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the words of the holy Psalmist, I shall not die, but live, and shall declare the works of the Lord.''

The doctor rode up to the cottage just as Father Louis was leaving it. Priscilla had sent for him as soon as she could find a messenger.

"What's wrong, Father?" he asked, as he dismounted.

"Heart attack," said the priest, "the storm affected him; I have injected strychnine, and he is all right now; he is really much better, on the whole."

"If his nervous system could only be braced up; he has had so much worry all through his illness; he is quite worn out. If he could have three months on the Mediterranean now, with perfect rest"

"He can have six months there, if you like," said Father Louis, "a friend of mine, who has been ordered to loaf about on his yacht for that period, will be glad to have him as a companion secretary. I was going to suggest the matter to you."

"You meant you were going to pack him off as soon as he was fit to travel, Father; you may as well confess it," laughed the doctor. "Talk about poverty," he said, "I shall begin to look around Redland for El Dorado, I believe you have found it.”

"I found it long ago, Doctor-in the hearts of my friends. God has been good to me, and given me many kind friends-so kind indeed, that I do not allow them to give me anything unless I ask for it, otherwise I should have to complain of superfluity."

"Ah well, you're a wonderful man!" and the doctor sighed. "If you can only get Maitland off, as you propose, he will be perfectly well in a few months; you will have saved him then, Father, at least bodily, but"-he shrugged his shoulders.

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'Well, we'll see," said the priest, with a quiet smile.

Mr. Maitland was wont afterwards to allude to his attack that night of the storm as the "crisis" of his illness, and he always wondered why Father Louis and the doctor smiled broadly when he made the remark; anyway, from that time his convalescence, if slow, was very sure. When the first violets were opening their dewy eyes to weave their purple embroideries on the robes of returning Spring, the invalid exchanged his bedroom for a little sittingroom opening on the garden, where the children could run in and out as they pleased, without any bogie masquerading under the name of "germs" to scare them away. And these were happy.days,

brightened by frequent visits from his new friends, the priest and the doctor. He was out once more upon the green downs, before the daffodils had faded, or the great constellation of the primroses had set amongst the growing verdure of the year. New life had come to him, as well as to the earth, new hopes were springing and blossoming in his heart; his mind set free from deadening influences, soared into realms of thought, unknown before, where noble and lovely fancies filled him with inspiration and delight; where great ideas, nebulous as yet, and vague, floated before his imagination, which he knew he would one day weld and fashion in his mind and give forth to the world. "You can write better stuff than this," Father Louis had said; yes, indeed he could, and he thrilled with the knowledge, and longed for the hour when he might give his soul expression; but work was forbidden him for several months.

One day, just after an early Easter, there was a touching ceremony in the Community Chapel at Redland, when Philip Maitland and his three children were received into the One True Fold.

"You are the first fruits of our ministry in exile," said Father Louis, as he walked home with them that happy day, “and you will always be dear and precious to us. When you come back again"— "Ah, when I come back again, Father, we are going to begin to build the church then-you and I."

Father Louis laughed-" Yes, you and I, and the doctor""Oh! Is the doctor going to be a Catholic also, Father?" "I don't know anything about that," said Father Louis, "but he says he is going to help me build my church, and he is as keen on it as I am myself."

I hate the thought of going away, Father, and leaving you all— must I go?" said Mr. Maitland.

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'Yes, indeed; I was just going to tell you; Lord Hinsley's yacht is at Cowes, and you sail next week."

It was under the blue skies of Italy, on the shining waters of the Mediterranean, that Philip Maitland entered into his literary heritage. The book he published on his return to England was a notable success, and fame was busy with his name before he had well dipped into the pile of manuscript which he put by in the sweet leisure of his Summer cruise. But it is as a writer on Nature that he is best known and most loved. In one of the great London dailies there is a now familiar half column written by him, which many of its readers have come to look for with delight. It is headed,

The Country Day by Day," and the words would seem to be written by a magic pen, such power they have to conjure up to mind the green, quiet beauty of rural England, with her bewitching variety of wood and stream, hill and dale, soft pasture and breezy downs. He shows their homely flora in its ever changing robe, and he notes the music of their song birds, from the first note of the throstle to the last little lilt of the robin's Winter song. They feel the fresh, clear air of the sea blowing in over the land and they hear the murmur of the waves that break all round her shores. Tired hearts of city toilers feel a refreshing breath from the pure country, and they send a grateful thought to the writer who can thus delight them with the beauty of his imagery and his knowledge of Nature, as she lies about their doors.

He signs these articles, " Louis Redland," which Father Louis says spoils the whole thing!

"I don't think it spoils the whole thing, Father," said Hubert to him one day, as they talked together, "but it sounds rather funny to us. We have asked father ever so many times why he uses that name, and he always answers the same thing, which is not very sensible, I think."

"And what is that, Hubert?" "Lest we forget."

JESSIE READER.

EDITORIAL.

THE MARQUETTE LEAGUE AND THE INDIAN.

THE Marquette League has done an inestimable service by publishing in pamphlet form a review of the controversy in Congress and in the press on the Indian appropriation bill, which ratified President Roosevelt's application of the Indian tribal and trust funds for the support of the schools which the Indians preferred for the education of their children. This League has not been a year in existence, and it has already achieved results which warrant the belief that if branches of it are formed in all our large cities, it will do more than any other agency to solve the Indian problem so far as Catholics are concerned. The object of this League is to preserve the Catholic Indians in the United States in their faith, and to bring its consolations to the thousands still living in paganism:

(a). By co-operating with the authorities of the Church, especially those entrusted with the work, in every endeavor to uplift the Indian spiritually, educationally and industrially, and bring him to Christianity and citizenship.

(b). By advancing and giving the widest extension to the Society for the Preservation of the Faith among Indian Children; which is done, not only by becoming promoters in the Society, but also by making the support of our Catholic Indian schools (for which purpose the Society has been established) the chief object of the League's existence and mission.

(c). By bringing to the attention of the Catholic public, through the medium of the press, lectures and leaflets, and above all by zealous personal agitation, the needs of our Catholic Missions and missionaries; by aiding the latter in the establishment of new chapels, the appointment of regular catechists, and by making use of all efforts to increase the efficiency, deepen the influence and widen the scope of their labors in order to bring the Indians to a knowledge of our Holy Faith.

(d). By sending, if possible or practicable, at least once a year, preferably during the month of October, clothing, shoes, underwear, and useful wearing apparel for men, women and children, to those tribes whose extreme poverty and helplessness preclude all means of self-support and where climatic influences subject them to suffering and privation.

(e). By keeping in close touch with all national or state legislation affecting the rights and welfare of the Indian, and promoting every movement to safeguard his interests and ameliorate his condition.

(f). By offering Holy Communion and prayers as a national act of reparation to our Lord, for the cruelty and injustice which has made the Indian a pauper and exile, and also imploring His benediction on the labors of our schools and missionaries and on the efforts of the League to assist them.

Already everyone of these means has been used very effectively. When the public mind was bewildered by the newspaper misrepresentations about the application of the Indians' own money for purposes of the Indians' own choice, the members of this League lost no time answering manifest misstatements, but, along with other associations, notably the American Federation of Catholic Societies, the New York County Federation and the Alumni Sodality of Boston, they expressed their sentiments immediately to their representatives in Washington, and so convincingly that the appropriation was not withdrawn. When they had succeeded in upholding the action of President Roosevelt and maintaining the rights of the Catholic Indians, they determined to publish this pamphlet which contains not only a complete refutation of the stories circulated by the Outlook, and the Evening Post, but extracts from the speeches of certain Senators and Congressmen who are thus put on record in this matter, some greatly to their credit. This agitation was started by the Indian Rights Association, and it is the first time that this body has received a check in its efforts to impose upon Congress its views in regard to legislation for the Indians. The testimony of Mr. Brosius, agent for the Association, is proved to be unreliable in every particular, for the pamphlet contains the signatures of the Indians who asked for the applications of the funds for the support of the schools, and testimony to the effect that these signatures were obtained fairly, not, as the signatures to the opposing petitions, by misrepresentations. In the light of this pamphlet, the statements of the Indian Rights Association remind us of certain statements about the Philippines which the defeated candidate for the presidency was induced to adopt, so much to his cost last October, by men who are prominent in the control of this Association. We recommend the pamphlet of the Marquette League to our readers, and we urge them, though they will not need urging after reading this pamphlet, to become members of the League, and to help establishing it in their respective cities. For information about this League, apply to the Secretary, United Charities Building, New York City, N. Y.

THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA.

The announcement of the publication of a Catholic Encyclopedia in the near future has been received everywhere with enthusiasm. No one questions the need of a work in the English language containing complete and accurate information about every subject

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