went up to the boy, whose head just appeared above the water, and cried: "You little simpleton ! will you now make the sign of the Cross, as commanded by the Emperor? The boy made no answer, only raising his eyes to heaven, with one supreme effort he crossed himself in the Catholic way, The officer with an oath bent forward, when the ice suddenly cracked; it had been weakened by the hole made in it and could no longer bear his weight, but broke into a thousand pieces before the eyes of the horrified soldiers. The youthful martyr and his persecutor both found a watery grave. A GOOD EXCUSE. A MOUSE fell into a vat of beer. The poor little animal struggled, spluttered, and was choking and drowning, when a cat came prowling by. "Oh, Mrs. Puss, do lend me a claw to get me out of this nasty stuff!" "Well," said the cat, "if I do, will you promise to come to me at supper-time." "Anything to be saved from this beer!" So the cat put in her paw, and pulled out the mouse; and the mouse ran into its hole as quickly as it could. At supper-time, back came Puss. "Now, little mouse, for your promise!" Aha," said the mouse, with its nose just out of the hole; "don't you wish I may be so silly?" "Didn't you promise?" said the cat reproachfully. "Well, yes; but then ― remember, I was in liquor at the time!" So the cat walked away slowly; much disappointed, but convinced that temperance and sound judgment go together. And so may we be without either cat or mouse to teach us the lesson. STICK TO ONE THING BOYS. WE earnestly entreat every young man, after he has chosen his vocation, to stick to it. Don't leave it because hard blows are to be struck or disagreeable work performed. Those who have worked their way to wealth and usefulness do not belong to the shiftless and unstable class, but may be reckoned among such as pulled off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, conquered their prejudices against labor and manfully bore the heat and burden of the day. Whether upon the old farm, where our fathers toiled diligently, striving to bring the soil to productiveness, in the machine shop, the factory, or the thousand other business places that invite honest toil and skill, let the motto ever be, "Perseverance and industry." Stick to one thing, boys, and you will have success. REASONS WHY IRELAND DID NOT JOIN IN CELEBRATING THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY. A Shameful Showing. - No The Woes of Ireland Under Victoria's Rule. As a reason why Ireland could not join in the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee a writer in the London Pall Mall Gazette of June 22d, gave the following history of the woes of Ireland since the accession of Victoria to the English throne: 1837- Her Most Gracious Majesty began her reign without Coercion. Gustave de Beaumont, the French publicist, notices the condition of Ireland at the time: "I have seen the Indian in his forest and the negro in his chains, and I thought that I beheld the lowest form of human misery; but I did not then know the lot of Ireland. . Seeing it one recognises that no theoretical limits can be assigned to the misfortunes of nations." 1838- The Duke of Wellington declares there never was a country in which poverty existed to such a degree as it exists in Ireland. 1839-"In order to benefit a small knot of haughty, unfeeling, rapacious landlords, the well-being of millions is disregarded. The Times of Ireland, October 25, 1839." (2) Unlawful Oaths Act Passed, 1840-(3) Another Arms Act. 1841 (5) Two coercive measures outrage act and an arms act. -an 1842- Provision riots. Numerous out rages. The Great Famine (continued) "The people of England have most culpably and foolishly connived at a national iniquity. The landlords exercise their rights with a hand of iron and deny their duties with a brow of brass." The Times, Feb. 27.-89,738 emigrants embark for Canada. One person in every 1843- -"Men are suffering and starving five was dead by the end of the year.— by millions."-Thackeray in "Irish Census Commissioners' Report, 1851, p. sketch book." (7) Another Arms Act. and an Act consolidating all previous Coercion Acts. 1844-Kohl, a German traveller, writes of this year: "I doubt whether in the whole world a nation can be found subjected to the physical privation of the peasantry in some parts of Ireland.""Travellers in Ireland." 305. "The famine was followed by the great emigration, and the wholesale evictions. That was a dismemberment and a depression which planted in every quarter of the globe an enemy of your rule."- Mr. John Morley, House of Commons, June 3, 1886. "All agree that Ireland has been misgoverned. And who misgoverned her? The State." Disraeli, House of Commons, Feb, 5, 1847. men (16) Crime and Outrage Act Passed. 1850- Crime and Outrage Act passed. 104,163 persons evicted this year. 1851-282,545 human dwellings have been destroyed by the evicting brigade during the preceding ten years. 68,023 persons evicted this year. (17) Unlawful Oaths Act. 1852-"Ireland this year received a larger sum in charity from America than was realized by the profits of the trade of exporting horned cattle."-Sergeant Heron, Q. C. 43.494 persons evicted this year. "The name of an Irish landlord stinks in the nostrils of Christendom." The Times. (18) Crime and Outrage Act. 1853- Crime and Outrage Act passed -24 589 persons evicted this year. 1854- "There are districts in Ireland in which no man can travel without feeling that some enormous crime has been committed by the Government_under which the people live."— John Bright, July 6th, 1854. The desolation increased by the eviction of 10,794 persons this year. (19) Crime and Outrage Act. 1855-(20) Crime and Outrage Act in force 9,338 persons evicted this year. 1856-5,115 more persons evicted. (21) Peace Preservation Act Passed. 1857-5,475 persons evicted. 1858-4,643 persons more evicted. (22) Peace Preservation Act Passed. For the previous six years Ireland had been without political organization. “The last endeavor of the Irish masses to accomplish emeliorations within the lines of the Constitution had been baffled and crushed."-New Ireland p. 196. O'Donovan Rossa and James Stephens out of despair started Fenianism. 1859-3,872 persons evicted. 1860- The Chief Secretary of Ireland is pained to announce, April 17, that "a. large amount of destitution does in fact exist in some of the western districts. 2,985 persons evicted this year. Lord Plunket, Protestant Bishop of Tuam, becomes an evictor-a hideous scandal, said the Times, November 27. Lord John Russell described how an entire Irish village which housed 270 persons had been this year razed to the ground. (23) Peace Preservation Act. 1861-5,128 persons evicted. The ter rible clearances at Glenveigh, Donegal. 1862-5,617 persons evicted. (24-25.) Peace Preservation Act and Un lawful Oaths Act. 1863-8,695 persons evicted. (26.) Peace Preservation Act Passed. 1866-3,571 persons evicted. (27.) Suspension of the Habeus Corpus Act. 1867-2,489 persons evicted. Attempted insurrection. (28.) Suspension of the Habeas Corpus. "I have not observed since I have been in Parliament anything on this Irish question which approaches statesmanship."-Mr. Bright, House of Commons Dec. 1868. "The Irish legislation of the last forty years, notwithstanding the adoption of remedial measures, has failed through the indifference of Parliament to the sentiments of Irishmen."-Goldwin Smith on Irish Question, 1868. 1869—4,741 persons evicted. Between 1829 and this year, 27 bills and resolutions were offered by the Irish members on the land question, and every one was rejected. "I say that the condition of things in Ireland which has existed for the last 200 years, for the last 100 years, for the last 50 years, would have been utterly impossible if Ireland had been removed from the shelter and the influence and the The power of Great Britain. time has come when acts of constant repression in Ireland are unjust and evil, and when no more acts of repression should ever pass this House unless attended with acts of a remedial and conciliating nature."—Mr. Bright, House of Commons, April 30, 1879, defending himself against the charge of countenancing Fenianism. 1870-2,616 persons evicted, (30) Peace Preservation Act. "The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious."-Mr. Gladstone, House of Commons, March 11, 1870. 1871—2,356 persons evicted. (31-32) Protection of Life and Property and Peace Preservation Act. 1872-2,476 persons evicted. 1873-3,078 persons evicted. (33) Peace Preservation Act. 1874-3,571 persons evicted. 1875-3,323 persons evicted. "I own that I cannot wonder that a thirst for revenge should spring from such calamities."- Professor Cairnes "Political Essay," p. 197. (34) Peace Preservation Act. 1879- Famine. The rates for the support of the destitute reach £1,011,888. 6,239 persons evicted this year. sons. 1881 The evictions this year, 17,341 persons. (35) Peace Preservation Act. (36) Suspension of Habeas Corpus, and (37) Arms Act passed. 1882-The number of persons evicted was 26,863. "At this moment in one part of the country, men are being turned out of their houses, actually by batalions, who are no more able to pay the arrears of these bad years than they are able to pay the National Debt."-Mr. Trevelyan, Hansard, pp. 1,328-9. (38) Crimes Act Passed; Peace Preser vation and Arms Act Continued. 1883-17,855 persons evicted this year Arms Act and Crimes Act continued. 1884-29,025 persons evicted this year. Arms Act and Crimes Act continued. Arms 1885-15,423 persons evicted. Act and Crimes Act continued. 1000 persons imprisoned without trial. “It is a system which is founded on the_bayonets of 30,000 soldiers, encamped permanently as in a hostile country."—Mr. Chamberlin, West Islington, June 17. 66 1886-"Ireland-The present reign has been the most disastrous since that of Elizabeth as the following statistics show: Died of famine 1,225,000; number of emigrants, 4,186,000; number of persons evicted, 3,668,000." -Mulhall's Fifty years of National Progress." "These evictions were always carried out in the Queen's name."-Lord Aberdeen, at Leith in October. "The number of persons evicted is equal to 75 per cent. of the actual population. No country in Eusuffered such rope or elsewhere has wholesale extermination."-Mulhall's Na tional Progress." "We are particeps criminis; we, with power in our hands, looked on."-Mr. Gladstone, House of Commons, April 16. 1887 Parliament has just passed another Coercion Bill (the thirty-ninth during the Queen's reign), which is to last forever and ever. For these and other reasons Ireland refused to "jubilate." BRUTAL MURDER OF ARCHBISHOP SEGHERS. Cruelly Shot by a Crazy Man-Servant. THE FOUNDER OF THE ALASKA MISSIONS MEETS A MARTYR'S DEATH. The steamer Dora, of the Alaska Company, arrived in San Francisco, bringing the horrible tidings of the brutal murder of the holy prelate who was in the midst of his apostolic labors in establishing missions along the banks of the Yukon,in the interior of Alaska. Among the passengers by the Dora was Rev. Paschal Tosi, S. J., who was one of the two Jesuit Fathers who accompanied Archbishop Seghers on what proved to be THE MURDERED PRELATE. his last visit to that section of his pastoral charge, and from Father Tosi the Monitor has received the following account of the fearful crime which will horrify every Catholic. Departure for Alaska. In company with Archbishop Seghers, Fathers Tosi and Robaut, both members of the Society of Jesus, and an American named Frank Fuller, who agreed to act as guide and workman, left Victoria on July 12th, 1886, for Alaska on the steamer Ancon. They arrived in safety at Chilkat, the point of their debarkation. The purpose of the journey was to establish missions for christianizing the Indians. On July 19th they traveled over the divide in a north-west direction as far as Stewart's river. There the party remained with the Alaska Commercial Company's traders, Mayo and Harper, until September 7th. The Archbishop left the two Jesuit Fathers at the Stewarts' river station to establish a mission for the Stickeen Indians. He decided to go as far as Muklakayet, a village near the mouth of the Tannanah river. Accordingly the Archbishop left Stewart's river on September 8th in company with Frank Fuller, his subsequent murderer; several Indians were met who accompanied them as guides. Muklakayet was reached on October 24th and the party were lodged at the trading post, receiving a hearty welcome from |