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The Osceola times., 1875-11-20
ONE YEAR.
ny MRS. ~. d. STOWE.

III MRS ". u. STOWE.
"one year ago"-a ringing voice
A clear blue eye,
And clustering curls Of sunny hsir,
Too fair TO die.
Only year, no voice, no smile
No glance OF eye;
No clustering curls Of golden arr.
fair but TO die.
One year ago, what love, what schemes
Far into lifei
Wha, joyous hopes, what high resolves,
What generous strife
The silent picture on the wall
The burial stone;
OF all that, beauty, life, aud joy,
Remain alone.
One year, one year, one little year.
And 30 much gone,
And yet the even How OF life
Moves calmly on.
The grass grows green, the flowers bloom fail
Atave that head:
No sorrowing tint Of leaf or spray
Says he Is dead.
No pause or hush of merry buds
That sing above;
FELL us how coldly sleeps below
The form We love.
Where hast thou been this year beoyol2
What has thou seem
What rising fair, what glorious lie
Where thou hast been?
The VEIL the veil, ~ thin, so strong,
'Twixt us and thee;
The mystic veil, when shall II TALL
That we may see7
Not dead, not sleeping, not even gone
But present still,
And waiting foi the coming hour
OF Gods sweet will.
Lord Of the living and the dead,
our Saviour dear
We lay In silence at Thy feet
This sad, sad year.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-20

A nice boy of nine years was taken
very sick while visiting a schoolmate in
st. Paul, Mimi, few days since. His
friends mother found that he required
an emetic, and prepared one for him.
The lad was suffering terribly, but
refused to take the dose, saying that
"his mama would not like it if he did,
as she was homcopathi,t and did not
allow him to take allopathic medicine.
The lady persisted, and told him thai
he might not get well if he did MOI
take it, Finally the obstinate young
man exclaimed: "Well, I'll take tn,
slua, but tell you one thing-l won
vomit!'
The Osceola times., 1875-11-20

A SUICIDES STORY. Lolita Mont
ford, an actress, committed suicide at
Dallas, Texas, soon after receiving the
following letter:
Hartford, CT., October, 1873.
.Hs. Nichols:
DEAR MADAM: Yours received I;
enclosed we found $40. Have very
little to say, only that your little girl is
well, only that she is growing blink like
your mother. She has spasms worse
than ever, and very often speaks of you,
and in her sleeps calls for her little
mamma. am actually afraid she will
soon pass away. We bought the tomb
stone for your little boys grave, and
fixed it up nicely. 1t cost slS7. Mrs.
- drew on your account, because
her husband was out at the farm.
Please do not let her know that | wrote
to YOU. can't write much now, but
thought | would let you know some
thing about Sadly; | know what a
mothers feelings are. won't write
any more. Goodbye. From your
sympathizing friend,
ANN 5. RENNEY.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-20

Pierceville, Pa, is excited over the
finding ot five human skeletons, which
were unearthed by party hunting
wood-chucks. They are believed to be
those of family named Searles, who
started for New York many years ago,
but were never heard from.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-20

THE MYSTERY OF Music would
tain know what music is. | seek 1t as
a man seeks eternal wisdom. Yester-
day evening, | walked late in the noon
light in the beautiful avenue of lime
trees on the bank of the Rhine, and |
heard a tapping noise and soft singing.
At the open door of cottage under
the blooming lime tree, sat "A mother
and her twin babies the one lay on her
breast, the other in a cradle, which she
rocked with her foot, keeping time to
her singing, In every germ, then,
when the first trace of life beginst to stir,
mnsic is the nurse of the soul it mur
murs in the ear, and the child sleeps
the tones are the companions of hi
dreams they are the world in which
he lives. He has nothing; the babe
though Graded in his mothers arms, i
alone in the spirit; hut tones find en-
trance into the hali-consciou, soul anC
nourish it as the earth nourishes th,
life of plants.
The Osceola times., 1875-11-20

Mr.. Torr, of Aylesbury, England,
recently sold eighty fine cattle for
s214, $50, being an average of s2,525
head. The highest priced beast,
Bright Empress, brought $40, 800; the
other cows sold at $4,000, 81, 800, So
900, two at $1,000, and heifess at from
81. 600 to 81, 900.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03
The Death Bed Test.

We present our readers, without COM
ment, with the following extract from the
Pail Mall Gazette:
"One of Prince Talleyrand's last acts
was to draw up Instructions concerning the
publication of his memoirs, which, as we
recently had occasion to point out, will not
see the light for another quarter of a cen
tury bat after he had performed this task,
aud upon the very day of his death, he re-
wrote II draught of it few weeks before,
he himself headed "A Retraction.' The
document, which is very lengthy one,
was accompanied by private letter, and
the whole placed in one envelope, was
handed by the Prince t" the Archbishop of
Paris, who was Mt Ills bedside, and by him
| forwarded to Rome, as II minute still tn be
seen in the lib. airy of the Arciepiscopal Pal
ace testlfes. 1t was just after he had sent
off this letter that several bays and girls
| who had jast been confirmed in the neigh
| boring Church of tho Assumption were
| brought into the room, and kuelt in pray er
| at the foot uf the bed, while the Prince,
stretching ont his arms towards them, ex
claimed What sublime contrasts there are
| in life between the old man who is about
to leave it aud the young who are just en-
tering its threshold y These were almost
! his last words, for it was previous
| to this that he received the visit of King
Louis Philippe, when, unable to raise him
self in bed, he said, tSre, this is the great
est honor which has ever been paid TO my
house, The 'Retraction' will, no doubt,
appear in the memoirs, but the two most
important passages are as follows AFTER
giving the matter my gravest considera-
tion and passing in review the consequen
ces of u revolution which has turned
| everything upside down, and which has
been going on for fifty years, 1 cannot, now
that have arrived at a great age, but cen
sure the excesses of the epoch to which 1
beleng, and unreservedly condemn the
grave errors which during all these long
years have troubled the Catholic and
Apostolic Church: errors which, regret
to say, I have had my share in pro-
pagating. Having received from Pope
Plus VII. a dispensation from ecclesiastical
functions, have endeavored in the course
of my long political career to render all the
services within my power-to the Church and
to many honored members of the Catholic
clergy. l have never ceased to look upon
myself as a son of the Church. again ex
press my repentance for any acts of mine
that may have caused her to grieve, and my
last thoughts are for her and her Supreme
Head"
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03
Installation of Right Rev. DR.. Pellicsr Bishop oi
San Antonio.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. q

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 81, 1874
To-day ut 1880 o'clock A. M, Right Rev.
DIR. Pellicer was installed as Roman Catho
lie Bishop Of the new See of San Attonio.
At 10 o'clock A. NJ. the various congrega-
tions assembled at st. Mary's Church and
were there formed in procession, headed
by the boys of st. Mary's College, and fol-
lowed by the different societies and con-
gregations next came the carriages with
the clergy, and laat an elegant carriage,
drawn by four gray horses, in which were
the Reverend Bishop and two priests. His
carriage was f1anked by committee of
gentlemen from the various churches, all
nnder the command of Hon. Jos. E. Dwyer,
Grand Marshal.
The procession moved up Houston street,
across Alamo plaza, down Main street and
across Main plaza. When the procession
arrived in front of the Cathedral it formed
in a double line, and down that line the
carriage and escort passed. AT the church
door the clergy aijghted and at the en-
trance of the church an address of welcome
was read to the Bishop.
Immediately after a solemn pontifcal
high mass followed, celebrated by the
Bishop.
A sermon, short but eloquent, was preach
ed in English by Father Moynihan of New
Orleans.
At the conclusion of macs the Bishop
gave the apostolic benediction, and ser
mon in Spanish, by Father Astola, follow
ed.
The music was fine, the large church
crowded, and everything pa sed off very
quietly.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

We give the following as a sample OF
the wonderful vagaries and fanaticism OF
Mr.. Gladstone's views on moral subjects.
Extract from "Life and Times of Sir Rob-
ert Peel, Vol. Ill, p. 1873, written by w.
Cooke Taylor, LID, Trinity College
Dublin:
"Jau. 2Sth, 1s40.-Various disputes re-
spectiDg the opium trade had led to serious
collisions between the English merchants
and the Chinese authorities in Canton.
These officials long accustomed to treat all
foreigners as barbarians, had proceeded to
such lengths, and had offered such wanton
insults to the British Representatives, that
war had become inevitable. Sir James
Graham threw the blame of these dissen-
sions on the Cabinet, and moved a vote of
censure ON the policy pursued towards
China. The debate was principally re-
markahle for Mr.. Gladstone's imprudent
appreciation of the poisoning of the wells
by the Chinese as a means of expelliDg the
English from the Empire. This atrocious
sentiment was almost universally reproba
ted, aud was tacitly condemned by Sir
Robert Peel, who insisted that war, if un-
dertaken, should be vigorously and effici-
emily pursued" etc.
The advocate and condonor of the whole
sale poisoning of his fellow coHntrymen
certainly is not in q position to raise cry
about the burning of heretics, if even such
an allegatian were truel
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

CONSCIENTIOUS sSCRUPLEs.-Att the ANIMAL
meeting of the Wrexham Town Council,
Alderman Beirne, Catholic, missed tue
chair because he refused to go to church.
Some of the members denied this, but one
of them, Mr.. Thomas Roberts, said: 81
formed one of the deputation to Mr.. Beirne
to try to bribe him, as has been said. We
told him we should like to see him mayor,
and asked him if, in order to make his cleo
ton unanimous, he would go to church
He replied Mo- We then asked him if
it would suit him to go to church on week
day, and he said NO. We next asked him
if he would go to church with US one day
on condition that we paid return visit to
his place of worship He said No, not if
you would make me king Mr.. Beirne did
not stop there. He taunted and sneered at
us, ,sapd observed, Il am astonished at you I;
you will all come to my way of thinking
shortly; you via all be Catholics We
replied, I'VE are all Catholics now.' He
made answer, But l mean you will all be
Roman Catholics. The heads of the nation
are all turning, aud you will do 80 too
shertiy.' He then referred to the Marquis
of Ripon and some other big heads, and
said that tile whole nation would be Catho-
lie before long. l have nothing to say
against Mr.. Beirne as man. 1 know he is
very respectable man. L have paid him
great deal of money in business, and |
have always found him u straightforward,
honorable tradesman in every way, and he
might have been mayor had he been a
little more asonable.-Os,VeStry (Eng. }
Advertiser.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03
Borrowing and Lending i.
ISchoolday Magazine.l


Sometimes persons borrow aud lend very
wife, in the golden days when people
"struck oil, were rejoicing in the comfor-
table allowance of several hundred dollars
day. They boarded at a fiue hotel, and
spent their money literally. You would
suppose such folks would be above borrow
ing. But they were not. They sent over,
almost every day, to the house of a humble
friend, to borrow possession they could
not buy for love nor money. No, not if
they had heaped up it's weight in solitaire
diamonds! They sent to borrow the
baby 1t suited the dear, little, dimI led
darling to crawl about over the bright car
pet and pat the roses, but it loved better
to cuddle up in mothers bosom, when
"sleepy time" came, if the house was ever
so plain and humble. Two thousand dol
lars week was no better than $l2 week,
as far as it knew. No doubt it was great
deal better for him that he was not born
heir to an oil we'll. Baby-lending is quite
common in the circle of street beggars in
our large cities, and terrible is the abuse
the poor little ones sometimes receive in
order that they may the more readily ex-
tort sympathy and pennies. A secret order
exists in London and Paris for deforming
children for this very. purpose. Poor, help
less little creatures are distorted in hun
dred ways, until they become too shocking
to look upon. The backs are bent, the
arms twisted, and the features distorted
in most fearful ways. There is a saloon in
Paris where these grown-up "monsters"
meet to dine by themselves, and it is said
to be at his peril that any one, from curl
osity, intrudes upon them. Most of them
had been deformed in infancy, and loaned
out or hired out from an institution which
kept them for sale. 1t is no more wonder
fol that such things should go on in spite
of the public than that there should be
frequent secret sales to the highest bidder
of poor Italian children, in our cities. In
Scotland they often lend their shepherd
dogs, and though they perform their duty
we'll they never make mistake, aud adopt
the new master "for good and all" A
gentleman stopping for few days with a
shepherds family, observed a fine dog
coming in every day at dinner time. He
received his ratious and then went away.
81 never see that dog except at dinner
time," remarked the guest, inquiripgly.
"The reason is," said the farmer, 1--WE have
lent him to our neighbor, Jamie NicOl, an
we tell him to come home ilka day to his
dinner. When he gets his dinner, puir
beast, he goes ava back till his work."
Fine working dogs they have in Scot
land, with a great deal of national good
sense. Three dogs were lying asleep be-
fore the fire, when some one whistled them
out. Two arose and the other lay still.
'It is odd, )" said the visitor, "that this dog
does not get up like the others.'' ''It is no
his turn" remarked the farmer, she was
oot a. the morning'.">
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

POPULAR LUXURY IN Cu1NA.-Two
thugs struck me in China, the universal
smell of musk in the kingdom of flowers
and the enormous consumption of melon
pips, which are what nuts and oranges are
to you English, and what olives and prunes
are to US Gauls. The scarlet and yellow
melons are in some places grown for the
seed only, and are piled up by the side OF
the road for the use of any traveller who
will scoop out the seed for the proprietor.
On the rivers 1 have seen whole junks
laden with these seeds. In the loniiest
place you can procure them, when al!
other food Is scarce. The three hundred
millions of Chinese all eat them. When
friends meet to drink tea or rice wine,
there is always an accompaniment of melon
seeds. They are piled up on every dinner
table. They are eaten while travelling IN
the PaiaBqaias, they are picked at zsile
discussing bargains. If a workman has
few copecs, he does just what his child
would do-buys melon seed. They are
an amusement and food-as a cigarette is
to the Spaniard and the betel nut to the
Hindoo.-The Kingdom of FlowerS.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

Do Nor CRITICIsE.-Whatev you do, never
set up for critic. We don't mean a news
paper one, but in private life, in the domestic
good, aad will do yon harm-if you mind being
called disagreeable. If you don't like ones
nose, don't put your feelings into words.
yo1r own. People are not made to suit one
taste, recollect that. Take things as you hno
them, unless you can alter them. Even din
ner, after it is eaten, can't be made any better;
Continual fault finding, continual criticism o.
the conduct of this one, the dress of the other,
and the opinions of another, will make hon1
the unhappiest place under the sun. Ii Seiu
are never pleased with any one, no one WIZ
ever be pleased with you. And if it is known
you are hard to suit, few will take pains !"
suit You.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03
What is the Issus :
[From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

| lfrom the Louisville Courier Journal
The Chicago Tribune is offended with us
position in regard to the formation of the
Federal Government. 1t says: "We un-
| derstand the Courier Journal to affirm that
| the corporation called States have conferred
| upon and delegated to the Federal Govern
| ment its powers, and that it is their agent,
which doctrine the Tribune denies." If
we misrepresented the Tribune, the fault is
uot ours. The language certainly warranted
| the Interpretation we put on it. but We will
| requote it in the light of the Tfibunes ex-
PLANTATION. 1t said
"There is no escaping the fact that the
fundamental issne between the two parties
is, that the Republican party holds the
United States to be a nation possessing
every power necessary to a complete nation
ality that it holds these powers, not as a
gift from the States, nor as an agent
of sovereignties, but as nation in no.
wise dependent upon the States. The
Democratic party hOlds, on the contrary,
that this is not a nation, but Confederacy
of sovereign States, which have delegated
certain limited powers to certain Federal
agency that the General Government ia q
creation by original sovereignties whose in
herent sovereignty is intact"
Now, we maintain that the States exis-
ted as sovereignties before the Union was
formed that they formed the Union that
they delegated to the Federal Government
certain powers which are limited, and that
the Federal Government is in somewise
dependent upon the States ;" for if all
States should refuse to elect Senators what
would become of the Federal Government
No law could be passed no appointment to
office could be made; no treaty could
be approved. How, then, could the Federal
Government exercise that Complete ma
tianality" which the Tribune says it has
| and for which it is in nowse dependent up
on the States7" The position that the States
existed before the Union and formed it is
| matter of history, and we commend the
Tribune to the books. We say, further, that
when the Tribune makes the Federal Gov
ernment Independent of that part of the
| Constitution which recognizes its depend
ence upon the States. it practically gives it
despo,ic footing than the arbitrary govern
ments of Europe. AS the Constitution
stands, the States vote as State in the
Senate upon all laws passed by the House,
and there must be a maj jority of them in
| favor o. any measure before it becomes q
law; q majority Of the States must also
approve an appointment to Office before it
is valid, and two-thirds of them must ap
prove treaty before it can be enforced.
Make the Federal Government independ-
| ent of these provisions and sin nowise de-
pendent upon the States," and where will
the Constitution bef Would it not be
limit of authority Would it not be a
government of unlimited powersf We
don't think, therefore. we very grossly
misrepresented the Tribune when we said
that it declared the Federal Government
to be unlimited, for when it cuts itself
loose from tue States and the Constitution
there can be no boundaries to it.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND. D.-Accordiug
to return issued by the Registrar General,
the number of emigrants, natives of Ire
ten months of the present year was 6S ,225,
of whom Sc, All were males and 3I,S1l,
were females, as against s5,2 ,2s7 in the cor.
responding period of last year, of whom
4S,79S were males and sc, ,49S were females.
There was thus a net decrease during the
present year of 1902. The total number
of emigrants from Ireland, from the Ist of
May, 1851, to the 31st of October, 1874, was
1920, $40.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

The RUsH.-Every time we have called at
Mr.. NJ L. NavrAs. 1T4 Canal street. during the past
fifteen twenty days. havo found the crowded
with people Although times hard and money is
said 10 be they ock to hs store in great
beTs. There must be reason for this marked
preference, and think that have discovered it.
Mr. NavrR is ceiling the very best articles and has
reduced his prices much that the most careful buyer
now be suited. Tho goods in his present stock
nearly an OF them selected personally by Mr..
NAvra, aud of the elegant sts lee and the
latest patterns. he has china, orookery and glass
ware plated ware and house furnishing goods of ali
kinds ard those who visit his to be
pleAseJ,
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

NOTATION AMONG SAvAGEs.-All the
North American Indian languages confirm
Grimm's conclusion that all names for pum-
bers are derived from the fingers. Two
methods are recognizable. One is strictly
decimal, the ten fingers being the base OF
the system. This is the most common, hut
among come tribes, the Eskimo of Hudson's
Bay, for instance, both fingers and toes are
required, twenty being called ga man."
The Darien Indians count twenty as one
man, and to represent five men they have
to count one hundred. There seems to be
an inability among some of these tribes
to double up before the entire basal num-
Der has been counted. Thus in Greenland
the natives cannot represent a man by ex-
hibitiDg the ten fingers twice, which would
make twenty, but the fingers having been
counted they have to transfer the enumer-
alton to the toes before ga man" is repre-
sented. The Dakota and Crow Indians
count ten on the fingers, this being the
base of their system, and each time the
count is finished they keep tally by bending
one finger down. Fifty three tribes have
the decimal system. Very few have the
system of twenty, and one-the Abipones
of Paraguay-can count only to four, to
which final figure they gave tse name
"ostrich toes"
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

THE CHURCH, FROM WITHOUT AND FROM
WITHIN.-I have met with an illustration,
l think in one of Cardinal Wiseman's
works, which admirably expresses the diff
ference between the Catholic Church as she
appears to those outside her pale, and to
those who have been admitted within it..
1t is that of a painted window as seen from
without and from within the sacred build
ing which it adorns To the external OBJ
server it presents nothing but confused
mass. without distinctness of outline or
variety of color. From within, on the con-
trary, all appears orderly and beautiful.
The mass develops into religious subject !;
the dingy hue clears up into coiors of the
most surpassing brilliancy and the most
precious compositions which are reflected
in rainbow tints upon the marble pavement
beneath them. There was, even from
without, certain shadowng forth-a dim
augury-of the glories within but to those
alone who have passed the threshold does the
work reveal it's wonders, or even disclose
it's signfticancy. 1t is thus that the Church
of Christ must be entered, in order to be
understood and appreciated.-Canon OAK
eEey.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

FARMER WANTED.-AR Irishman or q Ger
man, who thoroughly understands farming, get q
good situation by applying to Mr. j. Rickett's, at
DArcys hat store, Canal and Charities streets
Applicant must be practical Catholic. See want
column.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-03

DREssNfAKING.-Mrs.F Fricke, the popular mill
liner of the Fourth District whose elegant
Braselman & Adams well known, having secured
the services of tho experienced modiste Mrs wiams
is prepared execute all orders for dressmakng etc.,
in the latest styles and at moderate prices.