slaughter, and
who pursued the victims with lo Wis of ra ge |
and cries for their blood. Arriving at the
Rue Haxo, they were penned for a time
like so many sheep, while the Communist
leaders were discussing the question of
their fate. Their behavior was SO gentle,
80 quiet, so digni6ed, that it seemed to
touch the hearts even of their guards; but |
at last the cry of blood drowned the NUT
tered promptings to mercy, and the whole
party was deliberately shot. 1t took the
murderers quarter of an hour to do their
wore, but they did it thoroughly. Not one
Oh the prisoners escaped. To guard against
the slightest chance of any ones retaining
even bare life, some of the Federals are said
70 nave gone about among the bodies and
10 nave administered finishing blow
wherever they noted any movement. A
more Mucous butchery was not perpetrat-
90 even In the days of Terror.
This journal, generally SO hostile to
Catholics and Catholicity, is forced to pay
tribute of admiration to the priests of
Paris:
1t is not always possible to praise the
Church of France; but her clergy daily |
supply admirable examples of devotion, |
aud the conduct of those confined in La |
Roguette will add noble chapter to re-
ligious history. Before the prisoners were
taken to the Rue Haxo, they had learned
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darted illumination around the Starting
College, trying to rival its angles and leap
into its dark windows.
Candles are lighted. The piano strikes
up. We feel it is good to have o home,
good to he on the earth where such revela-
tions of Beauty and Power may be made.
And as we cannot refrain from reminding
our readers of everything wonderful in our
city, we have began and ended our feeble
etching of sunset which comes SO rarely that
it's glory should be committed to immortal
type.-Ohi0 State Journal.
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Morning Star and Catholic messenger,
NV ORLEANS SUNDAY. APRIL 81, ls72
somsthine Practical on St. Patrick's Day.

Our table has been flooded with commu
nicatiops about the celebration of st.
Patricia Day in every part OF the country.
We can not for obvious reasons pubiish all
of them, We have decided, therefore, in
order to do the only equal justice in our
fence to any, to publish none. In oil places
that we have heard from these demonstra-
lions have been highly creditable to the
faith of the Irish race. In the place of
these numerous and interesting notices OF
this years celebration, we present to our
readers a practical reflection upon it. This
reflection has been suggested by the de-
monstration in the most populous and most
Catholic city in the country.
1t is generally admitted that the PEaees-
sion on the 18th March was the largest and
most imposing ever seen in New York
City in honor of St. Patrick's Day. 1t
would be safe to assert that not ten per-
sons, excepting the saloon-keepers and
politicians, gained anything by the process
sion that o large number Of hard-work-
ing men, have spent the best part of
weeks wages in order to be ahle "to turn
out" to be just as good as his neighbor,
or, in Difference to heresy, choosing Mon
day instead of Sunday.
One of the most important features of all
such demonstrations is the expense. The
enthusiast seldom heeds figures until they
represent SO many dollars, with an accom-
the amount. We have taken some pains
to hunt up the items of expenditure con-
nected with the last procession. Here are
the figures There were over thirty five
thousand men in the procession proper, but
we'll put down only thirty-fve thousand.
Number of men $4,000
Expense per man $175, 900
Lost time Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Thirty bands at 500 5000
Members of various societies and per-
SONS who lost half day to see the
Total ss9s;ooo
Three hundred thousand dollars is O
great deal of money to pay for toy that
was used only from five to seven hours
Let us suppose that tho different societies
in that city hearkened to the advice Of
their truest friends and did not parade
bnt contributed to n common fund for the
purpose of assisting deserving families tc
go West to become proprietors of the soil
With the sum Of $500, 600 ace could transpoy
tsoelUe hundred families West of the Missis
sippiS and present each head of family
with one hundred and sixty acres of land
and g warranty deed covering every rood
of it. Just think of it, 1900 families, and
each family the fee simple owner of farm,
one hundred and sixty acres of land This
is q stubborn fact and is respectfully pre-
sented to the consideration of all whom it
may concern, or to all those who believe
that o procession ia the only method of
celebrating St. Patrick's Day, which poor
men should Cincinnati Catholic
Telegraph.
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a man, reading a newspaper day or
two since, asked another, "NNhat is the
meaning of the Bohemian Diet, about
Gree lunches" was the ready reply.
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BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MEDICINE.-SAN-
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sick adacho bilious attacks all dernn of
Liver, stomach and bowels Ask your Druggist for IL.
Beware Of limitations. iaI ~ eovly
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Satire is glass in which the beholder
sees every body's face but his own.
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READ WHAT is SAID OF IT.

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From the Hon. Ne,Oton Batean Supt Schools IAinois
"Sointons Condemned History" ia an attempt-very
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ability the time usually allotted to the study
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There ars obsp ,TSRoa
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Beginning with the departure of Santa Mario from
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STATE NEWS.

1t is proposed to ask the Legislature for an
increase of capital stock of the Little andre
scoggin Water Power Co., with view, uti-
mately, to the erection of another cotton
mill.
Prof Packard tells a friend that he is not
preparing history of Bowdoin College, and
he ought to know.
a missionary mass meeting is to be held at
the Free street Baptist church in Portland on
Thursday, designed to reach all The churches
in that section OF the State, and awaken a
new interest in the canse of missions. Able
speakers will be present from Boston and
New York.
a ship of 2200 tons, one or two, and per-
haps three, briggs, and one schooner, are to be
built in Yarmouth another season, Master
Giles Loring is getting in timber for enc biig,
to be commenced this winter
The total rainfall last mon;h was u; av-
erage thermometer 3G.3 coolest day the 30th,
lS.5-warmest 18th, 445. The prevailing
wind was southwest.
A man named Robinson, who lives near
Moosehead Lake, came down TO this city a
day or two ago. and meeting an old friend
with whom he had served in the army, they
took a trip to Veaze together. Returning in
the afternoon, they went to the Franklin
House, where Robinson, who had been broll-
en- Of his rest several nights, sat down in the
office and went to sleep. When he awoke he
found that SlGj in greenbacks which lie had
in his pocket before going to sleep, were mis-
sing. His quondam friend was missing also,
and has not been seen since Bangor Wing.
The Press says that Mr.. +. o. Libby of
Portland, had ST., 900 upon his house, which
was burned Sunday night. $1,000 in the Et-
pe of Hartford, and $1,000 in the Continental
Of n Y. The house was valued at Sl5, 900
and was total loss. Upon the furniture
there was the following insurance: So 900 in
the Home of n. Y, $4,000 in the .E.na OF
Hartford. The furniture is also total loss.
Mr.. Fancis Chase had $4,000 upon his furni-
ture in the Home OF \. Y. Very little Of his
furniture was saved.