The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-09-24

extraordinary prices on account of their n
delity and the rare excellence of his pen
mApship. He labored thus for over year.
During this time be acquired by his untir-
ing industry, o sum of money suf6cient to
ensure his parents q decent competence for
the remainder of their days. Then bidding
the aged couple q fearful farewell, he tore
himself away from them to continue the
great mission with which he felt that Coo
had charged him.
In after years when fortune aud fame be-
gan to emile on him, he was never forgetfui
of the parents to whom he was deeply in
debted. He wrote TO them, he shared with
them the fruits of his success. he named
after them some of the lovliest spote
in the new world which he had discovered.
He loved TO speak of his father and
mother, aud of the humble home of his boy
hood, even when in the midst of the proud
Spanish grandees, who thronged the mag
nificent court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
He never allowed himself to be Influenced
by that miserable morbid vanity which
makes some men wish to hide their ante
cedents and almost to dfsowu the peer but
upright parents who gave them birth and
education. How often do we not meet in
this great and glorious republic Of ours, this
land Of liberty and equality, this land
which has adopted as the corner stone OF
its political principles tine axiom that asE
men, provided that they be virtuous, are
each others, peers-how often, I say, do
We meet men suddenly grown rich or ipfiu-
entail, who would scarcely dare to appear
in public with the father or mother TO whom,
under God, they owe all that Is good IN
themselves.
Even in his old age, when he was broken
down by his long and wearisome labors,
and by the persecution of an uugratefui
world, Coiumbu loved to dwell in imsgin-
alton with the psren ts to whom, during life,
ha "a haan N dntifnl n AlthnnCh thew
had for years been sleeping aide by side,
beneath the green turf of q Genoese church.
yard, his love for them seems TO have been
as tender as it was when he tore himself
away from home for the frat time-a weep
ing lad of fourteen years-to sail in the gall
ley of his uncle.
The mutual love which existed between
Columb bus aud his brothsrs was not less re-
markable. 1t was almost womanly in it's
tenderness. Men marvelled at tiff we
may believe the old chroniclers-aDd
thought it worthy of admiration, even in
that age of Christian chivalry, when, rough
as the times were, brothers were not un-
commonly as romanticaliy devoted to bro
theirs as sisters are TO brothers now days.
Colum bus once said, in exhoreing bis eldest
son, Don Diego, TO frneernal affection
"Ten brothers would not be toe much for
you. Never have I found better friends at
my righ. hand or my left, than my bro
thers."
There is 10 the French language, no ex-
preston which conveys exactly the same
idea as our English word hoRse" How
many tines in your life, kind reader, have
you met with this remark 1t has stared
at you. in your school boy days from the
dry, distasteful pages of your Murray's
Grammar; in youth yoa have run across il.
o. er and over ag-in in your favorlte novels;
even in manhood or won Snhood it has con-
tiIued to haunt you in newspapers and
magazines and reviews, and would be phi
losophical narratives of costinentsl travel.
Americans especially are very fond of quo
ting it,
as, and say: It is true that we have no
mere word which is exactly Synonymous
with home. Buff you will allow US to
except 8 certain claAs of Partisan society
have We not the reality which corresponds
10 the word, q reality which the ma jority oi
you Americans do not possess in an equal
degTee
Those of our readers who have in theil
younger days been, unfortunately, much
given 10 novel resdipg, must have noticed
one remarkable difference between the lighi
| literature of Europe and that which il
u2nufsctared on this side of the Atlantic
/ Ii is this Wnilss German, French snG
English stories abound with charming de
ec-7pEiops OF happy, old fashioned fsnil,
/ life American works Of hction are siDgu
larry barren in this respect Few of on
7 writers have attempted to give rs picture
Z Of resl home, Azd TIE majority of thes
? fe% have failed n :Ae attempt. Thei
+ wOr5- paintings are wanting in 6elicacy @
oazIIre, II warmth and depth of eoIoring, il
grEeefalpees of arra1 1geDeuts, scd what els
caal5 be expected of AZ artist whose scene
are copied not from nssure but from To
works Of foTeigu masters Of Ehe fantasies c
his oSn Imagination.
In very TrQth, are Cur American homes
il NEST cases, exactly what they should be
The stern, unbendiDg Journalism OF on
Puritan ancestors has passed sway, eve
from its New England stronghold. But th
greed for god srd the rage after fashio
have worked . sad transformation in th
family life Of the veAlthie- classes tranI
formation far more deadly TO the true epir
of home than the blaest Of the old Col0nii
Blue Lava Parents are frequently onl
guardians, Dos tie companions, the play
mates, the intimate eou6daatE, and deaEed
frien6s of tie child. The boarding hous
, ard hotel life which il becoming 50 common
serves only TO aggrsvats the mischief TIL
! Il Al evil that calls for prompt Asd e0cisz
rAmedie=-Spr IL Ia Ee firmly heftaVe or