Cross Bulletin March 1917

--- Page 1 --- March . 1917 . No. 11 . Vol VI . Fettered in dreamless immobility Prisoners . Extinguish time in His eternity . The manacles of sleep slipton , and barred Till worn again unlock the doors of light . For crimes of life , arrest , at last , by death , Into the prison house of dreams , in ward Mother St. Jerome . And repulchred in darkness , till God's breath For day's fatigue , arrested by the night , --- Page 2 --- horrors to come . You know what has happened since . You have seen things that you never dreamed could happen even so long ago . her last words were : ' Come back , day or night , My little girl will wait till the last . Only the certainly in pagandom . And now the cordon will be closing in . ' less . When I was leaving home on that morning , which seems realise what she promised . ' What could she know of the a hail of bullets . At last a house was reached and entered that I am dead will make her leave the house . ' He paused again before he said , significantly : stealthily . Here they rested . Without waiting for an answer he went on ' I have a daughter , ' he said : " my only child , and mother- face while he took breath . Then he continued : WO green-clad figures , crawling furtively along the side- is pallor , and began to do what he could for him . But he something to say . perceived that what the elderly man had said was only too true . In the City . on you ? " he asked . walks , hiding in door-ways and behind projections , Already he had half bled to death . Don't despair . " said his comrade , even while he started at closing in . Do you understand ? " sheltering for long stretches while the streets were swept by Maybe you are married and have little children dependent Then the elderly man spoke quietly . ago they had been strangers to one another . Hastily the younger man began to undo the bandages . But ( An Incident of the Rebellion . ) I will never leave this . " said the elderly man , after a for a while . " the other motioned him away . She must be gone from it before they reach it . She But the young man shook his head , and there was silence " The house is not so far from here , and the cordon is blood . He paused and looked with dying intense into the other's Stiffly he raised himself up in the chair . Until a few days He pointed to some bandages on his neck saturated with young and ignorant of her danger . I am dying . father ; I will be here to let you in . ' Poor child , she did no " The house is not so far from here , and while . " My hours are numbered . Look . ' can do . She is . while . " My hours are numbered . Look . ' Stiffy he raised himself up in the chair . It's of no use , comrade , ' he said . " Let me be . I have Let me be . I have Until a few days . He paused and looked with dying intentness int --- Page 3 --- and again the cracking of rifles . In each of these dark , fame- where fires were spring up , casting their lurid glow on the out over the city . It was a dark , moonless night . Every- darkness of the skv . the demons of hell itself seeming to dance crested pits they knew that generous hearts lay stilled , while room . Letting in a hood of reflected light . Then cautiously in the flames that fungi their cruel vermillion tongue's upwards into the heavens . Above the rear of the fires were heard now He smiled to encourage her . her . He steadied her with his arm . worthy of one who dared so much . ' they stole towards the window of the latter room and looked Then , not to intrude further on her grief , he left the room She shivered . is blowing in this direction , and before the house may be on Emily Dowling . in the same place with dry eyes . and she heard him groping down the stairs . He opened the door which communicated with the other He looked at her thoughtfully , understanding all she wished ' but now you see how useless it is to stay here . ' The wind accompanied him . ' guided her down the stairs and out into the darkness . fire let us go . ' living ones faced death undaunted . But with a sob she sank down on the sofa . They returned to the other room , where , silently and with IN IEEE CILY . ' I would willingly have spared you this sight . " he said : Then I will never , never see you again . ' we must live to be , as I say , worthy of such as he . Nevertheless . " he replied , " we must go . Look ! " Then , blowing out the candle , he took her by the hand and With a shudder they turned away . rembling hands , she put on her cloak , and prepared to ere . My father was my only relative , and we had not many of his words , while a faintness she could not control came . Ver Be brave . " he repeated . " He died a soldier's death . Be Must we. indeed , go ? " she answered . Then , with hesita- Poor , poor father . " she said , in a low , st tion : ' This this is my home . All I have in the world is Come . ' When he came back , after a long time , he found her sitting to say . Heaven will be my judge , I will protect you with my life . strained voice . Courage ! " Do not fear , " he said , as he helped her . friends . ' Remember . ' Put on a coat or some warm garment , ' Don't lose heart , ' urged her companion . night air will be chilly . We must go now . he said . " The " As God in tere . left the room . Do not fear , " he said , as he helped her . " As God in night air will be chilly . --- Page 4 --- that barred , or directed , the path of a wandering tribe . Forests . are in quest of Mystery ; of the hidden religious significance of and what religious awe was excited by certain natural objects , thickets , tree-crowned hills and " lone thorns - came in for a of the " groves " of Baal , and the " Asherahs , " or tree- moment , apart from the idolatry and superstition into which random , and look at it , in the light of the idea with which we some of the superstitious customs and strange beliefs which would have been through the especially beauty or stateliness of world , as channels and emblems of Divine life ; but certain at once the suggestion of mystery and the leisure to meditate gather it , we shall scarcely find it necessary to point our moral heaven grow up ? One of the simplest and most obvious ways it so often degenerated . The Hebrew poet , even in the face tracks of exclusion and solitude that , both in literature and life , attracted his sweet dilettante spirit ; for in them he found How did this idea of peculiar sacredness and dedication to paper , to follow some less frequented paths of tree-lore . We know how primitive imagination was moved by such things , All trees as trees were , in a measure , sacred , in the ancient share of this reverence , where of one likes to think , for the too insistingly . It may well be that the moral will emerge of rees came to be considered as sacred in a special way , as he elixir of life manufactured under its branches . never led anywhere ! " It was the br-ways and the side- associated specially with the Unseen . in-dwelling life ; their individuality and personal " soul . " We to and fro ; while we gather a fact , here and " there , almost at our by-ways . creative material for the Creator's hand ! the magic horn-the last trumpet which , at the roots of the earth and nourishes it . wake the dead . can guess at the strength of this thought by the Eastern table from an elm . The earliest human idea concerning trees is the idea of their In Northern mythology it is a mighty Under this tree lies . frees were conceived of as so full of the principle of life as An Indian legend tells of a magic tree in the moon , and of to have some of the principle of life to spare ; as to furnish Some By-Evays of Tree-Lore . ash-tree which grows A beaten highways ; recording his opinion that they itself , springing , as it were , out of ambush , at every corner of OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON , we remember , disliked some trees their great stature or conspicuous position . We upon it . For much the same reason we have chosen , in this when it sounds , will rforefathers associated with trees . And while we wonder , that the first man was made from an ash , and the first woman associated specially with the Unseen . spare ; as to furnish --- Page 5 --- month-a luck that has been gloomily proof against the through it . Doubtless they were repeatedly told that Thor testant folk-lore applied exactly the opposite adjective ! . Max powerful Christian spell to change ! . Milton , in his more a salutary disciplinary measure , and an object-lesson suited to gift of God to evil purposes may often be the inability to natural enchantments of the season , and has required a very either had no existence at all , or was but a discomfited trend and the Crown miraculously burst into bud and blossom , it our reason and conviction , and the penalty of having turned a when Charlemagne was kneeling in abortion before this relic , mark the heathenism of self-number , though it might have been leading on " propitious May ! " But , in prose and fact , Pro- was the scent of the hawthorn that filled the air . And in was a most un-propitious month in which to be born . or to be as , in some mysterious way , residing in the tree , and operating the instinctive horror of evil association is stronger often than natural jollity of its hours would have been sternly repressed tree-lore of France , where a relic , reputed to be the true Holy Crown , is preserved in Notre Dame , Paris . Legend says that power . The magic brownsticks on which witches were said to considerable time to outline the idea of his presence and power , ill-repute . ' Later we find it associated with demon-given countries , to do with the proverbial " bad luck " of that buoyant youthful verse , may talk , indeed , of " the jolly hours " ven in his worshippers , and it took Christian converts a be known as the lightning-tree . heathen associations . The custom of burying suicides under a hawthorn tree to ride , when they raised thunderstorms , were invariably made hawthorn in May had something , at any rate in Teutonic hawthorn itself . Its traditional identification with the thorns . survival of the worship of Thor-the Norse thunder-ged to that crowned the Redeemer's brow has proved an antidote to its However explained , or left unexplained , this taboo is a direct The Thunderer very naturally inspired fear rather than love , France the aubebine or hawthorn is called significantly whom the hawthorn was dedicated , and from whom it came to of hawthorn wood ! who could obtain no jurisdiction over any of God's trees . But Indeed , it seems highly probable that the flowering of the The sense of this identification is especially strong in the Catholic tradition and phrase have , as we know , restored to married , and , if Protestant tradition had had its will the posed property of the Earth-Goddess , or " Elder-Mother . " law cross . the times , certainly had the effect of perpetuating the tree's I'm epine noble " - the noble thorn . to this day . the month of Mary " its rightful honours . And as for the second in beauty to the hawthorn ! was the elder , the sup- Another exceedingly " unlucky " tree-by an irony , only separate in thought the gift from our abuse of it ! was the elder , the sup- tree by an irony , only Another exceedingly " unlucky ' re known as the lightning-tree . 1907 second in beauty to the hawthorn ! - --- Page 6 --- less light she " knocked at a door and was hidden to enter a any minute , though , " and going over she uncovered the and mounting broken stairs where there was little air and look , although no question was asked . " They'll be here room was half in shadow , but the newcomer could make dingy . The window looked out upon a blank wall , so the out a woman's figure by the hearth , a man seated by the At last in a dirty alley she found the house she sought , letter in her hand bore the address which she was seeking . two children , pale and puny , looked up at the opening room which the first glance revealed to her as bare and She looked across at the bed , and her eyes growing accusus - daughter's ragged garb seem more ragged still . They haven't taken him yet , " the woman answered the Ballywalter . got your letter , and an excursion running to-day and all . ' clinging to her skirts . fortable mantelet and black-feathered bonner making her ind passers , whom she questioned , pointed her out the war . oneless voice . She had shed too many tears to keep again , Marrower , more airless and more dark . A crumpled ears were choking her as she spoke . had no air-though indeed we're better off since Paddy nothing in it but praises of the city . ' those of the living children who followed their mother , " They're both gone , my two lovely boys , Jack here , ing , in the kitchen below-and they had no sunshine to of the door . and the woman also raised her head . red to the gloom , made out a tiny coffin standing near . The Harvest Fields of little dead face , really scarcely , whites or more man than even though her mother's eyes " were wet . Ellen , my poor child ! I couldn't but come when we went , for up to that it was under the ground we were liv- nourish them when times were bad . don answered , as though repeating a lesson . o them-looked out of place in the poor room , her com- able with his head bowed on his outstretched arms , and a RS. M"Cabe passed from a narrow street to one still dom ever you wrote , indeed , but when you did there was and little Pat a month ago , " the woman spoke in a dull , The prosperous stranger for their granny was a stranger The doctor said they had no constitutions . " Mrs. Wel- Mrs. Veldon looked across to where her husband still sat mall , straight , still form upon the bed . " What took them then ? " Mrs. McCabe asked , though " Mother ! " didn't you tell us how things was with you ? ' But-but - " stammered Mrs. table with his head bowed on his outstretch " why ever . Twas set - M.Cabe , don answered , as though repeating a lesson . " Then they isism . --- Page 7 --- it struck her that this so-called hospitality is not only a sign my father . God help him . Yet I wasn't such a weak fool porter is provided to allow their thirst they are putting over- ne drink . ' I refused , but what good was that . ' The heat the milk that might so easily be given in place of porter . to help his neighbours with the harvest . ' Never before had crossed her mind as to whether she and hers had indeed had for harder work and longer hours , and partly because when small farm near Ballywalter and had settled down comfort- laughed me into taking what I was longing for , in spite of cheaper than paying even a fair increase on ordinary wages . my own home . I had the taste for it in me , inherited from who work for them have the pledge , and that if nothing but and work without it , and in many cases their wives beganedge of meanness on the part of those who offer it - for , after all , I went to work for you in the harvest-and you offered Some twelve years before , Daniel Veldon had bought a the corn began to ripen , and I said I'd go to the priest when Thinking only of themselves and their own interests , the drink is given in the harvest fields partly because it comes temperance without it ever damp upon her that she a drink of buttermilk she brought me porter . are and have taken salt water from her hands if she'd asked me . that Veldon spoke of it , how he had come , as the custom is , asking me to help , and offering drink , and I took it . Then sesides I had the pledge to help me to keep from it . Then owners of the corn fields never stop to consider that the boys anything to say to the ruin of the man who had married their by the promise made by them at their Confirmation . heard or read applied to herself or her own family . who brought me porter in the barn , an ' by that time I'd drink . Then there was the threshing . It was Ellen again had me wild with thirst , and when I asked Ellen here for devil's hands , and though I drunk it day by day in the har- But it is not only the boys who are tempted , and now driven again , once I got to my own work at home . one farmer gives it others find it hard to get men to come fields , I had it in my mind all through to take the pledge to desperation by his own sad plight and the loss of his two hat was cut , but in your place and in others I took more touched her self-complacency , and for the first time a doubt sons . Daniel Veldon told the straight truth , without hesi- ably and steadily on it . Mrs. McCabe remembered , now laughter , ruin that included the wreck of both their lives . suit that I could keep from the temptation it was to me , and whelming temptation in the way of those who are still bound Mrs. M.Cabe could listen to sermons and read books " on tation or excuse , to his mother-in-law . keep from the drink that had brought sorrow and misery to " When Event to Ballwalter I went firmly determined to Now , for a moment , her son-in-law's passionate reproach ledge and all . Still I knew that I was going into the " But with your hay " saved and carried there were others at home could have afforded to start homes of their own , yet --- Page 8 --- milk for them to drink , but with her eyes newly opened , coverty and sorrow to take the drink she had got the taste poverty-stricken home , with " the dead body of her grand- had they only considered , " they must have seen was cruelly lose the two children who yet remained , and that by remain- words , and thank you kindly , Ellen and I and the two with His help I'll do it . ' Yes . Mrs. M.Cabe . if you ing in the temptations of the streets he was imperilling the to his soul . He saw that if he stayed on in the city he would other drop of drink be given in the harvest fields of Bally- entreaties to return to Ballywalter , and in that miserable , Yet would be be seeking safety in going back to the place whose customs were as dangerous to one who had in him the saw clearly that when death comes it matters nothing to a themselves and their children . It might cost a little more to He looked at his children who , in the city were doomed , as to work for him without the drink . Won't you come and give increased wages to their harvesters and to spare butter- her aid . " But at first , maybe , he'll find it hard to get men God helps those who help themselves . " he said . " and her husband had pinned in blindly following a custom that , eternal happiness of his own soul and the soul " of his wife . herself from the slavery that the drinking habit had become . Mrs. M"Cabe thought shudderingly that money would bring unkind to those who worked for them , and very foolish for for long ago at Ballywalter , yet like himself longing to free been spent in a way that does not bar the entrance of Heaven With this question he met his mother-in-law's faltering Then , after a moment's pause and a final conflict in his heart the place where just now the dead body of his son had Iain . termined , " I promise you , in God's name , I'll never let an- lieve me there'll be many another who will stand with him back to Ballywalter-could he get free from the demon who little blessing when by saving it homes became as the one girleans ; we'll go back to the country , and with the help could he even after humiliating himself " so much as to go to break it . But - " and here she brought persuasion to come to him , deeper thoughts than ever he had known . He Veldon looked at his wife . old before her time , driven by love of drink , as the temptations of the city , streets ? child before her eyes , she saw for the first time how she and little grandsons had lost theirs . was now his master ? he turned to his mother-in-law : keep the promise you've made to-day . I'll take back my hard he had said , because of the drink , and lastly his eyes fell on in which she now stood , and little lives were lost , even as her And so they did . valter , and if M.Cabe sets his face against the custom , be- stand by him till we have the custom broke ? " man if his life has been spent pleasantly , so long as it has Alice Dease . Daniel , ' she said at last , and her voice was firm and de- of God we'll help ourselves to start a new life . ' MANVINSI DISCLUSED COR CORRESTER C.000 little grandsons had lost theirs . --- Page 9 --- re smoked his pipe differently . . While the others " pulled an ' queens , an ' grand Austin ' clouds with battles being ' fought of all kinds of high-falutin' things , but what I saw to them is . day that somebody died , or be the month of a big storm- immediate vicinity . Who could tell what visions his fancy in it . an ' he always expectin' that great things was goin' to about the thorn they got in their finger swim . ' it . ' They can't the finest field of havoc in the country they'd only be concerned put his views : " There's no harm in poor Manus for anyone . with the long and leisurely " draws " of one finding a ' subtle nore distinctly than he discerns the mundane objects in his happen shortly . An'd when they didn't happen to-morrow or that a row of me own fell into a boghole in the little bit of do be terrible troubled when they think of how full his head is in the days before them . There was a year near a score zone that you'll see always goin' around with the little harm that's never to think that anything but trouble is like to happen them things he sees when he sits an ' closes his two eyes-castles back to some time gone by they'll reckon it be the year or the for himself laste of all . But it's the " quare notions do " come to be got through as determined as possible-Manus puffed grazin' land I have down in Tisheenfarnagh at the foot of a little too full of the old stories of the past ? As one of them airy bridges from island to island in Clew Bay ? Secondly , church-capped Croagh Patrick , or in the haze which throws in them . An't the quartest thing of all is the light way he takes hill there , an ' the neighbours was all sayin' that it was a There's people in this parish an ' on this very townland conjured up for him in that breath of mist which clings about thinkin' of what misfortune come in the past , and they seem come to them drownin' all the good they have . If they had keeps them from their night's rest . ' ' An ' it's the grand wasn't the right . ' reighbours . He had the gaze of one who sees things afar off solace and inspiration in the smoke-wreaths consequent on the the day after . he would still be in great hopes that they'd come his troubles . I'd nearly but me buttons that if his left hand ard " smoking as if the disposal of a pipe was a business remember the bad days that's past . ' When they're countin' right the day after that ... . ' . ' There's some round this place out of him at times , wild sort of talk with not a power of sense emptving of his blackened and ancient pipe-bowl . And not till , his clay was about half-empty did he talk . was cut off he'd say that it's thankful he should be that it Two times chiefly distinguished Mantis Munnelly from his and nothing else ; what if they thought that his head was just plains . What if the neighbours all dubbed Manus a visionary see the good days that's coming to them , and they can only visitation on me , that the boghole was haunted , and a dozen Time enough to be troubled that was when his notions things besides . ' Well , I told them that it was better her to never be a christenin' or a fine , dry summer . They're always emptying of his blackened and ancient pipe-b 338 . --- Page 10 --- payin' out the money , but I do enjoy lookin' forward to all doesn't come off . ' They give up in despair , while I say to them that makes thousands out of trickery an ' duplicity can enjoy Mantis Munnelly , but who knows maybe you'd be as good as him , an' goes off thinkin' he's terrible wise an ' known " besides lades under trees that is as dark as pitch after evenin' , but as doesn't turn up to-day isn't that all the more raison for there look forward to even brighter ones . ' twill do you no harm to small head than have the case reversed . It's a terrible slap live a little in yesterday as well as in to-morrow . For the look on the outside . if you feel sound inside , what do you care bein' a date of a better chance of its turnin' up to-morrow ? " as I do an ' I scroogin' fourpence out of me pocket to pay for any man ? ' I feel sure that not one of the swindler lads the shop at the cross for me ounce of tobacco . I don't like a man to the end of his days . ' There's generally one of them day that's in it , but if you can recollect the bright things an ' higher . Then he goes at it with a sweep , an "struction ! across jumpin' nice an ' conny , shiftin' the bar up inch be inch . till them boyos that writes out their cheques is generally pavin' does he do but sets his teeth . comes back an ' lifts it two inches that I have big notions . but what you should ask them is . " do inch notches in them and a bar across between . Well , he was for what they had months ago an ' they maybe heart " sorry lacklin' me at a fair one day-better have big notions in a that they should be cheerfuller than ever , for if an event you can only expect bad an ' remember trouble just live in the one time he struck it with his toe an ' he jumping' across . What can get into most towns , so there's at laste two roads to lace the fine smokin ' I'm goin' to have out of that ounce , an ' sure within' out cheques to appease their foolish bills half as much they make me any smaller ? Big notions does no harm except meself . But let him , for as there's two roads by which you for myself I like to have the moon ' so long as it's to be had to men that can't carry them . ' As I told a man that was without a date of lookin' for-but it's wonderful how many was practisin' for the high jump . They had two uprights with One time at the sports back at Rathcreeva I saw a lad that extra inch ballked him two more on top of it would be just him for a month of Sundays at some of the things I say to the best of them before long . An ' no matter anyway what you with him done an ' clear . It was as much as to say that if an There's many the man in this parish laughs enough to do people like to struggle along under the darkness of an arch of that they ever had it at all ! ' As the sayin' has it , the smell world has too many people that can only exist in the hour An' another thing I'd say is this : ' People will tell you I often say to myself : ' You're not a date to look at now , that's just passed . the thing to make him do his best . of the cookin' is better nor the eatin' of it . rees . trees . ... of the cookin' is better nor the eatin' of it . --- Page 11 --- poems that were , he longed , to make him immortal and that the ship-breakers of plagiarism while the colossal tea- and lightly wrote as ephemeral displays of the feeling of any biographer . And changing round to another " heavy " Chesterfield bursting for glory as orator , statesman , and pat- And that great Fleet street gallon with all his laden learn- now are little read though his sonnets which he regarded in his mighty " Dictionary , " now given over everywhere to ron of learning in his day . Consider too his pride that he the great games and winning a " faked " wrestling match visioning hemispheres the while . But Goldsmith had a limbs for his circus games . Behold himself a competitor at ponents . Or Synge , that Irish Saturn , dreaming of glory drunk delight " at intercourse with Kaisers and Kings in there is a genuinely interesting combination . And that sense of humour , surely , when he told his friends , that he malaise and disease ! And Sir Frederick Treves , again , of bare-feet in polar regions , and ambitioning at the end a drinker himself aboard ' Skipper Boswell's boat is the most other statesman , Sir Edward Grey , threatening already to who might command fee , fame , and fortune wherever he famous sailor ever " pressed " for the voyage of fame by along the Boul ' Mich ' at Paris and finding his star at last fearful parochial fame on a township executive after he has Nero now who burned cities and made torches of human window ! What sublime nursery-stuff is this of Goldsmith his son , " the human touch and the keen common-sense ing ! See him tied up there for eternity , he fondly trusts , feeling pulse and sounding chests while , all the time his own suit of velvet and gold , prescribing pills and ointments and heart was in Verona , or even in a cul de sac of Fleet Street . Potentates any more at the end of his forceps . mild adventure rather than to hold the lives of Princes and went , turning away altogether to his yacht while still a com- and " ineptitudes " of state have been exposed by his op- the hour , keep him permanent in literature as a world figure . orgiastic delight at his greatest triumph . And consider making elephantine blunders in his old age about the utility live as patron of fishermen after all his " delinquencies " land . " And by what does he live ? Why , his " letters to saratively young man , longing to write books of travel and his crowded earlier days . And by a fearful transit , here is mind all of crusted jewellery , but over it the long shadows of on his skill by throwing his bottle of mixture out of the And that other doctor-oh such a physician , doing his fabove all ) is the first viceroy to venture on " justice to Ire- in the human drama , behold the learned Doctor Mahaffy ounds in Southwark below the Thames in his second-hand had retired from practice because a lady had cast aspersions that the arena should applaud him , going away wrapped in in Achill far out from the Quartier Latin . " Poor Synge , a --- Page 12 --- further thought to her discovery if I had not assured her that concentrated in the angel form by my side , and her simplest fairy-like loveliness ; but for me all the beauty of earth was was arrested by some irregular masses of stonework keeping space shared the lives of those who had once made the echoes she had come by chance on the most interesting place in the only one thing wanting to make their home a heaven on earth- very happily with his wife , Mother Victoire , as she was called , wandered in spirit in the forest of olden days , and for a brief saw a richly-dressed boy of ten regarding her with great she heard a soft football at the doorway . and turning her head a mossy stone and prepared to listen , and as I lay at her feet we a little child . But Mother Victor made up for the loss of her through a luxuriance of ivy . She soon recognised that they forest for those who , like herself , were interested in the by-ways gone to ruin many years before , and would have given no and much in favour with the superintendent , and lived here have seen the smiling cottage of the chief forester " where now forest of Marly . " The air was full of the music of the birds these stones encumber the ground . He was skilful at his work As we entered a little date the attention of my fair companion of history . Her curiosity being aroused , she seated herself on was flooding the leafy dales in golden glow , making a scene of of the woods resumed to their joyous voices , but who long ago If you had been here on the fifth of January , 1764 , you would word or look , the faintest rustle of her robe , or the lightest interest . As she had always lived among the poor . He noble heart's desire by caressing every little one she knew , and giving and the drowsy hum of the insect world , and the summer sun were the foundations of a little cottage which had evidently regarding her on every side . In the Forest of early . One day as she drew forth from her store a well-adorned cake touch of her hand , was of far greater import than the politics IVI the infrequented ways , wondered into the depths of the had mouldered into dust in the silence and solitude of the tomb . the King's forester , " replied the good woman , recovering her Who are you who live in this little house ? " he inquired , costume of the child and his air of decision at first intimidated By an Irish Doctor . ARIE and I left Paris in the early morning and , seeking Sir . I am your servant , Mother Victoire , wife of Isidore , of nations or the cataclysms of worlds . of nations or the cataclysms of worlds . her . hem dainties made by her own skilful hands . isation . --- Page 13 --- much better than those my brothers know . What a jolly party large bean . The guests kept their appointment to the minute . youngest . " Come and sit down , my children , here by the side The little visitor of the day before was accompanied by a some- delightful it is to be free ! ' I have found out some lovely paths , Victoire , perfectly delighted . followed with her eyes the lad of the brazier , for it is not very warm to-day . We are going to Ah ! " he added regretfully . " I haven't the whole bean . ' as he disappeared in the direction of the castle . in the first mouthful of cake had found something resisting . You have guessed might : but on no account tell anyone the study hall , where my tutor thinks I am still . How leftly prepared a magnificent cake , into which she slipped a The day following was a little cold , but with abundance of The child slightly hesitated , then replied : also . " Louis , you will share royalty with me . " we will make to-morrow ! Alas ! it is time to return . Rel King Louis XV to the Heritage of Marly ? " Oh ! the " darlings ! " cried Victoire , approaching the two on us , my good woman , and I thank you very , very much ! " passed from one to another . " My cake has another piece of it , " said the third brother draw for kings , and afterwards I will tell you a lovely tale if it the forester of Marly . my piece of bean is as big as yours . ' mured to herself , " and I want them to remember the wife of won't bother your eldest brother . ' unshine , and when ' Isidore had set out on his rounds his wife I'm a King as well , " interrupted the youngest . " See , The youngster made no delay , but delicately accepting the To Versailles ! " explained Victoire . " Perhaps you are hat older boy , and two others apparently nine and seven pity my brothers cannot taste it ! ' Bring your brothers . " replied joyously the good fame ; of to-day's escape or our projected one . I have escaped from we must return to Versailles to celebrate the Feast of Kings . Mother Victoire's instant invitation . I have just made ? ' I'm the King ! " suddenly explained the second child , who and I will make you even a better one . ' Then eat some , and you will do me great honour , " was Then we will come to-morrow morning , for during the day Your cake smells very nice , " said the boy , surveying it It is very good : it is delicious ! " he declared . " What : a son of one of the lords who at this moment accompany our iece offered to him ate it with an excellent appetite . curiously . " I have never seen anything like it before . " I know well how to amuse these little lords " she mur- won't bother your eldest brother . 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' begging his help ' for her that she ' may the ridings , but I will ask all the members to join with me in praying for the if Ireland . The heart of our Mother is stirring to-day with a wonderful often every day as possible . I want every member of the Guild , big and little , rustrated and broken so many times in the past , may reach fruition in the er faithful children may know what it is to sit in the sunshine of freedom . heat is the power of St. Patrick in Heaven : great is the power of children special , intention of two dear comrades at ours . ' Apart from this " glorious Rules of the Guilv . seeds they saw the violet of humanity , the rose of charity , the primrose of ogether during this holy month of March for the glory of God and the honour clirowledgments I shall place this prose poem from the pen of William Nally : the plots for God within their hearts . This spring-time " his with heavenly may be realised , that the ' little black Rose may be red at last , " and that ness and happiness it contained for poor old Francis . ' And first on my list of on earth . ' See to it that two such strong and irresistible forces are joined own and old . " to play fervently to the great Apostle of the Gael , who loves II . The members will be expected to spread devotion to Blessed Gabriel of in England that has filled my heart with praise and gratitude to God for the year and fateful future . ' Prayer has been Ireland's sword in many a black ' In Ireland it is the seed-time , and in the Guild it is the seed-time conducted by Francis . for Boys & Girls . " the Guild of Blessed Gabriel thought which first set on food this Guild of Blessed Gabriel . I cannot disclose S" winter , and in one of the most fateful fears our dear land has ever Blessed Gabriel ! walking hope . " Pray fervently , my children , that her hope and her dream , news , I have got scores of letters , one exceeding the other in measure of glad- hour . ' It hasn't grown rusty yet . known . And during this month , from the first day of it to the last , and as The Cross . ' never have the letters of my dear young friends " not by living lives worthy of him who is to be their model and guide . A literary There are many of the Guild has not heart been sledder than windows given me more unallowed pleasure . I have heard will be held . Circle for Young . under 18 years of age Mr Lady of Sorrows , by practising the virtues of purity , charity and truth : d Blessed Gabriel is , watching , while Francis and his little guilders plant I The Guild of Blessed Gabriel is a literary circle open to boys and girls My Post Bag . WT DATERING month has come to us again after a wild and wears tidings from two members - one in Ireland and one ITTU. Then will endeavour to bring as many new members as they can into the Guild of III . They will at all times observe the conditions under which the competitions Readers of the 'Guild has my heart been a ladder than to-day : 1907 0 0 t set on foot this Guild of Blessed Gabriel . " I cannot disclose and 348 . --- Page 16 --- as quite a collection of The Cross frontispieces , and considers the Editor has umour set us all lavating for hours . " Will Eiblin be surprised to learn he land again ? But I suppose she wouldn't wonder now if she were to hear that even said old Francis was a constant reader of " Irish Fun . " and is ' place , though they might not appeal to you who can reveal in the very lap alumber to repair leakages to water pipes , etc. Skating races on the dams paralleled so pretty in the prose poem in last month's Guild . " Hilda says she I suppose you are an ordinary being - I am . Hilda , very ordinary ) to see to our house every month , " writes Eibhim " and its clean , bubbling " Irish sars ) because she has heard from a friend in Dublin that " Irish Fun " is to Savage . ' 6 College St. . Armash . ' I have great as it should have been . The prize for the best Sael Carlos Marie A Duune Lilta Fox Philomena Johnston . Kitty Mathews , rolls in the course of a most interesting letter . tells of the hard weather they THE GUILD OF BLESSED GABRIEL . greatly fear the wish expressed in it will hardly be realised for some time at snock at the door of the Guild . Can they tell us anything about the great takes , sugar in his tea . Thanks to Eichlin Sealgke " for her little follow her example in this respect , and raise even higher the name and fame omes its true-hearted neighbour . Clare. represented by Mary Darcy . Mary f nature in all her beauty . Of course , spring will soon be here , which was Vard . Eva Cooke . Mary Hogan , ' Hannie' Ward , Bridget Lynch , Lucia petition I fear the standard reached was not as high Frances C. Sheridan . Nav Carroll . Nellie Dempsey . Sara Halpin , Lucy have had " somewhere in Lancashire . " Fredsod . " It would make you laugh sole almost fighting to secure the attendance of the one and only local he member who brings five new recruits into the same publication again in April . " It used to be a very welcome visitor , be means to secure three more recruits so as to qualify for a badge . She has Irish College that is down there on the banks of the Shannon ? Hilda " Ask- squisite taste . I forgot to mention further up that Rita Carlos had brought also , she tells me , forwarded a contribution in Irish to ' Muir's na Slana , work was done for Rita Carlos . Hilda Ashcroft . Eichis . Sepighe , Dublin ) and Margaret P. Koogh ( Ko. ) . Many thanks to them , one School . Killston Co. Clare and to Mary Rennie , 231 least owing to unavoidable circumstances . But it surely will , some time on " Why I Love the Shamrock " goes to Kathleen in the moonlight are really picturesque , and quite wonderful for this dull Bowden . Rita McAllister , Maureen Dwyer , Josie McQuillan , that Francis dances iigs and feels , or smokes a pipe , or kicks football wo new members are Martha Murphy ( Cork ) and Thomas J. McCloskey wo new members into the Guild her brother Noel and her sister Nias and Nancy Boylan , " Kathleen Flanagan and two competitors who signed no name . letters have come from Kathleen Savage ( Armash ) . " Max Givan ( Sutton . " Enc and ) . Lizzie Malone ( Howth ) . Maureen O'Neill ( Arm 11 Angela Murphy the portrait of Blessed Gabriel , which is awarded to said McGrith Mauvia Kelli . Angela Toner . Eileen McLeer . Lena your send a letter or not . pleasure in making special mention of Hannie Ward . Will the members please read the paragraph entitled " Important ? ' of the Guild . Ebblin N. Rubin ' is overjoyed ( " dancing with delight Katie Moloney . Mary Butler . Josie Byrne and Mary O'Brien , all pupils of take Finch Eva Cooke . ' Martha Murdby . Angela Murphy , Maureen O'Neill , Badge Winners . child , goes this month to Mary Darcy , Convent Convent of Mercy . Killaloe , and all eager to be members of the Guild . A their competition papers , asking to be admitted to Emyvale , Co. Monaghan ) to whom I extend a warm welcome . Very nice easy on " The Shamrock and the Cross " is at entry again this month . though in the senior com- # again a big entry and excellent work . The prize for the best letter page she reads with great interest every month . I trust other members will urgaret P. Keigh . Brigid M. Closkev. Nova Carter . Monica early welcome to them and to all others from the O'Curry country who name and address on your competition paper , whether Will Moran , Joseph Heagney and Brian Carroll . delighted to hear from her that its wit and humour are about to flash over conard , Annie O'Farrell , May Collins , Mary Frances McLeer , Maggie The Awards . Robin's Lane , Sutton Oak , St. Helen's , Lancashire , England arded to Mary Ward , Convent School , Killaloe , Co. " Clare . " Very important . in's Lane . Suttok in please write a personal note to Francis apart from " It Linda Munnly sense sent the ages and addresses of her recruits ? gie Mathews , Anna M. Carlton , Nancy Dolan , Nora Corry , Kitty Boylan warded to Mary Ward . Convent School . KILLOR. Co. Clare. Very good Here said a kit off on " Why I Love the Shamrock " goes to Kathleen The Awards-esgay on " The Shamrock and the Cross " is membership of the Guild . ( 2 ) Always put your membership of the Guild . K. St. Helen's , Lancashire , England . new-romers will please write a personal note to France . The Badge , bearing Members Under 12 . release write a personal note to Francis apart from 1907 There was a magnifice . is dances jigs and feels . or smokes a nine . or ' kirks' football , Members under 12 . Savage , 6 College St. . Armagh . I have great Cooke , Martha Murphy , Angela Murphy , Maureen O'Neill , about the mistressed in a # # # umour set us all laughing for hours . " Will Eibulin be surprising have had " somewhere in Lancashire . " England . " It would make resume publication again in April . " It used to be a very well --- Page 17 --- underwent in converting our pagan ancestors , the Druids . That is why the Argus , Dublin . of Ireland , which has been so productive of good for the whole world should . as clearly the magnificent spirit of those to whom the Poet says a beautiful favour with which our ancestors clung to Catholicity , in spite of the proselytic- tribute in " The Faith of Our Fathers . " The strange union in the fourth should Wince and fret at this world's little loss . ' Yet feel their hungry hearts untamed . My Love of the cross of wood A little ongoing spray fil letters to be addressed : Francis , c/ The Cross , St. Paul's Retreat , feel how unworthy we are of this great sacrifice for us . Whenever we are fesus Christ and His Irish Martyrs . The shamrock should always help us to people all over the world of the one true Faith that has been preserved and I miracle of devotion , but the traditional homage to St. Patrick , through the Of blood drops on my breast Through all the living world to glide , that evil spirit ever framed , M. J. O.Kennedy . indured by Our Divine Lord for our salvation , so the little trefoil which is All competitors will please remember the following rules : All competition recular to Ireland reminds us of the trials that our Apostle , St. Patrick , before I learned to love . ' the members ) , and must be written on one side only of the paper . They must vmbol of Christianity , and the shamrock to us . is the symbol of the intro- My love of the curls of gold . returns by our Patron Saint of the Cross of Mount Calvary with the Shamrock oupon which will be found in this issue ( one coupon will be sufficient for all And think how little still My Love of the circle of Gold heir national emblem , the shamrock , and the Cross on which Our Saviour Down from Thylance-pierced side , Gaze on the God-Man dead . And does it with its stain . I pluck one thorn away , Then , as the Cross brings home to our minds more forcibly the agencies Till every drop down seem ( An Imitation of Plunkett . ) Amongst Irish Catholics there is a special religious connection between pers must be certified by some responsible person as being the unaided and That souls in refuge , holding by the Cross . II . For Members under 12 years of age . It all times , be a reminder to us to endeavour to be better and worthier of kiss Thy parched lips . An ever-swollen stream . Mr. Love of the crown of thorns . prize essay . gaze up at the dread our next competition . The blood that slowly chips . How could I but strive to arrest , " The Shamrock and the Cross . ' O' Love , such awful pain ! gamrock is more than the emblem of Ireland : it is an emblem to the Irish Self-sacrifice of Thy life's blood . A handsome hand prize will be given for the best letter on " Easter : ' All loves that once I wore . Legends . That winners know what Jesus wrought , medium of the little shamrock , down the Ages unchanged and unshaken , shows original work of the competitors . They must have attached to them the Mary Ward . When fresher than all summer morns ! ind with closed hands essay to hold fuction into our country by Saint Patrick of the Christian Faith . sured by their race through centuries of persecution and wrong . The dwrong which is expressed in the lines : - For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . A handsome book prize will be given for the best essay on " Easter and Its Oh ! shame beyond the bitterest thought 1 1/000 Since it was I who Thee didst kill be sent so as to reach the office not later than by the first post on March 14th . influences that were employed to ' undermine their faith , seems to his like ember the bitter Passion and Death of Our Saviour , and should make us I so cruel a death for the redemption of mankind . The Cross is the water services . tempted to sin there should arise within us that burning sense of ingratitude sin there should arise within us that burning sense of remember the bitter Passion and Death of Our Saviour , and should make us