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nor t.: 3trand Catholiofet ssenger 1 Mornlng Star and Cathole memsge O rlae waBrans CeAc Pubiicoio ompa e W. 16 Poydraas.ateet. wcorr of (am. I h Te MoRIINO 1Ih has been eda .Y 7 . 1 9t a os 4 1op a n g .e ýw i t h t h e a p p r o v a l o f t h e e e olai e s e & S.)ireteifth paayare authority of the Dloese, to supply - Most .ev. NAPOLEON Josn PrOHN, -admitted want in New Orleans, a l Premlen. mainly devoted to the interests . I Wa. J. CAeSTILL, vie Pesten.-" Catholic Church. It will not lnra L We. _-. T _-_ice Presdat. : politics except wherein they int Very AST. G. R-_-ON-, with Catholic right,, but wti S Very Rei MoYNIAN, iniquity in high place. wih r krperson or parties. Next to the oplipry Se. T. J. -NN, C.- ... - --- -- -- I rights of all men, it will epolel - s . _ _ pion the temporal righ o Bev. B. A. NurrEAr, .88. 8 . B.) Eev. P. F. ALLEN, JoHx T. oGIBoNs. ,,,i f , . We approve of the aforesaid JoN MGCAtRZT, e king, and commend it to the OiCatheL D). W. StexLar. f our Diocoee. All eeomnantolationsare to be addressed to the t J. M. ABoHsIaHOr W O diterofYf YaraeiateuadOeitAlMaengar.s Deumobr is ,18i67. Pubraeemo E-aeo. 116 Poydrustreet, eornsr of Camp. "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THEM THAT BRING GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGSI" Term--lngl Copy,seosue; Byai.-in &veae VOLUME IX. NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1876. NUMBER 35. Mooning Star and Catholic essenger. iW" O.LZW tS. dtYNDAY. OCTOBER 1. 157l. TELgEGAPEHIO UMMARY. WOREION. SPBrN.-A manifesto by the advanced Repnb lieans, signed in Paris by Benors Zorilla and Salmeron, has been ircunlated throughout Spain. Its most important provisions are the renewal of the constitution of 1868, with the suppression of the clauses relative to the mon aroby and the equality of all religions. FtANCe -There is good authority for stating that Gen. Cbancy, Governor General of Algeria, has informed his Government that a general insurrection is imminent in the provinue. ENoLAND.-The Financier says that £60,000 worth of American eagles were purhaseed on the 26th from the Bank of England, at 76s. 5•}. per ounce, for transmission for New York. Further remittances are expected, because the shipments of wheat and cotton from America are large and the absorption of the new United States funded loan in Europe is steadily in creasing.- At an election for Parliament last week in Buckinghamshire, the Conservative candidate got 2,735 votes against 2,539 for the Liberal.- Numerons meetings are being held throughout the country to consider the Eastern question and protest against the Bulgarian atrocities. In answer to a deputation headed by the Lord Mayor of London, Earl Derby said: You may be quite sure that the Govern ment cannot underrate the strength of popular feeling which undoubtedly has shown itself so strongly is the last few weeks with regard to the Bulgarian atrocities. I apprehend we all agree in principle as to what ought to bedone. TuanY.-The proclamation by the Servian asmu of Prince Milan as King has further com. plicated matters and renders the solution of the Eastern question more difficult than ever. The representatives of the Great Powers have been instructed not to recognize him as King under any ciroumstances, yet the army, now absolutely beyond the control of even its own Government, adheres to the stand taken. The diplomatic position is now as follows: England has proposed the following basis fors treaty of peace: 1. An unconditional armistice. 2. 8tatu quo ante bellum as regards Servia and Montenegro, with extension of territory for the latter. 3. Liberal provision for local autonomy for Herzegovinia, Boenia and Bulgaria. The other Powers have given their assent to the English proposals, and if the Porte agrees, they will be imposed upon the revolted pro vinces. There has been no fighting, as an armistice of two weeks has been declared. UNITED STATES. WASBBIGTON -The cabrgoes of Republican speakers about the allowance of Southern claims has led to an examination in the Clerk's ofmce of the House of Representatives, and shows that a much larger amount of Southern claims was presented to the first session of the last Republican Congress than at the last see sion of the Denmocratio House.- lt has been determined, at a conference of the Secretaries of the Executive Departments, to remove every one of the few Democrats now in ,flice. EAIRTQUAns IN INDrIANA,--Two successive heavy shooks of eartbquake were felt in In dianapolis at midnighton the24th. The effect wald to cause general alarm throngbout the city, and people left their beds. Globes were shaken from chandeliers. Many persons sup posed it was caused by a steamboat boiler ex plosion. No damage was done, so far as asoer tained. BLOWING UP OF TELLGATE.-.ewIO York,P pt. 24.-The explosion of Hell Gate was eucoeesiol and harmless. After the last gun of warning a deep hush fell upon the multitude. The still ness was complete and unbroken from then until the third gun at 10 minutes to 3, which was followed precisely at 9 minutes to 3 by the explosion in the straight and seemingly narrow line running north and eonth for about 300 1 yards. The water whitened and arose evenly 3 or 4 feet high. When the third gun was heard the rocks trembled beneath the feet of the assembled multitude as from two quick, short pulsations of eaathquakee. The water, which appeared to remain stationary for an in staut, broke and spurted up in irregular yel lowith masces about twelve feet high, mixed fell buc. k smoke from the dynamite, then it fell back. In a moment the river resumed its al eaceful aspect. Then a mighty oheer and from all the northeast side of the city andwhis from the steamers and boats, and steam whistles were blown and bells were rung joy Ouely, sd ial was over. The report was scarcely audible. Not the smallest fragment of rock was hurled up, and not so much as a ripple I was caused upon the water save just over the spot where the explosion took place. There was no onoueeion in the air and not a pane of glass amm broken in the city or on Ward's Island. Immediately after the explosion hundreds of re beoats set out at their best speed for Hell passing ve nxious to Lave the honor of first a horing erthe scene of the explosion. After xh eaminalion Gen. Newton pro nounces the explosion a perfect sucoess. Messrs. Levy Brothers, 0 Magazine street, are selling red and white l-woo lMagazinnel at t rents. colored and black alpaca ad empo flannel at 25 cents, corset at 50 cents, two-button kide at is snd ther artole at equally low prices. •96 agasine street, near t AndreR, is the ttia' d r. 3* K., E a sw ster. n, epsas pial af lay 1.wm2 w 1, Osiybwj, DEMOCRATIC PABI8U CONVENTION. Last Monday, at 12 o'olook, the Convention reassembled at the State House after an ad j ournment of nearly one week. The Committee on Credentials, consisting of tone member from each of the eleven delegations whose seats were not contested, presented a majority report signed by ten members and a mimority report signed by Mr. H. T. Lawlet of the Twelfth Ward. The majority repo f t ored the seating of the contesting delegationesrom the Second, Third and Thirteenth Wards on half a vote each, and the admission, on ý fall vote, from the Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Wards of the delegations who had credentile signed by the officers of their Central Clun Mr. Lawler's minority report recommended the seating, on a full vote, of the Shakespeare delegation from the Second Ward, and of the Pettigrew or Vizard delegation from the Third, and that new elections be held in the Fourth and Fifth Wards on Thursday. After some discrnsion, the majority report was adopted by a vote of 60 to 13. The Convention was then permanently or ganized with the following ofioerse: E. J. O'Brien, First Ward, President. Wm. A. Bell, Sixth Ward, First Vice Presi dent. H. T. Lawler, Twelfth Ward, Second Vice President. Geo,.Sohreiber, Secretary. A. J. Kelly and F. Armant, Assistant Secre taries. Ed. Flood, Sergeant-at-Arms. By consent the following resolutions were read and unanimonsly adopted: By Mr. N. Bienvenn: Whereas, there are before the Governor of this State, awaiting his signature, bills fixing the compensation of the Criminal Sheriff for the parish of Orleans, to establish the ,fees of the Civil Sheriff for the parish of Orleans, and a bill to fix the compensation of the Clerks of the First District Court and of the Superior Court, Be it resolved, That each and every candidate before this convention be required and under stood to pledge himself by the fact of accepting a nomination from said convention, to conform himself to the above aote from the moment they become laws by the signature of the Gov ernor without reference to the plea of their being ex postfacto in effect. Resolred further, That in case Gov. W. P. Kellogg should not sign any of said acts, and that the next Legislature should enact laws on the subject above indicated, each and every nominee of said convention is required and on derstood by the fact of aooepting the nomina tion trom said convention, to pledge himself to conform to said laws without reference to the 1 plea of their being ex post facto in effect. By Mr. Lawler: Whereas, the salvation of the Democratic Conservative party, and the truest Interests of the honest citizens of the State of Louisiana, may rest in the bands of our coming General ( Assembly, and in the judiciary of this State: and Whereas, it is of vital importance that posi tions of a legislative and judicial character should be held only by men of purest integrity, 1 therefore be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this conven tion that the nominations for candidates to po sitions, legislative and judicial, be confined to i men whose honesty and probity are unques tioned and above suspicion, and whose politioal record is clear and shows no affiliation with our enemies in the past, and no instance of pro- c moting private interests to the prejudice of the general good. By T. J. Ford: Resolved, That any delegate nominating any person for the votes of this convention shall at I the same time furnish the pledge of said can- t didate in writing that, whether he be chosen or not, he will faithfully abide by the decision of said convention, and will not allow the use 1 of his name nor will he support any nomina- a tion in opposition to the choice of this conven tion, and that no name shall be submitted and no person balloted for without the submission first of such pledge in writing, which shall be a retained by the Secretary and turned over to the Parish Committee. The Convention then adjourned till Tuesday at 12 o'clock. Long before the hour fixed for the meeting, the streets in the neighborhood of the State n House and the corridors and committee rooms of the building itself, were crowded with citi. zens of all classes. At about-one o'clock the real work comi menoed, (Mr. Pillsbury having been nominated a for Mayor by acclamation), with the struggle a between Messrs. MoCaffrey and Barke for the very important office of Administrator of Im provements, and by half-pest adx o'clock all the parochial nominations had been made. The Convention then adjourned till Wednee day at 12 o'clock, when the coroners for the upper and lower dletriots were elected and the 4 mtdatM for the Bams e nd Hea i Br sentatives, selected by the several districts and wards, were announoed. The result of the n labors of the Convention is found in the fol - lowing VERY GOOD TICKET: Mayor-E. Pilsbury. te Administrator of Improvements-John Mo rt Caffrey. rt Administrator of Assessments-John E. h Ringstorff. g Administrator of Finance-J. C. Denis. , Administrator of Publio Aocounts-J. 0. re Brown. n Administrator of Police-Robt. E. Diamond. e Administrator of Commerce-Chas. Cavanne. to Administrator of Water Works-James D. s Edwards. a Judge First District Court-Edmund Abell. m Judge Second District Court-A. L. Tissot. r Judge Third District Court-F. A..Monroe. Judge Fourth District Court-W. T. Houston. h Judge Fifth District Conrt-W. H. Rogers. Judge Sixth District Court-Arthur Saucier. Judge Superior District Court-D. S. Bryant. Judge Superior Criminal Court-Wm. R. - Whitaker. Clerk First District Court-James O'Neil. Clerk Second District Court-John Herbert. Cleik Third District Court-B. Armbruster. Clerk Fourth District Court-John Carry. Clerk Fifth District Court-Thos. Duffy. Clerk Sixth District Court-J. V. Guillotte. Clerk Superior District Court-C. Tayk r Gauche. Clerk Superior Criminal Court-Eugene May. Criminal Sheriff-Jas. D. Houston. Civil Sheriff-Thos. H. Handy. District Attorney-John J. Finney. Coroner Upper District-Dr. A. Chastant. Coroner Lower District-Dr. H. Rance. SIENATORS: Second Distriot-F. C. Zacharie. Third District-P. A. Ducros. REPRESENTATIVE8 : First Ward-C. J. Leeds, C. H. Buck. Fourth Ward-E. W. Huntington. Fifth Ward-J. M. Lamare, W. H. Peralta. Sixth Ward-A. Voorhies, J. Aldige. Ninth Ward-A. Delavigne, L. Leonard. Tenth Ward-D. P. Mahoney, Louis Bush, B. F. Jonas. Eleventh Ward-E. B. Briggs, J. K. Bell. Twelfth Ward-Henry C. Miller. No nominations for one of the Senatorial and several of the IRepresentive Districts have yet been made. JUSTICES OF TIIE PEACE AND COYSTA£LEB. First Justice Court-J. P. Childress; Con stable, H. O'Sullivan. Third Justice Court-John L. Lzresche; Constable, 1'. J. Bockley. Fourth Justice Court-F. B. Hernandez; Constable, W. Hayes. Sixth Justice Court-Peter Kaiser; Consta ble, Dan O'Leary. ENGLISn BIGOTRY.-" There has been a storm I in a tea-cup at Lancaster," says the London Tablet, "about the important question whether the Mayor, who is a Catholic, should go in his official robes to hear the Cardinal Arohbisbop I preach. The Mayor intended to do as is done, i we believe, in Dublin when the Lord Mayor is I a Catholic, but some of the more sensitive Protestants of the town, and specially some of the local papers, got up an agitation and a protest. When the matter came to the know- 1 ledge of the Cardinal Archbishop, it was soon 1 settled in the manner in which everybody might have been certain that it would be, for his Eminence at once wrote to the Mayor, and after acknowledging with thanks the motive which prompted his intended act, requested him in his own name, and for his own sake, to forego the exercise of his civic privileges. ' It would,' said his Eminence, ' be a subject of much regret to me if my visit to Lancaster, which I hoped would be one of peace and good will to our countrymen, even though we are unhappily divided in faith, should become an occasion of variance and of trouble to your self.' The Mayer of course complied-ob serving however that he did not believe that his fellow townsmen sympathized with the 1 opposition which had been got up-and on Sunday be, the ex-mayor, and three of the aldermen were present at the Catholic Church I in their private capacity." FouND-MonrY.-By having your frst-olass dental work doae by Dr. L. A. Thurber, eerevr Ommes g4 Donmgr sMhs. Id STARVATION IN BULGARIA. ANOTHER STARTLING PICTURE OF THE IIOR HORS OF WAR. (London Daily Ntws.) But the dead are less to be pitied than o the living. They have been reduced from ease and comfort to the condition of wild animals-without home, without shelter, without bedding, almost without clothing, and living on what food they can pick up from day to day. There are women who h. have known co fort, who are weak and ill, and who have t ee or four little mouths to d feed. They go rout in the fields, reap enough wheat Ar tlte day's food, pain c* fully enough thrdeb it out with their hands, D. pound it into flour between two stones, and bake it into broead for their little ones day I. by day, and sleep, like the foxes, in the corner of a ruined wall on a little straw at night. There are little children here hag gard and thin and sickly, sleeping almost a. on the bare gronsd, and when it rains, on the wet ground. Nobody who has not seen r. it can imagine toe misery caused by the t. burning of avilla . The authorities ad sent some tents here for the people which were old and ragged, capable of sheltering from the sun, but not from the rain. iut there were not enough t. for all. The modir likewise received a lit r. tie food now and then, which he distribut ed, which barely kept those who had no harvests or other means of existence from starving. But thgpy was not enough, and 5. the supply was uwretain, and might cease :r at any moment. When we were starting, the women and children gathered around as by the hundred, and blocked up the way. They showed us thin ragged clothing and said: "See; we were rich; we had a house, and furniture, and cattle, and sheep, and these rags are all we have left." They bared their lean, skinny arms, to show us their fearful emaciation; they bared their shrunken, shriveled breasts, at which lern haggard, wretched babies were tugging, to show us they had no milk. God knows, their hollow cheeks, and sunken eyes, and despairing faces were proof enough. They said: " We are starving ; our balies are starving-starving to death. Can you do nothiz-g for uet" And we could no noth ing; nothing but shed useless tears. And the Turks of the neighboring vil lages, who have taken the horses and sheep and cattle of these starving women and children, the ir clothing and bedding, and the tiles from their roofa, cr.me to the vil lage sometimes, and ride through on the horses they have stolen, lookinf upon this I I misery with indifferent eyes. V e saw sev 1 eral here who had come out of mere curios ity, well fed, fat, insolent, smiling their 1 contempt for the starving beings around them. The Turk is not only without pity, - he is without patriotism. lHe does not look upon these people as his neighbors, his countrymen. He is too ignorant and stu- 1 pid to know that in injuring them he is I Injuring himself, that he is attacking his c own country. He knows no such thing as t country. lie knows only Islam. The peo pie of India, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, whom he has never seen, of whom he has heard once or twice per haps in his life, are nearer to him than his next door neigh- I bore. The words country, patriotism, do t not exist in his language. That these I Christians, his near neighbors, are his countrymen, that on themn as much as on himself depend the greatness and prosper ity of his country, is a fact which has no I place in his mind, which has no influence I on his acts. lie knows only that they form d no part of the religion of Mohammed, and t he looks rno further. When we left the village a hundred of these women ran after us for a mile with their cries and lamentations. It seems they thought at first we had come to bring them food or snccor of some kind, and when they I learned that we had only come to make an I inquiry their disappointment was bitter and overpowering, and they sat down by the c I wayside, with their little ones about them, i crying and wringing their hands, rocking 1 themselves to and fro, and moaning, rather a to themselves than for us, " What shall we t do t What shall we do t We are starving I I We are starving! We are starving to p death !" a !T OW BETBENJIMENT I WORKS. When Mr. Randall, after a thoroogh and im- t partial investigation of the publio service at a Washington, recommended a reduction of 20 t per cent of the clerical force, an outcry was ( raised that every department would be crip- c pled and the public business seriously de- ( ranged. This clamor was used to thwart a reform and to save the army of idlers and t drones that has long been a heavy drain on the Treasury. The Senate resisted this economy, t and was backed by the President and the t i whole Administration. h Finally a ecarpormles was reached by wheh t theM see e th·BHsss wa ea$ dewa t seven hundred and sixty-five dismissal. of sn peluons officeholders, or little more than one. half of the number proposed by Mr. Randall. Even this retrenchment was denounced as ruinons, and nearly every head of a department has tried to make it odious and to throw embarrassments in the way of the public bnsin ese. n But while the Administration and the or d gans have been assailing the House of Repre sentatives, and nisrepresenting the effect, of (, its wise and proper policy, they have furnished p the best proof of their own insincerity. At o this very time, when it is pretended there are , not enough clerks provided to run the depart mentseflicient;y, about four hundred have been furloughed for thirty and forty days, and sent P as political missionaries and voters into Ohio and Indiana, where they claim legal residence. Ir These clerks are taken away from their d desks at the most busy and important season y of the year, when the annual reports are enp e posed to be in course of preparation, and when t all the force is needed to assist in that work. They will not return to Washington until after the Presidential election, or about three weeks before the meeting of Congress. Thisfact of itself proves that Mr. RItndall's first measure of reduction was entirely justi e fled, for if four hundred clerks can be thus furloughed at the very pinch of the public bus s iness, and after having passed a summer of Idleness, they are necessarily iuseless ocurm branoes and ought to be abolished. They probably receive an average salary of $4 per diem. so that the people are taxed some $1,4i00 a day to pay for the electloneeriug absence of these employees. The reform policy which was inaugurated at 2 the last session must go on until this whole 1 vicious system is torn up by the roots. Be lore Congress shall meet. the people will have approved retrenohment at the polls by the eleo tion of Mr. Tilden, which most give a new im petus to the great movement, and help to dis arm much of the opposition it has thus far en countered. Felicien David, the composer, who died the other day in Paris, was an infant prodigy in music, and played the violin at five years old, at his birthplace, Cadenet, in Provence. At eight be was a singer in Aix Cathedral, and at nine he composed a piece performed at a grand mass. His precocious talent induced the Aix clergy to give him a presentation to the Jesuit College. There be had ntmuical instruction, but his family being poor, he was placed, on leaving, as clerk to an attorney, at a miserable salary. This employment being distasteful, the Archbishop of Aix, remembering his in fantile genius, gave him a post in the choir. Going to Paris, which his family thought an act of folly, he lived on a pittance given by a generous uncle. He soon made himself inde pendent by giving lessons on the piano, and afterwards traveled to Constantinople and Egypt. lie was on the point of fixing bis resi dence at Cairo, libut anmbition for distinction brouglht him back to Paris. There he lived long It great poverty. In 1,44, however, his 'l)esert," at the Conservatoire, took the town I .by storm, and his fortune was thenceforth made. When he arrived at the pinnacle of fame his great anxiety, though a most rapid composer, was to do nothing unequal to him self, and during the last twenty years of his life he published only two works. In Paris he lived in a cottage of rural appearance in the Rue Rochefnocault, where, in a miniature gar- t den, he cultivatei roes. Hle died at his coun- o try-houv', near St. Germain, of consumption, and in the delirium pruo..ding his death sang I original airs. - ---- -----i The Republim.ens have net treated their leaders in the Huine of Representatives with much gratitude or generosity, considering their pecullar services at the last session. John A. Kasson, who made the mendacious attack up on Gov. Tilden on the eve of the adjournment, and was almost flayed alive by Mr. Hfewitt. has been dropped by his coustituents. Wm. t Lawrence, who served as an automlation to Blaine on the oub-Committei, of the Judiciary during the Fort Smith arid Little Rock invee tigation, is relegated to private life. And the t illustrious Gen. Ilurlbut of Illinois, who has in season and out. of season. defended Grant, and practised Granutiam, is p~itohed overboard un ceremoniously, and the door is left open for his former opponent, John F. Farnswortb, now a supporter of Tilden, to walk back into the lioeso as a representative from the Funrth District. It is sad to see these tall Republican poppies cut down in this unceremonious way. Kaeson P looked forward to a long lease of Congressional life, and kept himself daily reported in the Record on the most trivial pretexts. The others are old stagers and hardly expected to take back seats. With this trio left oat and Blaine transferred to another sphere, the Re- a publican side of the liouse in the next Con grees will have a fresh look and a chance to n mend its bad ways. TAsT.--We should always distinguish be- tl tween taste and fanscy. One is a perception of ft some manifestation of a principle in nature; el the other a mere predilection for works of art. One is founded on the soul, as seen through its outward covering ; the other contemplates only T the exterior dress. True taste is a love of the a sublime, the beautiful and the true. Talent is h the ability to give these qualities expression in o works of art. The man of genie oombines u taste and talent, and pressmte the images of truth, beauty and sobllmity in poetry, paint, fi ag, sculptre, musi, ete. He dos not ereate the tisIples, but simply embodies them is J iinges e teba meial weald. 4 ho as THE FISHERMAN', DAUGHTER. all. Mt BY IIENLRICK COQWCIENCZ. or. The sunt had descended below the horiso., re- and the darknoea of night rested upon the of downs. ed " Come, my child," said the blind man, "we At will go in and light the lamp; the air is cold re and damp." ri. Bella led her father into the house. She ap en proached the door of the room occupied by U. nt de Milval, and listened for a moment. o " lie is sleeping quietly," she said. 7. While she was lighting the little lamp, sir blind man had seated himself and comm on to work on his net. Bella placed herself h, p table and took up her sewing; but her tho n were wandering, for she held the needle I k. hand without moving, and her eyes were mllet er with tears. he There was a deep silence in the room whier wa, broken only by the monotonous tioking of 's the clock. i- hbe door of the invalid's room was partly s opten for ventilation, and it was quite dark, fsr is- Illla's little lamp scarcely lighted the apart of ment in which they were nsated rn The young man awoke; he gased through ey the darkness. and his eyes fell open the lovely r face uof the afllcted young girl. ;W Ever since he had entered her father's house, ef she had given him so many proeis tender compassion, that he doubted nother waet at at that moment flowing for him. HBI wa ile filled with admiration fur this simple .- who thus wept in the silence of the ee Sthe misfortunes of a man who w stranger to ter; it consoled him o n. pathy so true in so pure a heart. . At that moment, a sigh she could not reprsee n. e-caped Bells. M. de Milval beard the old man say : " You promised me, my child, to keep up your courage; and now you are weeping. That he is not right, Bells." in " Ahl ddar father, I cannot control my d, thought.. Poor M. de Milval Afll me with it compassion. May God in his mercy grant him st strength I" Id "Come, Bells, take the Old or New Teste sx ment, and read to me." it "Oh, father, I do not feel able now to read." 1, "It will serve to direct your thoughts, and it a will restore your courage. I beg you to read s something in order to give me pleasure." I, " What shall I read, fatherf" " I have no choice. The history of Toblias i r very attractive." n "It is so long, father; and it is near your a time for retiring. May I read you about Job "' " No, my child ; that is as long, and it makes r you restless at night. Read about Daniel in (1 the lions' den." Bells sought the history he pointed out and n cornimenced readirg. d The wounded man was astonished to find a that the inmates of this poor cabin ooold read; Sbut what surprised him still more, was the h manner in which the yoning girl varied the in f l.ctiouns of her voice, and gave coloring and d life to what she read; ho became so interested and ablorbed that for the time he forgot hib a suffI"riugs and mifortunes. 0 When she had finished reading the chapter e upon Daniel in the lions' den, Belleondeavored to persuade her father to go to bed, as it was now past his usual hour fur retiring. "Let me watch a little longer with you, t Bella," said the blind man. " Aunt Clara will not come to relieve you until midnight. Tou will be too long alone with your thouggts. r Continue your reading-it will do me good." The young girl turned over the leave for a r moment, and read with feeling the following: "And behold certain lawyer stood uptempt ing him, and saying, ' Master, what met I do to possess eternal lifer But he said to him, ' What is written in the law 1 how readeet thon 1 H", answering, said, ' Thou shalt love the Lird thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.' And he said to him, 'Thou bast an swered right: this do and thou shalt live.' But he, being willing to justify himself, said to Jenus, 'And who is my aeigbb r' And Jeses, answering, said, ' A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among rob bers, who also stripped him, and having wounded him, went away, leaving him half dead. And it chanced that a certain priest went down the same way; and seeing him, passed by. In like manner also s Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by. But a certain Samaritan being on his journey, came near him; and seeing him was wmved with compassion. And gong up to him. bound up his wounds, pourng in oil and wine; and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an ian, and took oare of him. And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host, and said: 'Take care of him; and whatsoever thon shalt spent over and above, I at my return will repay thee' Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers I' But he said, ' He that showed mercy to him.' And Jesse said to him : ' Go and do thou in l:ke manner.' " As Bella concluded, they both remained silent. The invalid was deeply moved, and he gazed with gratitude upon these simple people who a had so generously fulfilled in his regard the a command to exeroias charity towards their t neighbor. I "Could you consider anything a saorifee. father, when God himself gives s an oppor SSaity of imitsig the good Samaritan I hao t should mak Dr. Darlage oemprebeed that M. ,"; do Ykval o * sge o seat tNat el 1i -- -ce-e_, - -'''bim:."i~