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1871. CONTENr]~s :

lJ'agetJe DE~IOCRltCY, ~ ~ ' •.•. " O' •••' •••' O' •••' .. 0' • • •• 0' ••' J ••••••••• 45 ~ Trnc CHOICE OF A PROJj'1'ESSION, •. or '••••• 49'

THE ICEBERG, , ., , , , 5 j

THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE', ' 5Z

THE N IGIITM1\.RE, or • r ' r , 55

A DIALOGUE BE'r'VEEN D ,EAN S'VIFT AND FR.. PROUT, 57 rrHE AINSI,IES,. ' or or •••• ~ . ' 64-

I~ECOLLECTIONS OF THE UAPE OF GOOD HOPE', 69

IDI.JE N O'l'ES,. ' ' • . . .. 7'5

Ti\BI.J]~, EDITOR'S 0 " or.' ' ••• e ' 0.' e .78

OLIl), , ' ' .. . .. ' ' •...... 81

TABL}~ OF I-Io~oR" , ' ..' 83

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DE1vl0C:RACY.

CHARL}~S l~'. s. 'VILCOX'. .N San Jose, a time ago, there ley to-day, strikes out the same I- was exhibited a sketch of Li­ roots, builds the same unyielding berty, standing above the bodiless wood, bears the identical furrowed heads of the Sovereigns of Europe. bark, and the sinuate leaf dark The picture is admirably drawn-s­ and firm in like manner with its full of fire,-but does it eonvey the l)rogenitor of three thousand years true concept of liberty? , ago. The cold lTIOOn as regularly . Freedom is, a noble child of rea­ sails into the shadow of the earth, son, and does not stain her pure and emerges from it fresh like a nature to ascend a throne on such sea-nymphs bride, as it did when steps as tho bloody heads of la\v the' spheres were first separated and order. 'I'hese are the points from the conglomer-ation of all which I desire briefly: to touch. matter, each into its place of ba1­ When Cresar sa y~' : ance in space; and the SUll with .. But I am constant as the Northern StUl'J brother systems was set revolving, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality in trac'ks unvaryingforever, around 'I'here is no fellow in the firmament," huge central bodies, for which in how aptly from the mouth of N-a­ common language we have no ture does he seize the utterance of narue, Nature 1110ves without de.. her greatest oharaotcristio ! What­ viation or error, because her law ever modification she assumes, who is the thought, will, intent of the has detected her waveriug, or Deity ; fixed, grand and silent as eaught the glanpe of hesitation in fie who has framed her to her'per­ her eye? Since the bases of the fection, and who undoes his work earth were laid, the elementary only to rebuild no 11101'e. matter has been chemically join­ Science confirms this immuta­ irig, deconlposing, recombining, in bility. In despite of the bad logi ' ~ unvarying proportions. The oak of Mr. Darwin, Agassiz and our which casts its shadow in thisval- other natnralists teach us, that not 46 ·.Dernocracy. [Nov.

even an orderly progression is, or ficient ; so are we of a grade infi­ has ever been taking place from nitely higher than all, by our free one grade ofexistence into another. spirit. We are reasoning and free; Man, the inhabitant and yet th,e all else is fixed, 'without thought. stranger here, like nature, inas­ Here is our mark of sharp distinc­ much as he is renewed according tion from the rest of nature, our to la WS, unlike, inasmuch as his patent '.of nobility above it; the intellect enables him to master her, noble boast with which the Creator alone is poised in doubt, shifting has endowed us, who are made to his action to suit various intents, His own image, or retracing it; a gern ofhigh value I thank Heaven that I live in a which emitslllany vacillating colors democratic land, because it seems from the midst of a setting of solid to me, that in such does the . soul fixity. bask in richest sunshine, for the . Indecision,.which ,ve COIllUl0111y reason is placed in the full perfec­ . attribute to weakness, is here a. tion of its exercise. It is fittiIH?", surface color, an out-cropping of that he "rho governs himself as an the noble nature with which we individual in the private path of have been endowed, marking our life, should 'enjoy a voice in the superiority over what is around course that the whole body of us, as significantly as the gold in­ which he walks a member, is as­ dications of the Sierra Nevada­ suming. It is evidently becoming; stamp their faces with a rank that, a reasonable being, he should above the parasitic mountains .of be guided by his own reason. To the Pacific. Indecision in us marks he led. by his own reason, does not 'the soul; the soul not ignorant.ly lie, as atheists, .oommunists, and bound like brutal instinct 01' the ad vanced thinkers of- various de- . 'wind or the wave in their 1110V(,­ nominations believe, in the rejec­ ment ; hut the soul who beholds Lion of l~"ajt.h, all authority, all' Juany paths of actiou opening' social order and legislation: .gUtellv . before her, ~nd. who, seeing through ;,0 hai 1 th(~se aids, t~hese r(;'~-~1~ t}~a;'l "pace and,time down each road to· which there are no others, towards its termination, hesitates between the attainment of tl1c objects of / • I this course and that, .that she Inay our living here, i~ most rcasouablc. study and choose the best ;--th(~ 'I'o act otherwise is essentially dis­ reasoning, free soul. 1\ 8 the plant orderly ; and those who set them­ is .nobler than the stone, because selves up to he God; legislator possessing an active organism ; as and individual at once, reap th e the denizens of the field, the air, fruit of their disorder in the 'very t hewat er, arc superior to the plant, govcrllll1ents-if such the mob­ hecause their orsranism js directed ocraey, for instance, of Paris, Iuay by a spirit, of lif~, dull, but: all-suf- be st.yled-\\l'hieh they found. 1871.J Democracy..

In a republic there must be con .. and happiness, and ultimately to -eession from every hand, it is true, the securing of their last and na ... or anarchy and despotism will tural felicity.. e reign ; but each individual bears a What is a sovereign monarch ? part in the deliberation. of the na­ The owner of his subjects ? So far tion, representshis views'and exerts from it, that he is their servant. If his influence. The aggregate is he posses s certain righ ts over t he king and decider; and every man disposal of their actions and pro- \ is member -of the king. perty, he, in justice, enjoys these It is the fashion with us,-so do rights only for the purpose of se­ -our minds tead to become narrow curing the people in the preserva-­ .and belittled in the oouternplution tion oforder, and thesoourity of -of our noble principlea us the pupil life, liberty, and t he pursuit of -of the eye contracts before the happiness. When the sovereign -splendorof'thesun-c-t o decry every looks to his own true interest, he political institution which is not can discover no course so profit.. in consonance with our O'VIl . "T.e able as to guide his charge justly. should experience an exceeding de­ Such is for him the most orderly, light in beholding a fatal blow and therefore the 1110st profitable; , struck at the monarchical form of line of action. In well-ordered 'governnlent, which, silvered by a states, on whose walls uneasiness venerable age, has not yet lost the and turbulency, begotten often­ .sound seeds of vigor. Though I times by an idle soil, can find no believe a democratic govierlunent elinging-places,tt mutual conf..

'to be, in very ulany respects, I denee often springs up between by far the finer form, yet it seems , ruler and ruled, which preserves N, 'a s though a kingdom TIlay exist in harmony in the country notalways a s full justice, and sometimes ill attained in constitut.ionally and fuller. _A. fact is evidently sane­ highly organized. governrnents. On tioned by Providence, when it is the OiJICr' hand, ambition, and its . (~ On s t. a;ll t, universal, and inevitable.. fiery traiu of evils and oppressions, That, therefore, monarchical sys­ finds the throne their 1l10St eonvo­ terns as goverrnuents have subsist­ nient sca t when they 'e lncrgt~ into cd during thousands of years, in light, and dissatisfaction 'a1H1 dis­ the faoo of shifting circumstances, sension are not slow to arise, nor is a fair evidence that in themsel­ easily pacified when lip.. ves, in principl«, they are notes­ Republic and monarchy, each sentially wrong ; as Providence alike " rears a brighter and a darker makes not avail of evil means in side, and the ciroumstanoes which the attainment of its 'purposes, attend the 'various tribes of th e which, in govcrUlllent, I take to he earth, generally, ' alone determine direction of' men towards 'con cord' its fitness. "V{l .Arnerienns ar« Democmcu: [ .....T Oy .

noted, they say, for a proclivity ruins of democracy, like a rank, towards shaking hands under every but/tightly fastened wood-fungus.. circumstance ; but it appears as w-n may Democracy, or Free­ though )VO ;"exhibit an irrational, <:l oln , shed tears of shame and in- ­ and altogether impulsive spirit in dignation" when in the holy n.ame extending an enthusiastically ad­ of liberty she beholds such men as, miring grasp,to every upstart Garibaldi and his cOlupeers and Goddess of Liberty that dons a cap likes, who for revolution's sake around us, and boldly claims to be stand ready at all times to .Jove-sprung. There are nations --"cry Havoc l and let slip the dogs whose popu-lar character is quite of war,' , antipodal to the requisite tempera­ tearing down all right 'on which ment of a republican people. j\ our goddess rests; violating the democratic governnlent requires in harrrrony of states, or despoiling it.s citizens a universal, lively and. them of their independence to interfering interest in elections, satisfy the aspiration. of a party; social legislation and public polity ; openly blasphomiug against heaven it demands a cool temperament. and religion in the name of hu­ which can carryon the warfare of manity l When we COIne to laud. politics without excess, and look these men and their handicraft, reverse dispassionately ill the face, we Ina}T fitly recall the song ofthe bard: . summoning up strength peaceably ,(0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish though determinedly, for the next beasts, contest : these it asks, and in them And men 'h ave losttheir reason 1"--- ' SOIne of the nationswhich are now I ant happy and -proud to have in fermentation, and in which a received birth beneath this sky fractional body of leaven is causing which favors the freshest, and soon, all the stir, are j n great measure mayhap, the gT:1ndest land of all wantiug, 'I'l is fact brings no dis- the earth, old and new ; in a demo­ .parag ernel1 t for those people; it cratie country, where right; and argues only that a go-vcrnrnent is justice and valor have been the ueeded\vhieh rules oompletcly, bases of its origin; and I appre- . leaving tho citizens free to other ciatc too clearly the blood which matters. Calhoun very sa.gely rc­ our forefathers, suppliant in the marks, that a people Inay live in fearless sight of Heaven, shed dur­ the enjoyment of less liberty than ing nine ycars of unequal warfare, they are fitted .for, but they will and respect too sincerely the wis­ not Iong remain possessed of more, dom they displayed in rescuing the .1-\ reaction invariably follows upon state from the execution of anar­ the disorder of too great social and elly, to set it upon a life of prospe­ political freedom, and 'desnotism rous order, ever to forego the ~f the severest fO~'m fattens ~ni the glory of the one, or call in 1871.] 49 question the soundn ess of the other. of reg enerating th e 'corr uption May the whole nation be united whic h a slow-poisoning centraliza-' in ardent love of i tself, and in giv­ tion w ould endeav or to implantl ing shame t o those who would The flag which our forefathers bring about its ru in by t hei r croak­ gave us in glory may we preserve ing, rather than apply to the task untorn and unsullied forever;

H Flag of the free he ar t's hope an d horn e, By angel 'hands to valor given; 'I'hy stars have lit the welkin dom e, And all thy hues were bo~n in heaven..· For ever float th at standard sheet! Where breathes the foe that falls before 'us, W ith Freedom 's soil beneath our feet , And F'reedom 's banner streaming o'er us.'

;1". })O1.1.JADE.

TO ~tyoung man leaving college, dent to every reasoning 111a1], that the proper choice of a state God has laid out a particular path oflife is a very important affair;­ 11'1 life for each one of us to follow, so important, in fact, that his fu­ in order to reach the end for which ture happiness, temporal as well as we were made. eternal, depends lunch upon it. 'I'hat path, however, is riot always The Almight.y, in creating men, clear. The mind of a young man gives to, the onind of each a pecu­ is generally apt to undergo many liar disposition which fits it for a. changes. He may' fix upon 80111'(1 certain duty. His creatures resem- profession without having th(· 'hIe wheels, ~fitted exactly to run in least idea of the Inany difficulties certain grooves for which they are necessarily attached to it; or made, and by following 1Vhich even of the kind of labor which t.hey will reach their destination ~ he w il] be required to perform. but outside of w hich the" ei~ lIe ll1ay, in short, look only ther stop entirely or run"' :fill'· at the bright side of it-at itg astray and never gain their goals. advantages, and the triumphs that. This needs no proof: It is self-evi- have been achieved in it by others. 50' The Choice of a Profession.

On the other hand, he is liable, faculti es, and th e kind of labor fo~' also, t o despise some profession for which they are most ·suited. which he is in reality well fitted. . This is indeed a· hard t ask, an d and by which he might reach a without the assistance- of Go di g ood end , on account ofsome mere would be almost impossibl e. For; prej udice. who, really knows himself'? W e Prejudice should by all means be are ever prone to judge ourselves avoided in this most important ,vrongly.. Very, very seldom do' matter; for , if it be allowed its we value ourselves at too small a us ual influence, one will be apt to price ; but alas! how often do we take a course which he will repent rate ourselves above our real in after life. worth! The choice of a profession should, With the Divine help, however., in my min d, be made a regular bu- we l11ay choose that' calling in . siness matter. A person, after which enly, we can please our­ liaving finished his eolleg~ course, Creator. , And; when we have should, in the first place, make a made our choice let us remember' list, in his mind, of honorable-pro- that "in order to glO''\v intensely the­ fessions. He should then, inquire rays must converge to a point;" carefully into the aims ofeach, and and endeavor to throw every into the labors which are required faculty, physical, intellectual and' in each for the attainment of "vhose moral, into our work, . with [l " aims. perseverane-e which shall never When he has done this, his task flag until we have attained the two­ is 'far from completed. The most _ great 'ends for which ...we were difficult part still remains; for he created-the glory of Almighty has yet to look into the' deepest God and our own eteunal happi­ recesses of his own nature in order ness, to see the real worth of his mental: 1871.] '17ie Iceber·y. 51

THE ICEBERG-.

l~. F. D}jL V AI..LE.

H.1\.T fo1'111, far away in the dim frozen north, In the dead of the night, through the sea-mist peers forth? 'V-hat mean those sad wailings that pierce the cold sky, Ontshrieking the crash of the ice that floats by ? o lViother of Mercy l yon form far a,vay Must soon look its last on the sorrowful day; And the sound that goes forth. is the .shriek of despair-s­ o Mother of Mercy l thy children are there. I see on an iceberg a vesl'-\el upborne;- Her sturdy sides splintered, her canvas all torn. • 'Tis clay,-nigbt-ancl clay! and, now midnight again ' C01l1eS down like a pall on those fear-stricken men . .1\.11 witless earth's wisdom, all helpless earth's 111ight, To snatch f1'0111 their grave the poor captives of night: Yet still, 'mid the chill of the ice and the 'storm, . If limbs be a-cold, there are hearts that are warm, . j1-'or Ave on Ave is rising to thee, . o Mary, our Mother, sweet Star of the Sea! A way-s-far a~Tay:..-as the wind whistles past, T1H~ loved ones at horne seem to shrink from its blast, For they dream of the ice-field the berg and the floe, The night-watch on cleck, and the thick Northern snow, 'The child for its father 111ay longingly cry; The wife for her husbaud rna.y heave the sad sigh; The true-hearted maid for her lover lnay weep, And murmur his name to herself in her sleep; But ne'er shall that father his infant embrace; No 1110re shall that wife see her husband's loved face; That maiden, t.rur-hearted, a maiden shall die; For stark, in their ice-grave, the mariners lie. Look down, Mother :fiIIal'Y, where through the dark sea, The ice-mountain plunges- a captive set free! Ercwhil« from its summit rose voices in prayer: N ow, ghastly the stillness that haunts the cold air. B 52 The fall of Constantinopte. [Nov.

The corpse it 111ay stiffen ; the life may depart; The ice-chill 111ay quiet the strong, throbbing heart, But souls, through that silence, are pleading to ,thee, The Refuge of Sinners, the Star of the Sea; And thou w ilt be there, in that terrible night, To lighten their darkness with heavenly light.

THE ]~.Lt\LL OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

-wsr, B. :MURPIIY•.

, T was the eve of the last fated grand intentions of her founder. I day in the existence of Con­ Such was the city before which the stantinople ;-that city which the overwhelming hordes of aggressive master of the whole world had Mahometanism, encamped with founded eleven hundred years be­ hostile purpose, in the beginning fore, and which successive mon­ of April, 1453. archs had vied in endowing with The besiegers consisted of about all that il1ight perfect her attract- one hundred thousand cavalry and f iveness. Greece had been rifled.to two hundred thousand infantry, make her 'resplendent with models with a fleet of three hundred and of statuary; Africa had offered twenty vessels barbaric tribute of ivory and gold; Against this mighty force, the ' and the best artists of the world city could only, oppose eight or had lavished genius upon wood, nine thousand warriors, and a few bronze and stone, that this queen ships and galleys. The siege con­ city of the East might bear the tinued for several ",veeks,-the palm in sculpture and architecture. Turks employing every possible Theatres of capacity to receive the means to destroy the -city and its whole people of a modern city; 'valls. Mines, rolling towers, bat­ schools of lean1ing that attracted tering rams, and a multitude of students from every clime; palaces machines, prepared to throw stone's) that outrivalled the grandeur of and darts, were used with" but ROIne; and, above all, the magni­ little success. The bravery of des­ ficent church of St. Sophia-the pair was in the hearts of the dOOU1­ 1110del of a new style in architec- . cd people; but the soul of their ture-all these contributed to ren­ imperialleader, Constantine, would, der Ccnstantinople :worthy of the under any circumstances, have

( 1871.J The fall of Constantin,ople. 58

') r roved itself of .heroic mould, air along the glooms' streets of the Mahomet at length resolved to doomed city. The Moslem shouts make a decisive attack upon the had reached their' ears and made city. He promised his soldiers, them tremble for their safety, and that should a new assault prove the sudden silence that followed successful, all the treasures of the terrified them still 111ore. The de .. city should be theirs, At dusk, voted Enlperor of the Greeks as'.. on the eve of the 29th of May, sembled the chief warriors and 1453-the day appointed for the delivered to them a moving ad­ attack-the whole army was or­ dress. I-Ie exhorted them all to dered to assemble, each soldier encounter the coming perils with bearing a lighted torch on the end fortitude. lIe enjoined presence of his spear. The Sultan appeared of mind to the officers, strict 0be ... in their midst, and again proclaim- dienee to the soldiers, and intrepid­ - ed to them their reward, should ity to all. I-Ie spoke so feelingly they overcome the Greeks. In that all shed tears. After embrac..' order to render his promise more. ing each other for the last time, sacred, he swore "By the eternity: the leaders returned to their posts; of Allah; by the four thousand while the E111perOr repaired to the holy prophets; by the soul of his church of St. Sophia, to partake of father, Amurat; by his own chil­ the Holy Communion. Having re- dren.and his sword," to bind him­ . ceived the Blessed Sacrament he re-­ self to its fulfilment. From the turned to his own palace, gav~ ne­ myriads of his army, uprose the cessary orders, and asked pardon of,. responsive cry of "Allah is .Allah, all present for the faults he ' might . and ~Jahomet is his prophet." This have committed in his admin­ martial ceren10ny being concluded, istration of the governlllent. 1Ie a strict silence was ordered to was answered by sobs and tears. be maintained throughout the Mounting his horse he visited the canlp. different out-posts, and then as ... The Christians, however, ·,vere surned his own position,-the most in a far different condition. The dangerous of all. . luany torches cast their lurid glare At one o'clock in the morning, upon the lofty towers and domes the sound of clarions was heard of the city, giving them the ap­ throughout the Turkish caInp. it pearance of so lllany giant fiends was the knell of the Eastern Em­ standing over their fallen victims, pire, for the last day of Constanti­ with their proud heads towering nople was now at hand, Her star far into the gloom of night; and of empire had attained the full the melancholy" Kyrie e1eison" meridian of its glory, and was now of the inhabitants rolled as a mur­ about to set forever. The attack Inuring wind upon the midnijrht began; and t~e assailants, to the 54 .The·jedl of Uonstamtinople. [Nov

number of at least t wo hundred The En1peror sees their retreat,­ and eighty thousand, hastened to in vain he tries to rally them, storm the city. .I n a short time Alas! the fall of Constantinople is both armies were ~l~gaged in the already decided! The day is lost; conflict. 'I'ho 'rurks rushed madly and the Enlperor knows it hut too

to the assault, animated by the well ! Nevertheless, he is resolved t hope of pluuder; but at every point not to outlive the freedom of that they met wit.h a determined resist­ once glorious city. He wheels his ance from the Christians. 'The panting steed, and headlong dashes battle continued for about two into the s1110ke of the thickest of hours, death rapidly thinning the the COInbat; and in the midst of a ranks of both parties. But the heap of slain who have fallen by losses of the Ottomans .could be his own hal~d, he, the last of the speedily repaired; 'v hilst those of city's brave defenders, bows be­ the Greeks were irreparable. At neath the stroke of death. this moment the Sultan advanced What a scene now follows! with the choicest of his troops, and The infuriated Turks rush madly made a desperate effort; rushing into the·city'and mercilessly butch­ from flank to flank, cheering them er all whom they 111eet,-frightenec1 on, and pointing out the parts to be children, helpless old 111en , and attacked. These were follo wed by mothers pointing propitiatingly to ten thousand J'auissaries as a sup­ the tender infants in their arms, port, aswcll as to prevent a re­ begging for Inerey. Three thou­ treat. The shrieks of the wounded sand persons who had fled to the and dying, the words of commaud eh urch of St. Sophia-in hopes of heard amidst the sound of musical there receiving protection by the iustruments, the cla~hing of steel, fulfilment of an idle prophecy­ the neighing of steeds, the thunder are barbarously slaughtered by the of artillery, and the crash of falling cruel conquerors. ramparts, rendered it a scene of In virtue of the Sultan's promise, terror and turnult, too horrible to for three days the city is pillaged be conceived. In the midst of by his victorious soldiery. . 1-1"01' this fearful' scene, the assailants three clays is the city deluged with began to waver, and even the Janis­ Christian blood. For three days sarles themselyes became confused. of sanguinary terror, lawless deeds Constantine, perceiving this, ex­ of cruelty, too multiplied and too exhorted his brave soldiers to a horrible for detail, are perpetrated final and decisive effort. But see! against the defenceless inhabitants. General J ustiani is wounded, and Forty thousand citizens are . slain, retiring from the field. His troops, and sixty thousand are led into now without a commander, are captivity. also leaving the scene of action. Those w ho escaped fled to differ- -ent parts of Europe, b€gging their onee 'she had aspired to be the bread from door to door, and re­ chiefseat of religion, .and now the lating the sorrowful t},lin,gs of the infidel rifled her sanctuaries, and disastrous fall of the -city. ;rampled on her sacred emblems. Thus, Constantinople, - whose . 11e1' treasures of art had rivalled .alliance, during })rosperity, had t hose of older Arhens ,: the pomJ} been courted by every nation,-in of her court .cercmoniala was the 1)81' adversity" 1110St imposing in the world ; the Y6 'Found not a generous friend, a pitying sons of her royal line had .achievcd foe ' Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her valiant deeds, which herdaughters woe ! ' were sufficiently learned to corn­ Dropped from her nerveless .grasp the shattered spear, memorate in history that still Closed h er bright eye 'and curbed her exists ; her glory had, through a hig11 , c ar.e e l~ o ' thousand y,ears, illuminated a hem­ So fell the proud mistressof th-e "is:p here, and now, East. With Houle, she had divid­ " Like an unsubstantial pageant faded ," ed the empire of a world: "nov{ it none so po or to do her reverence," ~, Left not.a rack behind. "

'1~IIE NIGTIT':t\IAIlE;

O R 8I~IPKI:K 'S IlV PERIGUL O ~

HAMILTON c. BOWIE ~ When stars are twinkling in the night, And Luna sheds her silvery light, And sleep would calm my troubled'nlind, Old fo1'111s pass by me on the wind.

Before, behind, on either side, A host of trick sy spirits glide: Some dance; S0111e sing; some laugh; son e '",~ e e p : I know not if I wake or sleep. At last a-spectre, gh-astly white" Looms"dimly forth upon my sight... It stands ;-it tUwlS";;-its burniJl'g glance­ Goes thJJough IDe,.,like ai Prussiau lance!

'" Away'r A1Npay, tl10n demonfoul," I howlecf,--as threatened cur might howl ;~, And, in retnrn, a fiendish sneeze Was wafte€l back upom' the-breeze..

~" Alas P""tIrOUgflt I, '''m'y time is come 11 No mote, for-me, the Daise and. hum, Of San Francisco's busy streets t I go to uIlcTergrouhcr retreats."

"I clutched': my pistel in my nand, Resolv€c1~ to fight the ghostly band, And, ifcommanded hence to go, To 'answer resolutely, '"NO"r"~

Lacking"the Indian Inmter's skill' In lying' elose and keeping stHI, I;,v1iggled round; and thus espied The sp'ectre sitting by rny side!

K 0 Eordl '"1'_1 shook from head to heel, lVly hair stood up like spikes of steel. ~6" Bang/:--.,Bang I "'=-(Revolve:rs will go' o:tr'~­ And then 1 heard a gro ~B, 01° ~olQ lgh"

Now wide awake, I rose in haste; And quickly to the door I paced.. Two bullet-holes !-A fat man"s groan I-­ I recognized my landlo'lYl's tone.

Abdomen upwards, there he lay'! §,Good gracious! what a lump of clay! Dying or dead, no doubt t-But, oh! Pardon me, Simpkins, ere you go 1"

He answered not, I knelt beside The ample corpse, and vainly tried The wound to finc1,~the blood to staunch: Simpkins, to me, appeared all paunch. ;1 Didloiro»;

fOb , joy1 H-e'lives to groan again"! ." Simpkins, 'sit up, my worthy man !"--:'" .And down thefiat11eRed't!>'ul1et rolled ; illar /S irnp kinl ' 'Vest fUX{.8 lined ~VJi th ,gold.

I.?ENVOil. 'May y

A DIALOGUE

BETWEEN DEAN -SWIFT AND FR PRotJT·.

'(D(jncluded..) Pnotrr, The questl()n~ , now-a DEAN. Of the demoralization of clays, has well nigh reduced itself young students by the unrestricted toa controversy between Catho­ study of ancient authors" it is im­ lies and Protestants. The votaries possible to speak too strongly, or, of the old teHglon · are, of course, alas! too sadly. I remember to on the side of limitation and ex" my grief, the time when we un" purgation; whilst in Protestant dergraduates, being required by schools and colleges, on the other rule to keep chapel, and to have hand, the t~col1ege tastes" which before us the Book of Common you found paramount at Old Trin~ Prayer, or something which looked ity are still indulged to the full , like it, found such dialogues as I have it on the authority of an those you speak of, far more pi­ old Oxonian that it is the fashion quant to our college taste; with with young men at Oxford to take such results, of course, as you have such authors as Juvenal into the just indicated. ' Schools, for the express reason that 58' .[Nov; large portions 01 them are so un­ D. Concedo in toto. readable before any audience, that P. As to the minor premiss, do the Examiners are sure to, skip yon grant it also ( them. D. Concedo ex animo.. h'Ingenui vultus pner, irrgenulque pndo- ris," P. Then, by the rules of Dialec­ is, expressive or an entity whieh ties, the conclusion is henestly grows scarcer, I fear, day by day. secured. . D~ Such youths may DB found, no, I am very much pained, doubt; but, 'P rout , I am indeed. Like' J upiter --"rari nantes in gurgite'vasto.'" with the masculine Minerva in his. "'£0 return, however, "to our cranium, I am .entirely bothered mnttons." I will put th~ matter, with an idea. I ",vish I was safely if you "have 110 objection, beloved delivered! Doctor, into the form of a sy11o­ ·P. And do you wish me to be gisnl, and thus quash for ever the accoucheur, like:Vulcan ? B'eloved

Erra~ic'8 claim to , £'" anticipated Doctor, will you degrade 111e so ehristianit y." low? .I'm sure I would descend D. Please, dear Prout; as TOU t o any post rather than see you, were so rigidly nurtured in the suffer so. beautiful science of Dialectics-c­ D~ Thanks to Lucina, no need ...Alas! it is with malice prepense, I of your kind services, Prout! I fear, that the fair science has been find myself hale enough, now.. thrust into the back gronnd, in the The throes are over. A thousand: realms ruled by the Hauoverians.. t hanks to her Iadyship. The doc­ P. We win waive all ref~rence t or is , ~ a fe ! . " to the innuendo just uttered, lest P. What sort is the bairn, if it any digression thereon may have he a proper question to ask? the tendency of preventing the D. Here it is ! That Greek hum­ Socratic portrait from being'drawn ; wasu't he apotheosized ? correctly. P. Yes; Doctor-behold the D '. "Tis just about as well, Prout; inconsistency of Juan when left as I am anxious "t o settle the So­ to his own devices! The same cratic claim for ever. people "rho deride the Egyptians P: No person w ho exhorted to for thei~' degraded worship of Isis a career of vice before the Christ­ and Apis, are guilty of deifying the ian era, has any claim to antici­ Peripatetic'! pated Cihristianity. Socrates ex- "Dum 'stulti vitant vitia, in -eontraria hortec1 to a career of vice before currant, ,~ the Christian era. Ergo, Socrates D. It is harrowing to illy feel­ has no claim to anticipated Ghrist­ ings to find that arrant fellow apo­ -ianity. vVhat say you, Doctor, theosized; whilst every pedant, to the major premiss ? pedagogue, pettifogger, quack doc- 1871..] A Dialoque. 59 tor, one-horse lawyer, et hoc genrus to repress their nohIe rage. Vol­ omne, cracks up his fancied merits taire acted in this capacity for by vilifying the Dean of St. Pat- Frederick, as did Horace for Au­ rick's. gustus in the same line. VOLTAIRE. Pardonnez moi, Mes- P. And ungrateful enough it sieurs! Qui etes VOUd? was in Voltaire, to publish to the P. Je suis, Monsieur Prout. world, as he diel, his appreciation V .. C'est vous qui avez traduit en of the royal poetry. "See," says :F ran 9~i s , "The N(glzt before Larry the witty infielel, "what a quantity 'UJClS Stretched?" of dirty linen the King has sent P. Nescio q1.li sis! Abi in malam me to wash." rem, furcifer. -, D. Bnt, Prout, what did the in­ V. Parbleu! Je suis Monsieur fidel loon say, that made you so de Voltaire. V ous ferez l' amende very wrath? honorable pour vot.re manvaise tra­ P. The Dean of St. Patrick's not duction de "Lar1~Y." to understand French! Can I be­ P. Longe, longe! 0 profane I lieve the evidence of 111y senses? Sit tibi terra gravis, veterator! D. Confound you, Prout, and D. What was that French ghost your nigger French! Did you talking about? liang Zme if he suppose I worked on a nigger didn't scud away like a ship under plantation in Louisiana? Didn't bare poles, wit.h a spanking hurri­ eome so low in the world, Equip­

cane astern! N 04v much improved ped with a ball anel chain? Grace­ by his lot here though he has it in ful innuendo, Prout, which well fee simple! The deuce of a crazy deserves a requital! loon, to work so hard when he P. Whatever rnay be your opin­ might have had it merely fOI" the ion' of the 'F rench morceau, tho asking! spirit of Iny remark did not neces­ P. He is a good deal lighter in sitate such a caustic reply. 'Tis the heels than 'v hen he fled from hard, Doctor, to row against the Potsdam to avoid the wrath of stream. Frederick of Prussia. A propos! D. In all Iny born days I have How strange the idiosyncracy of never been cursed with hearing that royal wight, 11101'e concerned such a hotch potch of poor Latin for his French poetry than for his and worse French. May Pluto kingly or military fame! swallow the Saxon! "I'wasn't fit" D. Another royal fool striving for poor dog Tray to chew. to climb Pamassus "illvita Miner­ P. Yon promised a requital, va." In cunning they out-herod Doctor: you have retaliated with Herod, To palm their poetry on vengeance, for a fancied,insult. the public, they keep in pay some D. Don't be so thinskinned, poor poets, whose poverty is enough dear Prout: this is the poorest c A Dialoque.. [Nov

place in the world in which to be title of the poen1 that evoked suc h 50 affected, But what was the ghostly ire? nature of the dialogue yo n had P. "'lYte Nlgll,t before L arry 1J)ClS with t he scoffer lJCl" excellence P Stre tched ;" t'L g'lo,ving theme and P . 'I'ho substance of it ,vas-us \V e11 hanelled. ~ yo u dislike the original- th at I D. Bad taste, beloved Prout ! should make the amende honorable bad taste, ind ee d ! for SOBle po etry I translated into P . v·V- holosa le condemnation, French. Doctor; and th at without t he pri­ D. Why, yon seem t o have lost yj.leg~ oftrial ! all yOUl' wit ! Y ou might have fl ung Do D id yo n no t praise it as we ll an elegant sa rcasm into t he infi­ handled"? Can t here be ' worse del's face. Perhaps your English t aste than for an author to an tici­ ear prevented you fr om addres s­ pate the judgment of honorab .e ing him with wh at to a F rench­ crit.icism ? man would appeal' high-ton ed. P. 'I'oo fast, Doctor! T he poe m P. Thank yC)U, Doctor, for y our is th at of another hand. I boast kind hint as to Prout's delicacy I nothing 11101'8 than to be the t rans­ Your philological crit iqne is wort.hy lato r, of yOUl' palmiest da ys. An i ngl~a t e D. From whose hand carne th e of the de epest dy e is he w ho l'e­ original, t hen r turneth not in kind. 1>. lTronl t h at of Dean Burrowes J). Prout, let not aug ht s ubt l' c~ c t of St. F iubar's, a worker in th e one iota from th e primiti ve beau t y same laborat ory with yourse lf, " of your amiable t emper, he aring , :1Jlc1 wh ose piscatory labors were '1tS yon do, the reputation of pos­ as a post olic and sanctified as YOtll" sessing the sucuiiter i'll, modo in a ow n wcre, according to the con­ transcendent degree. Anyhow, the fession yon made JJro bono publico. saw is as ancient as antediluvian D. I'll give yon credit for that mau : "they who live in glass neat rap on the knuckles, Prout. houses should no t be the firvt to I standing for canonization, and til row stones." N ow , as to the you the Devil's Advocate, any de­ motive ofthat di sembodied scoffer, cent boy might cry out ora jJro in his impertinent catechisiug of nobis. you, when he might have sped on P. And nought but his labor for his ' viewles s errand without our his pains! You couldn't give him a bidding him ,. God speed." fifty-vara lot ill the Cha1nJJsElysees J? I deem it best, Doctor, to 1\ pt·ogralTItne of your heroic vir­ give yon the Saxon original, and tues hung up at the Fonr Courts ! in juxta-position to put the French ,Just imagine it, Doctor; and with translation, the e'-)l'u~~ation~'of 'fancy illumine 1). In the first place, \vlu~t -is the the gloom profound, ushering in a 187L] A Dialoque, 61 1Jf-illiant panoran1a ! 111 the fore­ Honncur qui lui etait bien ("u De n01l1breux amis la visite. grourid behold a bevy of Dnblin Car chucun savait que Laurent, fislnvonlen, with arms n-kimbo, A son tour, rendrait la pareille, Chapeau, mont.re, et veste engngeant, 'azin0' at the placard, amid peals ~g 0 • Pour que I'ami put boire bouteille, of uproarious laughter. See now ! Ni faire a gosier sec le saut." One of the body, a Miss Antony, D. After that vile stuff you 'may like her classic namesake over the well claim to "bang 13annagher.". body of Cresar, harangues her Heaven knows the English stuff is mates ,vith masculine accent, thus: vile enough; but to vilify another " On th~t side Liffey he hath left, to you decent. tongnc! who can stand it ? And to your heirs for ever, common plea- No marvel if they tarred and fea-­ Slues, To walk abroad and recreate yourselves. thered and. set yon ablaze, as a lIere "vas n J onathan ! When COUles such holocaust to the genius of the . another 'e" French tongue. One would think D. Confound you,· Prout, for a . BlllTO\VeS .aud yOlll \vero, in league' versatile genius ! Yon are as odd with the devil, to oorrupt these a fish as the 01c1 marino Proteus, 1110de1'n classics. What was j"ou,r whose name is so akin to yours. . object in giving publicity to stuff Mounted on a sea-horse, yon would as horrid as ,the supper 6f Thyes- make a gallant horse marine. Wa­ •tes ? tel' is yonI' natural element. But a P. For the benefit of the French, truce to badin.aoe l Let ns have I have taken S0111e pains to initiate

the 9riginal of "L~trry" and the .J them, through the medium of a translation, cheek by jowl. translation, into the workings of P. J\ truce, say I, to cynicism. an Irish mind, unfettered by con­ In presence of the jill'glo-Gallic scientious scruples, on the threshold muse, you might have said, more of eternity. euphoniously, "in juxta-position." D. And you have done it w ith a 'Vhen will yon ,vorship the Graces, vengeance !--\vith malice afore.. Doctor? One verse will suffice to thought, I fear ! No need of such gi ve you the gist of the question at dirty w ork ! They have had plen.. Issue: ty such fellows in France; Diderot, ANGLIC:B, Voltaire, I{obespiel'l'e, and a llost "The nizht before Larry was stretched, The b~ys they all paid him a visit: of others of that ilk. Bad enough A bit in their sacks too they fetched; specimen of humanit.y as I have They sweatedtheir duels t'iU they riz it, For Larry was always the lad, been, I could not hold the light for \ Vhen a friend was condemned to the these ontscoul'ings of the human squeezer, But he'd pawn all the togs that he had, family. Just to help the poor boy to a sneezer, P. Why, Doctor, you have~touJ'tcl And moisten his gob 'fore he died," the s}))'·i.J after all, unlike that inti .. GALLICE, del scoffer '" ho provoked this "A Iaveille d'etre pendu, critiql~c Notr' Laurent recut dans son gite merciless f1'01n the Dean 62' A Dialoque. [Nov

of St. Patrick's! Could it but P. "Even in your ashes Iive your won- ted fires I" . have a mundane publicity, it would Methinks, divested of ite worth­ be like a storm on the ocean deep; less tegument, your immortal ~oul it would purify all languages in ousrht to see the vanity of think- ececula sceculorum. b ing your luoubrations possess the D. Prout, IllY beloved son, the vitality of HOlner or Virgil. air of the catacombs does not D .. Couldn't YO~l, with a gene­ seem to agree with you. Beat rous spirit, Prout, overlook a little with me yet a little while. The vanity? Goodness knows, "tis lit­ sands of the hour glass are tle comfort that is given here be- nearlv run. What did you mean low. They form an important by "~prig?" Initiate me into the .item in the charges against me of mystery, as such appears to . b ~ unrepented waste of tiruc, That's your vocation. . the only ,reason why I refer to P. The sprig 0.( h'umility, of them at all. course! 'Tis so refreshing to hear P. Best, then to give a specimen the Dean of St. Patrick's first hum- of the puns, with a translation, or . ble admission ! If there were a explieation, in juxta-position, a.s lower deep, you should have des­ the exige.ney of the case necessi­ cended thereunto.rwith good grace, tates. to find that precious article. D. J.JATINE ANGIJICE. D. Faith, I thought you were Mellis abuti; Moll is a beauty; hinting at a sjJrlg ofsliilleloh. Has an acuti. Has an acute eye. No lasso finis: No lass so fine is : P. Yet full of old associations! Molli divinis. Molly divine is. 'Yet hankerinz after old Donny­ 'i\Thile Lam'on the rarnpage, Prout, brook, where Le(ma8ked) you often I'll try your patience with ano ther cut capers, and got 'y our head bro­ st rain 01' two, ken by the boys, who "for love J..JATINE knocked you down." " Die heris agro at, anda quarto fine ale P. w-n, 'Yell, Prout, all I can F'OI'a ringat ure nos anda stringat ure Ray is that some folks don't irn­ tale." ANGJ.JIC£ prove by travel. "Dick. here is a groat and a quart of fine ,ale "Crelunl non aniInuI;; mutant qui trans mare currunt : For a ring a~ ~:our nose and a string at your tall. about the wi sest saw of that rum A LOVE SONG. oldl{olJu:ul! Bv association of LATINF.l. idea~ " Apud in is almi de si re; that \voeful translation of Mimis tres I 11e vel' re qui re : Alo veri findit a gestis)' ". Larry" brings to Iny mind some 1 His 111ise1'i ne vel' at restis.,. inveterate pnns of mine OIl t.he ANGLICE

beauty of the Latin tongue. Of Ii .A. pudding is all Illy des.ire ~ course such an universal scholar as' My mistress I ~ev~r re9uJre : A lover I find It a jestis ; yon must have read t.hem. His misery never at rest. is." 1871.] A Dialopue. 63 '\ P. H Durum; sed levius fit patientia eternized ourselve~by such sublime Quidquid corrigere est nefas." poems as the "Dies irce, dies illa." "That mercy I to others show, that mercy show to 111e:' Ah 111e! Dreadful reality, of which l'hat ":Nlolli divinis" is provoea­ these worde are but a faint echo! tive of 'something analogous to P. J-lorresco referens! I am in­ the literary trifling among classi­ volv ~cl in the same preclicarnent; cals, entitled, "cappil~g verses." nor will a palinode, intoned before 'The ":Nlolly" of Wh0111 I sang, un­ Rhadamanthus, reverse my sen­ like yours, is but plain lJ£olly tence. .Ileume miserum ! Tnterii l Careio : D. 'I will not anticipate judg­ ANGLICE. ment, beloved Prout,. The most

to And, when you're at Mass, , malevolent shall never utter the My devotion you crass; ' g rating sarcasm, that ~J onathan For 'tis thinking of you I am, Molly Carew! . Swift's love iu Hades for a brother While you wear, on purpose, wit was less intense than the re­ A bonnet so deep 'I'hat I can't at your sweet trospective fraternal affection of Pretty face get a peep. Dives in his fiery abode. Even OIl! lave offthat bonnet; Or else I'll lave on it here, one generous thought, one 'I'he loss of mv wanderinsr fond em otion !-1\1ay Iny beloved Soul. .. <. , Ochone! Wirrasthrue ! Prout secure a hundred-vara lot I'm alone in the Isle's of the Just made'jJer- In this'world without you." feet! I.JATINE. PO .Lt1 way with senile utterances '! (,A te, in sacello, ~A. Vix mentem revello way with these sighs after incor­ Hen! misere scissam poreity! 'I'e inter et Missam ! Y~e 'I'u latitas, vero, D. Foul spirit s avaunt ! know Tam stricto galero not what ye bay. O! that these Ut cernere vultum dear shades-c--mine and thine, dear Desiderem multum. Et dubites jam, num Swift-\vere again tenants of clay­ (Ob animre damnurn) ev habitations! With further con­ Sit fas hunc deberi Auferri. v~er se in such th ~rnes I will cease lIeu! hen! nisi tn 1,0 cumulate the SO lT O \V of your Me nmas, 'P ereo l pillaleu II" ghosti y sojourn, D. The s ands of the hour glass ---" Where Ebon night eterna.l sits en ­ t.hroned, are nearly run: hinc illce lacrfma: I Enwrapping the subterranean Prout, in st ead of desecrating de­ " In cll'CUllla.lnbient drapery of woe." cent tongues by vil e transla ti on s of the, brogue, and pUJ) ~ st ill more (A p'l'u:)e ensues. P1~0l1t, ((/to e-i'ru;pi1'ed loq1.litur.) vile, hadwe spent, in a bette;' \vay, the valuable time committed to onr P. ~fy dear Doctor, what means stewardship D)l> ,the noblest and this pause of awful irnport? most sublime ends, we might have 1). Your thrilling description of 6.4. Tlte Ainslies. [Nov.

~ night, Prout, vivified as it were in elividcd into an infinite numbel' of nlY mind, that sublime apostrophe atoms, and that between each an to the Sable Goddess: impassable gulf 'yaw ned ! Adieu, --" 'Tis as the general pulse dear Prout! ! Of life, stood still, and nature made a P . --"Yet once again, dear parted pause ~. shade, An awful pause, prophetic of the end." Fond Nature's child, again~.--" Would that lily soul, Prout, were Adieu! !

'rll]~ AINSI~IES ' ,.

JOH~ T. !tIkI.ONE. Chapter VL

IT was not long, ofcourse, before again, ostensibly for the pU19 p OS YOling Wilkes had told the of seeing his friend the lawyer, story of his Richmond adventure lIe returned the next day. In the to George. The latter made it a . course of conversation after his reo source of much pleasant raillery turn, he inadvertently mentioned against his friend, bnt Torn receiv­ the fact that Col. Hawlins and his ed it all in good spirit, and con- . tinnily had left town, George felt tinned to smoke, and eat, and sleep, a strong inclination ' to ask' the and spend his t.ime as usual, dis­ young gelltlenutn who .,vas reclin­ playiug none of the sylupt()1ns of a ing ill the shade upon the bank, love-sick swaine. George, h'ad been pretending to ' be busily engaged accusing him of having fallen des­ w irn h.s fishing tackle, (they were perately in love with the fail' An­ fishing), how lunch time he had nie at first sight, an accusation spent ill the lawyer's office ;-bnt ,vhi~h l'om as vigorously denied. lle didn't, just then-he only said A.circumstance occurred shortly " Ab !". with a very significant after this which gave Ainslie an op­ twinkle in his eye as he looked at portunity to persecute 'rom a little 'r~nl1. 11101'e. Torn had gone to Richr11011d Days passed ple~santl'y to the ·TIle .Ainelies. 65

two young gentlemen at the "and young Wilkes as wo have seen' "Glen ." George continued to iru­ B nt Mr, Ainslie returned a pe­ prove in health wonderfully, and rernptory ,. No" to George's re­ in spi rits too he had improved. He quest that he 11l ight be permitted w.is not now,so often plunged into to return to his studies. 'I'his, fits of gloon1; his eyes were bright then, ended the matter permuncnt­ and his s111 i1e was cheerful. He ly; and nothing was left to our was 110\V almost sure that he had friend, George, but to continue at beC0111e free from his infirmity.' He horne. J.ad himself been 11101'e frightened 1-'11e two young gentlenlen, find­ th an he was willing to admit, at ing it rather dull in th~ "Glen the alarming symptoms of eon . house," whose occupants, besides snmption. But he said iwithin themsclves, ,vere only the servants, ,1imself "Now I am gro,ving had begun to look about them for strong and healthful again, the S0111e congenial cornpany of their blessed sunny Southern air wi ll be own kind, after they had exhausted IllY saviour." Even' r-ronl was won all their pleasure from their out­ by his cheerfulness and healthful cloor sports, In the course of their looks, to the opinion that be had rambles they had often met car­ escaped the dread monster. (j~o]'ge riages and buggies upon the roads, was eve n th inking of again return­ and boats upon the ri vel', containing ing to Yale, but T om attempted people who seemed to be of t heir to dissuade him from this idea, neighborhood. At first t hey had kn owing , that if he once went back paid little attention t o them, but to College whilst the re remained about the tirne of which we we re even the smal lest ember of the speaking, they had begun to no tice dread disease in his system, his more particularly, those whorn they studious nature wo uld insor tablv rnet. Georg e was cornparat ively fan it into a flame that ,voul ;1 a stranger, even t o t he nearest sooner or later destro y him. T oni, families to the "Glen." 1-Ie had therefore, reasoned with him, hut never paid any visits, and conse­ he did not t ell hint this. H e to ld qu en tl y had never received any;­ him that it would he far bette r to so they knew no on e. rro111"':-,vho remain away fr om Colleg e for a wh en at horn e, was entirely devo time, than to 1'otu1'11 an d in cur the ted t o ~oc i e ty-- to Y\ThOll1 sociability risk of ill heal th. But Geo rge re­ wa s as a kin d of second nature. solved to write t o hi s grandf; th er. fel t ill at case and ver y desirous, by fitlr. Ainslie w as th en in Richrnond some means or other, to obtain an whither he had sroue sonle tinl ~ adluittance into some of the plea­ before; in fact, he had been at the sant mansions and farm houses that " Glen" but very little since he had were scattered about the country. first come there with his grandson There was one house, 'particularly, 66 Th-e- Ainslies. [Nov.

-a large mansion upon the river, know around us, I'll do something about three miles from the "Glen," desperate ifthis is not ended soon." ? towards which, Tom often looked And Tom solaced himself with the very longingly, ·,vhenever occasion re~~ular cigar. brought him that way,-it belong­ However, a period was soon put ed, George had told him, to a very to his solicitude, rich old gentleman whose name The afternoon of the same 'clay was Cartwright. Torn had often, upon which the above colloquy especially of late, been by the Iuan-· took place, brought Mr. Ainslie to sion, and he had noticed that in it, the "Glen." vVhilst at dinner, besides a large family, there seem­ the elder gentleman obtained, ed to be rnany visitors. through some expressions which "I,vish," said Torn one morning , passed between the younger ones, --:-.t,vo or three days after his se­ a knowledge of their desire to make cond return from Richmond-"that the acquaintance of their neigh­ we were acquainted with 1\'1.1'. bors. Perhaps he was a little con­ Cartwright and his family. They science stricken that he had not seem to have jolly times down already afforded them that plea­ there, George." sure. At any rate,~t a certain " If Mr. Ainslie w-ere here," said hour the next day, George Ainslie George, "I could procure you an and Thomas Wilkes found them­ introduction, perhaps. I think 11e selves bowing to Mr. and Mrs. is acquainted with the family." Cart.wright, who received then} "Do you know," vontinuedTorn, with open cordiality, and express­ ",vhen I was passing the avenue, ed themselves very much delighted ~ yesterday, on horseback, I was to make the acquaintance of the struck with the idea of howjroman­ young gentlemen. Thereafter they tic it would be to be thrown, and became regular visitors of the picked np insensible by some of Cart,vright family, and before a the farnily." very long time they were received " Yes," replied George, ",vith a hy all the families in the neighbor­ , broken arm 01' leg to boot. Very hood. Torn made lllany acquain­ pleasant idea !" tances, and his dashing free man­ "I didn't think of the broken ner made him a favorite with all­ bones,'.' said Torn, laughingly; mother and father, as well as sons "But, really, I think I would even anel daughters. run such a risk in order to break Torn soon made a discovery. the spell of this seclusion which The Cartwrights knew the Raw­ we are enduring here. Hermits lins. 'I'hey were distantly related we are-s-without the solitude of to them. . There was quite a glad the desert, it is true, but with the twinkle in the young man's eye worst solitude :-no one that we when he communicated this intel- 1871.] 67

inrclhzcnce to George. A few" U Est modus In rebus ;" days :fter this, 'l'om ;vas informed It is dangerous to go beyond a that the Rawlins had returned to certain degree of praise; it is dan-­ Richmond, and that they contern­ gerous, also, to be too desirous of' plated paying the Cartwrights a praise. There are some who praise visit. This intelligence made Tom greatly for very little cause,-sin­ quite gleeful, and he longed for the cerely,-they are not flatterers,-it day of their arrival. On his call­ is their extreme goon nature that ing upon the Cartwrights a . few leads them to do it. There are days afterwards, imagine his sur­ Rome,again, whose expansive minds prise at finding the Rawlins in the take a great deal of praise from drawing room. The Cart.wright« very little given. 'Ve remember, were equally surprised to find that in our childhood, a visit with SOUle their relatives had met their young others of our age, to an orchard. friend as an old acquaintance, for -\tVe had perfect liberty to eat all Tom had omitted to apprise them the fruit we wished, hut we knew of his introduction to the Rawlins that prudence and good breeding while in I=tichmon-d~ The Ra"Tlins~ required we should not go beyond

I on the other hand, were no less dE? a certain bound; and so,' although lighted to discover the friendship we liked th« rosy apples and the that cxised between the Cart­ juicy.peaches, we were moderate] y wrights and Mr. 'Vilkes. Of ternperate. N at so SODIe ~ther8 (;f course, a general explanation fol­ our companions, They ate contin­ lowed, and Tom was made to blush ually; they- surfeited themselves, again at 001. Rawlin's efforts to The idea struck UR at the time that make a hero of him. 'The good they were doing 1vrong; the idea old gentleman would, nevertheless, strikes us now, that between them tell the 'v hole story to those pre­ and those who are too eager for sent, and, though Tom endeavor­ praise, there is ruuch reBelnb1ance. ed to stammer ont some inarticu­ They ate too much" and the next late words 'of deprecation, he was day were sick. So great an appe­ peremptorily silenced by the im­ tite for praise 0 verburelens the mi nd petuous old Southerner. Now, to with chimerical hopes, and irupos­ some, praise is very palatable-e-we sible desires, and dare say ~t is natural to every man --"full-blown pride breaks under us." to love it, but there are some . Buthold! We are telling a story, ,vhose love is inordinately out of not writing' a sermon. This is a all proportion, and there are others very long ,yay to justifY our friend, who are naturally too modest to Tom, for blushing at hisown praise, thrust thenlselv;s forward, and but 'VB beg your pardon, reader, whom it even pains not a little to find to make up for the digression, hear others even justly praise them. we 'will snppose that CoL l~ .a"TlinR D The Ainslielf.' I [Nov:

'has eulogized, Tom, and that he or her parents, or 1\lr. and Mrs has been complimented by all the Cartwright ; he had very little papas and mammas and young la­ taste for the boisterous sport which dies in the room, (for there were Tom ',wonld indulge in with the several visitors present besides the little ones, 01' the war of wit which . two families), and in consequenee that young: gentleman kept up with \ partia Iy envied, partially admired Miss 'Cart,yright, who was quite as by the several young' gentlernen lively as himself 'Ve don't mean present. , to leave the impression upon the Suppose, for brevity, all the lion­ mind of our readers, that George , izing over, and quiet restored. Ainslie was a 1110pe; but we meau George Ainslie was, of course, to have you understand that he introduced to the l~a,vlins. 1-Ie was one of those, who though, plea­ was mp elled to admit .to himself sant and agreeab10 enough, did not npon seeing Miss Annie, that there possess the talent of being conspi­ was morejustice and truth in Tom's cuous] y so. Altogether, that even­ rather highly tinted description of in g passed very pleasantly, and that young lady, than he had at . our young friends drove h01118, first been ,villing to admit. F~n­ lea,ying a promise to call npon the · gaged in conversation with her, he Uart'\vrights very soon again On was quite surprised at the brillian­ the road home, George quite agreed ey and depth of her rnincl. During with Ton) that Miss ]~,a,\vlins was a the evelling, (for the young gentle­ charming young lady. rnen remained after the other g uests 'Thereafter, both the young gell­ had departed.] George had abun­ t.lernen were frequent visitors to the dant opportunities of remarking Cartwrights, and before a very ~liss Ra,\vlin's good qualities, both great while quite a degree of inti­ personal andnlcllta1. 111acy .sprang up between them. Aswe have seen, th e disposition The I~aw lins wer« to continue as of our young friends w as almost .the guests of their relatives for antipodal: Tom wns lively,

,I{ECOLLECTIONS OF THE CAP E 0]1-' GOO D HOP E ; wx. B. WILSON. N our last, we endeavored to forfeiture of their grant, to keep give, briefly, a description of on their farm, one loyal male sub­ that portion of the colony lying ject to every five hundred acres, sou h of Grahanlstown. It is our capnble of taking up arms in de­ intention, in this, to pursue the jour­ fence of the country. There con­ ney in a northerly direction, tak­ ditions ,may appear burdensome, ing the route through Kaffraria, as hut the exigencies of the case ne­ it is the most interesting. cessitated them, and the good to Before proceeding fur her, hO\\T­ the colony at large, that has arisen ever, it is necessary to know that therefrom, has proved the wisdom Kaffraria, at the tirne of which we of the governnlent in their adop­ write, was not under the adminis­ tion. tration ofthe Colonial Govermnent, It is of this portion of the Colony hut under th at of the Impcrial that we intend to speak in this ar- . Government ,who, at an enormous ticle. . outlay'above the r~venue of that ~rhough towns have sprung up Territory, maintains a large Inili- , in :many parts and taken the place

tary and police force, as a barrier of Kaffir "kraals", (native villages]~ , hetween the herds of Kaffirs in and the plough has been at its that section, and the Colonists. noble ' work in preparing mother Repeated attempts on the part' earth for the reception of grain, of once powerful chiefs to invol ve etc., and the voice of the indus­ the conntrv in war, has necessita­ trions farmer has supplanted the ted the government to destroy the thrilling yell of the savage hun­

power. and influence of such dance-b ter, nevertheless, in spite of this rous nighbors, by dernanding, in progress, the sett.lers have a great payment of the expenses of the ex­ deal to' suffer and endure, frorn the peditions of which they have been depredations cornmitted by the the cause, large tracts of country. tribes ofKaffirs "rho are permitted, "rhus, the military outposts .k~~p OJ} account ofprofessions of loyalty, moving onward, while the territory to retain their old possessions.. in their rear is divided into farms · 'I'he distance from Grahamstown of t ,vo thousand acres each and : to Fort Beaufort is only sixty' . . . , given to settlers, conditionally: miles, but the intervening. country they,must be a certuin time in the is,rugged .and wild in the extreme. . colony, they must posseRs a certain Every mile of the road unfolds . amount of capital, and ,must also new and more thrilling landscape ' bind themselves, under penalty of views than the last, thus keeping R~collection~ _oj" th« , Oap ~ . of,G;ooa,.Hope: .,[Nov.,

the stranger traveler in one eon­ securely tied in as small a spaca tinuous strain of admiration. The as possible, and the rifles prepa,r... Queen's Road, distant SOIne nine ed for immediate use, if required, miles ,from Grahamstown, is the and perched upon the cases in the first real introduction to "the wilds wagon, w~ felt ourselves booked 0.£ Africa." It passes through a for a sleepless night. Darkness very rugged range of almost per­ bad scarcely enveloped us, when pendicular mountains, to the valley the telegraphic howl of the wolf, on the opposite side, and for the that "soInething'~in the wind," was most part of the entire length,­ responded to by thousandsofothers ten miles-e-lias been cut out of the , in every direction, and the hellish solid rock. On the one side, the sound was borne across 1110Ull­ lofty mountains raise their majes­ tain and glen as ifby magic, 'I'his. tic heads far into the sky, ard the was the signal to light the fires, . , density of their foliage overhang which had the effect of keeping the road excluding th(~ cheering the cowardly, despicable lovers of rays of the sun ; while on the other darkness at bay. We were wel l side yon gaze into the valley below aware that as long as the fires con­ to the depth c,f thousands of ,feet tinued to burn, there was no danger upon a forest of huge trees, with of an attack from theln,but the here and there f-t beautiful gree'l} repeated outbursts of howling, and sward, upon' which are seen pastur­ their sneaking movements thronoh . ing, 81na.11 herds of ant.ilope, confi­ the,bush, or their patient watching dent in the safety oftheir seclusion. as they sat in hundreds arourrd-e­ "rotravel this road at night, is hy­ at a respectful distance, of course, no means pleasant, and i,~ al \VaY8 --n1adp. it rather unpleasant. Not avoided, if possible, for the contin­ was this the worst, From mid.. uous din of the denizens of the for­ night until short.ly before dawn, est, is perfectly deafening. It was t.hi3 fiendish concert was rendered our misfortune to be corupelled to­ more terrifying by the occasional remain upon this road {'(:)1' a. "7 hole roar of the lion, answered by the night, from un aocirleut which hap­ Iiouess, If there is any don as pencd to the wa.gon ill which w o to the undoubted courage of this were traveling', and the v(,-1')1' nohle forest king, it would he dis­ thonght of that night, chi lls tho pelled after hearing his roar; tho blood in our veins as we writ.e, deep, powerful, thunder-like sound '\Then it bccanre apparent that \\'0 causes the very air to 'vib rat e as it could not IHlrsue our journey, tho, reaches the ea~o, and el~eat~g a, very d river and lea(ler «ollecu-d a la.rgo strong desire ill the heart of th\ quantity of fu (-l 1 add prepared to hearer, that it had be-en his luck to ~re(~t a barrier of tires around the be elsewhere. It isone thing to h\t \"-~iOiYl; ,t.hi jij. doue, t:he (:fJ:(.} ~U \YttJ'0 reading about .s uch ni:gbt ,~ a~ , ":'_W 1871.J Recoilections oj' the Gape. of Good Hope. 71 have described, but 'VB can assure ing river pursues its zig-zag course you iL is quite another thing to seaward. -Crossing the river at a experience thern; for our part, we point a few hundred yards below have not the least ' desire to go the junction of the Koonap river, through a similar novel scene. we find ourselves in the vicinity of After descending th e Queen's 1.11 e military post. Koonap post. l\.oacl "/8 reach Fort 13ro"Tl1, the presents a more domesticated ap­ first of a line of military posts, es.. pearance than its sister fort, with tablished for the purpose of main­ its fruit and vegetable gardens, its taining a line of communication dairies, its cattle kraals, and last between the frontier and the colo­ though by no means least, its "lit­ ny; it stands on a commandiug .t Ie house under the hill,"-we elevation, three hundred yards from 'mean the hotel. The wall sur- the bridge that crosses the Fish rounding the fortis constructed of Ri vel'. 'rho fort is capable of ac­ sods, and the buildings within of commodating t\VO hundred infan­ wa.ttlc-and-daub with thatched try and half a troop of cavalry, 1'00:£:.;;:. rrhe though it is never garrisonecl\vith "Fnruiliar grunt of the pigs "in the morn­ more than one-third that number, ing," except in ti me of war, It is sur­ and rounded by a rnassi ve stone wall "'The music of lifting the old rustylatch," about tell feet high, and mounts awakens the recollections of the four heavy pieces of artillery. The soul, and recalls the days or OUI" advantageons position of this for­ childhood in that) sweet sunny isle, tification in time ofwar, was such "Erin gobragh," and in the depth ::\ check upon the l{affir's, that they of OU]' sorrow we curse our had made Il1any desperate and deter.. luck, and console ourselves with ruined etlort.s to destroy i t, hut that ever' constant companion, without success, "Tlopo," and resolve that, "please The road from Fort Brown to C~ocl, as soon. as 'toe can apordit, Koonap, the next military post, we wi ll leave. t his outlandish ))3-.tt runs along the bank of th e F'ish of the world. cand go 'horne.' ,., l~,iYer, Th« seenery is extremely However, since it 'is im possible grand and rornautic; the lofty to put this. consoling resolution .mountains on either sides clothed into practice, we are forced -to con­ in beautiful verdure, 'with here and tinue our journey with the patience there a. ser:tggy .preci pice, evident­ and resignation of amart.yr, "Ie ly the result of 801nc thunderstorm, pass another military fort.iflcat.ion as huge masses of rock, in llla.ny l)ef()l'c reaching the to'\7.11 of Fort instances fifty feet :,qU<-1l'e, ca~n he l~eant()rt. Close to this tort is .ti i;een in the valley irmnediatel v be­ n:11TO\V pass, rendered more eon­ l~vf .: . ·-,vh.ilt? 011 our left, t.he _~· l i t t e .r- i1pieuoIJs. h~T the f're('·~oJ.1 of' a :Vfr>r.y RecollrctionjJ 0.1,the ' Cape of G09d Hope. [Nov.

'nice monument to the memory of chiefs have been forced to retire .a number of men, women and chil­ with their tribes into the interior, dren who were most brutally mas­ it has grown considerably. Its sacred by Raffirs at this spot. close proximity to Kaffirland, and In contemplating all the hard­ particularly to that impenetrable ships of the colonists, an outsider den, the Waterkloof, has been a is almost tempted to question the drawback to its progress.' As an sanity ofthe sufferers in their selec­ instance, we will relate, that' in the tiouof a horne. But such would early part of the war of 1851-~., it be an unjust view of the case, as \\7as agreed at a council of war held 1110st writers are. more liable to re­ by.the Kaffir chiefs, that an unani­ late startling facts, to the excln­ mous attack be made upon Fort sian of more solid domestic news. Beaufort and Fort IIare simulta­ In order to rernove such an imprcs­ ueously. The morning of tre sian, then, it is but just to say, eventful day arrived, and the sun that very luan)' of the evils with arose to shine n pOJ.1 tens of thou­ which farmers and travelers are sands of savage Kafflrs hurrying· visited, is the result of a too great Oil to commence their hellish crimes confidence in th« native servant, of rapine and murder. Bat dearly or the absence or the necessary they paid for their daring. 13y

- precautions when traveling. And eisrhtu o'clock the fio'htiuO'~ 0 commeu- when the every day instances of ced with the advance columns, but the treachery of the native charac­ for three miles in the rear could be

ter is disrevarded.:':' , can , -it be won- seell, COh.l111I1 after column rolling dered that murders ftnd thefts con - On like waves of the sea, to the tinne. It has been our experience, support. Never before did 111en that .\vhen a Kaffir is kept under tight more bravely than did tho strict subjection, and 'a knowledge besieged. They knew that if of the superiority of the whire man beaten, death, ' the rnost; horrible forced upon him, he makes a toler­ that savage ingenuity could invent ab.ly good servant; but it is neces­ would be their lot, that their wives sary to drive him with a tight rein, . and daughters would be subjected for, by nature, he is both ::1' thief to the most brutal insults, and that and a coward, and will avail him­ the brains oftheir little ones would self ofthe first opportunity to take be dashed out on the corner stones. revenge for the humiliations that With such thoughts raging in the fear has subjected him to. mind, .their success almost ceases Fort Beaufort is ,a pretty little to be a marvel. The whole of the pleasant.Iv situated town on .the rnale inhabitants had placed them­ hanks of the Fish River, and is, in sel ves ur:der the command of the that part" the colonial boundary. military authorities, and their fam­ Since the dangerous. and influenti~1 ...... ~ . . lies sheltered within the barrack 1871.] l~ecollect'l~onl~ of the Cape of Goocl Hope~

walls. 'I'o this point the Kaffirs and leaders who led on their war- : directed all, their strenghth, dis­ riors but a short time before, -"were regarding the deserted town entire­ suspended between heaven' and ly. For two hours a sharp rnus­ earth, on the market place of the ' ketry engagen1ent was kept up, town they had th0ught to destroy. ' laying low hundreds of savages. The above scene has been enact­ 'Despair of success now induced ed in IIIan y parts of the colony in them to fire the town, and return­ those days; but, thanks to a kind inv they made another desperate, Providence, there is little fear 'of a b' .. determined attack upon' the fort. repetition. The increasing white The

insert a delicious little bit of news following resolutions : of your own make. .No matter; WHEREAS :-It is fitting that the rnem­ LO-lnOlTOW you can explain that it bel'S of the OWL A.ssociation should was a mistake. In so short a time g'ive expression to the feelings with it does not travel far. But ima­ which they regard the departure of their President, Rev. Edmund.J. gine-you who kIH)'W that news 'Young', ~.J., therefore be it / i terns increase in magnitude, as the Resolved-That we look upon ' him as forty-ninth povver of the distance , the father of our Association, and one of which they travel-to what an the chief promoters of its welfare, immense bulk an item would at­ Resotved--That we hold in grateful tain which has been traveling for a appreciation his prudent, energetic and month. 1-\ mouse become a mas- disinterested labors in his Presidential , tondon would bear no comparison capacity. to it. This, then, is our excuse for Resolved-That we ascribe the present the meagerness of our idle notes, flourishing condition of our affairs to his skilful management. We must tell the tale as 'tis told Resolved-'rhat we consider his depar­ to us. 'Ve cannot tell a tale of ture as a grievious loss to our Associa­ our own. tion. Resol1)ed-That we shall remember ON Wednesday: the -Ith instant, him with l~ve and veneration, and that " First Wednesday'," a public ex­ our best wishes shall attend him to his amination "vas held in ,the I st class new field of labor. of'Mathernatios andzd class ofSpan­ Resolved-'rhat a copy of these resolu­ ish. Both classes displayed great tions be sent to Fa.ther Young, and that they be published in the O'VL. ' ability in their respective depart­ J.POUJADE, I ments, In point of interest there J. H. CAl\fPBELIJ, I was probabl y not 111uch choice. F. MCCUSKER, ~ 'Oo1'nmJittee. .J. T, MAI~ONE, I Examinations are not generally D. G. SULLIVAN,) productive of absorbing interest. .I. 'I'. ~fAI.ONE, Secretarsr. J3ut in speaking of the exercises on this occasion, we may add, that the Hv .an inadvertency in our last string balld, under the manage­ n umbervwe stated tho day of the rnent of Professor Vile, -eulivcned departure of the Rev. Edrnund J. the pause between t he Spanish Y'ollilg from the College, as the 8th translations and the Conic Sections, of l\.ug ust, instead of the 8d '01' by "Ijly Waltzes" and "Shoo F! y Septernbel', as it should have been. (luadrilles." Ar a meeting of the ''IT oung .A (JOM,MITTEE appointed at a. Original, 'B.B.C.," held Sept. l~!th, meeting of the o'VI. association, the following officers were elected: held after the departure of Rev. President, Mr. }3. Calzia, S.~J.; , riee­ F'ather ' Yo un g ~ have reported the President, Ii'. J. I{ellogg; Seore- 1871.] Idle lVotes. 77 , tary, P. w. Soto; Treasurer, T. If. Trne College Brass Band has re­ Morrison ; Censor, A. Reale ; Cap­ organized and is in active practice. tain, J. J9 McCarthy; Scorer, F. The following are the officers elect­ Lacoste. ed: President, Rev. J. Caredda, S. J9; 'Tice President, J~ F, :N[cQuade.; Ar the organization of the Secretary, L. M. Pinard; Treasurer, " 'Young America B. B. C.," Sept. J. 13. Srnith; Censor, J9 L. Carri­ 20th, the following officers were gan; Music Keeper, A. Sauffrignon. elected: Presidentv Mr. Dossola, 3 S.J.; Vice President, 1 • W: .Cohen; (}N Thursday, Oct. 19th, the Secretary, It Bowie ; Treasurer, " Young Originals," junio]" club, w-. :Den ; Censor, C. Gambill ; played a match with the "Eagles" Captain ] st nine, ' C. Sansevain ; of San J OBe. 'I'he "Young Origin.. Captain 2d nine, Wn1. :IVloson. als" led the score at the end of the gan1e by 24 runs. The following D. :F'uRLONG is elected Captain is the. score: . of the second nine of the Phcenix B. B,C9 YOUNG ORIGINALS. EAGLES,. R 0 R ~ Kellogg, p & 1st b 3 4 Herd, 1st b ' 2 2 Reale, 2d b...... 4 4 Stern, p " 1 4 A COLI~}1~CTION for the Chicago . Morrison, s s & 1f 3 4 Gallagher, 2d b. .. 1. 4 Sheridan, c f ... " 4 1 Madden, c f...... 1. 3 relief is in progress ~mollg the stu­ Videau, 3d b. . . . 3 4 Crittenden, 1 f. ... 1. 4 'McCarthy, p & ~ s 5 2 Cook.Bd b 2 1 dents and has already reached a McClatchy, r f 1 6 Cole, r f 1. 4 Soto, C & SS •••.. 6 1 McKnuls, 8 e. .. . 2 2 fair proportion. When finished, it Martin, 1 f & S s. . 6 1 Sullivan, c 0 2 will be forwarded to Chicago by 1'OTAI.. . . 35 27 TOTAL.... 11 27 the President ofthe College. J. F. DUNNE, Umpire, Of the £tna B. B. C.

1'1HE members of the Dramatic Society have in preparation the -'VE notice the name of our tragedy of Sedecias, and the farce friend, H. G. N ewh all, among the of Boots at the Suxm, to 'be repre­ new students at Yale. We wish sented on or about Thanksgiving "IIall" success in his present place day, oflabor. Etlitor's Table: [No.

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w ~~ have received from A. the Oollege authorities of that seat Waldteufelof San Jose, The Stu­ of learning, to the fact that Sun­ dents MY,thology,-a text book,- day st.udying has become a crying .as far as weare able to judge, very evil within those sacred walls. well adapted to accompany the Shades ofye buried and forgotten s.udy of the classics. "I t gives in Blne Laws, can such thingsbe? a concise and lucid manner, the most remarkable of the heathen BI~O\VN UNIYEHSIl'Y rejoices in myths, and explains the system of a aO-inch plate Holtz' Electrical worship of the principal nations of Machine, the largest in the United antiguity. \ States.

W 1~ return thanks to Mr. A. EXCHANGES.-W e have received Waldteufel of San Jose, for the the following exchanges: The An­ Catholic World, for October, and nalist, University Echo, Yale Cou­ several other newspaper favors. rant, Iowa State University Re­ porter, Cornell Collegian, Golletqe rrUE second number of the IJe­ Courant; College Courier, Simpso­ mosthenic .1J;[oTtthlY,-a neat little nian, Notre IJan~e Scholastic, .AT. paper published by the Demosthe­ J:r: Tablet, NewslJalJe1~ Reporter, nic Literary 80eiety of San Fran­ College u--a«. College lVo1~ld, cisco,-hag found its ,vay to our ]JIcIfencb~eeRepository, Cornell IJ}ra, table. We welcome it, and wil­ 1J;Ionth.ly Visitor, The Academu, lingly place it npon our exchange College Days and the'Demosthenic list. vVe wish it success, 1Jlonthly.

OU:R Collesre exchanges, as far ' F O U I~ N'e\v England ()olleges '-..J \ --' as the present, are chiefly filled are now open to wornen : Bates, with the commeucements and op en­ Lewiston, 1\1e., Colby, 'Vatervil1e, ings of their various Colleges. ~1e.; Verrnont 1Jniversity, B nr­ lington, Vt., and Wesleyan Uni­ \Ve notice in the Irale Courant, versity, Middletown, Conn.~(}ol­ 'a ll article calUng the attenton ot lege Courant; 187].J lfJdito1"'S 'Iable.

. "l"HE students of the Syrian Pro­ of women's righ t in a verypracti testant College, consists of Druses, cal manner, by the proposition to ~faronites, Greek Catholies, l~o­ decide the salaries of school teach­ ulan Cath oliose-in short, all sects ers by position and not by sex. At in Syria except Moslems, present male principals receive as high as $2,200 per annum, while 'I'mc leading colleges of the no female principal receives over country had the follovving number $] ,309 per annum, of graduates last year: Harvard, 1;)7 ; Yale, 103 ; Princeton, 78; ~l'E NN Y S ON refuses to re cei ve Dartmouth, 68 ; Amherst 50 ; Bow­ Walt Whitman as a, poet, and is

By our-exchanges we notice that of the C011ege visited a henroost in Hlany of thc juost prominent of and. succeeded in capturing ten our American colleges, there is a chickens and a rooster, getting .disposition to throw aside the stu­ away with the rooster. In tho dy of the classics for the scientific. second column it asks " TIl)' it is It is not to be wondered at that that the senior class has lost its in­ this step should he taken by the tere'st ill edit orial pleasures. The majority of students of the present reason is "Very evident: Henroosts day. At a superficial glance it is are more attractive, easy to believe that more profit arises from sc-ientific studies than DR. IIAR(~oul{,T of Fari« proposes from classics, "fhe modern student , a new system of illumination. He when entering upon a college ca­ reduces ordinarv illuminatinv eras reer, takes at those studies which ..7 b .'::l by admixture with a certain pro- will he of movt practical use to portion of atmospheric air and then him, for he lives in a practical and brings IIp its iIlt rninating pOvver commercial age, and 11e prefers, by allowing the tlame to ilnpinge therefore, the st ud y of natural phi­ up on platinum-sponge, The result losophp, ohemist.ry and matherna­ is said to be an increased light with ties, to that of the Latin and Greek less expense. literature. To our mind," though there is a great deal of ,,'"eight to "rHl~ Quarterly and Videue pa­ the reasoning brought forward for pel'S of senior and junior classes the preference of such a course, yet respectively, of Williams College it appears that lunch that is urged Williamstown, Mass., have been against.the classics is without good consolidated into the William» Vi­ foundation. 'I'he mental training dette, now the joint protege of the which is the offspring of classic two classes. - . . study, is a strong :trgulnent in its favor; and this, together ~i th its A .~"'RBSHMAN literary advantages, ought, in (HIl" in a fit of despair, opinion, to give it at least an equal before the Professors frown, trans­ importance in any college course lated the line, ",0, te, Bolane, ce- ­ with an yother branch .of study. rebri felicem," "O! for sorne tea, vVe would by no means counte­ and hologne, and the brains of a nance the entire abandonment of cat." classic study, which 111 any students -to judge by the tone of OlU' ex­ rrHE llcho says that there- \vere changes-c-advocate. eighty applicants for admission to the University up to the close of THE llipon (}ollege Days trium­ of September, six of whom were phantly relates that the senior class young ladies'. 1871.J ou«

ONE single pigeon, a favorite bird with from the prayer-book as follows: " Man the pigeon-fanciers of Paris, brought into that is born of woman, is fun of trouble: that city during the Beige 500 pages of and hath but a short time to live," &c. official dispatches and 15,000 private The astonished bridegroom exclaimed, dispatches. " Sir, you mistake, we came to be mar­ ried." W ell, if you insist, I will marry A. CORRESPONDENT mentions a case be­ you; but believe me, my friend, you had yond the ordinary oculist. It is that of m uch better be buried! " a young lady who, instead of a pupil, has a college student in her eye. ON A BALD HEAD:- My hair and I are quits, d'ye see; I first cut him, he now cuts me. rrHE following dialogue in one of the coaches of a first class car is very LORD CIJARE, who was much opposed "Frenchy:"-"My little angel," asks a to Curran, one day brought a N ewfound­ fond husband, "are you comfortable in land dog upon the beach, and carressed. your corner? " " Yes, thanks." " You the animal, Curran. "Go on, go on, Mr, do not feel the cold 't "" Not at all." Curran, " said Lord Clare, "0, I beg a " Your window closes easily?" " Very thousand pardons, "was the rejoinder: nicely, dear." "Then COIne and take "I really· thought your lordship was em­ rny place.' ployed in consultation, "

Du, Fatrsrns' AIVI'.-The following is SHETtIDAN was one day 111uch annoyed a specimen of a printer's technical terms : bv a fellow member of the house of Coni it don't mean, however, as much as it mons, who kept crying out every few would seem to the uninitiated :-" Jim, minutes, "Tlear l hear!" During the put 'General Washlngton on the galley, debate he took occasion to describe a po­ and then finish the illurder of that young litical contemporary, that wished to play girl you commenced yesterday. Set up rogue, bnt had only sense enough to act the ruin 01 Herculaneum ; distribute the the fool. "VVhere," exclaimed he 'with small pox; you' needn't finish that run­ great emphasis, " where shall we find a a\vay match; have the high unter in the more floolish knave or more knavish flool paper this week. Let the pi alone till than he?" ., Hear l hear!" was shout­ after dinner; put the barbecue to press ed by the troublesome member, Sheri­ and then go to the deoil and he will tell dan turned round and thanking him for you about the 'york for the morning. " the prompt information sat down amid Not much wonder that Dr. Faustus was a general roar oflaughter, burned for inventing such a diabolical art. "1 swear," said a gentlell1an to a fe­ male acquaintance, "you are very hand­ ALL 1'HE SAME. -A couple went to SOIne." "Pooh,,. said the lady, "so you the Rev. -- to get married. n1r.--. would say, if you did not think so." is sonlething of a wag, and by an inno­ " And. so you would think, if I did not. beg~n cent mistake, of course, to rend /<(11/ BO," ans ....vered he. 82 ou« [Nov

CORRISTO CJ.JASSICAliIJY CONDlljNSED:­ Never confide in 1:1, young 11lan-new Whyscorn red hair? The Greeks we know pails leak. Never tell your secrets to the " (I note it here with charity.) Digeel--old doors seldom shut closely. Had taste in beauty, and "with them Thp. Graces were all XapL'"tE~ A lady having remarked in company, she thought there should be a tax on the "the single state." ""Yes, Madame, re­ A lecturer wishing to explain to a Jittle joined an obstinate old bachelor, "as on girl th e manner in w hich a 10bster casts all other 1uxuries." his shell when he has out-grown i t, said: r-( What do you do when yon have out­ In the course of an examination for the gro\vn your clothes? Yon throw then} degree"of A.B., in the Senate I-Iouse, aside, don't you? "Oh ! no," replied the I Cam bridge, under an examiner named Iittle girl, "we let out the tucks." Tho Payne, one of t he questions was : "Give doctor confessed she bad the advantago a definition of happiness." To which a of him there, candidate gave the following Iaconio re­ ply: "An exemption from Payne." .• Harry, I cannot think," says Dick, " What makes my-ankles grow so thick." it certain Chief Justice, on hearing an " You do not recollect' says Harry, ass bray, interrupted the late Mr. Cur­ "Ho\v great a calf they have to carry." . ran in his speech to th~ jury, by saying; "one at a time Lvi1'. Curran if you please." A diminutive attorney, named Else, 'I'h e spe ech being finished, the .ludge once asked J errodl: "Sir, I hear you have began his charge, and during itR progress called me apettifogging' scoundrel. Havo ' the ass sent forth the full force of its you done so?" "No, sir," said Jerrold, . lungs; whereupon the advocate said, with a look of contempt, "I never said " Does 110t Jour lordship hear a remark­ you 'were a pettifogger or a scoundrel, able echo in, the COU,1't. but I aiel say you were uuie IiJlse. An Irish gentleu1an parting with a laz-y Mr FRIEND'S LF-XiACY- servant, was asked, with respect to his He boasts about the truth I've heard, industry, whether he was what is termed .A nd vows he'll never break it. afraid of work. "Oh-! not at all," jsaid Why, zounds! a 'man must keep his word he, "not at all; he'll frequently lie down When nobody 'will take it. and fall asleep by the very side of it." 1811 .} Table of Hono'r. 83

r:L'ABLE OF HONOR.

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Credits for the mon tlb of A u,gust, as read on Wednesday October 4t/~ , 1871.

enRISTIAN DOC'l'RINE. lst Class-G. Bull, 9;'5; J. Coddington, 95; 'IV. Den, 95; J. F. Dunne, 90; S. Fellom,100; F.I{ellogg, 100 ; N. Murphy, 100; L. Palmer, 100; J. Poujade, 100; J. Raleigh, 75; J. Radovich , 100; J. B. Smith, 75; A. Veuve, 100; ~L Walsh, 100: W~ vValsh,70. 2d Class-Po De Celi s, 90; A. Den 80; R. Del Valle, 75; V. Mcfllatchy, 72; Thos. Morrison, 94; G. Pacheco, 82; R. Soto, 88; F. 'I'rembly, 90. 3d Class-A. Bell, 100 ; J . Goetz, 75: J. McCarthy, 90; F. Murphy, 75: A. Pierotich, 08; A. Reale, 100; J. Reale, 90; J. Nichol, 100: P. Sansevain, 100: P. Soto 100; G. Seifert, 100; E. Sheridan,75: J. Sheridan, 100; G. Videau, 10'0; P. Cohen, 90: L. Camarillo, 90: ~1. Donahue, 95: A. Gaddi, 95; R. Thorne, 90. ETHICS. H. Harrison, 75; J. T. Malone, 70.

LOGIC. J. Chretien, 70; J. C. Johnson, 80: D. G. Sullivan, 70; ~L Walsh, 75; ~1. vVilson, 75 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. A. Arguello, 72, L. Burling,70: J. Burling, 7'0; J. Chretien, 70: P. Dunn, 75; R~, Del Valle, 70: J. C. Johnson, 90; J11aleigh, 70; H. P eyton, 90; D. G. Sullivan, 75 ; A. Sauffrignon, 70; A. Venve, 85 ; 1\1. Walsh, 95. . CHEMISTRY.-2nd year. M. Walsh, 94; J. C. Johnson, 82; D. G. Sullivan, 82; 1"1. Wilson, 72; A. W.Kelly; 71; A. Sauffrignon, 70 ; J. Carrigan, 75; II. Bowie, 70.

CHE:M:ISTRY.-1st year. H. B. P eyton, 94; N. Murphy, 83; F. llfc Cusker, 89; A. Veuve, 8Z ; J. Chretien, 81; A. Campbell, 81; J. Smith, 70: J. Raleigh: 70 - L. Pinard' 70: P. Dunn, 70.

MATHEMATICS 1st Class-J. C. Johnson, 70; J. T. Malone, 70; nL WilSOH, 70. 2d Class-D. G. Sullivan, 90; A. Veuve, 90; A. Sauffrignon, 85; J. Raleigh, 78; J . Chretien, 74; J. Poujade, 72; A. Arguello, 70; L. Burling, 70; P. Yr igoyen., 70; J. Radovich , 70. . 3d Class-G. B ull, 90; J. Burling, 85; A. Campbell, 90; F. Corcoran, 95 ; R. Del Valle, 80 ; P. Du nn, 90; C. Ebner, 85 : J. Ke nnedy, 80: V. ~fc Clatchy, 98 ~ F. l\1cCuske r, 90 ; N. Murphy, 100 ; H. B. Peyton, 75; J . Smith, 75! [Nov ..

GEEEK. 1st Class-H. Harrison, 80. Bd Class-B. B. Peyton, 75. 5th Class-A.Campbell, 98: J. Coddington, 98: R. Brenham, 70: J. Poujade, 90 IJATIN. Ist Class-H. Harrison, 80. 2d Class-A. Campbell, 72: H. Bowie, 73. 3d Class-H. Peyton, 70. 4th Class-G. Bull, 100; L. Burling._l00; J. Burling, 100: C. Ebner, 85; T Morrison, 96; L . Pinard, 91 ; R. Soto, 100. 5th Class-H. Brenham.Ytl : J. Coddington, 100; J. Dunne, 70: H. Hopkins, 95 '·:· V. McClatchy, 98; .J. Poujade, 99; L. Palmer, 96; T. Durbin, 78. RHETORIC OLASS. English Oration, History and Geography-P. Dunn, 87; F. 1\1cCusker,85; H. Peyton , 80; J. Raleigh, 72; M. vValsh, 90. POETRY CLASS. English Composition, History and Geography-Jas. Kennedy, 84; V. ~IcClatchy, 88 ; N. Murphy, 82; J. Radovich, 78; A. I{aleigh, 73; A. Veuve, 97. 1st. GRAMMAR CLASS : Composition, History and Geography-s-Geo. Bull, 90; Jas. Coddington, 85; H. Cor­ coran, 83: ,V. Den . 7\): C.' Ebner, 73 ,; w», Hereford, 80; II. Hopkins, 78: F. Kellogg, 85 ; Thos. Morrison, 90; G. Pacheco, 76: L. Palmer, 75: H. Smith, 70 : H. Soto, 87: F. Trembly, 70 - W. Walsh, 74. ' 2d GRAMMAH CLASS. W. Cole, 70: P. De Celis, 76; S.Fel10111, 86; T. Godfrey, 86: J. Sheridan 70:, P . Soto 84; L. ""VoItel', 87. 3d GR A.M MAR CL ASS. A, Den, 73; W, Davis, 79: "V. Meson , 70. FHENCH. 1st Class~L. Bnrling, 70; n, D I~1 Valle, 80; C. Georget, 80; J. Poujade, 70 ; 2d Class-G. Bull, 72 ; J. Radovich, 75; C. Colornbet, 70. 3d Class-J.B. Chretien, 77 ; 1\1. Donahue, 71; ,J. Garrat, 100; J. Perrier, 79; P. Sansevain, 97. SPANISH. 2d Class~-N. Camarillo, 98; J. Coddington, 90; S.Fellolll, 98 J. Judd, 70; N. Murphy, 85; G. Pacheco, 95. 3d Class-No Robles, 70.

V. ~lcClatch y , 90 ; H. Pfister, 70. ITALIAN. J. Bisagno.70. AIU1'HMETIC. lst Class~-G. Bull, 78: J. Coddington, 70; J. Fell0 III, 75; T. Godfrey, 70: W. Here­

ford, 100; F. E': ellog i 75: T. Morrison, 85; L. Palmer, 70; N. Robles, 70; R. Sota, 90. 2d Clas~'- VV. Cole, 78 : 1\1. Che valier, 72: C. Colombet, 80; P. Cohen, 70; W. Davis, 80: T. Durbin, 80; D. Furlong, 70 ; C.Gambill, 70: J. Goetz, 78; H. Hubbard, 80; P. Sansevain, '70 ; .LSheridan, 80; J. Thompson, 70: R. Wallace 70 ; L: vVolter, 80 . 3d Class-Po De Celis, 85; A. I)cn, 74; A. Pierotich, 7H. C. Stonesifer, 73; D. Kidd, 70. 7"able of IIonor. 85

BOOK-KEEPING. Ist Clas~-I . Burling, 90; R. Soto, 90; J. Raleigh, no; F. ~IcCusker, 90; P. Dunn,

90. I . 2d Class~-J. Bisagno, 90; N. Camarillo, 100; II . Corcoran, 80; S. Fellom, 98; Wm. Hereford, 98; V. McClatchy, 95 ; N. MUl'phy,98; H. Smith, 95; P. Soto, 80; W. 'Valsh, 95; L. Wolter, 95. . 3d Class--A. Bell, 76; C. Ebner, 95: T. Godfrey, 100 ; J. Goetz. 89; T. Morrison, . 93 ' W. Moson, 90; J as. Nichol, 71; L. Palmer, 93; E. Petersen, 81; P, Sanse­ va~, 71; .J. Sheridan, 70: T. Durbin, 93; H. Ilubbard, 71.

READING AND SPELLING, 1st Class, 1st Divis.-J. Bisagno,85; 'V. Cole, 75; P. Colombet, 85; H. Corcoran, 89; John Day, 95. D. Egan, 72; S. Felloln, 78; Fred. Kellogg, 96: G. Pacheco, 87; F. Trembly, 95 ; Jas. Thompson, 70. 2d Divis.--P. Donahue, 70 ; C. Ebner, 97; T. Morrison, 90; L. Palmer, 80; R. . Soto, 75. 2d Class-A. Bell, 82 ; N. Camarillo, 76; J. B. Chretien, 73; P . De Celis, 80; Alf. Den, 75; A. Den, 70; w». Den, 75; R. Enright, 70; '\T. Furman, 71; J. C. Gambill, 74; T. Godfrey, 82; J. Goetz, 87; J. Hayes, 70; H. Martin. 75; P. lVlcDonald, 70; J. Perrier, 70: Chas. Petersen, 85; E. Petersen, 71; A. J. Pierotich, 74 ; N. Robles, 74. , 3d Class-H. Christin, 70; W. Davis, 95 ; M. Donahue, 86 ; P . Enright, 89; E. Hall, 78; ;T. Ladd, 70; G. Martin, 72; F. Murphy, 82; G. Norris, 79; P. Sanse vain, 86: E. Sheridan, 70: E. ",Volter, 70.

ELOCU1'ION. 1st Class-J. Malarin, 90; H. Peyton, 76; J. Poujade, 100; J. Smith, 70. 2d Class--J. Kennedy, 85 ; V. McClatchy, 95; N. Murphy, 70; A. Veuve, 96; 'V. Marshall, 90. 3elClass--P. Donahue, 70; D. Furlan,!!, 80; 'r. Morrison, 75; F. Trembly, 73. 4th Class-J. Day. 75; D. Egan, 75; T. Egan, 96; S. Felloln, 89; L. Wolter, 70. 5th Class-vV. Davis, 80; ,V. Furman, 70; W. Geggus, 77 ; E, Hall, 70; F. Murphy, 75; VV. 1\1080n, 75. PENMANSHIP. 1st Class-No Camarill0, 71; A. Den, 71; S. Fellom, 70; J. Kennedy; 72; T. Mor­ rison, 72; G. Pacheeo, 72: R. Soto , 71 ; P. Soto, 71: L. Wolter, 71. 2d Class-F. I{ellogg, 75: J. Judd, 7t; G. Norris, 70. J . Norris, 70 : Ii,. Smith, 70. G. Videau. Bd C.lass-A. Pierotich, 71 ; E. Petersen. 71 ; R. rrhorn, 7l. LINEAl{ DHi\\VING. 1st Divif:'i on-J. Chretien, 90. 2d Division-P. Donahue, 75; V. Mofllatohy, 90; H. Dwinelle, 70: G. Videau, 75; P . Sansevuin, 75; ~I. Donahue, 70. FIGUUE DRA\VIN'G. J. San Rornan, 70 ; II. Pfister, 70. PIANO. 1st Clnss-C. Ebner, 70; A.. Arguello, 70. 2d Class-H. Christin, 80; N. Camarillo, 70: G. Barron, 70.- FLUTE. H. Smith, 90: J. Bisagno, 80; A. Campbell, 70.­ VIOLIN. J . Burling, 70. RHASS INSTRUl\:IIDNTS. J . Carrigan, 70. ---0---

[Classes of the PREPARATORY DEP.AJ1T.MENrr are omitted.]

Highest number of credits given, 100. Recipients of 70' and over only nlentioned.

SAN JOSE" CAI~IFORNIA,

J 1 Y UNG L ES' NST · E. r: HIS I nstit ution, which is incorporated according to the laws of the State, and empowered to confer academical honors, commenced ts Twentieth Annua l Session on Monday, August 2 1st 1871. iTh~ Course of instruction. embraces aZl the branches of a tho­ rou.sh. education,

l "ER J1£8 : Entrance to be paid but once ...... • ...... $15.00 Board and Tuition, per quarter ~ . . .. 62.50 Washing, per q uar ter ,...... 12.50 Physicians' fees unless it filay be preferred to pay . the bill in case of sickness, per quarter .;. 2.50

Piano, ,.,.ocnl ltl uslc, Dra wing and Paintin g' form extra charges; but there is no extra charge for th e French, Spanish or Gerulan Lang uages, nor for Plaln Sewing and Fancy Needlework, Payments are required to be made h~lf a Session in advance.­ Pupils will find it much to their advantage to be present at the opening of the Session.

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