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THE MONTHLY VISITOR. 5 ABOMINATON IN HIGH PLACES! In the Legislature -on. the 25, ult. the resolution to direct the Warden of 3JIXED MARRIAGES. TEX YEARS INVESTIGATION, A FEARFUL STATEMENT.

the Penitentiary to permit ministers of BY REV. A. KUHLS. cr partially undeveloped, Ireland has had never more of a population than the land could comfortably support had it all been put in cultivation, But this was not the design of England. The population must be diminished, and Ireland must succumb to the inevitable.

Three famines within the last sixty years, viz: that of 1822, 18468, and ail denominations to hold religious services inside the walls, called forth a long discussion in which Mr.Grover.of In the following lines I shall give the result of a ten years investigation. To some it will perhaps appear incredible, Pottawatomie Co. was loud in his de- but I vouch for the truth of every word. nounciation against theCatholicchurch about which, if we are to judge from his speech he was entirely ignorant. 1879, together with this year's tide of If others have not the same statement to make, it is perhaps because they paid Wo pity the overzealous inaccurate less attention to this affair, and were of creature, unworthy of the place he those happy natures, that, always see holds and of the consideration he re but the sunny side.

ceived at the hands of Mr. Carroll, fitill we canuot admire certain itlsidi- us writers who pelt him with all the gly epithets into, which the twenty- HERE AND THERE Bishop Spalding was received by the Pope on the 14th inst Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland, O. fcsa returned from his visit ad lixnina. The society of St. Vincent De Paul, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary this year.

Mgr.C. O'Brian was consecrated bishop of Halifax, Jan. 21st, by Mgr. Tabre bishop of Montreal. Prince Frederick Charles Alexander, brother of the Emperor William of Germany; died Jan.

21st, at the advanced ageof 82. Dr. Zaldman, president of the South American, State of Columbia, died fortified by the Sacraments of the Church. Rt. Rev.

H. P. Northorp, has been named by the Pope for the 8ee of Charleston, and Rev. Richter D. D.

for the new See of Grand Rapids. It is rumored that the Pope would like to appoint an American Cardinal to reside in Rome except when important matters call him across the ocean. Cardinal Mac Cabe, is at this writing, in a very critical state, his physicians have little hopes of his recovery. In his demise, Ireland will lose one of her best friends. Large sums of money have been sent Ten years ago, by a pastoral letter of a certain Rt.

Rev. Bishop, my attention was more -emphatically called to this subject. I believed that bishop to be too strict when he warned his priests against mixed marriages, and demanded that no one should ask for dispensation, in the matter, except where priest and bishop would be justified before the emigration, have done much to accomplish the designs of Ireland's rulers; nor is the relentless tyrant yet satisfied; he stands with folded arms there, now, when the famine-cloud is fast lowering over one fourth of ill-fated Ireland, and with placid countenance looks at loyal sebjects living on one half penny a day, while many who cannot afford this outlay, actually die of starvation. Scenes like the one reported in Ballina-sloe last month, are multiplied every day in other parts, and appeal to the humane of every country, color, and not for help, at least, to join in the fondest wishes of a long expectant people that Cyrius may soon appear'on the mountain top. tribunal of God.

Then, in all earnest I began thoroughly ta investigate the state of affairs regarding mixed mar riages. I engaged several trustworthy men of the parish to assist me in numbering the families of mixed marriages in our town; and noting their attach ment to the Church. Faithfully have we worked, and I here give the result of this ten year's lobor to all Catholic parents for the welfare of their child The we had read several years ago, may prove intersting to those young men, who, contemplating marriage, too often mistake artificially prepared countenances and other fooleries, for what constitutes a good wife. The true girl has to be sought for. She does not parade herself as show goods.

She is not fashionable. Generally, she is not rich. But oh, what a heart she has. when you find her. So large and pure and womanly.

When ren's Holy Faith. Without any fear of successful contradiction I say to them to Berlin to aid those who had suffered openly: Keep your children from and out of mixed marriages, lest in in fifty years you need another St. Patrick or six magical letters can be thrown while like the foul creatures of the feathered tribe, they are only soiling their own nests. If these writers want objects to spend their sui plus indignation upon, they have but to look around to find them hi numberless profusion. In other state Institutions too, there are abuses venerable in their antiquity and inveterate In their resistance to reform, that iuvite the heaviest fire in order to show how effectually they can repeal it.

When these writers take up such subjects with the same alacrity as that of the 'out spoken zealot" we will have more con fldence in. what they say. Speeches like that delivered by the hero in question speeches id; which hyperbole eclipses common sense and crass and bespotted fanaticism shows In every sentence have their good as well as evil effects. They serve to open the eyes of sensible people to the necessity of giving wide birth to bigoted politicians, who to subserve their end, try to keep the country in perennal strife; and they widen still more the breach that seperates respectable Protestants, from the fire brands who' promote religious discord. The days of bigotry are counted.

It is antiquated, at least, here. The cause that called it into existence Is dead, and the machinery that kept it alive is no longer perfect, It will soon enter if it have not entered already the final stages of dissolution, and when it has become a thing of history, no one will have more cause for rejoicing than the semi-insane bigots themselves, freed from the evil influence of agitation and sharing with their fCatholic fellow citizens in amity and peace not only a "little salted down state patronage" but the entire fruits of the best state in the Union. St. Boniface to convert a nation of pa gans, make up of your grandchildren. Here is a looking-glass, stand before it watch it closelyl Our town numbers one hundred and fifty (150) families en you see it you wonder if those showy things outside were women.

If you gain her love, your two thousands are millions. She'll not ask you for a carriage or a first class house. She'll wear from the floods. New York alone sent $200,000. Emperor William returns thanks for American generosity.

The Rev. Clergy, and local agents, who, taking advantage of our low club rates, have sent us so many subscribers during the month, will kindly accept our sincere thanks. 340 acres of extra good land 10 miles west of Paola under fence and half broken, will be sold on easy terms at $20 per acre. A neat house and n. arnnd tirely Catholic, and four hundred and fifty (450) mixed families.

Ofthes latter four hundred (400) have fallen away entirely completely and for good, from the church; of the fifty openly professing their Faith only twenty earnestly orchard on the premises. For further simple dresses, and turn them when necessary, with no vulgar magnificat to frown upon her ceremony. She'll keep everything neat and nice in your sky parlor higher than ever. Shell entertain true friends on a dollar, and astonish you with the new thought how little happiness depends on money. Shell make you love home (if you don't you strive to raise their children Catholics.

Thus four hundred and thirty families are gone count three children for each you have the round number of twelve hundred and ninety souls lost to the are a brute), and teach you to pity church, the work of less than twenty years. All my successors within a hundred years will not bring as many con while you scorn a poor, fashionable society that thinks itself rich, and vainly thinks itself happy. Now, do not, I pray you, say any more "I can't afford verts into the Church as four hundred particulars can at or auaress tmsomoe. The Industrial Exhibition, which had been opened at Dublin the 15th of August last, closed on the 5th ult. Notwithstanding the opposition of the "powers that be," the exhibition proved a success and will no doubt infuse a new spirit into many Irish industries.

The Belgian government have published the statistics of religious houses in Belgium. The number of religious of either sex amounts to 25,362 or one to every 250 inhabitants. The total amount of land held by Religious is 805 hectares, or one out of every 3,200. If the 25,362 religious possessed the same proportion of land as the laity, which is forty-five acres per head, which would amount to some 12,000 hectares, or about fifteen times more than it does. These statistics ought to dispose once for all of the absurd inventions of the and thirty careless parents within so short a time have sent out of the all- to marry." Go find the true woman, saving "Bark of Many of the parents in the mixed families referred and you can.

Throw away that cigar, burn up that switch cane, be sensible to, were themselves the result of mixed marriages, proving the every ex yourself, and seek your wife in a sen perience that the second generation of sible way. sucn unions wiu always in? au enure loss to the Chureh. ANCIENT BABYLON. Owing to several causes, the land of Ireland is not as productive as in former times. The Government, however, makes not the least effort to apply a remedy to this, which will ultimately have a telling effect upon its own particular friends the landlords.

Active 8teps towards reclaiming waste lands or in improving reclaimed land, would Now, if we donsider that God made Adam and Eve of one religion, if we In old Babylon, eagles were trained to accompany the warriors in their bat consider that in the Jewish Nation, the chosen people of God, mixed marriages liberal press about the overgrown. weaitu or tne monies and nuns, and the tles to pluck out the eyes of the enemy or to feast upon the conquered. Very great cruelties were practised upon the were punished by, expulsion from the Covenant; if we consider the emphatic condemnation of mixed marriages in the danger to the State of allowing so much land to be held in mortmain. ew Testament; when we see that near help greatly to alleviate the present suffering would result in great good THE WISE MEN'S MOTTOES ly four hundred national and provincial captives. In one of the rural scenes, the king, who quaffs the goblet in an- to the tenant the landlord and govern councils and synods forbid them; when we hear every Jloly Father, ever Doctor arbor, is gratified by the head of an en The Seven Wise Men of Greece and their mottoes were: Solon, of Athens, "Know Thyself;" Chilo, of the End;" Thales.

ot Miletus. ment as welL But for such we need hardly look in view of the fact that the of Divinity, who had occasion to speak emy, hanging upon one of the trees. The royal game was the lion. Parks on the subject condemn them; when every prayer-bood, book of instruction Who Hath Suretyship is Sure;" Bias. were kept entirely for the king to enjoy the lion hunt.

of Priene, ttMost Men are Bad; Cleo-bulus, of Iindus, "Avoid Extremes;" Pittacus, of Mytilene, "Seize Time bv or devotion treating ef this matter condemn them, where can a sensible Catholic-find an excuse for mixed marriages, or how, under Heavens can population since 1847 has been allowed to diminish year af tar year. In 1846 it was probably over nine millions, now, it is a little in excess of five. Not to speak of its mineral, its factories, and its other industries, which are wholly Headers, patronize those who ask vour patronage through the columns of the the Forelock;" and Periander, of Corinth, "Nothing is Impossible to Indus try." a priest trifle with such a subject isitor. to kj; ooirriKmci..