The Bee-Hive. — 1870-09-24 (London, England)

PRICE ONE PENNY.  dentius awoke, and, trembling, related his dream to the saint, who replied, "God grant, my son, that thy dream may be fulfilled, but dreams are deceitful, and may not be trusted." When the morning broke they wandered farther--shortening the way by prayer, and by "praising God in spiritual songs ;" an! it was high noon when they emerged from a t iieklywooded region, through which they had bt en hitherto journeying, into a tract of open lard, of.which a part was sown with corn. litre G-audentius (one of the brethre ,) said mass, and Adalbert received the holy sacrament, after which they took some food and thea lay down to r,est. Adalbert, about a stone's '1 row from his companions, and within slid w of some mighty trees; but a fearful p3iil was hovering over them; for Adalbert was lying within the precincts of a sacred grove, which it was death for a stranger to enter, and had unconsciously committed a crime for which there was no expiation. They were a-oused from their sleep by a terrible cry, and looking up saw a crowd of enraged heathens rushing towards them who soon surrounded them, seized them, with every mark of fury and bound them fast. As Adalbert stood thus in bonds, the remembrance of the dream and of the cup that he was to drink flashed across him, but he stood erect and fearless, and spoke only words of consolation to his companions :—" Mourn not, my brothers ; we suffer these things only for the faith, and for the glorious name of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ. What is nobler, what is grander, what is sweeter, than to give our lives for the Saviour ? " Scarcely had he uttered these words, with the holy fervour of inspiration, than a priest of the idolaters rushed upon him, and plunged a spear into his brcast. The wild swarm, who seemed to have wa led for this as a signal, threw themselves upon him, and they also imbrued their hands in the blood of the saint, and he fell, "spreading out his arms in the form of a cross," and praying for the forgiveness of his murderers. His companions, though at the time carried away as prisoners, were afterwards allowed to escape ; 80 that it is probable that the slaughter of Adalbert was not so much an act of mere savage fury, as what, in the eyes of the perpetrators, was regarded as the just punishment of his cri me, the desecration of their sacred grove. The mutilated body of the saint was, according to the legend, preserved in a miraculous manner, until the two fugitive monks had time to reach Poland and tell the tale to Duke B oleslav, who offered to purchase it from the Prussians for its weight in silver; but, marvellous to tell, those who were sent to the heathen land to conclude the bargain, pay the silver, and bring away the saint, found that it weighed nothing at all, What the Prussians thought of the matter we do not learn, but the body was brought to Poland, and carried in solemn procession to Gnesen, where it was buried in the cathedral, working, of course, numberless miracles by the way, as well as after it was deposited in its final resting place. The fame of these miracles reached even to Italy, and to the Emperor Otto 111., who resolved thereupon to make a pilgrimage to the grave; and came accordingly, accompanied by a splendid train of prince,s, knights, and nobles, and was met by the Duke with his magnificent court, clad in gold-embroidered dresses and rich furs—and on this occasion the road leading to the cathedral was for miles covered with fine cloth. Such honours were paid in thosi days to what was deemed holiest