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"THE AMERICAN Jew haj remained Impenetrable. Be sides, be U almost la his second child hood, and hia wife ia not much let ter 'When I think.' resumed Fa'.her d'AlgrlRny, "that for a century and a half this house In the Kue Sa nt Fran cois has remained walled up. and that the rare of it has been transmit ted from generation to generation in this family of the Samuels I cannot suppose that they have all been ignor ant aa to who were and are the suc cessive holders of these funds, now become immense by aicuuiulation." "You have seen. said Rodin, by the notes upon this affair, that the Order has always carefully followed it up ever since ItiSi. At different peri ods attempts have been made to ob tain information upon subject not fully explained in the note of Father lJourdon. Hut this race of Jew guar dians has ever remained dumb, and we must therefore conclude that they know nothing about if. 'That has always struck me as im possible, for the ancestor of these Samuels were present at the cloning of the house a hundred and fifty years ago. He was, according to the file a servant or confidential clerk of l)e Rennepont It Is Impossible that he should not have known many things, the tradition of which must havo been preserved in the family.' 'If I were allowed to hazard a brief observation,' began Rodin, humbly. t 'Speak.' 'X Tew years ago we obtained cer tain information through the confes sional that the funds were in exist ence, and that they had arisen to an enormous amount.' 'Doubtless; and it was that which called the attention of the Reverend Father General so strongly to this affair.' 'We know, then, what probably the descendants of the family do not the immense value of this inheri tance." 'Yes,' answered Father d'AIgrigny, 'the person who certified this fact in confession is worthy of belief. Only lately, the same declaration was re newed; but all efforts of the confes sor could not obtain the name of the trustee, or anything beyond the as sertion that the money could not be In more honest hands. 'It seems to me, then,' resumed Ro din, 'that we are certain of what is most important.' And who knows if the holder of this imense sum will appear tomorrow in spite of the honesty ascribed to him? The nearer the moment, the more my anxiety increases. Ah!" continued Father d'Aigrigny, after a moments silence, 'the Interests con cerned are so immense that the con sequences of success are quite incalcu lable. However, all that was possible to do, has been at least tried. To these words, which Father d'Aigrigny addressed to Rodin, as if asking for his assent, the soclus re turned no answer. The abbe looked at him with sur prise, and said: 'Are you not of my opinion could more have been at tempted? Have we not gone to the extreme limit of the possible?' Rodin bowed respectively, but re mained mute. 'If you think we have omitted some precaution,' cried Father d'Aigrigny, with a sort of uneasy Impatience, speak out! We still have ume. Once more, do you think it possible to do more than I have done? All the other descendants being removed when Gabriel appears tomorrow in the Rue Saint Francois, will he not be the only representative of this fam ily, and consequently the rightful pos sessor or this immense fortune? Now according to his act of renunciation and the provisions of our statutes, it is not to him, but to the order, that these possessions must fall. Could I have acted better, or in any other manner? Speak frankly!' 'I cannot permit myself to offer an opinion on this subject,' replied Ro din humbly, and again bowing; 'the success of the measures taken must answer your reverence.' Father d'Aigrigny shrugged his shoulders and reproached himself for having asked the advice of his writ ing machine, that served him for a secretary, and to whom he ascribed only three qualities memory, discre tion, and exactness. ' Louis XIV., the great king, pun ished with the galleys those Protest ants who, once converted, often by force, afterwards returned to their first belief. As for those Protestants who remained in France, notwith standing the rigor of the edicts against them, they were deprived of burial, dragged upon a hurdle, and given to the dogs. E. S. (To be continued.) The American the balance of the year and Rev. Charles Chiniquy's great book, "Fifty. Years in the Church of Rome," for $2. The regular retail price of the book alone is $2.25. We aave a limited supply on hand Vnd early orders will receive prompt atten tion. Cash must accompany order... A WomarVs Words Afflicted with Many' Diseases -Weak Stomach, Heart Trouble Life was Misery until Hood's Sarsaparllla Cured. " About two years ago I was in a serious condition. I could not eat or sleep. My stomach was very weak and I had heart disease so bad that I could not lie down. I was also afflicted with female complaints and my life was misery to me. I could not do my housework and was reduced to a mere skeleton. One day I decided to try Hood's Sarsaparilla and I began to feel better from the first few doses. I could soon sleep well at night. This medicine has done me so much good that I value it very highly and recommend it to my friends as medicine that does all it claims to do." Mrs. Jennie M. Dbpny, Arnold, Nebraska. If you have decided to take Hood's Sar saparilla do not buy any other instead. Mood's : parilla Is the best in fact the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, f 1 ; six for f 3. Get only Hood's. Hood's Pills Ll ah ui u&feiaio. w. ASSASSINATION OF PRES. LINCOLN Every Person Implicated the Diabolical Plot a Ro man Catholic. In Standpoint Occupied by Ex Priest Chiniquy, Who was the Pres ident' Close Friend. Father Cninquy, the apostate Cath olic priest, who has been lecturing In llaltimore, in conversation with a Morning Herald reporter, made a tin in her of tttati'iut'iitg regarding the assassination of Pres'dent Lincoln, j which are not to be found in the his j tories of the period, and accounts for that lamentable tragedy: "I am a French Canadian by birth." said he to the reporter, "and was born in Kamovaska, Canada, in 1S09. Iioth of my parents were Catholics, and I was, of course, brought up in that faith. From a very early age I was destined for the priesthood, and my education was conducted with that end always in view. Having been ordain ed, I arose very rapidly in the esti mation of my religious superiors as well as in popular favor, and was soon looked upon as one of the most prom ising members of the Canadian priest hood. My work In the cause of tem perance brought me into special prom inence, and I became widely known all over Canada, and, indeed, in the Catholic church everywhere. "In 1851 Catholic bishops and clergy from all over North America met in secret conclave at Buffalo, N. Y., and there the question was discussed, and it was decided to seize the cities of North America for the Catholic church. The plan adopted was to bring Catholic emigrants from Europe in sufficient -numbers to gain control of the city governments by popular vote. The attempt was carried out to some extent, and was successful at least in New York. It was particu larly the desire of the church to get possession of the school fund in the various cities in order to use it for the benefit of Catholicism. The well remembered struggle for the expulsion of the Bible from the public schools in Cincinnati in 1870 was the out growth of the action of the conclave in 1851. "At this same conclave I was assign ed to go to Illinois with a band of French Canadian Catholics and to found a colony or coionies. Colonista also came from France, and early in 1852 I founded my colony at St. Anne, Kankakee county, 111. A chapel or church was built, and we had a con gregation of about 500 souls. "In 1858, after several years of study and many trials. I determined to leave the Church of Rome, whose doctrines I no longer believed. It was on Saturday evening that I reached my final determination, and the next morning I went Into the pulpit and told my congregation of the step I was about to take, and my reasons. After talking to them for two hours I put the matter to a vote, and all but fifteen of my 300 parishioners ex pressed their intention of following me. This action, when it became known, created no little excitement all over the country. About a year later we Joined the Chicago Presbytery, and afterward the Canadian Presbytery to which we still belong. "Previous to this Abraham Lincoln had defended me when I was prose cuted by the church, and when, some time after our withdrawal from the church our colony was theatened with destruction from famine, he came for ward and for our benefit delivered a lecture, in which he denounced the or der of the Jesuits with the greatest boldness. This made our former friendship all the stronger. "In 1862 a Canadian Jesuit priest was converted through my teaching, and from him I hrst learned of a plot of that order to assasinaie Mr. Lin coln. He told me that the plot was first laid in 1861. I went at once to Washington, and in a conference with Mr. Lincoln warned him of what I had learned. He told me that he was al ready informed of the matter by Mr. Samuel F. B. Morse, the telegraph in ventor, who had heard it by chance while in Rome. Mr. Morse was not a Catholic. "About a year afterward I convert ed another Jesuit priest, who had ab solutely no knowledge of any other convert, and by him I was told the same story. I again went to Wash ington and warned the president. After the asassination. while I was in San Francisco, another Jesuit priest gave me, for a third time, identically the same account of the plot in the order against the president. While I was seeking information in regard to the crime I met the Rev. F. A. Con well, of Chicago, who related the fol lowing: "Ninety miles northwest of St. Pajil, Minn., is the little village of St. Joseph, settled by Roman Catholics, and with a college for the education of priests. On the 14th of April, 1865, at 6 d'clock in the afternoon, two men drove up to the village hotel; one was the Rev. F. A. Conwell, chaplain of the first Minnesota regiment and the other was Horace P. Bennett, of St. Cloud about ten miles eastward. While Mr. Bennett was attending to the horse in the barn the landlord. J. H. Linneman .who has charge of the friary, and was purveyor for the priests, told Chaplain Conwell that President Lincoln and Secretary Sew ard were assassinated. .And when Mr. Bennett returned from the barn to the tavern the landlord reiterated the statement to both his guests. this was not later than 6:30 n. m.. and the assassination of Lincoln did not occur till about 10 p. m. Allow ing for the difference in time between St. Joseph and Washington the news reached St. Joseph at least two hours before it occurred. The two men make affidavit of the fact, sworn to September 6, and Octo ber 18, 1883. Landlord Linneman, purveyor for the priests, refuses to swear, but makes a written declara tion, October 20, 1883. duly signed, saying that he told Conwell and Mr. Bennett that 'he had hcaru this rumor in his store from people who came in and out; but he cannot remember from whom.' That lapse of memory probably saved the landlord s life. The rpriesis of St. Joseph were cognizant of the plot to assassinate Lincoln and Seward. "Without a single exception the con spirators were Roman Catholics. It is true that Atzeroth. Payne and Har old asked for Protestant ministers when they were to be hung, but they had been considered Catholics till then. John Wilkes Booth was a proselyte to Catholicism, and so w ere j end u compromise was reached le Atzeroth. Payne and Harold. But j fcrilti cousideintioii until a week had their father coiiiifMors appeared ; friu today on the condition that the with them on the scaffold that would have opened the eyes of the American people to clearly see that the assassin ation of Lincoln aril Seward were planned and executed by Jesuit p: tests. The murderer were instructed to con- ceal their religion. Such is the iloo- trlne of the Catholic church. St. " "It is often more to the glory of Llguorl says: God and the good of our neighbor to conceal our religious faith, as when we live among heretics we can more easily do them good in that way; or if by declaring our religion, we cause some disturbance or deaths, or even wrath of the tyrant Llguorl. Theologia, II. 3.) "After the murder Father Chiniquy went to Washington in disguise. He found that the influence of Rome at the capital was almost supreme. The only statesman who dared to face the nefarious influence of Rome was Geu. Baker. But several other statesmen confessed that without doubt the Jes uits were at the bottom of the plot; and sometime this would appear so clearly in evidence before the mili tary tribunal that it was feared it could not be kept from the public. Mrs Surratt was a Catholic, and her house was the common rendezvous of the priests. 'Dr. Mudd, at whose place Booth stopped in this flight, was a Catholic, and so was Garrett, in whoso barn Booth was killed. "Booth, the assassin hiniHelf, was confirmed in this very city of Balti more. He was but the tool of the Jesuits. He was taught by thein that the pope had called Jeff Davis his dear son, and had taken the southern confederacy under his protection. He was taught that Lincoln was an apos tate, that he had been baptized In the Catholic religion, had rebelled against it and broken his oath of allegiance to the pope. He was taught that It was his religious duty to slay this infa mous enemy of his church. "Compare other murders known to have been plotted and executed by Jesuits with this one and you will find that they resemble each other as one drop of water resembles another. Compare the last hours of the Jesuit, Ravaillac, the assassin of Henry VI., who absolutely refused to repent, though suffering the most horrible tortures on the rack, with Booth, who, with an unset broken log, the bone al most puncturing the flesh, writes In ins uany memorandum: 1 can never repent, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all its troubles to him (Lincoln), and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.' "I found that the influence of Rome was almost supreme in Washington. Several of the government men with whom I conversed told me that they had not the least doubt that the Jesu its were at the bottom of the crime lhey were afraid to let the crime come out lest the priests should be implicated, and in the event of their execution they knew that riots, blood fire and devastations must follow, and these the country, in Its then divided state could not sustain Evading Real Issues. The weakness of the case of those who are vigorously opposing the im migration restriction bill is shown by their persistent refusal to meet fairly and squarely the real and es sential issue involved in the proposal or an education test for new arrivals The protest of the German societies of Chicago and of the league recently organized in New York, as well as the arguments advanced 'n congress by such men as Senator Caffrey, deal with but one aspect of the problem They harp upon the obvious and ad mitted fact that illiteracy is not al ways and necessarily a sign of vl ciousness and incapacity, and indulge in irrelevant emotional appeals to principles which no friend of the edu cational test dreams of surrendering. That immigration has done much for the development of the country is not questioned by any sane man. That it can and will do still more is equally beyond dispute. That an edu cational test if applied a hundred or even fifty years ago, would have barred out thousands of worthy, use ful and desirable citizens, to the great detriment of the country, is also readily and cheerfully conceded. Why, then, urge considerations that have absolutely no bearing upon the Ques tion we are called upon to settle here and now What is this essential question? bimply this, whether or not the coun try needs a rest from the work of ab sorption and assimilation Imposed by a practically unrestricted immigra tion. Today we only exclude paupers, criminals, diseased persons and con tract laborers. If we need no further restriction in the interest of the American standard of wages and liv ing, the educational test is indeed un necessary and improper; but those who admit that present restrictive measures are inadequate are bound to supply a better and fairer test than that of ability to read and write, a test so perfect as to exclude all un worthy applicants and admit all worthy ones. The champions of the immigration bill recognize that here and there injustice would result, but they most emphatically deny that anv great number of desirable immigrants wosld be shut out "or that the law would stop immigration. Are not the labor organizations better authorities on the need of further restriction than the societies now fighting the Lwge bill? Chicago Evening Post. Yes, wo have plenty of this Issue. We can All your order, ten for "30 cents; fifty for $1.25; 100 for $2.00; 600 for $7.50; 1,000 for $10.00. MI5 CONFIRMATION H)I:5 OVI.R. Senator Allen of rebrak Demands a l ull Investigation. WASHINGTON. I. C Jan. H Almost the entire four hours of the executive st-sslon of the senate toduy were devoted to the indirect consid eration of the iiomiuailoii of Joseph McKcntia. now attorney general, to be ii swim into justice of the supreme court. The discussion was the result of an effort oil the part of Senator Alien of Ncbrafka tpip.) to secure a postponement for twit wcks. In the Nebraska senator should allow a vot to be taken on that day. The debate upon Mr. M Kennn's nomination was precipitated by Sen ator I liar, chairman of the comiult- : tee on jud 'clary, who t ailed up the- nominal inn in accordance w ith his no tice of yesterday and asked for Imme diate action. In lining tills Mr. Hour sMike briefly of the opposition to Mr. Mclvenna, saying that the Judiciary committee had Investigated most of the charges made and had reached the conclusion that they were without foundation. He said that the greater number of charges had been made by the members of the Asierican Pro tective association, und us they had been founded solely tipou the fact that Mr. McKenna was a Catholic they had not been deemed worthy of serious coiisidcrat'on. Mr. Hoar dwelt at some length upon this point, excoriating any man who would at tempt to inject a question of religion into a controversy over a man's fit ness for olllce. He said that such an effort was entirely un-American and unpatriotic and should not for a mo ment receive the consideration of fair minded men. Senator White of California also spoke of the effort of the A. P. A. to interfere with the course of the sen ate in giving proper attention to a question, the determination of which slioud depend upon considerations of fitness and Justice as between man and man, rather than upon an ap peal to bigotry, prejudice and a falso claim of patriotism. He hud no pa tience, he said, with men who held the opinion that Catholics must nec essarily consult the pope or some other high functionary of the church in every important transaction of their lives, and ndded that he was convinced that the American senate would not be Influenced for a moment by such representations tis an order of the character of the A. P. A. would make. Mr. McKenna's confirmation should depend entirely upon different considerations. As for himself" while he did not contend that Mr. McKenna was a giant In his legal attainments, Btill he believed him to be an honor able man, a competent lawyer and a Just jurist, and he should support his conflrmaf ion. Here Mr. Allen Interposed an ob jection to immediate action. He called especial attention to an attack made by the bar of the Pacific const, which, he said, was deserving of more scrutiny than had boen given it. He also stated that he had understood that the charge had been made that large corporations bad been Instru mental In securing Mr. McKenna's nomination. He thought this matter also should be looked into more thor oughly than the senate had had op portunity to do. Mr. Allen disclaimed any intention to father any of the charges made, but asserted that his sole purpose was to secure time for their proper investigation. He added that he might himself vote for Mr. McKenna's confirmation, but said that before doing so he desired to be convinced that the assertions made derogatory to Mr. McKenna's char acter as a jurist were without founda tion. Immigration and Progress. In view of the discussion which is sure to be provoked by Senator Lodge's immigration bill, the influ ence of the foreign element 'n Ameri can civilization, as investigated by Dr. S. H. Hyde in the current number of the Popular Science Monthly, touches some points heretofore over looked. In the first place he shows that the rate of increase among the popula tion before 1830 was greater than it has been since, so that foreign Immi gration is not responsible for the rapid growth of the population. But the earlier immigration con tained a large proportion of agricul turists, mechanics and skilled labor ers, and the foreigner was really the teacher and introducer of the skilled trafts, and was even the teacher in the common schools. This immigra tion was in time followed by the more ignorant, that became stranded In the seaboard towns and from which sprang the dependent and criminal classes. Indiscriminate charity in creased this evil, until it infected the native population. But this "servi ent class" indirectly fostered "the higher advances in arts and material prosperity" by doing the hard work and affording leisure for the cultiva tion of the arts and sciences and the development of mercantile and com mercial pursuits. But of more special advantage is the heterogeneousness of the popula tion thus created. A mixed popula tion is far more progressive than a homogeneous population. There never was a white homogeneous pop ulation in this country. And "as the national spirit acts upon the foreign element, so the foreign element re acts upon American civilization, and the admixture of nationalities is the primal cause of American progress." Homogeneity causes stagnation. The American people are not an in digenous race, but a compound of nearly all the European nations, all of which have contributed a share to the growth and development of the country. Evils, too, may be traced to tnem, but "you can t have an omlct without breaking eggs." Chicae-o Times-Herald. Have you read lie v. Kostelo's grest exposure of the Roman Confessional. We sell It. Price 50 cents. Most sen. satlonal book ever published. Trans lations from Den, Lifrourl, Kenrick and St. Thomas. 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