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No. 13 Nortu WiLitaM Street, New York, FOR SALE BY ALL NEWS DEALERS. Terus To Susscripers. AND AFTER APRIL 15th, 21 & 23 WARREN STREET. fgg Sergee earn Cs Paris on file at the “Herald Office, 49 Avenue de I’ Opera. tthe News Agency of Messrs: ety NEWS COMPANY, 11, Bou- tothis rule we can make no exception. ‘We cannot undertake to return rejected communications, and ad to Kerrier & SCHWARZMANN. Remittances by Money Order, etc., are to be = presented on the billheads of Puck, thereon. ‘Our advertising (riends are only required to pay bills ‘with out stamp. nvexasseD KEPPLER & SCHWAKZMANN. REMOVAL. and, of course, commodious quarters at Nos. 21 & 23 WARREN STREET. Puck is going to remove, before April rth, to new CONTEWTS. The Geese to Save Rome" | Talmage on Hasty Trials. Again. Hairidity. Pucaanincs. ‘When Lovely Woman. Business Troubles. Loose! Paris-Green (poem). — H. C. —illus. Bangoriad. The. Newer Nec (poem). — Johasonius. or —Jas. R. Campbell. Theatres. ATEMOODLE I AMERICA, Di the Darling. ‘The Bold Editor of the Peviod—| Why? us. ‘An Unlicensed Poet. ‘A Poetical Grievance (poem).— joha Fraser. ¢ Southern Cock. Bath—illus. Puck's Excwances. ‘Story (poem)—Erratic History ov Orestand. di Fortune and the Rosebud (poem) B . Capt. M’Gregor takes a Russian SPECIAL NOTICE. deny it. MR. JOHN FRASER, Author of «' Effie: a Tale of Two Worlds;” “Duncan Fenwick’s Daughter;’ 5 Dream of a Life: Lone Glengartney,” ete., ete, ete, for the publication of a fas exclustveiy for Puck, and entitled: ARCHIE GASCOYNE: ‘A ROMANCE OF SKYE, Fragoletta:"* “Scot- Legends tish Hebrides to Long Island and New York. The author to secure for him, by anticipation, the interest of our readers. cinnati, once more. ‘When the Devil was sick, the Devil a Saint would be; ‘That Puc is the greatest Wit of this or any Age is a fact so uni- versally acknowledged that it would be affectation in us to deny ‘And wedon't deny it. In fact, we will fight any man who does But we are not satisfied with this distinction. We propose 1° make Puck as much of a raconteur as he is of a humorist, and with this end in view, we have decided to substitute for the short serious tales which we have hitherto published a serial story of larger proportions. We are now enabled to announce that the proprietors of Puck have succeeded in making arrangements with Essays from the Westmunster;”” nce written expressly and Mr. Fraser's novel, which will begin in No. 112, will traverse much of the ground made familiar to all lovers of fiction in the popular Scotch novels of Mr. William Black. The plot is one of great freshness and interest, and the scene shifts from the Scot- well known, both here and in the mother country, as a brilliant Journalist and a keen, conscientious and thoroughly-equipped critic, that we need do no more than thus formally introduce him THE GEESE TO SAVE “ROME” AGAIN. ISTORY repeats itself. As in the old time the geese cackled about the Capi- toline hill, so that Rome was saved from the proud invader, so now the Episcopal geese are cackling loudly to save ‘ Rome,” in Cin- Which is very much the position in which Messrs, Purcell & Bro., bankrupts, have placed themselves, When they were the recipients of the toil-earned savings of their congregations, they held their noses high in air; when they are called upon to account for and to pay over these deposited funds, they drop upon their marrow-bones and call for “help!” If the Catholic people, in the goodness of their gene- rous hearts, see fit to pay the Archbishop's debts, we venture to predict that the marrow- bore business will be done away with, and there will be no more stately prelate in the land than Purcell & Bro, Not even Bishop Fitzpatrick, whom our dear brother of the Herald P. 1. says has been prelate of Boston for the last thirty-five years; whose recent minis- trations must certainly have been spiritual, since he died in the body more years ago than a young fellow such as we are can recall. And we refer to the late Bishop Fitzpatrick as a prelate who didn’t pick Peter's pocket to pay Paul’s debts Like the recent Mr. ++ Hughes, architect of Catholic prosperity in New York, he let every tub stand upon its own bottom. It would be well if some of the younger and. more enthusiastic Roman Catholic prelates in this country would go and do likewise. The spread and the success of the Church of Rome in this country has been wonderful, It has been accomplished with dollars, and the dollars have come from the pockets of the poor. Yet their churches and their schools, asylums, etc., are always, or almost always, bur- dened with debt. You can hardly attend mass at any R.C. church in this country without hearing an appeal—put forth in the way of a demand—for money. There is not a bishop of the “Church” in this country who can truly say that his diocese is out of debt; who will not speak enthusiasti- cally of the money sacrifices his poor are mak- ing to support the ‘“Church;” and, in the face of all this, the faithful from Portland to San Francisco are to be drained to the very dregs toget Mr. Archbishop Purcell out of a scrape. ‘e think there are creditors holding mort- gages on the stones, brickwork and furniture of churches, schools, colleges, convents, etc., in this country, who accepted such mortgages in lieu of cash, under the confidence that the of- ferings of the faithful would be devoted to the payment of the debts secured by such mort- gages. And we fancy that lawyers could be found able to discover a point of law to enjoin con- tributions to aid Mr, Purcell from being col- lected and sent to him while the debts for which the contributors were morally responsi- ble remained unpaid. It might be a most pettifogging business; but the pettier the fog, the quicker the sun shines through it. So we say that the bishops who propose to drain their parishes are wrong in law and mo- rality, and financially are geese. Geese saved old Rome, we are told; and they were honored afterwards by being called “sacred birds’. But that hasn’t prevented their being butchered and plucked, and drawn and quartered and gobbled up during the tides of Michaelmas, Christmas, and other fine days of the year. So with our goosey-goosey Bishops of the “Church.” They may drain the pockets of their people to get Mr. Purcell out of his hob- ble, but how are they to care for their own lia- bilities? Man may work and man may give, but he can’t give on forever—especially if his children are bare-footed, and the family loaf is too small for their little bellies, Puck says these words to the people of the Catholic Church, to whom he has ever been a friend, and for whom he will ever prove him- self a fearless advocate. Puckerings. Lantes sacques—Jilted lovers. ‘Tue Shere Ali of editors—scissors. A burr in the hand’s worse than two in the bush. Two or A xinp.—Dr. Lambert and the Archbishop of Sin. Tue managers of the ‘ Pan Handle Road” ought to be skillet men. Ir there be one disease which Ohio medical students fully comprehend, it is disinterry. A Jewet.—The M.C. from the 9th Ohio District, Converse, was formerly Speaker of the Ohio Legislature. Arter election, the deluded voter finds that the successful candidate’s promises, like Chi- nese lanterns, hang fire. Our city politics were for a long time run by Tammany on the Co-operative plan, but the present Mayor has knocked the hyphen out. Purcett & BroTHer mitre been simply im- prudent, as they claim, but the ungodly still think they stola the money confided to their care, Concress inas voted 750,000 dollars to Cap- tain Eads, and all the fair Creole ladies stretch their arms out to him and exclaim, ‘Ah, Capi- taine, jetty dore.” Wuoe’er would rid a blade of rust,— Just mark the full congruity,— Must emory use, and slowly, ‘cause He can’t with acid do it, he. Curious, but we never saw this notice in any of our country exchanges: “Owing to press of poetry, a large number of advertise- ments are unavoidably crowded out, but will positively appear in our next.” Lucky they have no greenbacks in France. If they had, the idea of watering the currency would long ago have been suggested to some Parisian paragraphaire by the convertibility of “us dos vert” and “une verre d'eau,” An exchange proposes Ben Butler for a Dick Dead- eye." —Rochester Express. We are that Exchange. Why not credit us? How have we wownded you? We cannot live out of the sunshine of your smile, Rochester Express. Brace up, old man, and tell us what is the matter! Some men are too fastidious. Wallace Wilkinson, convicted of murder, having been, under the provisions of an old statute of the State of Utah, condemned to be shot, petihoned the Supreme Court to grant him ‘the special favor of death by hanging; but that high tribunal, unwilling to establish so very inconvenient a precedent, refused to halter his sentence. @ NOTICE a No. 9 (issue of May 7, 1877), No. 14 (issue of June 14, 1877), No, 26 (issue of Septender 5, 1877), No. 47 (issue of January 30, 1878), Nu. 53 (issue of March 13, 1878), and No, 57 (issue of April 10, 1878), of Puck will be bought at this office, 13 N. William Street, at 25 cents per copy. ‘When the Devil got well, the devil a Saint was he. comicbooks.com