The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-19

whiteness of the girls going to commu-
mon, and above all things, the bell,
whose solemn voice filled him with
melancholy. Never did an impious
word ever slip from his mouth. Was
he entirely unbelieying and practical?
Those are secrets which the conscience
holds to the very last. He was much
pleased because my mother used to go
and pray at the graves of his rela-
tons. He showed a desire to see us
baptized and go to communion.
Il have heard him talk of Christ with
an energy and an JUNCTION which any
preacher might have envied, showing
something narrow and familiar and as
1t We're fragrant and balmy, which suit
ed well the latitude of Palestine, but
which he got from his own Provence.
Often his eye lit up at some word of
mystery or of miracle; he expressed
himself concerning faith and periods of
dfyness in faith and the torments of
peneNefs with an eloquence which
sprang from the intimate sources of
religious feeling. = And neyerthe-
less he venerated Montaigne even more
than Pascal; nevertheless when one
pushed him hard concerning these
problems, his replies showed acute
sceptJclsm or there We're long siIences
of doubt.
10 sum up, I believe that that inn
press OF the race which was so strong
IN him had marked him with the moral
Iorlns OF the Catholic faith. I believe
that he would have desired to hold the
faith and that materialism and atheism
were odious to him, but mis- powerful
and yet gentle love of life for Iife's
sake, of Justice without recompensa and
Oh pty which does not see its own good.
look In him the place of narrow CON
ceptlons Of a future and better organ
lied world 7''l-
Inc soil is said to be so fertile in
Cuba that if you stick a pin in the
earth it becomes a terra-pin. 1t is even
said that they raise umbrellas there
curing the rainy season.-The Journal
Minneapolis - i'''i'
While a great deal of compassion has
been spent upon Johanna Ambrosius
0he German peasant-poet who for most
OF her life has been Obliged TO +iu the
ne!dS and take care of stables besides
uolng the housework for her husband
ana TWO children, few .peopIe have
stopped TO pity Johanna 4mbrosius,
husband, who by all accounts is q duII
sood' iaooring man, contented TO do his
uuty IN mat place to which II hos
E ha'. God to call him. But if 1t has
tmt,i ndiu Tor johanna to stand him
- INN IN, Nildl IL must have been for him
, W St"ilu johanna! Just fancy what II
must mean to have to live win q
woman VINO insists on writing noan,e
ana dedicating them to Pain Oritb q
odpItai P.D The lot of the neasant
MoIian lowered With the creative ar.
e o.S,lC instinct yet obliged by the evf.
SeHcles OF existence to sDend bareoit
"a Vhe commonplace monotonv "a
hiichen and barn is hard. but tIa lGi
VI uile uhendOWered man who is chaineg
t" hef and must go through life he,
toIceG companion, is harder. SHE bo,
tler children and her poetry to cornfort
tlgTi ne suffers the loneliness. the de.
tacIiheht, the superhuity of the on,
Wilo Is lett behind in the race. Poor Mir
Ambrosius! W 4Hl
Mr.. Bassetts piano recital which vo,
postponed owing to the illness of Mrs
shepard, who is to assist takes plac,
IN Memorial Hall, Tuesday pyenine
MIS-. shepard has so far recovered a,
70 pc able to appear. and the program
VII pc given as announced. Mr.. Ras
sou deserves TO appear before a larg,
duulence at this recital. He has mn
t.e price low in order that all lover,
or piano music may 20. 1t is rare in,
ueed that one can hear a program ~
IKE high order for 20 cents, Neithet
Mr.. Bassett nor Mrs. Shepard hav,
ever played or sung The numbers q,
TINS program in Worcester, and tn,
Sonata Eroica, by Mcdowell and tn,
carnival, Mignon, by Schuett, will b,
heard for the first time N public il