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The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

In recent lecture Gen. Shields related the
following anecdotee
III never forget the first time saw the rst
Commander-in Chief of the American forces
l Giving his cane gallant twlst) was brave
Young fop in those days, and as had TO report
to the General thought it was right that /
should deck myself out in the best uniform
could get / suppose spent my whole fortune
(Which wnsn't at that time and isn't now suth :
Gent to pay the national debt) in gold lace
and such like. And then marched to the
Generals tent Out came man to meet me-
1 shall never forget him. never passed for
handsome man myself, but tell you was a
beauty compared to him. He had on an Ola
linen duster black as your hat, no vest, ana
wore on his feet pair of shoes that' ike Iae
Irishmsns brogans, he could never have dane
ed in. 1 was for pushing him one SIDE when
he held ont his hand and said he was glad to
see me. This was old "Rough and Ready
General z Ichary Taylor, as brave man as
ever sat in the White House. Now, Scott"
continued the General after pause, "was just
the opposite of old Rough and Ready" in ap-
pearance, but q kinder heart than his never
beat in human breast. And he was great
general 1 remember how few of US younger
officers once planned to take the City of Mex
leo. There was General TWiggs and Beaure-
gard, who was then q colonel, and myself and
some others, and We drew up plan Nov,
Shields" they said, "you go and submit it to
the General." So 1 took the plan to Scott. He
looked at it for few moments, and then said:
Yes, You can take the City of Mexico accord
ing to the plan but after you've got it, what
are you going to doS You will be in prison
You will have lost l 600 men, and the remand
er of You will be prisoners to the enemy" And
then he took the map and showed me just how
necessary it would be to hold Chepultepec be-
fore the capture of the City OF Mexico Wouid
90 Us any good. l tell you this snecdote tc
show you how much greater man Scott wal
than any of u.s."
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29
FATHER CHARLES OF OCEAN SPRINGS
MISS

A loving friend of this esteemed clergy
man writes from Richmond, Va, to the
N. Y. Freemans Journal.
Among the glorious dead, Father
Charles Louis Van Queckelberg deserves
more than a passing notice. A Belgian by
birth, educated on his patrimony. he came
out In 1863, amid the horrors OF our late
war. Not till it's fall was he able to reach
Vicksburg. Amid the pestilence that fol-
lows war he began his ministry. The
hospitals were crowded with smallpox
aud typhus fever, and those who knew
Father CHARLES, can realize what sun-
shine he brought to the stricken ones, but
breathing the poisoned air his own eystem
became poisoned with the typhoid malaria,
and four times he was stricken with the
fever. During ten years he battled with
an unfriendly climate, Bishop Elder send
ing him from place to place, always hoping
that he would be able to keep him, till,
finally, the doctors said it WAS hopeless
case, he must go home. In 1873, on his
way home, he stopped in Richmond and
promised, if his health improved, he
would come back to this diocese. In
August of that year he returned, and was
intrusted with the charge of organizing the
male school just then starting; he was
distnctively gentle man, and was greatly
beloved by all who came in contact with
him-he had q chivalrous admiration OF
Virginia and often spoke Of the anxiety he
felt during those sad years of war, as to
| how it would go with us-he seemed to
gain new life in our climate. In the fall
of 1874, he was sent to take charge OF
Martinsburg, and for three years he was
uutiripg in his devotion to his charge, not
even taking the moderate sum allowed to
priests here he spent all on the people
who had been entrusted to him. Bishop
Elder, learning how his health was re-
established and knowing his worth, wrote,
urging his own claim to him and in an
evil hour for Virginia, he left us, going
back last fall, on y to labor for a few
months and fall victim to his love OF
Gods creatures and his sense Of duty
One little incident and have done. In
1877, Father Charles was selected to preach
the sermon at the Cathedral, on the night
Of Holy Thursday. Tho whole burden O
that discourse was: Glove God, yes, love
the sad news reached US that he was dead
the words came back with startling force
and said "He loves God intensely now.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

1t is reported of the late William B. Astor
that he once asked a friend who was envying
his wealth: Would you be willing to attend
to this vast ee ate with all it's multiplied cares.
for your clothing, board and lodging Upon
"That ia all receive" 1t is probably true, as
a matter of fact, that, next to the very poor
and miserable, the person who is to be most
pitied is the one whose possessions are enor
nous.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

RED TAPE IN RUssIA.-A story illustrative OF
red tape in Russia is told by an English cor
respondent, who declares that it is true. An
oneratic singer connected with Moscow thea
tre, sA Wishing W to make short excursion into be
cour try, went to get her passport counter
Official inouired for her "written petition"
"My written petition y cried the lady, 81 have
none :; 1 never knew that anything of the kind
GSl Tsie tbis sheet Of paper and write according
to ms dictation." She transcribed word for
sepce. which was then signed, folded, snd
sealed sealed. "And now" quoth the man in Office,
"you have only to deliver it," TO whom, n
prsyi" ITO vi whomp echoed the official Win
me, of course" The document was handed
across the table. The great man sojusted his
spectacles, broke the seal, gravely read over
his own composition, and said: MADAM, 1
have read your petite and regret to tell you
that am unable to graz it,
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29
RI. Rev. Bishop Grace. of st. Paul, has is

Rs. Rev. Bishop Grace. of St. Paul, has is
sued the following order
To prevent the abuses that not unirequent
ly attend Church and society festivals ench ss
tione we're prescribed at the close of the Re
treat, August oath, aud strictly eDjoined upon
the clergy. 1. Under no pretext, and Tor n no ,
object whatever, shall sny suoh ieeCiyais 90. %
bidden at such festivals this includes not
only round dances, but dances OF every kind.
3. The use Of wine, beer, and Intoxicating IL
ouors of any kind shall not be allowed on oc-
assions of such festivals; much less shall the
sale of such beverages be permitted as q means
of prof for the ben: of churches and schools
or for any object whatever dlEectly OF OH tha,- a
| liRion."
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

Brother Jerome Bernard, an agent of The
Trappist Monastery of Sept Fonds IN
France, who recently arrived in New York,
has proceeded to Philadelphia, to negotl-
ate for the purchase of land in one of the
country districts of Pennsylvania, where
the monks intend to establish a branch OF
their order. Brother jerome states that
an offer has been made for the purchase OF
a large country seat, owned by gentle
man in Philadelphia. AS soon as he has
obtained the grounds and made arrange
meuts for the temporary accommodation
of 200 monks, he will start for Europe ana
gather that number of pioneers from the
Trappist monasteries of Mount Mellary in
ireland, Sept Fonds in4 France, and
Msriastern in Turkey. They will inclnoe
expert workmen in all the tradee, and even
architects, artists and doctors. The only
expense to be incurred, therefore, ls the
purchase of material for building. Alter
the erection of the monastery and the nu-
merous werkshops, including an extenslvIe1
dairy and tannery, the brotherhood VIII
not alone be self supporting but as In the
monasteries of their Order abroad large
surplus will remain in the treasury.
Brother Jerome Bernard believes that the
two hundred friars will be at work upon
the new site within a month, and that A'
the beginning of 1879 the new monastery
will be 10 fair working order
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29
HANDERBILTs ENORMOUS WEALTH.

N. Y. Graphic.
The following estimate of the possessions of
the Vanderbilt family is from a tolerably au-
thentic source, and is believed to be below
rather than above the actual wealth of William
H and his family associates:
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

try to give it excellence and make it
thing that net only will cell, but as good
as they can make it, as useful, as well
put together, as we'll proportioned, IS
pleasing to the eye, as full of beauty as
they can make it, and the more they try
to do it the better they will be able to do
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29
: s3rlns !'tar and Catholic a:e4sengsT.
THE CROWDED STREET


at me move slowly through the str eet.
Filled with q ever r-shlttng train,
. I'D the sound of steps that beat
The murmuring walks like autumn rain.
How fast the fitting figures come!
The mild, the fierce, the etony face
Some bright with thoughtess smiles ana some
W here se cret tesrs have left their trace.
They to tell to ,Ss issfs fs.ss to
To aS cbambei nae rs where the funer al guest
In silen CO sits beeide the bed.
And some to happy homes repair.
Where children pressing cheek to cheek,
With mufe caresses shall declare
The tenderness they cannot speak.
Ard some who walk in calmness here.
Shall shudder as they reach the door
where one who mad 10 their dwelling dear
It's flower, its light. is seen no more.
Youth, with pale cheek and tender frame,
And dreams of greatness in thine eye,
Cost thou to build an early name,
Or early in the tack to die
Keen son of trade. with eager brow,
Who is now huttering In thy snare,
Thy golden fortunes. tower they now.
Or melt the glitteIiDg spires in airt
Who Of this crowd tonight shall tread
The dance till day light glesns sgaint
Who sorIow DER the untimely dead
Who writhe in thIoes Of mortal pain
stme. famine struck. shall think how long
The cold dark hours, how allow the light;
And some, who fauut amid the throng,
Shall hide In dens of shame Tonight
Each where hts tasks or pleasure call.
They pass and heed each other not
There is one who heeds. who holds them all
In his large love and boundless thought
These struggling tides of life. that seem
In wayw ard, aimless course to TEND,
Are eddies of the mighty stream
That rolls to its appointed end
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

Softness and self.indulgence work two great
evils, for they insensibly yet surely destroy
means which might have been devoted TO the
ser7ioe Of the needy.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29

A recent philosopher discovered q me-
thod to avoid being dunned. "hoW j
how P-howH' everybody asks. Never
run in debt.
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Can the Truth Oyert.ke n L,eY

Investigation discloses the fact that the
lady reported in the Associated Press dis
patches about August 10, to have died in
Chicago alter two weeks use of some reputed
renetdy for corpulency, had not taken Allan's
Anti-Fat but had used a preparation put up
by regular physician in Luzerne, Pa. AL
lan's Anti-Fat is manufactured in Buffalo,
N. Y, by the undersigned. We have al
ready sold over 100000 bottles of it. 1t has
therefore been taken by thousands, and we
challenge proof that 1t has ever harmed any
body, unless the reduction of obese persons
from 20 to 60 pounds, leaving them healthy
and strong, is considered a misfortune
Furthermore, we hereby offer IS, 900 reward
for evidence showing that it contains poison
Gus or injurious ingredients We also offer
$4,000 if we cannot prove that it has reduced
numbers of persons as stated herein, and al
ways without injury. 1t is said lie will out
travel the truth any time but we trust that
those newspapers that have misled the pub
lie by saying that physicians attributed the
lady's death to the use of Anti-Fat (Which is
only put up by us, the term "Anti-tat" be-
ing our trade mark will correct the false
Impression they have conveyed, by publish
ing this refutation.
BOTANIC MEDICINE co,
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when We DemoraIfxe the Ssouncb

By excesses or imprudence in eating, we
can not hope to escape the consequences for
any great length of time. The most robust
digestion must succumb to abuses of that
imp ortant function. But supposing that we
have been foolish enough to enfeeble the
stomach, is the damage irreparable? BY
means. The dyspeptic has only to do two
things to insure his ultimate recovery.
First, he should adopt an easily digestibie
diet. Second, he should use with regularity
and persistence Hostetter's Stomach Btters,
the leading gastric invigorant of the age. The
multiform symptoms of dyspepsia, and the al
most invariably attendant disorders bilious
ness and constipation, will assuredly cease
to persecute The sufferer if the above advice
is attended to. Who that has suffered the
torments that chronic indigestion inficts
will neglect to take advantage of a remedy
which, if the most positive evidence of the
medical profession and the public is to be
received with due credence is an absolute
specific for the complaint.
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A Sketch of the Present Turkish
Premier.

The present Turkish Premier, Safvet
Pasha, is, like his great predecessor.
Midhat, one of the few native Turks
who have attained a high position by
downright hard work, instead of Court
intrigues and have adopted the enlight-
ened views of the civilized West without
losing particle of their national spirit.
Born i'll 1916, he entered the Govern.
ment service as a translator at an early
age, and speedily attained the post of
private secretary to the Sultan, Abdul
Medjid, who, disipated and worthless as
he was, had at least the merit of recog-
nizing and rewarding talent. He
showed his sense of the young civilians
capacity by making him a member of
the Imperial Council, where Safvet dis
tinguished himself in such way that.
at the time of the Crimean war, he was
selected for the very important Office of
Commissioner of the Danubian Princi-
palities. In this capacity he was called
upon to preside over the Commission
which, in 1858, settled the boundaries
of Roumania and the mutual relations
of it's Moldavian and Wallachian d.
visions; and it was here that he saw for
the first time man who was hereafter
to exercise paramount influence upon
his fortunes and those of his country
The Russian representative with whom
he had to deal was General Chen
ColoneD Nicholas Ignatieff. at that time
only twenty-six years of age, but al
ready beginning to display the formi-
dable talents that lurked beneath his
smooth, inscrutable mask This constant
intercourse with the representatives of
civilized Europe did Safvet Pasha good
service during his mission to Paris in
1866; and his successive tenures of
Office as Minister of Commerce and
Public Works, of Justice, of Education
and of Foreign Affairs, showed that his
services were fully appreciated But
change was at hand. Dragged down by
the fall of his incapable colleague,
Abdul Kerim, he was superseded by
Aarifi Pasha in July, 1877, and although
his recent restoration TO power might
augur well for Turkeys future policy
under any other sovereign, the Sultan's
known timidity and proneness to change
his Ministers at the slightest sign from
the turbulent rabble of Constantinople
render it only too probable that the
new Premier's term of Office will be
short one.
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We noticed in an Eastern paper re-
Gently paragraph stating that Maine
clergyman had developed a new indus
try-that of fy-eatching, he having by
his individual and unaided efforts cap
tured seven thousand and one flies in
four days. That is large number of
flies, but if we felt dispo ed to engage
in that industry we could catch twice
the number in the space of half an hour
in our little six by eight sanctum. But
there is only one fly that we have par
ticular grudge against, and he has tor
tured the top of our head every summer
for the past five years. We have
mashed him, cut his throat, shot out his
brains, put him under microscope,
drowned him, and poured kerosene on
him and set him on fire, but he always
comes up smiling, and goes right for the
same spot every time.-Austin (NeUada)
ReUeilLe.
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ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOU USE.

A GERMAN agricultural paper saws
dill grown among cabbage will stop the
ravages of the common caterpillar.
QUEEN cake: Beat one pound of
butter to cream, with some rose-water,
one pound of -four dried, one pound of
sifted sugar, beat all we'll together; add
few currants washed and dried but
ter small pans of size for the purpose.
CRATE sugar over them: they are soon
baked.
SUGAR cake: Take half pound of
dried -four, the same quantity of fresh
butter washed in rose-water, and a
quarter of pound of sifted loaf sugar,
then mix together the -four and sugar.
rub in the butter, and add the yelk of
an egg beaten with a tablespoonful of
cream; make it into a paste, roll and
cut into small round cakes, which bake
upon Toured tin.
GINGERBREAD; Rub one pound of
butter well into three pounds of flour,
then add one pound of powdered sugar,
one pound of molasses, and two ounces
of ginger, pounded and sifted very fine !;
then warm quarter of pound of
cream, and mix all together; you NAV
add caraways and sweetmeats if YOU
choose; make it into stiff paste, and
bake it in slow oven.
CELERY pickles: Take good-sized
cucumbers; slice thin, crossgraln, on a
vegetable-cutter, and let stand over
night in weak brine; drain; then take
enough vinegar TO cover them. aud put
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-14
Changes Effected by Artesian Irriga.
tiOn.
lSan Francisco Correspondence of the Baltimore
sun.

lSan Francisco Correspondence of the Baltimore
SUM-
The prospects of the Southern Pacific
Railway grow brighter. The track, for
400 miles, passes through reputed
desert, where rain is too scanty for
agriculture, and the soil in its dry state
looks barren. Now the company's ar
tesian well, three hundred feet deep,
yields $4,000 gallons of flowing water,
and biologists, having the formation to
guide them, have examined the whole
Tulare valley, 200 by 80 miles. They
report that broad and deep river flows
under the whole country, and every
acre can be brought into high production
by boring 800 or 400 feet for water at a
cost under ST 900 for each we'll. Ex-
periments made in Kern County prove
that sugar cane does better than in
Louisiana, especially, because it is en-
tirely exempt from autumnal frosts. But
it also contains more sugar. Cotton does
equally well, though cool nights may
interfere with the length of its fiber.
These products pay-so much better than
other California crops, and irrigation
secures perennial returns, that these
lands will bear extra valuation and the
population will be denser. The dearth
of timber will soon be remedied. The
railway, for its own use, has three hun
bred acre forest of eucalyptus trees,
planted since it began work. Having
now irrigated water, the growth of five
years hence will give abundance of ties
and telegraph poles
Engineers estimate the value of that
forest five years hence at $150,000 For
building and fencing it would be equally
valuable, and if settlers make rule to
plant trees this rainless valley would
soon attract moisture from the clouds
and change the climate materially For
this valley hugs the great timbered
mountains of the Sierra range which
now, by superior attraction, draw from
the naked valley the fare share of rain
fall, which fair share of forest would
not fail to attract to the plains.
The certainty of crops and the peren-
NAL pastures of these irrigated lands are
turning farmers from the uncertain bot
tom lands of western California to the
eastern plains. This is working change
in their relative valuations, which, how
ever, may be equalized hereafter by ar
tesian irrigation, equally easy to OBJ
tain, on the bottoms of the Sacramento
and the foothills on their borders
When artesian irrigation becomes gen.
eral, as it soon will, and land monopolists
are forced to subdivide equally sure),
it seems that California must take the
first rank in productiveness, as it now
does in climatic attraction.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-09-14
0LEANINGS FROM THE MUSE.
MAGGIE.
BY LEONARD LLOYD.


Hush, Maud thread softly--Maggie's dead
Gone forever
See where she sleeps upon the bed
To waken neveri
Come closer-look upon her face,
For she Is fair,
Nor is there sign by which to trace
The soul not there.
Aye, kiss her-~for she loved you much,
But me the most
Oh, death! why shouldst thou single such
From our lfe's host?
Why shouldst thou slay with icy breath
The pure and fair,
When there are thousands craving death
To end despair?
saw her die--she smiled on me-
Oh, Maud, she smiled
When maddened by my misery
With words most wild
cursed the God who gave me life,
My first drawn breath,
Then flung mine arms about my wife,
Defying DEATH
Yet ever as / spoke methought
His football near,
Though with wild despair fought
Against my fear;
Till DER her face his shadow fell,
And with a sigh
She was asleep, and all was well
With her--but 1?
Oh, God--but /
--Poets' Magazine.
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PARLOR MAGIC.
BY HARRrErr PRESCOTT srorroRD.

1t is only flower that give you,
hundred-leaved. damask-dyed rose;
Shut 1t in there bets een the dark pages
When the book of enchantment you close.
But when 1t is crushed there, and withered,
And you-still rose in your bloom,
Lift 1t up with your careless white fingers,
Take 1t out of its magical tomb,
1t will spread with its fragrance around you
The spell of a breeze-shaken tune,
An hour in garden of roses,
A morning OF sunshine and June;
A face that implored with pale passion,
Empty arms that entreated you, sweet,
And heart that had persisted to please you,
Trodden under your pitiiess feet!
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CHATHAM ISLAND is one of the places
where the sun "jumps day." and is
thus described: Chatham Island, lying
on the coast of New Zealand, in the
South Pacific Ocean, is peculiarly stu
ated, and it is one of the few inhabitable
points of the globe where the day of the
week changes. 1t is just on the line of
demarkation between dates. There high
twelve on Sunday, or Sunday noon,
ceases, and instantly Monday meridian
begins. Sunday comes into a mans
house on the east side, and becomes
Monday by the time it passes out of the
western door. A man sits down to his
MONDAY dinner on Sunday, and it is
Monday before he finishes it. There
Saturday is Sunday, and Sundays Mon
day, and Monday becomes suddenly
transferred into Tuesday.
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