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in Stuttgart. The text of these two publican: Winter. tions is, with some, slight verbal variations, JOHN F. FEXNESSEY, 99. indentical. M^-. de I'Epinois is.a Cathplip, Mr. Von Gebler is not. ^ence the^e qa^i npt be I^AS winter come?" The falling snow the least doubt that we have the exact AyprdA <: Gives answer o'er the world below. of the process; and the lovers of history inus^ No longer red the leaflets flare; rejoice that Rome has thias given to the wofM. The maple lifts its branches bare, A refuge for a storm-blown crow. an additonal proof of her love for truth. Great was the excitement created by these two pub­ A time will come when all must know lications, and great is the number of books, That the string of life must snap on the bow; Then let him ask, if he may dare, pamphlets, and articles that have been written -"Has winter come?" since on the question; but the quarrel about Galileo is far from-being at an end. The fables I hope that when my steps are slow, of his incarceration and tortures give pabulum And the winds of eighty round me blow. And time's white rime is on my hair,— for objectioiTs that have been refuted time and I hope that then I iiiay not care, again; whilst the horrors of the Inquisition, As round me murmur voices low, the supposed cruel deeds of Rome, and her, : " Has winter come? " alleged opposition to science, are repeated with nauseating effect. • Galileo, the greatest of Italian naturalists, was The Truth about Galileo.* born at Pisa, February 18, 1564. His father was Vincent de Michelangelo .Galilei, a Florentine BV THE REV.^J. B. SCHEIER, C. S. C. nobleman, possessed of an extraodinary knowl­ edge of mathematics and music. His mother N-the whole range, of; human was Julia of the family Amanati from Pescia. knowledge there is perhaps^ no Galileo received his first lessons in Pisa where question that has been more he.reriiained until 1574, when the whole family persistently studied with the moved to Florence. " hope of antagonizing th?. Church Young Galileo had a,keen intellect and was than the condemnation of the a good student. His progress in science and J > Copernican system as advocated by, virtiie was especially marked, and this deter­ ^^ Galileo* and the Infallibility of the mined the father. to allow his first-born to Pope. .The acts, of Galileo's pi-ocess have be­ .pursue higher studies, although his children come known through Henry de I'Epinois who were numerous and his nieans limited. Galileo^ copied them in the library of the Vatican made a solid; and broad preparatory classical and published, part of them in the Reviezv course, and entered the University of Pisa, of Historical Questions, July, i, 1867. . In May, (September 5,1581) as a student of medicine. 1877, he published the full proceedings of the Contrary to the wishes of his father, Galileo famous trial. Two months later, Charles Von devoted most of his time to mathematics^ and Gebler copied the same: manuscriptr-at-the in 1589 he was appointed professor of mathcr Vatican and published the result'of. his.labors rnatics. in the. university of his native "town. * Lecture delivered before the GplumbianCathplici : He at once rejected the book of Aristotle and Sumnder School last year. - ' : .; studied the' book of nature. Galileo's was a 37^ NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. ^evolution,ary mind in the eyes of the philos­ Both propositions were condemned by the ophers and naturalists, of his day.. For that Consultors, and on Feb, 25, Galileo was advised season he soon left Pisa, but failed to receive a not to teach that doctrine any more. Galileo, professorship either at Bologna or at Venice. in presence of Ca^dipal Bellarmihe, promised Jle had moije success, ho\j^ever, at Padya, where to abide by the decision. He seemed satisfied in 1592, he was appointed professor of 'mathe­ with the result, because the decision declared matics. In a letter to Mazzoni, at that time in only that the opinion of Copernicus was not Rome, Galileo declared himself (1597) in favor in accordance with holy Scripture, and con­ of the sj'^stem of the Pythagoreans and of demned only those books which taught ex Copernicus as more probable than that of professo that the opinion was not contradictory Aristotle. At the same time he wrote to Kepler to holy Scripture. Some false reports, were that he had been an ardent adherent to the spread at the time by the enemies of Galileo new S3''stem for a number of years. that he was punished, and that his doctrine was The discovery of a new star in 1604 offered, repudiated by the Church. Galileo besought the occasion to attack the Aristotelian prin­ his friends in Rome to make the facts known, _ ciple of the immutability of the heavens. The and Cardinal Bellarmine wrote. May 26, 1616, telescope opened a new world for investigation that Galileo need not retract anything, that no- to consolidate the new - theories. The most punishment was inflicted upon him; and that brilliant discoveries were the result of Galileo's the Congregation pronounced the opinions of labors with this new instrument. Beyond de­ Copernicus contrary to holy Scripture and not scription is the impression made on the world to be defended. of learned men when they heard of the moun­ In the meantime Cardinal Barberini had been tains and valleys in the moon, of the four elected Pope. Counting on the friendship of satellites of Jupiter, of the number of stars in the new Pontiff, Galileo made an unsuccessful the Pleiads advanced from seven to forty, of attempt to have the unfavorable decree of the the abnormal form of Saturn and the phases of Index annulled. The decree, however, was not Venus. Some would not believe what they saw removed; but the Pope gave Galileo great through the glass, others were full of admi­ encouragement, saying that the Chwxh had ration. Kepler himself had his doubts; but the not condemned the opinion. Galileo returned reading of the new book "Nuntius Sidereus" to his studies, and in 1630, his " Dialogue," a convinced him, and in a letter dated October 25, labor of thirty years, was ready for publication 1610, Kepler writes: Ncviiiicjn liabcs qiicjii metuas He applied to Rome for permission to print (BniiibtJH,—"You have no rival to fear." Thus the book. The limits of treating the questions the immutability of the heavens had received as mere hypotheses were frequently trans­ a death-blow; the doctrine of the peripatetic gressed, and the work was subjected to correc­ school was trampled under foot, and the fol­ tion. The book was finally printed in its lowers of the old school swore vengeance, uncorrected form, and Galileo's friends were against Galileo. The new theory made steady jubilant. No?i est factum tale opus in wiivei'sa and rapid progress. The old a priori definitions terra—" Such another work does not exist in the and law^s had to yield before undeniable tacts. whole world." But the book when printed did The analogy between the earth and the satel­ not contain the.doctrine for which the Impriyn- lites of Jupiter made Galileo proclaim the fact atur was obtained—^the book treated of faith, of which was pronounced before him by Cardinal religion, of holy Scripture, when there .should Nicholas deCusa, "It is evident that the earth have been question only of mathematics; and, moves." Copernicus had already dedicated to juridically speaking, an investigation had be­ Pope Paul IIL a dissertation entitled Qicod come necessary. cceluffi^stet et terra hioveatur,—"The heavens Great deference was shown Galileo, although stand still; it is the earth that moves." Galileo he had evidently transgressed the positive vvas" accused in Rome. orders received. A special committee was The two propositions placed before the Con- appointed to exaiiiine the book, and Galileo suitors of the Sacred Office for deliberation on was found guilty of having transgressed the February 19, 1616, were as follows: (i)"The limits set for him. Sickness delayed Galileo, isun is the central point of the universe, and and he did not reach Rome until February 13, consequently has nbmotion:" (2) "The earth 1633." His plan was to get out of the trouble is hot the centre of the universe, is not immov­ as easily as possible; hence he made some able, but mov^s about itself in daily rotation." contradictory statements. This was far from^ NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 379 honorable. However, it must not be forgotten such are writing for- the sake of sensatio'nalismj;, that the man broken down by age and infirmity not for the sake of truth. The spreading .of.; had an earnest desire to remain a faithful Galileo's scientific views was certainly morcp^;:: child of the Church; and. in his own interior less retarded by the condemnation. But the '. there was a terrible contest to maintain both astronomers kept on busily atwo^k. The ne\y;/ the scientific stand he had taken and also, his . science was pei^fected; all doubts as to .its faith. Nothing was more evident to him than correctness have long since disappeared. What his scientific yiews;; and in his heart he believed was but a theory has developed into a solidly- that his faith did not ifun cauriter to, these established scientific truth. The decree of the . vievvs, Qalileo appeared before the Sacred Index has also disajjpeared^ but the.quarrely Qfifice, April 13. He remained in the palace about Galileo is still afoot. The illTdispose<^<7 , where he had a suite of three rooms and critic and the \.oo .tz.^t.x bona fide defender have-; enj6yed the daily visits of his friend, the missed the fact that has any historic value.-: Ambassador Niccolini. This is a part of the The acts of the process have been published iri:;. supposed imprisonment of Galileo. full, and the monstrous stories of Galileo's;..- Galileo's friends were active, and tried every tortures ought to be relegated among.the:, means to prevent the condemnation of his myths of the past, for they never had any- doctrine. In a private interview with Father historic existence. Let us now turn our atten- r , Vincent Macolano, Galileo acknovyledged that tion to the ' - ,/ -^•- he had not acted as he should, and demanded THEOLOGICAL SIDE OF THE QUESTION. time to formulate this avowal before the Sacred The Cardinals who compose the Congrega-;. Office. He made this declaration, April 30, and tion of the Index are in reality an ecclesiastical ; pleaded in excuse that fourteen or sixteen years, tribunal with authority to decide questions j together with his infirmities and" old age (70 proposed to them. They declare whether a: years), had made him forget the injunction proposition is in contradiction or in harmony •i^mm of 1616 not to teach in any vc\i,mv^x—quovis with Catholic doctrine. Therefore, it >yas their modo—the motion ofthe earth. Galileo rejected duty to examine Galileo's book, which was the Copernican system, June 21=^ and stated reported to contain propositions contrary to' that he was there to show obedience to the the text of holy Scripture, and also explana­ Church. The decree was at once signed, and tions of holy Scripture contrary to the Galileo returned to his rooms. That Galileo opinions and teachings of the Fathers ofthe '??m was tortured before he would make this decla­ Church. Since it-was a question of ^exegesis,- the tribunal was competent to ^wo. a decision. ration is a fable. S:':<:-if?iS The next day, June 22, the sentence was pro­ For the Church undoubtedly is the proper nounced, and a copy of it was sent to all the authority to decide and to define in questions- m universities. Galileo submitted to everything, of faith and morals. . • . <- - and renounced all error in general and in .The Scriptures speak frequently of -the. - I motion of the sun. According to,the canons particular. He did not utter the famous words, of interpretation, these passages were to be. • -, .-l--;«;75- "and yet it moves" — that is an invention of taken literally if no absurdity followed. .That- . the eighteenth century. All these fables are was the viewpoint of the Inquisition and the - malicious lies, and the best proof of this is Index. They asked for a proof of the. contrary, :••• ••-:-.r>~ef3*! found in Galileo's writings] He never mentions a proof incontrovertible; but that proof yiras- ,, or even alludes to any ill-treatment of any not given, and could not be given,. because : kind whatsoever, although he complains bit­ Galileo had no such proof. " If some day that terly of the wrong done him through the demonstration of the heliocentric theory be condemnation. given, then the Church shall not hesitate an- /; It is certainly regrettable that Galileo's sci­ instant to explain the text in a figurative man-- , entific views; though immature, controvertible ner." That is precise language, sufficiently.; -" opinions, or even conjectures, were condemned. strong and clear. No cavilling, no quibbling tc The judges have at least the.excuse that they here. Since Galileo, insisted dn a decision, ay > were themselves laboring under an erroneous decision was given according to the: scien> >v; philosophical opinion, and Galileo had the mis­ tific system which was then.prevalent,.vyhichV fortune to live at a time when all innovations had the greatest number o£ scientific men}as.y^ had a more or less dangerous appearance. adherents, and which had been the system; of i;?? "?^S There is however a class of writers who delight several, hundred years' standing. Science, was iyC! in telling the same fables again and again; but ^i^ 3-S5f^ w. --:-ri::.'^'i->:««?g!mm^mmmsm^ig 3So NOTHE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

thus pitted against science, sj'^stem against Scripture for proofs of errors into which one system; the peripatetic school, against the may fall concerning the heavens, the earth, the student of observations. elements of the world, the i;notion of the stars,"" Had the Church pronounced it as a dogma etc. St. Thomas says (i a quasst. 68, art. i): that the sun moves and that the earth stands ^' When holy Scripture can receive divers inters stilly then there would be -a direct cause for pretations, let no one adhere so strongly to ". complaint. Then, too, Galileo would have been any interpretation that he would not have the completel}?^ silenced; he would not have been courage to forsake his opinion, if by certain permitted to teach his system, not even as a proofs that were shown to be false which was hypothesis. The mistake of the Congregation believed to be the true sense.of the Scripture; does not in the least affect the infallibility of for otherwise the Scripture might be turned the Church. The Church explains the Scrip­ into ridicule by those who do not believe, and tures only with regard to faith and morals. The thus the road to the true faith be shut to them." Church is not founded on the Scriptures nor These passages were certainly known to the by the Scriptures. Christ had established His members of the Congregation; why, then, did Church before any portion of the New Testa­ they not follow them in practice? We must ment had been written. The certitude which not jump at conclusions. Let us rather betake the Church has concerning the truth of her ourselves in fancy to the times when the events teaching is immediate; for the dogmas of the under consideration took place. The judges Church have been indelibly engraved in her. had all been educated and had grown old in heart by Christ Himself through the power of the philosophic principles of Aristotle. They the Divine Spirit. The Church would be in the had the greatest respect for doctrines which strongest contradiction with, herself if she had up to their time had been the dicta of philoso­ to get her dogmas through scientific investiga­ phers. Shoiild they, then, humanly speaking, tions. The Church would be supposed to exist set aside a system that had stood the test of so and at the same time search for her existence. many centuries for vague and daring assertions But why does the Council of Trent (Sess. iv.) unfounded in fact, and that exactly at a time forbid any explanation of the.Scriptures con­ when innovators were trying daily to establish trary .to the unanimous consent of the Fathers? the figurative at the expense of the literal ("Ut nemo, sure prudential innixus, in rebus explanation of the Bible? Was not Galileo fidei et morum, contra eum quem tenuit et following iii tke footsteps of Luther? Indeed, tenet Sancta Mater Ecclesia, aut etiam contra Galileo's opinion-was rejected as unscientific, unanimem consensum Patrum, ipsam Sacram because it was not proven. "Demonstrate it Scripturam interpretari audeat." ) Simply be­ beyond all doubt," said the Church, "and it will cause the Fathers have recorded what the belief be accepted." A fallible tribunal composed of the Church was in their day; not because they of men with their scientific and philosophic have macie any dogmas. There is a vast differ­ prejudices had given a decision according to ence between witnessing, as a mere historian, the views of the learned men of their time, the actual teaching of the Church and the believing that the new theory would be subver­ establishment of a dogma. As long as the sive of science and of faith. Undaunted by the investigators of holy Scripture teach nothing great and powerful protection which Galileo contrary to the dogmas of the Church, which enjoyed, they gave their testimony fearlessly are the eternal, immutable truth, so long shall and honestly and boldly. they be free from all molestation on the part of the Church. If Galileo had not selfishly «<•» insisted that the Church should endorse his Morning. heliocentric theory, and thus by her authority silencie his contradictors, it-is not improbable ^ SAFFRON tint upon the beach, that the Church would never have interfered / Where break the green waves into white; in the quarrel. The yellow beams the tree-tops reach, •And flood the world in' golden light. GALILEO'S JUDGES. It can not be denied that the Congregation' . , EVENING. 'condemning Galileo transgressed the limits set A spot, of scarlet-on the sky, . A tossing, sea of cloudlets red, : by the-Fathers of the Church. St.Augustin A! crinison after-glow on high, (de Gen. ad lit. ircap. xix.) says: "There is a Then gray, then black,—the. day is dead. very great'danger in having recooJrse to sacred

^^fte58« mrnim NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. m my shoes are almost new. Perhaps I may get In the Sheelin?. something for them." 7 Although the nearest town was eight miles ANTHONY BROGAN. distant, Linnane set out, little heeding the bitter cold of the December day. When he arrived " Well, God's will be done, Owen. I know it at his destination, he entered a pawn-broker's wasn't your fault if the agent refused to. give shop. The money-lender wanted no shoes. All you work. But come to the bit of fire; you who had any were trying to sell them instead must be nearly frozen." of buying. Disheartened the young man left He moved slowly to the few sputtering the shop, and aimlessly walked about the town. fagots and tried to warm his fleshless hands 7\fter a time he came to where a number of and emaciated body. Two months-of famine poor persons were standings had terribly impoverished Owen Linnane and "What are these doing here?" he asked, a his young wife, as it had many more in the ragged old man close to him. • - South of Ireland where they lived. The most " Lady Singe is givin' relief today, and we're fortunate part of their lives brought them little all waitin' for a little," was the answer. - more than an extra morsel of food; and now^, Owen ranged himself back of the last person when the last;little source of income was cut in line, and awaited his turn. At last, after off, there was no well-stocked larder to bear much shuffling, and watching the others cariy them over the time of desolation and dearth away bundles given to them, he found himself of grain. After he had taken some of the before a sallow-faced, ahgular old lady. numbness out of his fingers, he turned round, "Ah! my good man," she began, "the seed- looked at the meagre form of his wife, and did not fall upon rocks nor among thorns-when hesitatingly asked: it took root in your heart, for Lsee you-have "Nora, is there anything to eat in the profited by the Word." . , ' house?" " I don't know what you mean, ma'am," "I know you'll not blame me, Owen, but I answered Owen; "but seeing the rest of them" was so sure you'd get something to do, that I here I thought I'd come and ask you for a gave the last dish of meal we had to mother. little bite. My wife is sickly, and we have She is dying," added the girl turning away nothing to eat in the house." from her husband. " Did you have the Rev. Mr. Sleek visit her" " Oh! never mind," he tried to say carelessly, .yet?" solicitously inquired the old;lady.-, > "I had a good breakfast." "He isn't known to us, ma'am; and,-indeed, He had not, in fact, eaten anything during all she needs is food." . the two days he had been looking for work. Here the pious-looking woman scrutinized Linnane looked around his cottage, searching Owen. for some article that might bring a few pence. "I doubt," she said, " if you are of the flock; The clean walls and well-swept earthen floor so I can not give you aiiything unless you showed all the bareness of poverty, but none have a card from the" Rev. Mr. Sleek. Read of its squalidness. All the furniture that had this tract, however. It ^may turn your steps been purchased a year before at their marriage toward the .path of righteousness," had been sold piece by piece. The appearance " I'm sorry I troubled yo.u, ma'am," said. of his wife's pinched face brought back a little Linnane, abruptly leaving, for he feared to trust- of his lost manhood. But what could he do? himself longer in sight of the tempting bundles. All was gone. Labor, man's first curse^ yet the Once more he wandered through the streets blessing he craved, was denied to him. without an object in view.. Having turned a "My God!" he cried, "must she starve be­ corner he stood before a "baker's shop. .He had , fore my eyes?" an idea. The mean appearance of the place "Husii! Owen," said his wife, trying to soothe, bespoke the owner's poverty. Perhaps he could but knowing the hopelessness of it all, " He exchange his shoes for bread. He entered and never failed usy,et,and He will not do so now." in a short.time came out barefoot. One of his' Again he glanced around his cabin, but it pockets bulged as if it contained a parcel.^and ; was asbareof furniture as his soul was of hope. he dung to a couple of wheaten loaves which- He then ran his eyes over his thin coat and were inside his coat." - i" ,-! patched trousers. The winter's day was nearly at an end \yhfen: , " No one would buy these," thought he," but he turned his face homeward. He. looked if or.

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the sun, but saw onty a cold streak of grayish blue sky, which did not speak of hope or sym­ Varsity Verse. pathy to him. But what need he care? He had bread now! Ay, and tea! MY SWEETHEART. "I'll hurry back before it gets too dark," (§WEETHEART , when the dew-drops glisten muttered the shivering man. On the grass like pearly beads, . To the river's voice I listen, He trudged along trying to , speed himself Murmuring, low among the reeds. b}?^ overtaking the withered leaves that were rolling along before him. Despite all his efforts Darling, every rill and bubble night came on when his journey was but half On its way to join the sea Bears a token message double, finished. He felt so weary that he was compelled Lost to all but you and me. to rest a short time. While seated on a mound beside the road he was strongly tempted to Do you hear them whisper, sighing, take out the bread from under his coat and While the stars still blink above, eat a little. Matin praise of your undying Truest constancy and love? "No," thought he, "I might take too much. 'Tis for her." Telling how sweet consolation It cost him a painful effort to stand up and From you in unconscious flow Hushes every lamentation continue his journey. His feet were bleeding. When my castles sky-ward go. On account of the darkness he could not avoid the broken stones that in some places covered Other loves have moods and fancies, Bjut you're steadfast as the blue, the road. He could not walk so fast now, but Thwartmg all their necromancies, grew weaker and weaker at each step. Oh, if Ever soothing, ever true. he could only keep on for a few miles more! Dear one, from those lips of coral * Yes, he could do it! Neither hunger, nor the . Let me taste the kisses ripe, pain in his feet troubled him any longer. Sweetest nectar and a moral. ' As he turned a bend in the road he saw in From my old briar pipe. the distance a dim light which, he knew, came F. J. F. C. from his cottage. Linnane redoubled his steps, BALLABE'TO A PHOTOGRAPH. as he thought, but in- reality he was barely (M. F. R. ) moving. Happy illusion that helped to drag A valentine came yesterday: him and his burden to his cabin! So noise­ A bit of paste-board, that is all. lessly did he arrive that his wife knew nothing A bit of paste-board? No, 'tis May That from her new place on the wall of his approach until he leaned against the door. ' Looks down and smiles—dear smiles that fall Eagerly she went to open it, but the weight of To cure the ills and kill the. woe his falling body pressed it in throwing her Among our earthly^ roar and brawl.— aside. In an instant she was at the head of My va.lentine, I love you so! her prostrate husband trying to assist him. When Georgiana rode away "Owen, dear Owen!" she cried, "what ails~^ From Devonshire to some great ball. ydii?" -. -' ' ^ Long years ago, she wore, they say, .The fallen man attempted to speak, but failed. .- A,hat like May's, so wide and tall; But.such as May that dancing-hall,— ^Again he essayed, and this time whispered: Fair Georgianas al la-row,—7 ';: "!Nora, my heart's blood, I got it for you— Could boast of none who'd so enthrall.— • look ^my; coat—let me sleep." My Valentine,,! love 30U so! A: neighbor who passed Linnane's cottage i've'never seen this gentle fay, next morning-beheld a sad sight. In the door­ : " Nor whether she is tall nor small way lay the cbid bodies of husband and wife; I know: not; yet L could array. ^he stretched at full length, she kneeling beside In manner uniequivocal , ' . • • him; one of her hands under his head, and her -•Her hopes and fea^^^ ., wasted facepressed close to his. The snow which, - For these to nie.. her pictures show,-^ Dear.pictures.that will never pall.^ had fallen during the night covered his body My Valentine, I love ybii'so! ' ', '>: -andher loosehe'd hair; and two wheaten loaves -lay beside the wasted forms; one, as if it had •fallen from the lifeless fingers, was by the cold, - O Princess chaiinirig! =: could. I call -. With thesepoor rimes v. 'discolored hand;-the other, was quite covered .Allfmen..would envy me'this.-scTaSvl.^ . ^ • '^with"^the'\whitei^;>-•"'•( '-< -'-'.^-^^.^^-^':.:.\ V '•''-• '--i"; ' \" -1;My^yalentihei i-lovi^"youvsol- , :.F._W; O'M. mmmmm»mmmmmimm3mm&mA^^y^A^rS^^A- NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, •'^y

but on finishing the letter his usual jovial Hovr it Happened. expression returned, and his hilarity reached such a degree of excitement that several curious

BERNARD MALOY. eyes were directed toward him with the evident? purpose of determining what was wrong with^ their friend. Rattling the end of his peri "And you'll not write to another single, between his teeth for. a few moments at last living person besides your mother and me was seen on his face a complacent smile deep­ when you are gone, Will?" said Edith just as ening, into a broad grin. the town clock struck three. "She's engaged, eh!" with a half srriile.^ "Heavens! three o'clock, Edith? So soon, "Trying to fool me, too. Oh, the little wretch I too?—about my writing. Now I've told you Believe I'll try that myself," said he, as'he sixteen times at least that I shouldn't write to began to hum that trite old song, "I'll Get anyone but you. There—good night. Yes, Even." Hastily throwing things aside .he it'll be six months before I see you again. wrote: ' Good night. Well, say!—Edith, I must' go. Really, I'll write to no one else. Good night. "MY ONCE FRIEND: . - By George! I'd like to stay, but Tmust get a "I received your letter^so sad to me.- J was little sleep. Good night, Edith. I'ni off this angry at first—mere foolishness, too; but nbw.. time, sure. Good-bye!" I am sorry that I gave vent to my feelings. " Good-bye, Will." And they parted. Oh, why! why did you not reveal this to" me Will kept his promise faithfully^-ditto Edith. before, Edith? Is it possible that you do not No sooner had one received a letter than a realize the pain of mind one endures in my reply was immediately written to the other. position. I could not read all your letter, it About four weeks after Will's departure he hurt me so. When I read " and you were my • received, a letter from'Edith which, at first friend," I crushed it and burned it with the reading, gave him a severe shock; but closer others. This is too bad* Edith, too bad. If all scrutiny revealed to" him the fact that Edith the. world had told- me you would do this I was endeavoring to play a little hoax on him. should not have believed them. I can not-with Following is that part of the letter^which need pen tell you how it grieves me, and perhaps be known. never shall. Good-bye, Edith. Farewell! ". . . . And I received the dear little present. " W." ; Many, many thanks, dear friend. How thought­ To be brief, knd to use Will's words, "there ful you are. Will, and how kind to me! This was pretty near ah awful rumpus." Edith read- makes it all the more difficult for me to tell his letter, and immediately answered telling you something that conscience says should Will that if he was not so silly and densely have been told long ago. But the sooner told ignorant he would have read all of theletter the better. / am engaged. In time, will" you and seen that she.was only joking. "Densely . forget that I refrained from disclosing this to ignorant," made Will angry, really angry; and you before? However, it can not be prevented. he immediately wrote that she " had no grounds Will. From the bottom of my heart I sincerely "to call him ignorant; she didn't know the first wish it were not as it is. My parents are aware principles of writing a letter, to say nothing of of this fact, and it is with their consent that I originality in jokes, and to.;please not address have made this step. How sad it is. to think her 'would-be' jokes or letters to him in the that such close friends as we once were should future." . ^ • -be thus separated. And you were my friend. Everything rested after Will's answer to her Will—my dearest friend. Yes, I am engaged. except Edith and Will. Both saw their mistake, There is no need of concealing it longer from and both knew how unhappy they were with­ you. I: am engaged as tutor to little Ethel out confessing it bluntly to themselves. It Spriggs; that little curly-haired vixen who sat was all the feeble bit of pride that prevented on your hat at the Thompson's ' German.' Say, a reconciliation. ^ Yet by chance they .' came -Will, what are you saying how? Quite a feeble upon each other; and by chance the ice was little jokelet—not? But do tell me what you broken, Everythingbecame"lovely"—Edith's thought when you answer." / '. .word—when the slimmer vacation came. They • As has been said before "Will was dumb­ met--spoke. Will called that evening, and-—, founded when he came to'" I am engaged,''x well, it's air right. "; "" ' : /r :'> •

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present administration succeeds in breaking The Smithy. up these trusts, things will change. Did you see this morning's paper?" JAMES H. MCGINNIS, 1990. "I did," said a third farmer, "and things appear to be getting hot for Ro—" Few New England villages are without a The conversation is suddenly interrupted by '• blacksmith similar to the one so beautifully a gentleman that enters the shop to inquire depicted in Longfellow's poem. One comes to for the selectman. After talking for a few my mind at present, of which I shall especially moments outside the shop door, the selectman speak. and stranger walk toward the town. It is then There is the old weather-stained shop situ­ whispered that that'was the promoter of the ated on the brow of the hill. On one side of electric railway; the. theme of a railway fran­ the door is a clump of large oak trees, under chise is then debated. \vhich are many wagons and carriages await­ In another corner of the shop, not heeding ing repairs; on the other side are heaps of those behind him, is the town physician, who old rusty iron tires, horse-shoes, and shattered- has stopped to have a shoe fitted to his pacer. vehicles worn out beyond hope of repairing. He asks a few questions of the grocer opposite Within, the once whitewashed walls are black him, whose " roomatiz " is very painful owing with smoke and dust; but here and there, be­ to the wet weather, then takes a pad of paper tween the strips of iron that cover the beams, from his pocket and thoughtfully writes a are a few white spots, made by some cribbing prescription. This done he assumes a dignified horse. High up on the walls, in faded chalk- position, and enters into an exhaustive expla­ marks, are several memoranda, such as " First nation of the effects of "different drugs on the snow storm, October, 20, 1874;" " Green'Xmas, human system. 1877;" " Frost killed crops, Aug. 2,1882;" " Big Time changes and the world changes with flood, Feb. 12, 1886;" and so on. In a case over *it; but the change in the manners of New the roughly constructed desk in the corner are England country folk from 'what they were several bright steel shoes, specimens that won when Longfellow wrote " The Village Black­ first prize at the cattle fair. The blacksmith smith " is almost imperceptible. bends over his anvil, humming a favorite ditty as he pounds the red steel into a shapely shoe; or, while blowing his bellows he stops to "John, Do You "Want a Candle?" add a remark to the conversation of a group of patrons. JAAIES J. TKAHEY, 99. Seated on an empty nail-keg in the middle of the floor is a gray-bearded peddlen with " Ma, I want a cooky." ..small brown eyes and a nasal voice, telling " Why, dear child, 'tis too late in the night how much business he used to do " in the to eat anything now: the clock just struck two." sixties, when times were good." Unkempt, dusty - Willie continued to cry, however, and paid he is and pinched with poverty. Around him little attention to his mother's logic. are a few honest farmers listening incredu­ "Well, John," Susan exclaimed at last, "I lously to Bill's often-repeated imaginary busi­ suppose this tantalizing boy will keep us awake ness successes. The last nail has been clinched until he gets a cooky." and smoothed on the peddler's old roan mare, " Nonsense, woman," growled John, " let him and he leads her slowly out of the shop; but go to'—" quoting Shakspere. "I'll not bother he stops outside the door to make a comment myself about him to-night. What he needs is upon the high price of beef. a good, sound spanking, and-that's what he'll •"Tis true," said a keen-eyed farmer after get, if he dosen't quit crying spon." the peddler had left, "beef, pork, flour and " But—but, my dear John,", interrupted Susan, evjerythjng.elsehas gone up clean out of reach, "we too Avereonce; children and perhaps far but that .dojesn't mean .that we will get any worse than Willie." . ,; . more for our hogs or crops." " Well,-well, that's; so," murtnjured John. -, "Well,';' answered a man, with, a pleasant "But why did! ever get marri^Whe.re are cquntenancfe,,that had been selectman of Jthe the cookies, Susan?" - town, for many years, and whose opinion had r "Don't you think you'd better take a candle, \ so iiiuch influence in political affairs, "if the John'',-.3 "

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" No; I don't .want none of your candles, After we had registered at the hotel, the woman. Tell me quickly where the cookies afternoon passed slowly enough. My friend.. are." was acquainted with several girls in tHe town, " Really, John, I'm surprised to see you so still we hesitated to call on any of them before angry! Well, the cookies are in a little, yellow going to the Werner home, inasmuch as we ' box, just near the canned blackberries, on the had come to Goshen expressfy to see the fair , left side of the upper shelf, as you enter the sisters. We knew that they would sooner or door." later find out if we made a previous call, as' "Jerusalem! woman, what do you take me the town was small. for? Why didn't you tell me they were down The day was warm, and we went out in front town!" of the hotel and pulled our chairs in the way With these words on his lips he rushed out of a gentle breeze, and began the discussion | of the bed-room and started down stairs. Of of our evening's prospects. course, Willie,' before going to bed that even­ "Yes sir. Jack," said Bayard, " we'll have a . ing, had carelessly dropped on the upper step time to-night. The Werner girls are two of the of the stairs a fresh banana-rind, which served swellest girls I ever' met. They are not only V very well to quicken his father's pace down handsome and educated but highly accom­ the rickety stairway. plished,—and say. Jack, one of them has a voice Poor fellow! how. his head ached when he that is simply divine! They are wealthy too; reached the foot of the stairs! After muttering but I've heard that the old man is an eccentric a few words that would not look well in print, old fool; doesn't care to have the young men he staggered toward the pantry. show his daughters any attention. If a fellow The first catastrophe in the pantry was John's once gets on the right side of him, its plain -close contact with a slightly-constructed shelf sailing and an encouraging outlook." on which were a number of glass jars of fruit. "I am afraid, though, that through courtesy .He did not swear this time, though strongly we shall have to leave early," I ventured, knock­ tempted to do so, but patiently waded through ing the ashes from my cigar." two or three inches of blackberries, broken "Leave early? Well I think not. We won't glass, and other debris. Finally, thinking that mention 'go' till midnight," responded Bayard he had found the cookies, he thrust his hand assuringly. into a jar of molasses. This misfortune made "But- the old man might have a word to him iurious. He dashed toward the door—as say," I said doubtfully. he thought—but the Fates were against him. "Old man be hanged!" quickly responded He stumbled and fell flat in the puddle of Bayard hitting his fist on the arm of the chair. blackberries; and in his attempt to get up he We've not come down here to see that bald- . seized the half-filled flour-barrel, upsetting the headed old crank. There's time enough to see contents on his own disfigured person. But him." before he could utter the monstrous impreca­ Just then an elderly man who was sitting tion hovering on his lips, a dazzling light directly behind us, but to whom we had paid appeared at the pantry door, and a familiar no particular- attention, put aside the paper he voice softly said, "John, do you want a candle :>" was reading and walked into the hotel. Shortly after. Bayard suggested that we play a game -•••- of billiards to help pass the time. As we were . Why -we Didn't Call. passing the clerk's desk, that worthy gentle­ man beckoned to us. Ernest Bayard and I had gone down to "Pardon me, gentlemen," he began, "biit; . —-^ '5^'i Goshen on the noon train. That ievening I that old man, whom you perhaps noticed' was to become acquainted with the handsome sitting.in .front of the hotel a few moments.. Werner girls of \vhom I had frequently heard ago, was just in here looking over the register,-.; the boys speak. They were very sensible girls, and when, he came to your names he asked v I had heard, and the mere hope of dispensing, if you were the gentlemen registered/from - for one evening, with,that meaningless.society Bidwell. I told him. you were, and he= went;;: talk and affected; hollow, uncalled-for mirth, away muttering something about'fixing thoseki- so common among our young men and women young sprigs.'. I think his name is,Werner.'':;nr^. "7 of today, was certainly something to look We sent-our regrets. --•./".•-'.,• forward to. \ " - . • . 386 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

will wear the same colors and will cheer on their first efforts. With good luck, then, the SCHOLASTIC leaves the track team in the hands >'oVre Biime, Slarcli 5, 1898. of the Fates:—may they be kind to our warriors! Since the regeneration of Track Athletics at |SuiiIi'si)t'b t6crs Saturtian tiurfna Ecrm STimt at ^. S. iSni&crstts. Notre Dame, there are many who gave their Entered as secoud-class matter at the Post Office, Notre Dame, Ind best efforts, who worked that the represen­ Terms, Sr.jO pe?- Annum. Postpaid. tative .team of the University might be a Address: THK :eDITOR NOTRE DAJME SCHOLASTIC, good one. The runners have pattered faithfully Notre Dame, Iiid. round the gym; the jumpers and vaulters have striven to go over the bar at the highest The Board of Editors. point,—all have worked well and with much success. For this we have much to be thankful, ELMER J. MURPHy, '97; and much reason to be hopeful. However, PAUL. J. RAGAN, 'g7; FRANK J. F. CONFER, '97; the season has not yet begun. There are more FRANK E. HERING, '98; THOMAS A. MEDLEY, '98; contests to take place, and our warriors must WILLIAM SHEEHAN, '98; RAYMOND G. O'MALLEY, '98: not rest after the first tilt. EDWARD J. MINGEY, '98; FRANCIS W. O'MALLEY, '99; JOHN J. DOWD, '99; JOHN F. FENNESSEY, '97; -*••- LOUIS C. M. REED, FRANCIS O'SHAUGHNESSY, Reporters. The Lakes at Notre Datne. ROY A. MURRAY, The South Boid Times a few da^^s ago pub­ lished in full the lecture of the Hon. D. R. —In a note to the Editor of tli,e SCHOLASTIC, Leeper, to the Historical Society, on the Lakes Miss Eliza Allen Starr, the distinguished author of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, old in history and and art-critic, says: "Your last issue is more prominent in the historical affairs of Indiana, than creditable: everybody's speeches—and all was indeed a worthy subject and one of much crowned by the Ode." We are proud of appre­ interest.. When Rev. E. Sorin arrived here, a ciation from so high a source; prouder still of host of years ago it seems to the present gen­ the praise accorded the Ode'lay Miss Starr, eration of students, the two little lakes were who writes to Mr. Frank Earle Hering in buried in trackless forests, and the" Indians these terms: and:the wilderness claimed them as their own. Notre Dame was then only a little hut of logs, Will Mr. Frank Earle Hering allow Miss Eliza Allen Starr to add her congratulations to the niany.he must be and South Bend was yet to begin'its life.- Mr. receiving on his nobly patriotic as well as scholarly Ode Leeper handled his subject with much skill for Washington's Birthday? and,interest, and the Times has filled a page It is worthy to be entitled an Ode for its heroic nerve worthily; and also for the fineness of its fibre, introducing;^ as it -•••- does, so many charming similes. In stanza fourth, what are usually commonplace wishes Tlie Spiering Concert. for national morality, are expressed with originality; the allusion to the late Very Rev. Father Corby is most significant; stanza fifteen is a sublime warning to our Lovers of music at Notre Dame, who boast America.of today, while the last line is. a poetic and of being many and most critical, enjoyed a patriotic climax befitting an Ode. most pleasant concert by the Spiering Quartet ST. JOSEPH'S CoTXivGii, of Chicago. The members - were Theodore .March i, 1S98. • " . - , , , ' ' Spiering, first violin; Otto R.oehrborn, second -It will doubtless be a , stimulus to the violin; Adolph Weidig^ viola; Herman Diestel, ScHOL.ASTic staff to know that their work is violomello, assisted by Mrs. Proctor Smith, followed so carefully by our good friend, Miss sopi-^o.. The;quarfet work of the. concert was excellent, of the best ever . heard at Notre Dame; and the individual playing was received "-' -—While we- are^here at Notre Dame, there gratefully :by willing ears; .The selections^ of ; are ten or so^bravie knights of the Gold and the- quartet,-fromi;Beethoven,-Schubert and /^Blue that" are preparing: to venter into the Pvor^k, were of 4the:bfest, as such names would t'ourhament" ringi to do^^ b^^ assure, ahd"were;,welLrender^d;withr^kiirand -rand foriisi They will-biel^W^lldeceived; it is to precision;-lJEiclii5iinsti:ume)it f played the -part; .be:hoped,:by a goodly vhost of;admirers who: allotteldi so;: that: ne this: nor~ that one was .

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' conspicuously prominent, and in each selection of action lies in the intellectual and spirituai was such harniony among the four instru- world, have been seen with tomahawks in;their; nients as only careful practice could bring hands laying waste nature's most beautifuL x-r^jisi^p^m^g about. productions. If any of the smaller sprouts-ri-^^^ As a soloist, Mr.Spiering.was also very gpod. escape.and should try to regain their loss iii His tone is even, sustained and clear;',and'in:- spring they are burned With the dry leaves: the rendition of Walter's Prize Song, a'iSelecl;.^- that; are on the ground; and in this fire the tion not requiring great technicar'abilityfHe"--' beautiful wild flowers, that seem so anxious to brought out all the melody. Mr. DiesteKalso cheer the'heart of man after winter's dreary' showed much cleverness with the violoncello, f;' days, .are . destroyed. - "'] • . ,: The tone was fairly clear and his .techhique . rDeplorable as this work pf destruction fs, it good. - .. : \1-;- is not more detrimental to our iiatural scenery .Mrs. Proctor Smith has a very good;soprano'- :than is the: method of planting \vhich has been voice, which is strong and rich, though, perhaps, ' ^ in 5 vogue. We all know that Nature. never : not so. delicate and carefully usedrbut" study " repeatsr-her work; nevertheless, rows of treesj would improve. The selection from The Queen - .are planted at equal distances apart around th^ of Sheba was very well done, so well done that ' Jake,-and along walks which lead through :*M^<| the audience would have wished for much • groves of oak trees,.destroying- thereby the more. As it was, the concert was all too short.- very character of a natural grove. The-melody was gone in a moment—faded, . Here and there flower-beds are laid out after, 'igm melted away. The listed selections were geometrical patterns among forest trees, and ivm good, and the responses to encores Were good. these pages from Euclid are as so many dis­ In this age, which many claim to be full of cordant notes in a beautifulsym^phony. Even S'§S Philistinism, we may be proud of such music. near the boat-house theinsuppressible gera­ In all, everything was of the best, and Notre nium and gaudy coleus are found where the Dame begs another visit from this quintet of weeping willow should grow and the nelum- Si musicians. bium and nymphasa .run rampant. m^ Hedges seem to be in special favor with pur planters, although nothing destroys all breadth, ^ The Preservation of Natural Scenery at repose and unity in a place so liiuchas hedges.^ Notre Dame. They give to it the appearance of a number of small garden-plots. Terraces, which are diffi­ That pleasing natural scenery has a positive cult to keep in order and which always call/ '-•4mm value of its own is a proposition which will for formal gardening, are made wherean irreg- ; hardly be disputed, and yet few persons seem ular mound, covered partly with native shrubs,^ to realize that, if this be true, the destruction of would be more in harmony with the surround-: ; such scenery must be a loss to the common­ ings. The formal or geometric style of laying wealth. We have seen how ideal lawn trees, out grounds may be employed where.the archi­ with their lower branches sweeping the turf, tectural surroundings suggest rigidity and for­ had these branches ruthlessly lopped off merely mality; but it is entirely out.of;.place near our "to get a nice top. on them." Even conifers, forest-bordered lakes, for an; offence against '-'' • i:-.^--t.v-sS which by their nature require a moist, cool soil, appropriateness and harmony is an offence have been trimmed till they resembled Ger­ against beauty itself. . - , ;_ \ man toy trees. Nor*\vere these branches cut We believe that no money spent in" out­ close to the trunk so that the wound might door improvements on. the college grounds; -heal and be ultirtiately covered with bark, but could be employed to better advantage than a stub was left where each'branch had been, by securing the services of a. first class laridj^^: and this amputated limb must inevitably die scape architect:. It requires an artist of the; arid rot. The-decay will, soon eat its way:down first rank that is able to successfully harmonize -into the triink, and the - disfigured tree: is the work of man and that of nature; one that; •doomed to certain and early death.'; is able tp decide what are the enduring and ' Whole belts^ of shrubbery, which served as :essential featuires in bur: scenery and';wHat are merely temporary and adventitious. I £ his{ .'a screen to shut oiit unsightly poultry-houses, '- - - —»g~,' have been uprooted. Itis not the farmer alone, plans were then carried into effectVNotreJDamel; whpsee.ms to abhor all " brushwood;'','that com­ woukl become a place: Pfdelight Jin aUits.ipaHs^^^^^ mits .tiiese' depredations. Men, whose .sphere :and• aL-aU .seasons. '-. ^: -: >f.,. •-;- :\z••':- •'-^C^'-v.j^Jf/jjC -*^^^^

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The little Grand Army post of absence from the Provincial, Another "War-Tirae Chaplain. of Notre Dame has taken into and set out for the seat of war. its fold another veteran of the On his way he visited the war whose history of days and Marine hospital at Mound City, nights on the battlefield made IllinoiSjWhere there were twenty smooth his way to member­ Sisters of the Holy Cross, min­ ship. This twelfth member is istering to the wounded and the Reverend Joseph C. Carrier, dying. By a special arrangement C. S. C, of St. Laurent College, of General Buford, a boat was Montreal, Canada; sometime ready to take him down the professor of botany and dean river. On land an army wagon of the scientific department at was provided for his trip to the Notre Dame University. rear of Vicksburg. So he made About the beginning of the his journey. year 1863, Father Carrier was Father Carrier, seeing the pastor of St. Patrick's Church need of a chaplain in an army in South Bend, and seemed of so great a size, took up that to have no tliought of entering official position with the Sixth the army, until he received REV. JOSEPH c. CARRIER, cs.c. Regiment of Missouri Volun­ through the Very Reverend Edward Sorin, teers. He was the only Catholic chaplain in then Provincial-General of the Order, a letter Grant's army. He entered Vicksburg on the from Mrs. W. T. Sherman, asking him to go to day of its fall, July-4, 1863. From Vicksburg Vicksburg. A short time before, Rev. John he went with the army of Gen. Sherman to Ireland, now Archbishop of St. Paul, resigned Jackson, and afterward camped upon the Big his position, leaving the whole army of the Black river where he was taken ill with malaria. Mississippi without a Catholic ciiapl'ain. Mrs. He was obliged to withdraw on this account; Sherman wished Father Carrier to make but General Grant allowed him the favor of merely a ministerial visit to her husband, unlimited leave of absence. His name remained General Sherman, and her three brothers, the on the roll of chaplains until 1883, when he Generals Ewing. He obtained a month's leave formally resigned.

-*«•- Track. Athletics.

Last Sunday afternoon Captain Fred Powers they won their . places in the trials Sun­ and his band of candidates ran off the trials. day:—One-mile walk, Rowan; One-mile run, The men that won them are representing Notre M. O'Shaughnessy and Fennessey; half-mile Dame in the Chicago meet today. Whether run, Dwyer; Quarter-mile run. Farley. Captain the}'^ will bring back any "trophies remains to Powers, jfiarry, Farley and Daly have been be seen; but they will certainly get experience working.iri the relay race. During the trials the in large doses, and that is of more importance track was muddy and in some places choked just now than mere medals. For it is the dual- with water. meet with Illinois, the state meet and the It will be well to.keep an eye on Martin Western Intercollegiate contests that will really O'Shaughnessy in the -long runs. He keeps count,.and by that time our track team will himself together well and finishes like a race­ have rounded into form. horse. \^^ith more experience he will be inval­ The make-up of the team,.as given,by the uable. Wynne goes well in the dashes, and will Captain, is as follows:—^75-yard dash, Barry undoubtedly make the team; Rowan, Farley .and Daly; .220-yard-dash, Barry and Daly; i61b. and Dwyer are strong in their events, but shot-put, Eggeman"and F..Powers; pole-vault, Captain Fred Powers is the man upon whom R Powers; high-jump, Powers, Rowan, Hoover; the enthusiasts pin their faith.. He is a splendid hurdles, .Hoover. : all-round athlete, and the men under him should ^ :Jbhn Engledrum, the famous long-distance literally wear medals. As for himself he 'will runner, who is in control of the men, says that add a few more trophies to his already exten­ the" following runners will show .up well today; sive, stock; .... . L. T; W.

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ExchafH^es. Our Friends.

The judges of the Yale Co7iraiit short-story —Attorney P. J. Brady", of Cleveland, Ohio, contest evidently have queer opinions con­ called on Notre Dame friends during the week. cerning the short-story. The prize story, "The — Reverend Father Cullinane, pastor of the Ex-Banshee," which has the place of.honor Niles'parish, visited Notre Dame friends on^ in the Courant before us, is in the weakest Monday. contribution in the number. —;Mrs. Annette G.Graham of Indianapolis,and friends, called on Very Reverend Presiden * * Morrissey last week. We welcome the Georgetotvn Joiirnal's new —Mr. Ryan of Racine, accompanied by Mr.. ex.-man. Just at present he thinks our " nar­ P. O'Brien, of South Bend, visited the Univer­ row-minded and crotchety views. . . . are all- sity during the past week. sufficient either thoroughly to disgust any —Mr. M. Naughton of Chicago, who has se"nt fair-minded critic or to sour his kindly-disposed several sons to Notre Dame, was present at the intentions;" but we hope he will change his Washington's Birthday exercises. unkind thoughts about us, and that as he grows —Mr. McBride, of the well-known Publish­ older he will learn that a little well-meant ing firm, and wife; of Akron, Ohio, visited th^eir criticism should be taken in the proper spirit. sons during the early part of the week. In the sixth paragraph of his article, Mr.Mc- —Mr. Michael P. Hannin, C. E., '93, visited his many friends at the University on Sunday Aleer gives us his ideas of what a college last. Mr. Hannin was warmly welcomed by the paper should be, and we must say they are Faculty and students. the correct ones. The other members of the —Thomas O'Hagan, Ph. D., the Canadian JournaVs staffs however, do not agree with litterateur, of Arthur, Ont., made a short call on the ex.-man, if the present plan of the paper Monday evening. A business engagement is a" criterion of their views. The new ex.-man imfortunately cut short Doctor O'PIagan's stay. informs the world that "his predecessor sighed —Ex-Mayor George W. Dugan, of Niles, for release" because of our cruel treatment; father of Richard Dugan, student '94-'95, died and he adds that we reason in this fashion: at Niles on February 8. Mr. Richard Dugan has the sympathy of his many friends at Notre "' I'm all right, but you're not at all like me, Dame. therefore you're all wrong.' " In conclusion, he —A letter was received during the past week thanks the SCHOLASTIC for " the half-page free from one of our old-time students, Mr. John advertisement it has given to the articles and Moffitt, who is practising law in Chicago. Mr. contributions of the Journal;" and then con­ Moffitt's Notre Dame friends were pleased- to cludes for the second time his full-'^dige. adver­ hear from him. tisement of the SCHOLASTIC by "wondering'' —Mr. John A. McNamara, '97, is a student ungrammatically " how large a portion of that in St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, near Yonkers, N. Y. It is the hearty wish of his catalogue of students, that regularly appear on Notre Dame friends that he will enter success­ the SCHOLASTIC'S last page, was crowded out by fully the holy priesthood. this prodigal generosity." He wrote the page of —Mr. Samuel T. Murdock, C. E.,'86, of La­ words, we believe, to convince us that our views fayette, Ind., and Mrs. Murdock, visited the of the Journal are erroneous. Which it doesn't. President and Faculty recently. Our graceful steel flag-pole and the large flag that is used *** -In the-issue - of February i6, the men that on special occasions were presented to. the University by Mr. Murdock. Notre Dame has have done the editorial work so well on The no truer friends than Mr. and Mrs. Murdock. Harvard Lanipoo7i. during the past year say We should like to see them with us oftener. farewell to their readers, and hand "Lampy" —-In an-item in the SCHOLASTIC last week over to the care of their successors. The Lam­ concerning the Notre Dame men that have poon lost none of its old-time glory under their- risen to the bench, the erroneous statement care, and they may well look back with pride was made that Judge Gibbons of Chicago had to the many clever editorials and bright bits retired. This was one of those unexplainable mistakes that sometimes escape even the most of wit and humor the Lanipoon contained while careful proof readers. Judge Gibbons, we are in the hands of the retiring .board. It is our happy to say, is today one of the most popular earnest wish-to see. the new men work as faith­ and competent judges in the curcuit court"of fully and with as good results as the men that Cook County. We hope to see him occupy his have just gone out. honorable office for many years to come.". ^ 390 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC T. Murray's story, "On the Bridge," was in-i Local Items. teresting. The pxogramrhe was well rendered' Mr. J. Mulcare gave a reading entitled " Man —Found.—Some drinking water- at Captain Friday and the Bear." Bob's. Come, everybody. —^The Philapatrian Society held its regular —Lost.—M}'' appetite. Finder, please return meeting March 2. The program.me was very before dinner time to Ed. Sebrowne, Sorin interesting. The musical selections by Masters Hall. Cornell and Leffingwell, and recitations by- —Speaking about the cold, zero is nothing, Masters Block and Beardslee, were well ren­ said a student as. he displayed the big"0" dered. The programme for next meeting marked on his examination papers. promises to be very entertaining. —Lost.—rMy temper somewhere near the —'Cumularupp,' my mutter sach und I goes Brownson gym. Please return at once as I der house in.shmiling my whole face ofer mit need it to cope with Logic. Cal. A. Hann. a in pail which ich hat die ku gemilkt. mit. Und sie hat su mir sagen,'' mein poy I haf you a —Clarence Corby was very mysterious about leetle surbrise gemacheri.' Und, ,0 mein, der a letter he wrote home last week. Joe strongly vas a whole pig plate of sauer kraut und spec. suspects that he has written for a razor. Haw-haw-haw! — But the door was closed —The department store economy—that of and the smell of the pigs* feet simmering on getting quantity for, your money—has per­ the oil-stove was cut off. vaded these parts and is particularly noticeable in the hair cuts. • .—That boy Jamie has taken a meteoric plunge again. Two days ago he was actually —Will Berry has given oath that if the discovered eating chocolate drops, arid now he weather department continues to serve out its is a wreck. Some one dropped in upon him stuff.in this way, he will go back to Missouri unexpectedly last night and there the boy was where one can get just what one orders. sitting on the, floor in the corner leering like —Peter Duffy begins his dinner with pie. a last century's harvest moon. His hair was Tom O'Brien says that he does other things dishevelled, his ej'^es were rolling, and in his different from most people, as, for instance, hand was a half empty glass of cocoa that putting on his coat before he does his waist­ Steiner made.. coat. .—A card to the.public.—Many, people are —Of course, there is much speculation on under the impression that I am of Spanish the outcome of the Chicago meet that is held origin on account of my given name. I wish to this evening. We do not expect much in take this opportunity of correcting that impres­ the way of points, but the experience will be sion. In the first-place 1 am thoroughly of Iowa invaluable. origin, have always lived there and expect to —Coach "McDonald is putting the finishing continue to reside there. My name Don is not touches to his Carroll work. He has built up a the Don that is often seen on Castile soap, but strong team, and brought out a young pitcher, is a contraction of Donegal. I hope this expla­ Mr. Alexis Cbquillard. All this in less than nation will quiet any. further rumors on the three weeks, which speaks well for his work. subject. Yours, Don Morrison. —Now that the spring is coming on us, could —COMMUNICATION.—Mr. Editor, I want, to not the far-famed " Professor " make prepara­ tell you that I think that every true-minded tions" to mend that roof. To do it now when man should think—in consideration of the weather permits would display more philoso­ many, and multitudinous questions that require : phy than to postpone it till next vi'ini&r.^—Sabef the deepest thought of a thinking man that —Carroll Hall is to have a track team of its really thinks much of the country in which he own. Land and Kasper have entered for the lives—a country full of good and nobleness, 100-yard dash;. Schmitt and Krug for the mile. stretching from ocean to ocean whose waves McCarthy is in for the pole vault; Brovvn is beat tumultuolisly on her shores—I want to going for high jump, andHinze has decided to say—^I forget what it is now. . put the.shot. These are all the candidates - - INTERROGATOR. so far. P. _S.—TI shall let you know next week. —The Editor of our Great Men of Today -^The Sorin Hall , Art arid Architectural column.^^ is at present under the care of a Reading-Room and Billiard Hall Association physician. Recently he very thoughtlessly is, to be given alife-size.portrait.of the back submitted to several prominent men of the yard painted by Grigui Legoiri at the age of two University the question," What would you do yiears and.one minute. The picture isa.wonderr if you were a man?" and he hasn't done-any- ful work of: art with sublimity of color and : thing si rice. . ;: , : -; \. - grandeur of frame. In the: centre is the roof- .f r—The St. Cecilians hejd .theif 5th" regular garden with three old shoes and an old pair of meeting, Wednesday ^ eyening. i Owing to a Tom p'Brieri's ''pants "draped artistically from' ;misunderstahding, the debate .was omitted. Mr. the eaves. In the upper left-hand corner" is:

, - ..J- --,'•-r--! ^mMMmmm NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 39^ Guilbert smiting at the barren soil and conxbing Tex.; Ballard, B. L. '42, is reading his epics and his hair, to make the spring come back. (The dodging eggs in Red Oak,. Iowa; Gladstone, spring hasn't arrived yet.) In, the right is A. B., '21, has'a good government position in Landers and his gang. They can not be seen; England; B. Jingo Mason, C. E.,'87, is electri­ but the picture is so. true to. life yo.u hear them fying Congress with the eloquence that made yelling. him so popular at Notre D.ame; Bacchante, A.B., ^Some few people in the vicinity of Notre '92, is posing in New York; Frigidg Nansen, Dame claim to have seen robins at this early B. S., '88, is-boiling blubber in Ujkljjgski, Nor­ time of the year, chirruping on the yet faded way; Douglas, LL.'B., '45, the three-dollar shoe- grass and flapping their wings in the sunshine. man, is erecting a plant for the manufacture of With all due respect to the visual power of hair-restorer in Turnip Hollow/Mass.; Pabst, these persons, it seems exceedingly strange B.S.,'57, is running a brewery in Mishawaka; that robins should be with us so early. Either Jim Corbert, B. L., '85, is writing for the press;, these robins have been ejected from the sunny and EmilZola, B.L., '52, is doing time^in Paris. South by their brethren for bad habits, or these Alumnae.—Bertha M. Claye, B. L., '41, is writ­ unwise birds have had their legs pulled by the ing a serial for The Yellozv Cozv; Lydia E. Indiana weather prophets. A bit or even a whole Pinkhim, B. S., '38, is still making her "Pink- week of sunshine and warmth is likely to be Pills" in Pinkston, Mass.; Ruth Hashmore, followed by a blizzard; and these all-knowing B. L.,'26, is editing her "Snide Talks with red-breasted birds may wink their other eye Girl's" column in the Old Woina)Cs Jmtrrial; the and freeze to death, if they don't get out seven Cherry Sisters, all of the Class of'48, Spring will be here some time before August; are on the stage; Mrs. Booth-Tooker, S. A.,'52, not before. is fighting the devil in New York; and Susan B. Antimony, C. E., '23, is keeping her.name in 1st WITCH (He of the bellicose spirit).— When shall we three meet again— the papers some old way. In Egypt, Greece, or on the " Maine? " —There are few coats without a tail, and yet * 2d WITCH (He o£ sage counsel).— When the hurlyburly's clone, there are fewer coats with a tale; but this story When the "scrap "is fought and won. is about a coat without a tail and with a tale. 3d WITCH (He of the missing-links).— Any of the old students of last year will I'll, be there like a son-bf-a-gun. ALL.—Fair is foul, and foul is fair. remember the handsome plaid mackintosh that Let us rant and tear our hair. was the property of one F. Howard Pirn. This 1st WITCH.—Round about the law-room go; garment was the envy of most of the students. -Out the little infants throw. The possessor was wont to array hiinself in Leading men, with brawn and bone. Killed and maimed have thirty-one. this garment and promenade up and down the Sweltered venom they have got; pavements for display. Tom became a con­ Paw the earth and come to naught. spicuous member of the Hardly Able set. He ALL.^-Double,-double toil and trouble; threw himself into the crowd with all the ardor Fire burn and faction bubble. of his being, and with himself went the plaid • —Early last Monday evening residents of coat. Soon the coat became the joint property^ the North Side were surprised and alarmed to of the set. Dr. Burke Falvey, when he wanted see the big red patrol wagon, manned by the to be elegant, took the coat off the hook and chief and his officers, come-tearing down Rue- wore it.. Long Tom O'Hara would, anxiously te-toot. The noise of the horses' hoofs upon await his turn, which came after Mike Daly's. the pavement and the clanging of the big gong Charlie Flannigan would drape it gracefully~ brought everyone out into the street, and for a over his herculean form, and cajole himself into time, excitement ran high. The wagon halted the belief that he was Marcus Tullius Cicero. in front of No. 94 Rue-te-toot where the land­ When the Hardly Able football" team" was lord, A; Genius, and three others were arrested organized the plaid coat served as their battle for violating ordinance umpty-seven. Before flag. It then became an emblem of war, and the mayor the defendants were each fined never afterward was it looked upon other­ twenty-five and costs. This being his first wise. Its presence in the gym was a sure signal offence, the proprietor was given his choice for disorder. It was only a question of time between the payment of a fine of twenty-five .until the tail became a negative quantity. and an hour's labor. He paid the.fine. Several Then it wa.s laid away forever, presumably; but other raids were made the same night, and each unhappily it was brought out from' its secret yielded remunerative results. A large crowd retreat the other: day,-and displayed in the of disturbers of the peace, were found at No. gym. A Spanish bomb could not have caused . 84 Rue Maison Reuf, and each paid the usual greater havoc; and the old coat—the old war fine. The police are vigilant nowadays, and •flag—was torn and ravelled beyond recognition. more arrests are expected. In the general roughouse the glorious old routs —ALUMINI;—(This department is run so of Burke, Falvey, and the. whooping athletes, asV that our old students may know one another's they ploughed through the tangled mass oh ^ whereabouts.—Ed.) Brann, B. L.,'71, is run­ the gridiron,,would:hardly equal the closing ning the earth and a newspaper in Wakoe, scene of the old plaid coat. 392 NGTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

—The ScHOL.^STic is offering for the best Farley, Foster, Fleming, M. Flannigan, Furry, Fogarty, young Parable, a 4 x 3 plug of Battle-Ax with Guerra, Glasheen, Graham, Guilfoyle, Gainer, C. Garza, Hoover, Herbert, Harrington, . Hubbard, Heinemann, the tag on. We print herewith the first com­ Hagerty, Hanley, S L. Hunter, S. R. Hunter, C. Hunter, petitive story received. A. Hayes, Hoban^ Hennebry, Hering, J. Hayes, Jennings, The other day Heine was sitting in the E. Jackson, Kellner, Kehoe, Klein, Kuppler, Koehler, Browns'on Gym with one foot on a bench and Kasper, Kangley, Kessler, Kiley, Keith, Kaul, Kennedy, Lampert, Merz, Metcalf, Mulcrone, Morrison, Morales, the other across the back of his neck, when Mulligan, McCallen, McNichols, McDoniald, D. Naugh- he espied a chocolate-drop lying under the ton, J. Naughton, Otero, O'Reilly, F. O'Shaughnessy, M. steam-pipes on the floor. "Ah," quoth Heine O'Shaughnessy, O'Connor, Pickett, Posselius, Powers, J. F. Ryan, Rupel. Reuss, Reising, San Roman, Sullivan, delightedl}' as he picked up the alluring sweet­ Schubert, Sauer, Shiels, Sherman, Sanford, St. Louis, meat, *'I have it once! I will already trade it in Schwartz, Summers Schermerhorn, Simpson, Spalding, at the store so soon for one leetle pretzel, and Sossoman, Smogor," Sullivan, Tong, Thacker, J. Taylor, the brother what yet takes me from it don't Vogt, Wieezorek, Robert Wilson, Waters, Ralph Wilson, know I got it from where I got it from." W. Ward, G. AVilson, Wagenman, Wells, With this he marched up to the counter and CARROLL HALL. exchanged the chocolate-drop for a piece of Messrs. Armijo, Bloch, Bntt, Brice, Brann, Barrett, L. the twisted crust. ''Ah! dot vas a goot one," Beardslee, G. Beardslee, Bligh, Bellinger, H. E. Brown, he said, smiling from ear to ear at the thought Becker, Berger, Buck, Clement, Clyne, Caruthers, Carney, of how he had hoodwinked the store-keeper. Crowley, Condon, Curtis, A. Coquillard, J. Coquillard, Cowie, Davidson' Dinnen, Donsett, Edgarton, Ernst But on his way out he met Big Fritz, who," EHwanger, Elitch, Fink, FJinn, Flynn," Furlong, Ferstl seeing the pretzel, snatched it away from him, Frank, Friedman, Fleming, Girsch, Graham, Gibbons, and poor Heine was left without the pretzel or Green, L. Garrity, M. Garrity, Hinze, Hanner, Hickey, the chocolate-drop. Had he been coming along Hogan, Holmes, Hoban, Higgins, Hubbell, Juretich, Joyce, Jaworski, F. Kasper, R. Kasper, Krug, Kirkland, with the chocolate-drop. Big Fritz would have G. Kasper, Kelly, Leach, Luken, Land, Leffingwell, left him unmolested. Moral: Keep what you Morris, Moon, T. iVluIcare, J. Mulcare, Moxley, Morgan, have, and then you'll always have what you Mooney, A. Mueller, W.. Mueller, R. Murray, Maher, keep. Morrissey, T. Murray, McLernon, McConnell, McSorley, E. McCarthy, MacSheehy, T. iVIcCarthy, O. McMahon, —Here are the words of a pathetic little McNaughton, McDonnell, McDermott, McNichols, Nast, song written by a brilliant Sorinite: Nolan, Nponan, Naughton, Ordetx, O'Malley, Petritz, Padden, Phillips, Pulford, Putnam, Ouinlan, Ryan, At his window on the third phlat Richon, Staples, Swan, Smith, Stengel, E. Sheekey, Stood young Willie Kegelier, Slevin, Schmitt, Shea, Schoonover, J. Sheekey, Scheftels, He a pitcher in his hand had A^on Albade, Weidmann, White, Ward, Wheelock, Werk, Filled with nothing more than—water. Welch. Willie heard a student coming ST. EDWARD'S H.A^LL. And he quickly let her go; Masters'Abrahams, Arnold, Abercrombie, T. Butler, W. But the contents of the pitcher Butler, Bernero, Blanchfield, Bosworth, P. Bortell, C. Drenched a prefect down below. Bortell, Cressy, Casparis, Clark, Cunnea, Caruthers, Dyer, t)ougherty. Downer, Dessauer, Donahoe, Davis, CHORUS Dildine, F. Ebbert, G. Ebbert, Ervin. Frain, Frost, Poor Willie has twenty-five more, Fleischer, Fleming, A. Fuchs, C. Fuchs, J. Fogarty, F. Fogarty, Miles Flynn, Milton" Flynn, Griffith, Guilbault, Poor Willie has twenty-five more; Huleatt, Houser, Hinsey, J. Hart, L. Hart, Hall, T. Jack­ He laughed when he threw it, son, G. Jackson, Jonquet, Kelly, Kerwin, Leclerque, But now he does rue it. Lawton, Lockwood, Leisander, E. Manion, P. Manion, And he'll never do that anv more. J. McGeeney, E. McGeeney, P. McBride, L. McBride, J. McBride, Willie McBride, McCarthy, R. McMaster, B. McMaster, McFarland, B. Nye, C. Nye,. Nix, Ninne- man, O'Conner, O'Leary, Paul, F. Phillips, G. PhillipsJ Roll of Honor. Purdy, Robbins, Strong, Sinnott, Schoiilau, Shields, Sey­ mour, Shipley, St. Claire, Schaus, Topper, R. Van Sant. L. Van Sant, Veneziani, J. Van Dyke, F. Van Dyke, H. Van Dyke, Von Albade, Wilde, Weidman, Williams. SORIN HALL. Weber, Weis, Colbert. Messrs. Arce, Atherton, Brown, B^'rne, Carney, Cornell, Campbell, Corcoran, Duffy, Dukette, Delaney, Dreher, HOLY CROSS HALL. Eyanson, Fehr, Falvey, Franey, Follen, Flynn, Foley, Fo.x, Geoghegan, Gilbert. Hanhauser, Hartung, Johnson , Messrs. Barthel, Buse, Coyne, Crowley, DeLorimier, Kegler, Kearney, Kraus, Medley, W. Murpfly,' Mott, Dwan, DeWulf, Darrori, Davis, DuGuay, Gallagher, M. Miller, Mingey, Monahan, Morris, McConn, McGinnis, Gorski, Hiss, Heiser, J. J. Hennessey, J. L Hennessey, McCormack, McDonough, Neizer, T. O'Brien, J. (O'Brien. Long, Lavin, Murphy,. Marr, Moynihan, McKinney, F. F. O'Malley, O'SuUivan, Pulskamp, Powers, Rahe, W. McKeon, Nieuwland, Norman, M. J. Oswald, M. Oswald, Sheehan, Steiner, Spaulding, Stuhlrauth, Wurzer, Ward, O'Brien, O'Connell, Ritter, Sutton, Sullivan, A. Sam- AVelker. , . mon, Schumacher, Szalewski, Trahey, Walsh, Wimberg, BROWNSOX HALL. ; ST." JOSEPH'S HALL. Messrs. Adams, Armijo, H. Barry, Bohner, F. Bouza, J. Messrs." Benson, Brogan,' Baldwin, Brand, Clifford. Bpuza, Baab, Burg, W. Berry,-J. Berry, Burns, Baloun, Carlton, Cullinan, Grepeau, J. Corley, E. Corley,' Dwyer,' Callahan, Cavariaugh, Crunican, Coriway. Cypher, Crum­ Dorian, Doran, Fentbn, Furlong, Guiff, Hartzer, Jones, ley,. Campbell,; Dominguez, ;Dalton, Donahoe, Drejer, Kachur, James .Kellyj John Kelly, Lynch, Malone, F. Dopley,;Donpvanj~V.,Dwyer, Devine, J.Dillon, Duperier, Malloy, B. Malloy, McEUigott, J. Mclntyre, McDonald, Darst, Dellorie, Daly, T. Dillon,.Desrriond, T. Dwyer, McKeever, Norris, Neville, Pieper, Poulin; Ppwer, Rinke, . Doherty, Diskin, Fitrvvilliam, Fetherston, Farragher, Shields, Sherry, Wolf. " '