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PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1879.
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until they reached the men in the water. in the arena of literature and science; The great danger was that the tossing it is sweet to look back to the cradle of boat would strike the sailors and end one's early education, and to those disGERMANY. their career, but one of the gals leaned tinguished men who carefully applied forward over the bow of the boat, themselves with zeal to instill the best VIGOUR ! braced her feet beneath the seat on of doctrines into the mind. Hence it. which she had been sitting, stiffened isthat your excellent words, and your vigorous. if not Bismarck is nothing herself out for a great effort, and as her presence here, have caused us the There is a lull at present in the storm sister kept the bow of the craft cross- deepest joy, by carrying us back to the raised by his proposed bill to smother wise to the waves, caught one of the days when we were among the students speech in the Reichstag, and there were men beneath the arms as he struck out of the Roman College. even rumours that he was inclined to " We love to recall the happy peacefulon top of a billow, lifted and threw him recede from so revolutionary a demand. by main force into the middle of the ness of those days, together with the But there is no lull, no relaxation in boat, and then prepared for the other eminent wisdom and the generous the pursuit, of the Socialist quarry. fire. He had got hold of the sloop's liberality with which Leo XII., our man. to rest down not sit police dare The which had got unshipped, and predecessor, applied himself to restoring rudder, with armed are themselves, and as they KATE was floating on the water. He let go studies, after having at that time given HEROINES.-HOW Two hum envast powers, the razzia is constantly and swam towards the row -boat, and back the direction of the Roman College AND ELLEN CRAWLEY sPEND THEIR livening. Suspects are tapped on the was hauled in also by the woman and to the Society of Jesus ; we love to reshoulder and asked to expatriate themLIVES. his half-drowned comrade. You couldn't call the large number of students, the selves. Meetings are so harassed, " They live in a lighthouse not over do wbat public exercises, the solemn competiwhere not boldly dispersed, that few one hundred and twenty miles from have got any river boatmen to tions, and such eminent and valiant care to risk the annoyance of calling or New York, on the Hudson River, keep those girls did.' " Ellen is a brunette, tall, slim girl, professors, as John Gury, John Perrone, attending them. Then there is a it themselves, and their lamp is always Anthony Ferrarini, vigilant watch maintained against the trimmed and burning, and on a foggy with dark eyes and dark hair. When Kate Francis )Planers, John Baptist Piancini inexhaustible well of sedition, the night when the light is not visible you is antimated she is exceedingly pretty Andrew Carafa, of milk -white teeth, and and others whose teaching and kindness Socialist press. The Cry of the People, can hear one of them a mile off blowing She has a row and looks at you with we have experienced. We declare, cheeks, dimpled a newspaper, has just been prohibited. a fog horn herself ; for the Government the face. then, freely and openly, that our heart A popular ratnance entitled " The has been too mercenary to give them a pair of large eyes full in has been ever since united to the men ' We are simply two girls Struggle for Daily Bread" has shared one of the automatic kind. Moreover She said quiet we have just named, and to your Instithe same fate, and even a picture -hook they have saved many lives. Miss trying to do our duty here in this best we can of our tute, by bonds so strong, that nothing for young and old, " King Mammon Kate C. Crowley is the mistrsss and place, taking care as " ever has or ever can break or weaken and Liberty," was not insignificant keeper of Saugerties Lighthouse. She blind father and aged mother.' them. enough to escape police wrath. We is capable of any daring deed involving " Nor has our joy been any the less at are not disposed to argue, on the slender danger or self-sacrifice ; and as to the BELGIUM. with what entire docility contemplating publicaevidences before us, that the manner in which the lighthouse is kept, of will you have submission and of mind tions in question were not seditious and it is unexcelled. JESUITS AND POLITICS. responded to the desires we have so therefore obnoxious to all respectable " It was a bright, starlight night, The Rev. Father Beckx, General of repeatedly manifested regarding the governments, but we can easily discern and the writer sat in the pilot house, the Society of Jesus has addressed the method of teaching and the plan of in this stifling of every attempt to utter talking to the steersman, who guided the following letter to the Jesuit Provin- studying sacred and philosophical a cry of pain the provocation of a steamer safely through the shadows of " The public and the press sciences. cials : terrible outburst hereafter. The best the frowning peak of the Highlands, and themselves largely, and in " Not one of you, moat assuredly, is guarantee for freedom and healthy ad- answered questions or volunteered in- occupy ways, with regard to the unmindful of the importance therre,,is in ministration is reasonable liberty of formation between the rotations of the different and the line of conduct our day of instilling into the young a doctrines speech sad writing. The voice and wheel. As we turned a bend in the by the Society of Jesus relative sound and solid knowledge; most pen are safety valves to a state. Let river a light that looked like a star of adopted various forms of political govern- especially those who are in training as to both be silenced, because they proclaim the first magnitude twinkled far away ment. In presence of these polemics, the hope of the Church, not only to rethe wrongs imposed by despotic power, in the distance. That's fifteen miles feel obliged by the duty of my minis- fute the errors that are scattered broadand conspiracy is as inevitable as the away,' said the man at the wheel. I try to recall, to the Fathers Provincial, succession of night and day. We'll lose the principles of the Society in this cast, and which not only formidably ' That's Saugerties Light. it again a dozen times in the turns of matter. The Society of Jesus being a assault supernatural truths, but which the river. Do you know the girls ? Well, religious Order, has no other doctrine overturn the very foundations of natural truths, but also to oppose to that science AMERICA. no, not to steak to 'em, but I've seen or rule of conduct than those of Holy 'em on the river many a time by day- Church, as my predecessor, the Rev. -which boldly styles itself the only one GOOD NEWS TOR TIPPLERS. light, pulling away a great heavy row- Father Rootham, was led to declare in worthy of the name, and which is equally the foe of faith as of reason, A doctor named D'Ungar has inven- boat that no two river men would care 1847. The greatest glory of God and and which hoe already almost gained one of them gales that in to handle ted a decoction which, it is reported, the salvation of souls-such is our true preponderance school-another in the mountains. through sweep down " not only cures intemperance, but leaves and only end, at which we are aiming science based upon solid principles, I Well, one of these occasions, it was on the drunkard with an uncenquerable by the apostolic works suitable to the taught by a just and right method, and aversion to spirituous liquors!" The was comiu' up the river on the old institution of St. Ignatius. In fact and in conformity, as it should be, with of she'd got out after medicine is red Peruvian bark, a pound Columbus in theory, the Society of Jesus is, and Faith and Revelation. of which is reduced to powder and carryin' passengers, and took to the declares itself, a stranger to all political " But the science truly worthy of the soaked in a pint of diluted alcohol, then towia' business. We'd got little north parties, whatever they may be. In all strained and evaporated down to half a of Rondout, and I was all alone at the countries, and under all forms of govern- name we consider to be no other than pint. In serious cases the dose is a tea- wheel ; I heard a rumblin' behind me, ment, it confines itself exclusively to that which came to us from the Fathers spoonful every three hours. This is and I looked around, and when I saw a the exercise of its ministry, having in of the Church, and which has been gradually decreased down to ten or five great big cloud with thunderheads view only its end, which is far superior gathered together into a perfect body of drops. The medical and temperance rushing up from the south, I knew we to the interests of human politics. doctrine by learned Doctors, especially men of Chicago, of which city the inven- were going to catch a ripper. We were Always and everywhere, each member by their Godlike prince Thomas tor of the new medicine is a resident, are then pretty nearly abreast of Tivoli, an d of the Society loyally accomplishes the Aquinas, and which, preconised by " very much excited over the new Saugerties Lighthouse was only about duties of a good citizen, and a faithful (Ecumenical Councils and by Sovereign remedy." This can hardly be wondered two miles ahead. A sloop loaded with subject to the Power that rules his Pontiffs, has been for may centuries the at. The news is, however, almost too bluestone, which had just put out from country. Always and everywhere, the law and the rule of instruction in good to he true. Such a medicine the mouth of Esopus Creek, and was Society says to all by its teaching and Catholic Universities and Colleges. would soon restore the world to its ori- standing down the river, went over its conduct : 'Render to Caesar the Being anxious, for the inorease and the ginal state of Paradisiacal happiness, for when the squall, struck her ; and soon things that are Ciesar's, and to God the eclat of students, to restore its ancient drink is the source of well nigh all I saw two men struggling in the things that are God's.' These are the dignity to this Science, we could not attention to the Gregowater. human evil. principles which it has never ceased to fail to turn our " Hardly a minute elapsed before profess and from which it will never rian Atheneum ; for however much we two female forms were seen fluttering depart." may deplore its expulsion from its own building, and the decrease in the number EXTRAORDINARY ENTERPRISE OF AN around the small boat by the lighthouse. In another minute it was launched, and of its students through the misfortune IRISH -AMERICAN. it bobbed up and down in the seething, the times, yet its reputation and imto the of A quarter of a century ago there was foaming waters. The two girls, bare- The Holy Father's tribute portance are still such that it can conJesuites. a memorable conflagration at Sacramento headed, with a pair of oars apiece, began tribute greatly to the restoration and City, Cal., by which the entire business pulling toward the men in the water. progress of studies. ALLOCUTION OF OUR HOLY FATHER, POPE portion of the city was laid in ashes. The waves ran so high, the gale blew " We do not doubt, moreover, that, LEO XIII., TO THE JESUIT FATHFRS OF When the great fire was at its maximum so madly, the thunder roared so into your promise, you have THE PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVER- according fury, a wealthy merchantnamed M'Nulty cessantly, and the lightning flashed in brought to this task all your zeal and SITY, who owned some of the heaviest business such blinding sheets, that it seemed imskill. This is, in effect, what is deestablishments in the city, gazed for a possible for the women ever to reach At an Audience given them on Wednes- manded by the peculiar devotion you day, IV ovember 27th. few moments upon the work of destruc- the men, to keep headway, or to keep profess towards the Pontifical authority, tion, and then, instead of folding his from being swamped. But they never " It is, indeed, most pleasant and because of your Institution and of the bands and weeping over the disaster, he missed the opportunity of a rising delightful to every man given to study, very Constitutions of the Society, which went to the nearest livery stable, hired billow to give them leverage, and they to recall the bygone times, when his provide that theological and philoa fleet-footed horse, rode like John managed by steady; to get *bead mind, thirsting for knowledge, struggled sophical studies be taught according be
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Gilpin during the remainder of the night, and before daylight the next morning had purchased every fbot of lumber and every saw -mill at Grass Valley and Nevada City. There is possibly no human being on earth who would think of running off by the light of his burning property in order to literally make his fortune out of the diaster except an Irish -American. M'Nulty did so, however, and almost immediately realized out of the sale of his lumber fourfold as much money as he had lost by the great
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