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was gone, the shadow was lifted from pages of fourteen long sinful years, and her life. wrote in golden letters on a snowy

One week later, and the repentant page-" Reconciled." Angela's missinner, William Livingston, approached sion was accomplished.

the sacred tribunal of penance; and the God does not always choose great recording angel taking up the Book of means to accomplish great ends. Life, turned over the blurred and blotted

RUSTICA.

MODESTY.

Modesty is a bright jewel in the The young lady who is unskilled in character of women. It imparts a many of the technicalities of refineloveliness to every accomplishment ment, is still attractive when modesty which we vainly look for in its absence, characterizes her demeanor. Accomand brightens all the virtues which it plishments of the age, without modesty, accompanies; like the shades in a paint- are repulsive and disgusting. It is a ing, it raises and rounds every figure mistaken idea for a woman to imagine and makes the color more beautiful. her influence to depend on her personal Modesty is not only an ornament to the attractions. Beauty commands, but it female character, but its surest safe- does not win; it attracts, but it does guard. Banish modesty from the not hold. It must be answered by world, and she carries with her one- some inward beauty, or it soon dishalf the virtue there is in it; and, I appoints. We often see a young would add, banish modesty from the person whose countenance is lovely characteristics of woman, and you and pleasant to look upon, while be destroy one of the highest attractions neath are working the most hideous she possesses. It is a quality which passions, and the most wicked purposes. engages and captivates the minds of It is just as true, that the plain, the people, let her worldly possessions homely face often accompanies a heart be great or small, let her occupations as pure as piety itself, when clothed be what they may; whilst, on the with a meek and beautiful spirit. other hand, the person who is bold, course, vociferous, let her possessions be ever so great, and her style of living and dress be ever so fashionable, will always be looked upon as a vulgar woman. Modesty atones for the absence of many other accomplishments.

There must be more than personal
beauty in woman, to make her-for
any length of time-pleasant in our
eyes and graceful to the heart.
"The fairest faces that we know,

Are not the brows of beauty;
And the blessedest paths in which we go
Are the homely paths of duty."

THE FINE ARTS OF THE CHURCH.

Music is reviving again-catching to me that I behold that heart, humagain the pure spirit of the past. A bled in penance and inflamed with love taste for the serene, the pure, the most the heart of the woman who had spiritual songs of the Church, is every loved much, and for whom He had day gaining ground, and taking hold prayed. It seems to me that I travel, of the imagination. Painting, thank step by step, to Calvary, and learn, as God, is reviving again; and of this they unite in Him, every lesson of yon have here abundant proof. Look suffering, of peace, of hope, of joy, and around you! No gross, earthly figure of divine love. stands out in the bare proportions of Thank God, it is fitting in a Domiflesh and blood! No vile exposure of nican Church that this should be so! the mere flesh invites the eye of the It is fitting in a temple of my order voluptuous to feast itself upon the that, when I look upon the image of sight! The purity of God is here. my Holy Father over that entrance, in The purity of the Church of God over- imagination, and without an effort, I hangs it, and the story of these scenes travel back to the spot where I had will go home to your hearts and to the the happiness to live my student days, hearts of your children, as the story and where, in the very cell in which I which the blessed Angelico told in dwelt, I beheld, from Angelico's own Florence six hundred years ago! hand, one glorious specimen of his art. Thanks be to God it is so! Thanks These are the gladness of our eyes, be to God that when I lift up my eyes, the joy of our hearts. They give us I may see so much of the purity of the reason to rejoice with him who said: face down which flow the last tears of "I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of blood! When I lift up mine eyes here, Thy house, and the place where Thy it seems to me as if I stood bodily in the glory dwelleth!" They give us reason holy society of these men. It seems to rejoice because they are not only to me that I see in the face of John fair and beautiful in themselves, but the expression of the highest manly they are also the guarantee and the sympathy that comforted and consoled promise that the traditions of ecclesithe dying eyes of the Savior. It astical painting, sculpture, architectseems to me that I behold the Blessed ure, and music, in this new country, Virgin, whose maternal heart consent- will yet come out and rival all the ed in that hour of agony to be broken glories of the nations that for centuries for the sins of men. It seems to me and centuries have upheld the Cross. that I behold the Magdalen, as she They are a cause of gladness to us, clings to the Cross, and receives upon for when we shall have passed away, that hair, with which she wiped His our children and our children's chilfeet, the drops of His blood. It seems dren shall come here, and in reviewing

sion of his heart.
child of art, and
sanctity of God.

And so he lived a died in the odor of And that art has

these pictures, will learn to feel the love of Jesus Christ. Amongst the traditions of the city of Ghent, in Begium, there is one of a little boy fulfilled its highest mission, for it has who grew up, visiting every day the sanctified the soul of a man. Oh, may Cathedral of the city. One day he these pictures that we look upon with stood with wondering and childlike so much pleasure-may they teach to eyes before a beautiful painting of the you, and to your children after you, infant Jesus. According as the time the lesson they are intended to teach, went on reason grew upon him, his of the love, of the charity, of the love for the picture became greater mercy of Jesus; that, loving Him and and greater; and when he became a loving the beauty of His house, and man, his love for it was so great that catching every gleam that faith reveals he spent his days in the Cathedral as of her higher beauty, and every thing organist, pealing forth the praises of that speaks of Him for ever, you may the Son of God. His manhood went come to behold Him as He shines in down into the vale of years, but his the uncreated light and majesty of His love for the picture was still the one glory! child-love-the young love and pas

Father Burke.

VOL. VII.-2.

We

MEMORIES OF THE HEART.

may shred the moss-veil from the rose,
The blossom from the spray;

The bloom that pearls the luscious grape
A touch will brush away.

The vine may loosen from the tree
Which once it clung to fast;

But the heart will keep its memories
Till life itself be past.

The gold must die from sunset skies,
The purple from far hills;

The foam-flowers fade from opal waves;
Drought hush the babbling rills!
The earth grows cold and passionless

'Neath winter's bitter blast;

But the heart will keep its memories
Till life itself be past.

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The flush will fade from cheek and brow;
The sweet smile wane and die;

The freshness leave the coral lip,
Tears dim the brightest eye.
Youth, beauty, hope, and happiness,
And love, may die at last;

But the heart will keep its memories
Till life itself be past.

HOFER & THE TYROLESE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.

(Continued.)

The peasantry were now masters in fire to the houses to the sound of drums their own country, and the Bavarian and hautboys, and shot the inhabitants authority was for the time destroyed. as they attempted to escape from the A few skirmishes and struggles took flames.

place, but with no decisive result upon Yet not once did these noble mounthe actual condition of either party. taineers retaliate. Their honest, hearty By the beginning of May, however, souls knew no law but that of the Napoleon was in a position to attack Gospel, and their only mode of venting the Tyrolese with forces against which their feelings lay in a rustic jest. resistance must be in the end hopeless. The Bavarians, then as now, were He sent a considerable body of troops, notorious for their fondness for beer, under Lefebvre, a brutal German of and the course lumpiness of their the merciless old military school, who persons; and the Tryolese accordingly made the people feel in full force the nick-named them "Bavarian hogs;" frightful horrors of war. Every leader and when they came within hearing, who fell into his hands he shot like a were in the habit of saluting them with traitor, and his troops committed every the usual country noises with which species of outrage upon the unresisting pigs were driven along, crying to people of the villages. At the pass of them, "Tschu, tschu, tschu!-natsch, Staub, on Ascension-day, many of the natsch!" On one occasion, indeed, Tyrolese had left their post for the some one proposed to requite the purpose of hearing mass in the church, Bavarian atrocities by sending back and those who remained were surprised the prisoners maimed in one ear, by Lefebvre's soldiers, and, after a that they might be recognized if found noble struggle, overpowered, and fero-again fighting against the Tyrolese; ciously butchered on the spot. At the but Hofer would not hear of the cruelty town of Schwartz, the most horrible for a moment.

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cruelties were perpetrated. The Disasters now followed close upon Bavarians, in superior numbers, and one another; the Austrian officers after a prolonged conflict with the began to despair, or yielded to cowardTyrolese under Speckbacher, finally ice; and Hofer's energies were taxed possessed themselves of the town, to the utmost, to prevent an entire disburned it to the ground, and murdered organization of their forces and the every one of the inhabitants, hanging ruin of the revolt. Napoleon's defeat hundreds of them to the trees, and at Aspern, on the 21st and 22d of nailing their hands to their heads. At May, gave new hopes to the Tyrolese the village of Vomp, the Bavarians set patriots. Two days before that date,

Innspruck had fallen into the hands of place, which once more made the the French and Bavarians; but now Tyrolese masters in their native counthe sudden recall of Lefebvre to Ger- try. Speckbacher, with six hundred many inspirited the undaunted peas- men, attacked the Bavarians on the antry, and they gathered together with bridge of Hall, drove them back, and extraordinary rapidity and resolution. destroyed the bridge. The Tyrolese Hofer was ably seconded by a coura- were in possession of the farm of geous, though somewhat headlong Rainerhof; and thrice the Bavarians German, Eisenstechen, who had been renewed the attack upon it, and were appointed as his adjutant by the thrice repulsed. During this fight at Austrian commander-in-chief. Speck-the farm, another of those incidents. bacher, a giant in strength, with the took place which showed the intensity eye of a mountain-eagle, and unsur- of the feeling which animated the passed in readiness and daring, was patriotic peasantry. A young woman also by his side. Above all, the who lived in the house, brought out a "fighting Capuchin," Father Joachim small cask of wine to refresh the TyroHaspinger, with a brother-friar, Peter lese, and walked up with it on her Thalguter, now appeared on the scene, head to the scene of battle, heedless exercising an astonishing influence of the fire of the Bavarians. A ball upon the minds of a race like the struck the cask, and she was forced to Tyrolese, who valued above all things let it go; but instantly recovering the two qualities of pure devotion and herself, she clapped her thumb on the personal courage. The Capuchins hole made by the bullet, and called to entered into the thickest of the fight, her fellow country-men to come inand struck down their adversaries with stantly and drink the wine. blows from heavy wooden crosses; and The battle lasted through the day; being young and athletic men, they the Capuchin especially distinguished did great execution. Hofer addressed himself, and showing great military the following characteristic proclama- talent. At one moment he was on the tion to his fellow-countrymen :

point of being run through the body "Dear Brothers of the Upper lese rifleman saved him by shooting by a Bavarian soldier, when a TyroInnthal!-For God, the Emperor, and our dear native country!

"To morrow, early in the morning, is fixed for the attack. With the help of our holy Mother, we will seize and destroy the Bavarians; and we confide ourselves to the beloved Jesus. Come to our assistance; but if you fancy yourselves wiser than Divine Providence, we will do without you.

"Andrew Hofer."

On the 29th of May a struggle took

At

the Bavarian dead on the spot.
night a kind of truce was agreed to, of
which the Bavarians took advantage
to retire during the night, wrapping

their cannon wheels and horses' hoofs
in hay, to avoid all noise, and enjoin-
ing silence among the troops under
pain of death. At Hall, Speckbacher
attempted, but in vain, to stop their
retreat; his own son, a child of ten
years old, actually picking up the
enemy's balls as they fell around him,

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