The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-08

1 some of the blams of - on ourselves, or callst
il. as the poor patisalt vistims do, while the1
| --"some one said something like that Il
| D,Arcy ore day. / wonder what you would
have snought II you had seen how angry be
-ss. BE called II blasphemy-speakiDg Ill
Of Gods pame-attributing to Him unfight
eousness and wrong"
"H know there 10 unrighteousaeas and wrouf
doing Of msn mixed up. with the calamity
and chat is need not mos have been SO hope
lees il IL had been rightly met ; bot still
think the dying people see the forthess when
they call tths hand Of God. and feel no bit
Of hand opening the 0 Way Of Sseu eso0ps
from their fever beds-or il they are not to die
bringing other good to them, If We could only
$50 long 40 such doctrine does mot induce
people to sit still and be content to be crushed
I have no objection to it. After all, it is only
what Darcy himsslf says sometimes. He
thinks that the stress of this misery. the hor
For bred by these Last csuelties, which have
Left half the nation to perish through neglect
and misgoveroment will draw Our people to-
gether, and make rs resolute in claiming the
least. "Then." |" be says. "thsse three millions
who have died already In the famine will, in
after days, be As certainly counted martyre
for the country as those others who have got
ence, b ,fore il is won." Looking as events in
that light, l can zee how good may come even
ont of she famine"
'Bot that 10 not my view-quits the con-
the pestience, of the three evils offered to him,
rather than that his army should fee before
the enomy. think with him, that anything
Your hope is my terrfbiest fear, Conn connor. dear >
"Ahi you are getting corrupted. It is the
abominsble journal that comes to you from
England with blue marks along the pages, TO
draw your attention to essays on Irish quest
ions, full Of eouDsels of cowardice and base
ness, that Is turning your sympathies the
wrong way. Yon should stick to reading the
Nation. and then you would know the truth"
81 have not had IN English paper with blue
marks since the one sent on to you to Dublin
three weeks ago: the sender hes forgot en
me. or left off writing essays on Irish quest
ions. The paper received this morning came
from Pelham Court, and the scored column
contained an account of o public meeting at
Fakenham, with Uncle Charles in the chair,
whence 9 petition was sent up to Parliament
most likely remedy for the Irish famine"
"Eh! kick the lion in the face, now that he
is supposed to be dying. hard enough, and
perhaps he will awake. hope you mean to
send the paper back with comments. Let me
write hem between the lines.7
"No, no; there was letter posted at the
same time as the newspaper, with twenty
pounds in 1t for my starving people. can't
Marmaduke has been sending me money all
through the summer, ever sinoe people in
England began to realize what it was that
was happening here. do believe he must
to help us-kid gloves. perhaps, or scent, or
some luxury from one of his five meals day"
"That is q great deal for an English Guards
man to sacrifice for Irish ssyazes, whom he
the head come day sooni bnt don't believe
in the disinterestedness Of his conduct, Eileen
bawn. By and by he will como to you and
say, "Look here, to please you have saved a
DIVING
tion, whom in my conscience think had bet
ter have died, and now expect you to pay me
by giving me yourself for life; One hundred
for one is generous measure" He may not
put it in those words-he wo6ld not know
how to express himself so well-but you will
find that is about the gist Of the matter with
him. zE
mo ehall not--he understands me too
we'll and, ss far as he knows how, he has
been generous. ] can't be as bitter as You are,
Con, for know that there is real generosity
and real help given to MS, though it does not
all reach these who want it most"
ia il these Generons acts that mako the
windows of your famine-tower, then :"
81 was not thin king cf them when spoke !;
famine-to Wer. as indeed we are, seeing the
dying faces in it, and hearing the groans that
fill it all dav, and every now and then being
obliged to climb up into turret and look
through window, ont on to a world where
people are eating and drinking. and gossiping
and dancing, and whore our fsmine-tower is
only one little dark spot on their distant hor-
ison, that they can see when they try to look
at it, but generally forget. The turret win
dows from which am obliged to look out on
such q world are letters like those that came
for me this morning."
"Ah, I was intending to tell you expected
my hare of one of them, unless sun mistaken
in the handwriting"
"You he'd better let me come to that one by
degrees, for doubt whether its contents will
put yon into good humor for hearing the
others."
al am in no violent hurry. You had three
letters this morning. had you not 7"
'One was only from Cynthea oRoouo to
ask me to send her sn embroidery pattern
promised her long ago. The O,Roone's are
living near Westport now, and Cynthea says
che and her sisters can never leave their own
garden because of the state of the country,
and that they generally sit at breakfast with
their blinds down, not to see on the doorstep
the dead bodies of the people who have crawl
ed there in the night to die"
$50 they want embroidery patterns to
amuse them in the bouseI l wonder they
don't go to Dublin or England to be flrth er
off,"
Their father has got one ofthe government