it. When people would talk of a rich man in company, Whang would say, “I know him very well; he and I have been long acquainted; he and I are intimate." But, if ever a poor man was mentioned, he had not the least knowledge of the man; he might be very well for aught he knew; but he was not fond of making many acquaintances, and loved to choose his company. 2. Whang, however, with all his eagerness for riches, was poor. He had nothing but the profits of his mill to support him; but, though these were small, they were certain; while it stood and went he was sure of eating; and his frugality was such that he every day laid some money by, which he would at intervals count and contemplate with much satisfaction. Yet still his acquisitions were not equal to his desires; he only found himself above want, whereas he desired to be possessed of affluence. 3. One day, as he was indulging these wishes he was informed that a neighbor of his had found a pan of money under ground, having dreamed of it three nights running before. These tidings were daggers to the heart of poor Whang. "Here am I," says he, "toiling and moiling from morning till night for a few paltry farthings, while neighbor Thanks only goes quietly to bed and dreams himself into thousands before morning. Oh, that I could dream like him! With what pleasure would I dig round the pan! How slyly would I carry it home! not even my wife should see me: and then, oh! the pleasure of thrusting one's hand into a heap of gold up to the elbow !" 4. Such reflections only served to make the miller unhappy; 'he discontinued his former assiduity; he was quite disgusted with small gains, and his customers began to forsake him Every day he repeated the wish, and every night laid himsel down in order to dream. Fortune, that was for a long tim unkind, at last, however, seemed to smile on his distresses, and indulged him with the wished-for vision. He dreamed that under a certain part of the foundation of his mill there was concealed a monstrous pan of gold and diamonds, buried deep in the ground, and covered with a large flat stone. 5. He concealed his good luck from every person, as is usual in money-dreams, in order to have the vision repeated the two succeeding nights, by which he should be certain of its truth. His wishes in this, also, were answered; he still ' dreamed of the same pan of money in the very same place. Now, therefore, it was past a doubt; so, getting up early the third morning, he repaired alone, with a mattock in his hand, to the mill, and began to undermine that part of the wall to which the vision directed him. 6. The first omen of success that he met was a broken ring; digging still deeper, he turned up a house-tile, quite new and entire. At last, after much digging, he came to a broad flat stone, but then so large that it was beyond a man's strength to remove it. "Here!" cried he, in raptures, to himself; "here it is; under this stone there is room for a very large pan of diamonds indeed. I must e'en go home to my wife, and tell her the whole affair, and get her to assist me in turning it up." 7. Away, therefore, he goes, and acquaints his wife with every circumstance of their good fortune. Her raptures on this occasion may easily be imagined. She flew round his neck and embraced him in an ecstasy of joy; but these transports, however, did not allay their eagerness to know the exact sum; returning, therefore, together to the same place where Whang had been digging, there they found-not, indeed, the expected treasure-but the mill, their only support, undermined and fallen. 69. LORD JAMES OF DOUGLAS. AYTOUN. WM. EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN, was born at Fife, in Scotland, in 1818. His writings have chiefly appeared in Blackwood's Magazine. From his national and historical ballads, published in that periodical, the volume of "The Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers," has been made up. We know of no Dallads in our tongue, more spirit-stirring or ennobling in sentiment, than "The Execution of Montrose," "Burial March of Dundee," "Edinburgh after Flodden," "The Heart of the Bruce," &c. 1. "THE Moors have come from Africa To spoil and waste and slay, Must fight with them to-day." "Now shame it were," cried good Lord James, 2 "Have down, have down, my merry men all- 3 "Now welcome to me, noble lord, "Is it for bond or faith you come, Or bring ye France's lilies here, "God greet thee well, thou valiant king, Sir James of Douglas am I call'd, 4 "We do not fight for bond or plight, But for the sake of our blessed Lord, "We bring our great king Robert's heart Across the weltering wave, To lay it in the holy soil Hard by the Saviour's grave. 5. "True pilgrims we, by land or sea, And therefore are we here, Lord King, 70. THE JESUITS. MRS. SADLIER. MARY A. SADLIER-born in Coote Hill, county Cavan, Ireland, Mrs. Sadlier emigrated to America in early life, but not before she had acquired that thorough knowledge of the Irish people which has enabled her to draw so many truthful pictures of the different classes among them. She has been a contributor to several of our leading Catholic journals in the United States and the Canadas. Her translations from the French are numerous, and some of them valuable. Her fame chiefly rests, however, on her original stories of Irish life at home and abroad. "New Lights," "Willy Burke," "The Blakes and Flanagans," "The Confessions of an Apostate," "Elinor Preston," &c., are well known to the Catholics of America. Her last and greatest work, "The Confederate Chieftains," is a work of much labor and research. 1. THE world never saw such an order as the Jesuits, never dreamed of such a mission as theirs, until it sprang into sudden existence from the divine genius of Ignatius Loyola, at the very moment when Christendom most needed such a powerful auxiliary. When the revolutionary doctrines of the Reformation were sweeping like a torrent over many of the countries of Europe, and men were asking themselves in fear and terror when and where was the devastating flood to be arrested in its course, the Almighty, ever watching over the interests of his Church, suddenly raised up a mighty dyke in presence of the great waters, and all at once they rolled back to their centre in the far north, and the fairest climes of old Europe were saved from their ravages. 2. This new bulwark of the Everlasting Church was no other than the Society of Jesus, one of the grandest con ceptions that ever emanated from the brain of mortal man So admirably fitted for the task before it, so well versed in all human science, yet so simple and so humble in their religious character, so full of the loftiest and most chivalrous devotion, and so utterly detached from earthly things, did the Jesuits appear before the world, that its dazzled vision could scarce comprehend what manner of men they were, those first disciples of Ignatius, the nucleus and foundation of that heroic order since so well known in every quarter of the habitable globe. 3. The martial character of its founder, who had fought with distinction in the Spanish wars, impressed itself on his order, and gave to it that lofty sentiment of heroism which distinguished it from all other monastic institutions then existing. It was to combat the pernicious innovations of the great heresy of the sixteenth century that the Jesuits were called into existence; and as instruments for that chosen work, they were from the first endowed with every quality that might insure success. 4. The arch-heretics of the day professed to unshackle the human intellect by leading it into all science, and far beyond the range prescribed by Romisn, tyranny. The Jesuits met them more than half way, with the open volume of science in their hand. The heretics professed to be learned; the Jesuits were more learned than they, for they mastered all knowledge, sacred and profane, which could tend to elevate mankind, and in every branch of science and literature they soared to heights where the enemies of religion might not follow. 5. They combated the foe with his own arms, and the world saw, with amazement, that the sons of Ignatius were the true enlighteners of the age, for the light which their genius threw on human learning came direct from the source of truth. The heretics were world-seeking and world-wor shipping; the Jesuits trampled the world under their feet, and crucified the ancient Adam within them. Many of the earlier Jesuits were the sons of noble, and some even of princely, amilies; among others, St. Ignatius himself, St. Francis Xa vier, St. Francis Borgia, St. Louis Gonzaga, and St. Stanis laus Kotska. 6. But they cheerfully resigned the world, and enlisted under the banner of Christ in the Society which bore his name Armed only with the cross, their standard at once and their weapon, they went forth to fight and to conquer, strong in faith, humility, and charity; strong, too, in the gift of elo |