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VOLUME I. NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1876. NUMBER 17.
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erning Star and Catholic Messenger.
Iaw ORIB ANI. SUNDAY, MAY at. Is7I.
TELUORAPRIC SUMXAYT,
PORnIGN.
ROME, May 24th.-A meeting of the Cardinals
held, at which the Pope was present. The
sition of the Church towards Spain was con
dered. They resolved that relations with the
psaish Government should not be formally
uapended on account of the adoption of the
religion clause of the new constitution, but
at the Nuncio at Madrid should be granted
definite leave of absence.
FrAcN.-At the supplementary elections
the 21st, Duo D'Ornano (Bonapartist), was
lected from Coglue, Peyrusse (Bon,), from
noh; Lonstatot, (Rep.) from Lourdes; Maille,
im Maine-et Loire ; Halntjean, (Bon.) from
rths; Girand, (Rep.) from Melle: Vignan
rt, (Rep.) from Orthez ; Faillet, (Rep.)
m Tomon ; Kerrisonet, (Rep.) from Lon
eco; Montagiona, (Rep.) from Lepinoy
no De Faltre, (Bon.) from Gningay; and
alartee, (Legitimist), from Yessingeaux,
ere elected.-On the 19th. in the Hllouse of
eputies, various Radical motions for complete
nesty and for amnesty to certain classes of
ommunists were defeated by large majorities.
e same motions in the Senate were also de
eated by overwhelming majorities, only eight
ators voting in favor of them.
reAIr.-On the 24th Congress passed the
hole draft of the new constitution by a vote
2-5 to 40- 30,000 infantry and three
k regiments of cavalry under orders for
ubae, will sail Sept. 1st.
GORMANt.-The bill transferring all rail
ays to the control of the Imperial Govern
eat, has passed the Prussian House of Peers
its several readings by very decided majori
- The bill making the German language
throughout Prussia also finally passed
ite of the vehement opposition of the
olish delegates.
ENGLAND.-In the House of Commons, on the
nd inst., Mr. Disraeli, in reply to the question
f Mr. Maurice Brooks, Liberal and Home Rule
ember for the city of Dublin, as to whether
e intended to advise the Qoeen to extend
ercy to the persons imprisoned for breach of
egiance to her Majesty, stated only fifteen
rsons remain in custody within the category
f Mr. Brook's question. After a lengthy ex
lanation, showing that two of these are con
ioted of murder, and that six are in English
prisons and the remainder in West Australia,
under military surveillance merely. Mr. Disraeli
said, considering the circumstances, he cannot
now recommend the granting of amnesty. Mr.
ohn O'Conor Power, under a LmoOti. n to adjourn,
trongly protested.
London, Aily2 5-The uneasiness felt regard
ng the Eastern question is aflcting all classes
securities: those of theiGovernmenes directly
Ithin its influence sufter most, but the whole
rket is flat. Turkish and Egyptian bo:,ds
to-day at the lowest point yet reached.
TuvnrY.-lnogland has refused to give her
pport to the plan of the three Great Powers
r the pacification of Turkey. She says that
t contains the principleof armed intervention
nd makes unreasonable demands of the Sultan.
he Sultan, it is said on the best anthority. a ill
ot absolutely reject the proposals of the
owere, but will ask for considerable modifies.a
ions. The Herzegovinians declare that they
ill not accept the terms, they having been
eatly emboldened by recent victories. They
emand the absolute independence of their
untry, and are actually prepauirg to pro
laim a personal government. The insurgents
ave recently won important advantages in
heir military operations, the details of which,
however, have not yet been received.
MExrco.-A Galveston News special under
dateof Brownsville, 20th, says : Gen. Renvel.
lar, with the advance of the Government
forces, under Escobedo, reached Matamoras
last night at 8 o'clock, and the American and
German Consols turned over the city to him.
Escobedo arrived here this morning. Diaz is
reported to be at San Fernando in the interior,
whither Gonzales has gone to meet him. The
revolutionists of Oaxaca have declared that
they were not acting against the Federal, but
the State Government. The Federal troops
having been withdrawn from Oaxaca, many
insurgents had returned to their homes. The
Prounciados were still in great number but
ly attacked the Federals at small posts.
e revolutionary State Government was in
foll power. The political, situation at the
capital was continually changing. Great
dissensions existed among the supporters of
the Government. The largest party favored
ejlia, actual Minister of War, for the next
President, but a majority of the Congressional
Deputies in caucus had renominated Lerdo
eTejada, and maintained that no legal
election could be held while a number of
States were in a state of siege and others were
held by rebels. If no general election takes
ac, then Chief Justice Iglesias is entitled to
e Presidency. A project was on soot for
onsrees to declare a prolongation of Presi
tLerdo's term of office for one year as a
rtitel and military necessity. The official
I.declaree if troops of the United States
mnvade lIlexin o on any pretext, the Govern.
ment r+l' defend the soil with energy. The
Federal troops ave occpied Jalapa, and the
city government had been reinstated. The
morning train from Vera Croz for the city of
Mnearo was stopped and assaulted on the 11th,
nea Tuejera, where the inanrgents had torp
She tracks. Shots wre fired t pasen s,
robbe. wo ws wounded, sanld e wr
UNITED STATZS.
The following appointments by the President
have been confirmed by the Senate: Attorney
General Pierrepont to be Minister to England;
Secretary Taft to be Attorpey General; Don
Cameron, son of Simon 0., to be Secretary of
War ; E. F. Beale to be Minister Cf Austria.
The Preelident has isened, a proclamation re
citing the joint resolution of Congress, recom
mending the assembly of the people in their re
spective counties and towns and cause to be
delivered, the Fourth of July, a historical
sketch of the county or town, to be filed in the
library of Congress, and elsewhere, with the
intent that a complete record may be obtained
of the progress of our institutions during the
first century of their existence.-The 8enate
has not yet decided to take jurisdiction in the
Belknap case. In daily secret sessions the
question is discussed, but the relative strength
of the parties for and against taking jurisdic
tios has not been divulged to outsiders.- The
Senate passed the House joint resolution re
questing the President to take such steps as he
may deem proper to secure the pardon or re
lease of Edward O. M. Condon, now confined
in an English prison - The report of the
House Committee on the Freedmen's Bank say
that institution degenerated into a monstrous
swindle, and was almost from the start merely
a soheme of selfishnes under the guise of
philanthropy, and to its confiding victims an
ncorporate body of false pretenses. The re
port covered three columns of details of ras
cality, and was signed by all the Committee,
Including Rainey, coloeemerbcr from South
Carolina.---The report on Gen. Schenck is
completed; it acquits him of intentional
fraud, but censures him severely for the utter
impropriety of his whole connection with the
Emma Mine, and his entire lack of perception
of the proprieties of his oflfoe.-The Secretary
of the Navy, smarting under revelations made
to the House Committee of Investigation, has
accepted an invitation to testify before the
Committee.
CONBSCRATION oF THE BALTIMORE CATBE
DRAL -Last Thursday this splendid Cathedral
was consecrated, the debt having been recently
paid by Archbishop Bailey. The building of
the edifice was stopped by the war of 1812,
and it was only completed and dedicated in
1821, from which time to the present there has
always been a heavy debt on it. Among those
present at the consecration were Bishops Gib
bone, of Richmond, Becker, of Wilmington,
Kane, of Wheeling, and Gross, of fsavnnah.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The monicipal election in Richmond, Va.,
took place last Thursday, the Democrats being
succoesful by 2000 majority. The Republicans
carried Lynchburg -Ice and snow at Denver,
ClI., and Taunton, Mass., last Wednesday.
lHniry Kingsley, the English author died in
London last week.-The first sack of Texas
dour shipped from Dallas to talveston was
sold at anctinn in the latter city last Wednes
day for $3~5. It was purchased by Brazil
ocffee importers who will arid it to the Enipo
ror of Brazil.
A Great Jesuit Missionary.
[New York Catholic Review i
Father Weninger, S. J,, is a man of fabulous
energy, reminding one of the fumous "steam
bishop"of our history in the celerity of his
movements, and St. Francis Xavier, his fellow
Jesuit, in the success of his missions. Lees
than a month ago he was stirring up the Cath
olics of Texas in regions which he helped to
evangelize a quarter of a century ago. Last
week he was in St. Borromeo's Chorch, Brook.
lyn, seeisting Rev Dr. Freel and his associates.
This week he goes to Pennsylvania, and early
in June he is to deliver the Centennial address
to the Convention of the Roman Catholic So
cieties in PLiladelphia. We have heard an
outline or the points on which this will touch,
and we may promise our brethren throughout
the Union one of the most stirring and instruc
tive lessons that has been, hitherto, publicly
addressed to any body of Catholic societies
during this year of celebrations. From Phila
delphia he will continue his work, finding him
self in Montana, and, possibly, even in Oregon
before he returns to New York, where he is to
begin a mission in the fall. Besides being
a "steam missionary" in his personality, he
is one also in another respect. He mul
tiplies himself one thousand fold by the books
be is constantly sending from the press-books
which embrace contributions to every depart
ment of Catholic literature, from the splendid
intellectual treat, "Photographio Views," up
to that most difficult production, catechisms
for the young and uninstructed. Like all his
brethren whom we have ever met, he believes
in the Catholic press, which he wishes in
creased in circulation and power and strength
ened by the addition of daily newspapers in
every town where there are 10,000 or 15,000
Catholic families. Apropes of his view on the
Catholic press, we may quote his advice to the
married men and heads of families, which,
coming from a missionary of his wide expe
rience, is of double interest: " I congratulate
you, that in your city there is published a Ca
tholic paper entitled the Catholie Rewis. which
I wish to see in every family, because according
to my own judgment and that of all the clergy
men whom I have met, who are acquainted
with it, it is not surpassed by any in the
country."
The ralle for the diamond studs that were
on exhibition at the table presided over by Mrs. Mae
ready sad 81ister Irene, at St. Patriek's air, was drawn
ht the Star Hall last Wednesday eveaning byMsars.
w, . Thempeos, Jr., sad Wi. O'Beardme. Ticket e67 I
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By request of many subscribers, we repub
t lish:
Y THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE.
I T ErV. ABAM J. arA,
Forth from its ecabard, pure and bright,
Flashed the sword of Lee!
Far in the front of the deadly fight.
High o'er the brave, in cauae of Right,
it. stainless sheen, like a beacon light,
Led us to victory I
Out of its scabbard, where full long
It slumbered peacefully I
Roused from its rest by the batrtle.soeg,
Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong,
Guarding the right, avenging the wrong.
Gleamed the sword of Lee !
Forth from its scabbard, high in air.
Beneath Virginia's sky
And they who saw it gleaming there.
And knew who bore it. knelt to swear
That where that sword led, they wou:d dare
To follow and to die.
Out of its ecabbard ! Never hand
- Waved sword from stain as free.
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for a brighter land,
Nor brighter band had a cause as grand,
Nor cause a chit f like Lee !
Fotih from its scabbard I How we prayed
I hat sword might victor be!
And when our triumph was delayed,
And many a heart grew sore afraid.
We still hoped on, while gleamed the blade
Of noble Robert Lee I
Forth from its scabbard I All in vain
Forth lashed the sword of Lee !
'Tie shrouded now in its sheath again.
It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain;
Defeated, yet without a stain,
Proudly and peacefully.
THE fMOBMON HE.GIRA.
For some time past correspondents at
Salt Lake City have been reporting that
Brigham Young contemplated transferring
the Mormon population to Arizona and New
Mexico. Various reasons have been as
signed for this prejected hegira, but it is
now said that the true one has been care
fully concealed until recently. Within a
few weeks past Brigham has grown more
communicative acld has given a very sen
sational explanation of tt:e causes wl.ich
prompted hiru to abandon the wonderfui
city which he has built in the ailderreso.
One of his pretensions as hliad of tie Mor
mon Church is that he po.-setses the glit
of prophecy, and he says that he has re cciv
ed a divine message to the -ffeect that IL
six years at the longestSalt Lake Valley will
be entirely submerged in water. This is the
sort of prediction that it will do to watch,
and that our readers may be well informed
on thesubject, the following extractis given
from a conversation whilcl a correspond
ent of the Detroit Free Press represents
that he had with Prophet Young. Th:o
correspondent asked Brigham what would
cause the phenomenon bhepredicte, and the
answer was as flolows:
"It is a well known fact that Salt Lake has
no visible outlet for its waters, though a num
ber of streams of cousiderable volume are
continually discharging their waters into it.
It has always been conceded that there was
some subterranean outlet through which the
surplus waters have been discharged. In the
past few years the waters of the lake have
been rising on an average, ten inches per
year. Now, through my powers of divination,
I have discovered that the outlet is being
closed up on aocount of the vast quantities of
sodium and chloride gathering at its mouth.
Five years at longest will be enflicient to
close it entirely, and then Salt Lake valley
will be one vast ocean, and Salt Lake city in
the ocean."
The Oath Taken by Irish Members of Parliament.
I Dublin Nation.)
More than once the Irish World, New York,
has published, as a foundation for a charge
against the patriotism of some of the Irish
members of Parliament, a form of oath which,
it says, they all have to swear to before they
can take their seats in the House of Commons.
This oath it quoted, if we mistake not, against
Mr. O'Connor Power during his lecturing tour
in the United S atee; and more recently it has
flung it at the head of Mr. A. M. Sullivan. One
of the clauses of this alleged Parliamentary
oath binds the swearer to "disclose all treason
able conspiracies" against the Queen, her heirs
and successors. On this (supposed) clause the
Irish Wlerld goes to work, and we need hardly
say that it builds up a fine pile of argument.
but the basis is a pure fiction. No such oath
is sworn to by members of Parliament. Neither
O'Connor Power, nor A. M. Sullivan, nor John
Martin, nor Joseph Ronayne, ever took any
such oath. From this fact it follows that the
attacks made by the Irish World on this ground
against certain of the Irish members are un
founded and calumnious.
Meears.Braselman i Adams have recently
mad great rededeats is the prises of silks, linear
anusaddes lsd es' uesrarmeits, es.
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THIE WONDERS OF LOURDES.
ITKASBATED FrOM THE FLEFCU OF
MGR. DE SEOGU
BY
AN'NA T. SADLIER.
Entered acrording to Act of Congrees it the yesr 174
by 1). & J. Sadlier & (Co.. In the Office of the
Librarian et Congress, Washington, D. O.
lF.y kind pernission of the pubhlihers, D. & J. Sad4ler
& Co.. New York I
IContiined. I
Oar third rose is the fullest blown of the five.
This is the rose for the centre of our little
bouquet of miracles. It represents a good and
amiable child of fourteen or fifteen years old,
the sisterof a young pupil of the Jesuit Fathers
in their college at Amiens, who himself relates
as follows how Our Lady of Lourdes visited his
little sister on the 15th of July, in the year
170:
' My sister was named Mary. Having fallen
from a high piece of furniture when about four
years old, she slightly injured her leg. But
soon the hart grew worbeo, notwithstanding all
that could be done and all the tortures which
she was made to undergo. It was decided by
the medical faculty that she would be lame for
life.
"Eleven years had passed since then. Three
weeks ago. when she was at theboarding.sohool
of Lambersart (near Lille), she began to feel
again the most acute pains. My parents im
mediately came for her. Several doctors were
again consulted; but after a week's treatment,
an abscees began to form. It could not be
worse than it was, it appears, and they already
began to despair. My mother, having heard
of the efficacy of the water of Lourdes, sent for
a bottle of the miraculous water which gushed
from beneath the good Virgin's feet.
" I here copy verbatim the letter which my
excellent mother wrote to me:
" 'Yesterday, Friday (July 15), we oommenced
our Novena, which consists of three Rosaries,
the Litany, and invocations to Our Lady of
Lourdes. In the morning we said the first
Rosary and rubbed her leg. At twoo'clock tl.e
second Rosar y; I again began to rob her. O
miracle! 1 felt your sister's leg lengthen; the
pair. wan ljaving I.cr. Marie began to move.
SjLt: ned her leg every way, and wanted to
get out of ted. Seeing her eagerness, I allowed
her to duo u. Se vwa'ka without pain ; her leg
is quite suepp'o. hhe goes and conw b, rand runs
arounr.d the room. We all wept, ud you can
nr:'le:~taird with what fvelings we tlhank God
anrd the Illcsbed Virgin, who has been so good
to us. I cannot believe my eyes; for who
knows Ietrtr than I the great miracle which
God hbe performed in our favor ?'
"Some may ask, perhaps, for evidence of
this," adds the young brother. "I pray them
to believe that it is not wanting. More than
ten doctors, some of whom bave an extensive
reputation, and two boarding schools, at one of
which my sister remained for four years-is not
this more than enough to testify that my poor
little rister was incurably lame?
"And now what else can I do than thank
thee with my whole heart, with my whole soul,
and my whole strength, O Immaculate Virgin I
who dest obtain all things from thy divine Bon,
and whose goodness equals thy power I Yes, I
swear to thee, 0 good Virgin I that as long as I
live I shall be proud to call myself thy child
and thy entirely devoted servant."
The cure of this young lame girl was like so
many others-sudden, without transition, and
leaving no trace of an infirmity which, as was
well known by every one, had lasted eleven
years.
The Blessed Virgin found means to cull our
fourth flower in a Protestant garden. On Mon
day, July 4, of the same year, 1870, at Morn,
in a mixed parish of the Diocese of La Rochelle,
she supernaturally cured, without convales
cence, a poor little infant of two months old,
who was afflicted with millet.
The poor child's month, lips, and throat were
covered with purulent pimples, which were
rapidly turning to gangrene. It was all one
fearful sore, exhaling a most offensive odor.
"Without delay the child was taken to a doctor.
He was not at home ; but his wife declared that
the disease seemed to her very serious, and that,
in spite of great care and the application of the
best remedies, two or three children of a neigh
boring village had died of the same disease.
What sorrow this was for the poor parents
On their return home, they knew not what to
do to at least relieve him whom they had no
hope f saving. In her distras, the siek ehld
!·rss·~~ai"
aunt carried him to several honses to ask for
help. She went into the house of a Catholie
lady, and there five or six persons saw the sad
condition of the poor little child.
"Immediately," wrote this good lady, "I
thought of Our Lady of Lourdes ; but how was
I to speak of it to a Protestant?
" ' Would you like us,' said I to her, 'to give h
the child some water which I have here, and o
which will refresh him?' aS
"' Oh I yee,' cried she, ' I would like it; and
immediately, if you please'
" I gave him a small teaspoonful, which be c0
seemed to relish; then another, and he opened m
his eyes; a visible change took place in him. d
' The aunt went home, taking some of the at
water, with which she moistened his lips from '
time to time. Wonderful prodigy ! the sore hI
visibly disappeared; the child began again to at
take his ordinary food, which he had refused
for some days. Next day he was cured--so T
completely cured that his little month, entirely p1
round and red, showed not the slightest trace '
of the fearfol sore of the evening previous. s
" Filled with astonishment and joy, the Pro- fo
testant mother took the child everywhere, hi
showing him to all who would look, and saying or
to all who would hear that it was only the pi
water which was given him that had cured t
him, since she had used nothing else;.and the D
doctor had not even come to see him. no
"'Let us hope,' adds her Catholic benefao- hi
tress, ' that the Blessed Virgin will unish her
work, and that sooner or later she will lead this ye
poor child to the true faith, healing his soul as S
she healed his body I' fu
The fifth rosebud was also of 1870-a year as " 1
fertile in prodigies of grace and mercy as in of
terrible manifestations of divine justice on th
kings and nations.
It is again an aunt, but this time a good we
Catholic and a very pious aunt, who gives us
the account of a double miracle performed on on
her nephew by the blessed water from the it
grotto of Lourdes. ta
" The dear child," wrote she to the superior id
of the missionaries at the pilgrim;age, ' is t~e, i
years old ; wan suddenly seized with an effuslof
of water on th, br.i t ar d acute iuntarnmatio. t !:
lie was redrc, d to hach ail extremity that oin
Saturday, June I1, th thwo doctors who ,.r c
attending hitm had formally declar:d that, al
was over with hiMn, and that, uL!Cha by a n
miracle, his cre was implorsibl e.
"On Saturday morrlino, nel, 1 after he had
made his first communion as a Viaticum, and m1
received the last Sacraments, whilst hill father
and mother and myself were waiting to see
him breathe his last, I felt an inward insplra- cat
tion to invoke Our Lady of L.urdes. I then w
said to her in my heart this short and simple Al
prayer : '0 Mary! conceived without sin, Our
Lady of Lourdes, since a miracle is required, st
will you not perform it 1 Core this child, I be- tre
seech you.' Then, taking a flask of the miracu. in*
locs water which one of my relatives had given '
me, I made our dear little one swallow some
drops of it. I robbed with it, three diferent Un
times, his fearfully swollen face ; each time the bui
swelling visibly grew lees, and soon entirely gre
disappeared. From that time an extraordinary sac
improvement took place; he had a very quiet th
night. On Monday morning, to the great as
tonishment of the physicians, who could be- the
lieve neither their e3 ea nor ears, the child asked liha
for something to eat, and did actually eat with
out feeling the slightest inconvenience. ap
" However, the cure wae not complete; in If
the course of the disease the child had lost his
sight, so that he could no longer distinguish I
day from night. Encouraged by the miracle his
which we had already obtained, and fully con
vinced that Our Lady of Lourdes would not per
leave her work unfinished, I continued to rub the
his eyes with the miraculous water, and on ew
Tuesday morning, on awakening, the dear
child cried out joyously : ' I can see as well as yoC
before I was sick.' fe
"' Ie is now completely recovered." hia
If, after that, mothers and children do not left
love the Immasulatl Coneeption, the good Virgin for
of Lonidrs, I do not know, in truth, what more
she can do to gain their hearts. hat
(To be oonainned.) y
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Six steamers sailed out of the port of New eat
yet
York on Saturday, crowded with pamaengers for co
Europe. It would seem that a goodly portion bal
of the sight seers are going to Europe for the a
summer Instead of remaining at home to attend lai
the U ladelpbla show. oow
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THE YOUNG DOOTOR.:
BY IIENDRIK CONSCIENOC.
(Contlnued.)
The old man for a long time steadily dBzes
his eyes on the letter. Boarcely had be coa
menced reading than he became agitated,
as he continued his agitation so muchb a
that his hand trembled violently, and he
with diSonlty dealpher the words, At l "
when he came to the signature, he was
come by his emotion, and embraclng the yesmg
man, he pressed him to his breast.
" My poor Adolphus," he sighed. " Oh* , l
don me ! pardon your good mother her unlee
suspicions. Heaven will punish the oelai'-.,
tor who has dared to saccuse you."
The student, fully consoled and delighted to
have succeeded in undeceiving the old man,
seized his hand and tenderly kissed it.
" I have nothing to pardon yon, grandfathb.
bad repute is inherent in the Ife of a stsa"
There are so many students who thlnk more
pleasure than of study, that all come to be
garded as idle and dissipated. But do not dl.
troes yourself any longer. I only see in ye
solicitude a now proof of your deep affeotlmo
for me."
But the old man was still preoccupied withl
his reflections. His beaming eyes were dAse
on Adolphus with an expression of probwcad
pity, and the young man thought he na lIs
them a secret fear. His grandfather's
were raised to &aven as if he imp
Divine meroy. The student, for the fit
understood that it was not solely to repelt -
him for his dissipated conduct that his glaaedl
father had opew to Louvain.
"Well, father," be asked, "what news do"
you bring met Think no more of this hless
aooncusation."
"Now, above all, is my mission most pai
ful," replied the old man with a deep sigh.
"But man must cheerfully submit to the will
of God. Alas I Adolphus, it Is the knowledge
that I am golog to ill your heart with g o
and anguish that makes me tremble."
" Whatever It may be, speak eeandidly aad
without fear, since you say that it only eer
cerr. mjself."
" You wrote to your mother entreatiatg s a
one hundred dollars. To persons inour positle
it is like asking for an undiscovered treasure"
"Grandfather, the money which my mother
has sent has been, for more than a year, l
,deqrnate to my most needfulexpenses. I have
hiiil at my tailor's, at the eating-house, at the
lihr:.ry, acln I owe my landlord. The expense
tf rny two .xraminations alone will amount to
the !tle hundred dollars; and you comprehend
ha at, in ordlor to fitish nmy studies creditably,
I cannot leave the Ulniversity withbot paylg
my dlbrs."
" Under sneh c.iecnt'ances." replied the old
r1nn, in dem!p depresi, n, ".you are ruuch to be
pit~ed, my dear A,!dolphus' but what can man
,o against imlpocsibilities '
"l'hou you b:ing me nothing? Can my
mother do nothing for me f Is her assistance
to fail me at the decisive moment "' asked the
y.oung man in consternation.
"I bring you twenty dollars, the last that
can be given you. If yon knew, Adolphue,
what sacrifices this reqnired ?"
"Anrid the money for my examinationse" cried
Adolphus.
"We cn.nor,t possibly send you any more.
We are mnuch hmbarraseed in our eiream
stances; to much so-and I will speak the die.
tressing word-that your mother and sister are
in want, almost in misery."
The student struck his brow with his band,
and replied with bitterness:
" I knew that the expenses of my life at thebo
University bad become a heavy and diooult
burden to my mother; still, I hoped that your
great affect lon would strengthen you st that
important nwoncut to make another and a last
sacriti :e. What, all that you have done for me
to be lost ! My future career to be blighted for
the want of one hundred dollars I"
" The amount makes no difference," sighed
the old man; "two thousand dollars, or one
hundred dollars, it is all the same to us; we
have nothing."
"Oh! what you tell me is terrible," cried the
appalled young man. "How dreadful it is!
If I could believe what your words iorebode.
I could not support the thought; I should lose
my senses."
In giving vent to this complaint, bedropped
his head on the table, and covered hisface
with his hands.
The old man was wounded, and even exas
perated, by the murmurs which escaped from
the lip;s of the crushed student. He made vioe
lent a f,rts to control his indignation, and an
sworod, in a sad and severe voles:
" Ado!phus, Adolphus, will you dare aeonus
your mother ? Have we not done for you what
few parents would do for the most beloved
child ? Your late father gained very little by
his practice as a surgeon. He died young, an
left a very moderate inheritance; since his
death we have been tried by siokness and mis
fortune.
" Nevertheless, as you are the only son, we
have concentrated our love and our hopes as
you. We did not know how much a comnplete
education would cost; the sarifices that we
have made since your infancy amount at pet4e-d
ent to more than three thousand dollars- 14
you dare to complain of our love f Ah! Ift s
could see your mother and sister, all day its
half of the night, embroidering and makLag
fancy artiledl If you could follow eet
Frances whba she takes the work they hae
oinshed to sell It to the shophkeperl
co4id see the Joyg with whisk abe