"That is just my opinion," said Doctor Captain One-eye. You must get a glass eye Pablo; "and for that reason I have resolved from France before I'll stir abroad."

to come myself and practise in the Philippines."

"What countryman are you?" "I am from France."

"A French physician! I am at your service. Take my eyes; do what you will with them."

"Your eyes senor capitan, are very bad. If they are to be healed soon, they ought not to be left a minute."

"But that will make a delay of eighteen months."

"You must wait eighteen months, then, before you get the credit of my cure. Worry me, and I'll keep my shutters closed, and make people believe that I can't bear the light, and am as bad as ever."

If Captain Juan Porras would but show himself, then Doctor Pablo's fortune would be made. Was Doctor Pablo to wait eighteen

"Would you mind making a short stay months, until a false eye could be received with me?" from France? Certainly not. He would turn

my

"I consent on condition that you let me mechanician, and get up an eye at Manilla pay for board and lodging." He did so, under his own superintendence. and the captain (though it did not feel as if it were a clever fit) found it not unsatisfactory. He put on spectacles, looked at himself in the glass and consented to go out.

"Do as you will," replied Don Juan; "the thing is settled at once. Send for your luggage."

Doctor Pablo's canvass trousers had been thrown aside as too ragged to be worth pre- But what, somebody may ask, is all this serving, and his whole luggage was the little story about? Is it true? I only know that white waistcoat packed up in his hat, and his it is all seriously vouched for, by the perhat was all the box he had. He adopted, son chiefly concerned to wit, the doctor the straightforward course, which is at all himself. Monsieur Alexandre Dumas having times the sensible and right course; he told included the adventures of Monsieur de la the captain the plain truth about himself, Gironiére in a romance of "A Thousand and and that his lodgings could be paid for only One Phantoms." Monsieur de la Gironiére out of his earnings, say from month to month. considered that it was time to tell the naked The captain was on his part delighted. "If truth concerning himself and his adventures. your are poor," he said, "it will be the This he now does in a little book called making of you to cure me. You are sure Twenty Years in the Philippines; of which, to do your best." as we understand from a notice prefixed by Doctor Pablo and the captain got on very the author, an English translation is to apwell together. An examination of the eyes pear, or perhaps by this time has appeared. next morning showed that the right eye was The return of Don Juan caused a great not only lost, but enveloped in a mass of sensation in Manilla. Every one talked of cancerous disease that would ere long have Senor Don Pablo, the great French phydestroyed his patient's life. Of the other eye sician. Patients came from all parts; and, there was still hope. "Your right eye," the young as he was, he leaped from indigence doctor said, "and all this growth about it to opulence. He kept a carriage and four, has to be removed by an operation, or you but still lodged in the captain's house. must die." The operation was undergone. The wounds healed, the flesh became sound, and, after about six weeks, the use of the left eye was recovered. During this time Doctor Pablo met with a few other patients; so, at the end of the first month, he was able to pay punctually for his board and lodging.

At that time it happened that a young American friend pointed out to him a lady dressed in deep mourning, who was occasionally to be seen upon the promenades-one of the most beautiful women in the town. She was the Marchioness of Salinas, eighteen or nineteen years old, and already a widow. Doctor Pablo fell in love.

The captain was cured, but nobody knew that, for he still refused to stir out of doors. Vain attempts were made to meet this "I won't go out," he said, "to be called charming senora in private circles; but she

was not to be seen within doors anywhere. He took her in search of health to the One morning an Indian boy came to fetch Tierra Alta, a district much infested by the French physician to a boy, his master. bandits; but he did not mind bandits. He He drove to the house indicated-one of the had sundry adventures with them, and the best in the suburb of Santa Cruz-saw the result of them all was that these people patient, and was writing a prescription in thought Doctor Pablo a fine fellow, and the sick room, when he heard the rustle of liked him. With much care, Anna's health a dress behind him, turned his head and was at last perfectly restored. saw the lady of his dreams. He dropped his Then the young couple, devoted to each pen and began talking incoherently; she other, returned into Manilla, where, soon smiled, asked what he thought of her afterwards, Doctor Pablo considered that he

nephew, and went away. This made had been insulted by the govenor; who had Doctor Pablo very diligent in his attend- refused to discharge a soldier on account of ance on the boy; and six months afterwards ill-health on his recommendation. Pablo Madame de las Salinas-Anna-was his suddenly resigned every office he held under wife. She had a fortune of 30,000 pounds, the state, and asked his wife how she would expected daily in galleons from Mexico. like to go and live at Iala-Iala? Anywhere, One evening while they were at tea, news she replied, with Doctor Pablo. He bought came that the galleons were in the offing. therefore with his savings, the peninsula of Husband and wife had agreed that when Iala-Iala; and, although the governor bethis money came they would retire to France. haved courteously, refused his resignation, Don Pablo had then a splendid practice at and appeased his wrath, he held to his purManilla, and held several official situations, pose firmly, and set out to inspect his new kept two carriages and eight horses; also a theatre of action.

It proved to be a peninsula divided by a chain of mountains which subsided in a series of hills towards the lake. It was

fine table, at which all Europeans were welcome guests. It was not ruin, therefore, when the tidings came next day that his wife's money was lost! It had been seized covered with forests and thick grassy pasturon its way through Mexico by Colonel Ytur- age, and was full of game; Doctor Pablo bide, and paid to the credit of the independent held himself to be a mighty hunter, great in cause, in a civil war then and there in pro- the chase of the pheasant or the buffalo. There gress. The only difference to Doctor Pablo were no animals on the domain more noxwas, that he could not quit the Philippines. ious than civet cats and monkeys-men exAmong other situations Doctor Pablo held cepted. The peninsula was a noted haunt the post of surgeon-major to the first light of pirates and bandits. Doctor Pablo went battalion of the line, and was a warm friend to the cabin of the person who was pointed to its captain, Novales. Novales one night out to him as the most desperate pirate, a revolted, the regiment began an insurrection, fellow who would do his half-a-dozen murand the surgeon-major rushed out at three ders in a day, and said to him, "Mabutino'clock in the morning, not exactly knowing Tajo,"--that was his name- -"you are a what to do. Tumult and cannonading fol- great villain. I am lord of Iala-Iala, I wish lowed. Pablo did not return to his wife for you to change your mode of life. If you retwenty-one hours; he had given his service fuse, I'll punish you. I want a guard; give to the Spaniards, and returned safe. He me your word of honour that you'll be an found his wife upon her knees; she rose to honest man, and I will make you my lieutenreceive him but her wits were gone. The ant." The man, after a pause, vowed that he terror she had suffered cost her an illness would be faithful to the death, and showed the that deprived her, for a time, of reason. He way to the house of another desperado who watched over her and she recovered. A would be his serjeant. From these, and month afterwards she relapsed, and it soon with these, the Doctor went to others of their appeared that she was subject to monthly stamp, raised a little army, and by evening relapses of insanity. had in cavalry and infantry, a force of ten

MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER.

men, which was as large as he required. He
was captain, Mabutin-Tajo was lieutenant,
and the business of the men was thencefor- D'ye mind the tree by the roadside, Kate,
ward not to break order but to keep it. He And the school-house standing by:

got the people of the place together, caused
them to consent to assemble in a village,
marked the line of a street, planned sites for
a church and for his own mansion, set the
people at work, and masons and master work-
men to help them, from Manilla.

The people of Manilla thought the great French physician, had gone mad, but his faithful wife heartily entered into his scheme;

and, after eight months of constant passing

to and fro, he at last informed her that her castle at Iala was erected, and conveyed her to her domain.

Where the gray-haired teacher used to wait,
As our morning steps drew nigh.
How we watched the while, for his friendly
smile,

As we tripped the way along;
Oft hand in hand, a score in a band-
A happy childish throng.
The school-house now is torn away,
Not a beam or a post remains;
And the sunny green where we used to play,
Yields the farmer golden gains.
O'er you and I have years gone by,

But my heart is still the same;
When I think of the names of our school-day
games,

It thrills at the very name.

well,

To learn and love our book;

How high did the glow of pleasure swell,

At his kind approving look.
But his task is done beneath the sun,

Doctor Pablo begged from the governor the post which we should call in London that of Police Magistrate of the Province of the Lagune. This made him the supreme judge on his own domain, and secured more per- And that good old man who taught us so fectly his influence over the people. From the Archbishop Hilarion, he begged Father Miguel de San Francisco as a curate. This priest was denied to him, as a person with whom no one could live in peace. Doctor Pablo persisted and obtained his wish. Father Miguel came. He was a fiery, energetic man, a Malay, who got on very well with his new patron, and was appreciated by his flock: not the less because he laboured He sleeps, but I know not what marks his much among them as a teacher and in other ways, and preached only once a year, and then it was always the same sermon—a short But fresh in my heart shall his memory one in two parts-half Spanish for the gentlefolks, half Tagaloc for the Indians.

And his eye with age grown dim,
Has now no light, for death's long night
Has closed life's day for him.

tomb,

Or where is his resting spot;

bloom,

Till memory's self is not.

His stories oft told, which never seemed old,
Are fresh in my mind to-day;

For,

Kate, while he taught, 'twas amuse-
ment we thought,

And the time passed unheeded away.

Vienna, May 18th, 1854.

G. W.

In this way, Monsieur Paul de la Gironière settled at Iala. There, he lived many years. He reformed the natives, taught them, and humanised them. Without a cannon-shot, he put an end to piracy. He cleared woods, and covered the soil with plantations of indigo and sugar-cane, rice and coffee. The end of his history was that he left Iala-Iala when its church contained the graves of his dear wife INNOCENT'S DAY.-A commemoration of the and of his two infant children, of a favourite slaughter of the infants in Bethlehem by brother who had quitted France to dwell with Herod. A singular custom formerly prehim, of his wife's sister, and other friends. vailed in France, which was called giving the Doctor Pablo went back, a lonely man, to his innocents. All the young people found in old mother, in France, in 1839, after having bed on the morning of this day was subpassed twenty years in the Philippines. jected to a smart discipline.

THE WAY THEY MAKE CONVERTS
IN RUSSIA.

catechisms that were to be used in Catholic churches; and which allowed of no theological explanations of theological differTHE Czar has still some partisans left in ences; which, latter, dispersed the Catholic England: not many, certainly; but some, priests with violence, shut up their churches, both influential and sincere, who believe in and refused all spiritual consolations to their the generosity of his protection, and the truth flocks; which excommunicated as schismatic, of his religious zeal; who accept his version all Catholic children not baptised according of the history of the war, and see him only to the rules of the established church withas the conscientious defender of his Church, in four and twenty hours after their birth, and regarding his occupation of the Principalities which offered entire pardon and indemnity as the simple demand for tolerance towards to any Catholic convicted of any crime whathis co-religionists, and the slaughter at soever-murder, robbery, no matter whatSinope as the energetic expression of his who recanted, and became orthodox. So philanthropy. We would convert these men much vigorous legislation was not without —many of whom are worth converting-and its effect. In the spring of eighteen hundred prove to them what religion and toleration and thirty-nine, the whole of the Episcopal mean with the Czar. We will tell them a body of the Uniate signed the act of recanstory of some nuns at Minsk; a story which tation, petitioning the Emperor graciously was denied by the Russian minister at Rome, to re-admit them into the bosom of the orwith Russian veracity; but which both thodox Church, and asking pardon both of public and private documents in our posses- him and of God, for their long blindness' sion establish and confirm. and obstinacy.

Towards the end of the sixteenth century Amongst these petitioners, the Bishop -for it is as well to go back to the origin Siemaszko distinguished himself as particuof things,—a large body in the Greek Church larly ardent in his profession of orthodoxy, separated itself from the orthodox or State and as a proof of his zeal-or as its rewardestablishment; under the name of the Uniate, he undertook the task of converting the Basior United Greek Church, entered into com- lian nuns of Minsk, with whom is our present munion with Rome, placing itself under the story, and of whom he had been "bishop and spiritual supremacy of the Pope, in op- shepherd." He began his mission with moposition to that of the Patriarch, and deration, even with kindnes, calling on them, afterwards of the Sovereign. This schism affectionately, as their pastor, to renounce struck the deepest root in Lithuania, and the communion of Rome, and the acts of St. modern Poland; and, since that partition of Basil; but, as their refusals were more vethe empire, has had powerful political in- hement than he had looked for, his behaviour fluence, in keeping up the feeling of Polish suddenly changed; and one Friday, as the nationality; the Uniate Church and national nuns were going to prayers, Siemaszko, acfidelity being held as synonymous; while companied by Uszakoff the civil governor of the Polish adherent to the Russo-Greek, or Minsk and a troop of soldiers, burst open the orthodox Church was generally assumed to convent gates, to offer them their final choice be an apostate to his faith, and a traitor to between honours with the orthodox religion, his country. It was therefore a matter of and constancy to their communion with great importance to the Czar to destroy this forced labour in Siberia. The nuns despised schismatic branch, and the usual machinery his threats as they had rejected his bribes. of threats, bribes, and cajolery was put in The reverend mother, Makrena Mirazyslawski motion, Laws were passed, which forbade answered generally in the name of all, and the hearing of mass, excepting on Sundays Siemaszko then ordered them, angrily, to and great festivals; which forbade the teach- prepare instantly for a march. With ing of the Catholic religion to the children difficulty they obtained permission to offer up of Catholic parents; which prescribed the a few prayers before their departure. They sermons that were to be preached, and the flung themselves before the Host, the reneVOL. V.-F.

gade prelate cursing them as they prayed. attending the cattle. Then to rest, such as Thirty-five knelt on the church flags; but, they might find, in a low damp room, where when they rose up to go, one was found a few wisps of straw were their only furnidead, Rosalie Lenszeka. Her heart had ture, and where their clanking irons were broken between fear and grief. not removed. Their food was so scanty and

They were marched through the town; so wretched that the beggars used to bring the orphan children, of whom they had them bread, and often they shared the proforty-seven in the convent, following them vender of the cattle when serving them, a with tears and lamentations, and many of crime the Black Nuns punished with blows, the inhabitants crowding round them, weep- telling them they did not deserve to share ing too; for, according to various disposi- the food of their hogs. One of their most tions, these nuns of St. Basil were much painful duties was, cleaning the high leather beloved. Their kindness and benevolence boots worn by the Czermicks, with a certain to the poor and the afflicted was a matter of preparation called "dziegiec," which was public notoriety and of public benefit. The overpoweringly sickening. But the poor soldiers were afraid of a popular demonstra- nuns of Minsk lived to remember their tion if they attempted any personal violence leather boots and the "dziegiec" with regret. in the town, so that the nuns were not After two months of this life-finding them ironed until they came to their first halting- still persistent-Siemaszko ordered them to place, about a league from Minsk. There be flogged twice a week, fifty lashes each they were chained in couples, with irons on time. The floggings took place in the courttheir hands and feet, and in this manner yard, under a kind of a shed, in the presence they marched for seven days, until they of the deacons, the priests, the children, the reached Witebsk. They were placed in a nuns : "of everything," says the mother convent of Czermick, or Black Nuns, chiefly Makrena, "that lived and blasphemed in widows of Russian soldiers; women of coarse this dwelling," Their flesh often hung in habits and cruel feelings, to whom they were strips from their bodies and the way to appointed servants, or rather serfs and their work was tracked with blood; but they victims. Their coupling chains wero re- made neither resistance nor complaint, and moved; but their irons remained on their only wept when they did not pray. It was in feet; and these they wore for the seven years the winter; and they were not allowed any fire; of their persecution, At this convent- so that the cold froze their limbs, and poisoned which had formerly been Basilian, and had their wounds, making their punishment still belonged to the Uniate Church-they found more severe. After one of these flagellations, thirteen of its former owners Basilian nuns, a nun, Colomba Gorska, fainted on her way subject to the same treatment which they to work. They beat her until she recovered themselves were about to undergo. The her senses; when, staggering to her wheelwhole of the sisterhood united was placed barrow, she attempted to move it and fell under the charge of the Father Ignatius dead. Another nun, Baptista Downar, was Michallwiez who had formerly been their burned alive in a large stove. The Czerown almoner; but who was now orthodox micks shut her up in it after she had lighted and renegade. the fire. Another, Nepomucena Grotkowska, Before six o'clock in the morning, the nuns was killed, perhaps accidentally, by the performed the work of the house, drew the Czermick abbess, who " clove open her water, carried it, prepared the wood, lighted head, by striking it with a log of wood, bethe fires, and, in short did all that was re- cause she had dared to make use of a knife quired in the establishment. At six they to scrape from a plank a stain of tar, which went to hard labour: breaking stones and she could not remove in any other way." carrying them in wheelbarrows, to which It was a breach of discipline, and disothey were chained. From noon to one o'clock bedience to a rule of the abbess. Another they rested; from one till dark, hard labour nun, Susannah Rypinksa, died from the again: and, after dark, household work and flogging; and a fifth, Coletta Sielawa, was