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VOL. XXXIX. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, EASTER, 1906. No. 25.

The Resurrection—A Miracle Play.

TIT DMAS E. BURKK, '07

Dm ma t is Fersowie.

1ST MAKY (Magdalene) J RSUS PETKU

2i) MAK'Y ( Mother of James) |oiix

3n MAKV (Sah)me) AXOKL SciiNi-: I.

Jeriisnlcni. Enrly in ilie morning. Tlie three Afnrys pppronch the tomb. rr\H^IKS T MAKV. Two suns liave sunk since It scemeth that the sun doth shine from here gV first thc\' hiid Him here .»\nd is but mirrored in the opal sky. J (Tltey enter the tomb.) ^ In the grey'cvc when .-dl the world vcas sad. 1ST A1.\.KY. What nmn is that ? Plow the rocks split and runiljling thunder i^oared, /Vnd earth, grown sick with crime, did vomit forth 2n M.\RY. Man? The moulded forms of long-departed dead. 1ST MARY. Ves. 2i) .MARY. 2D MARY. Come, come awn\'. Behold the heav\- stone is rolled awa\'. 1 did not see Him for the piercing light The guards are gone and we are here alone. Tiiat shone around Him. Come let us awaA'. 3D MARY. Let's enter in. 3u MARY. {Singing AS lienrcl in the tomb.) The Lord is gone! Look here!—the winding sheet.

1ST MARY. What music do 1 hear? 1ST MARY. It falls upon me like His soothing A'oice Alas! What umn hath taken Him awa^-. . When 1 did hear it last consoling me. What one hath stole the dead out of its tomb? And looking- up to Him through bitter tears Did no.t the dumb wounds of the slaughtered Lamb I said, "Rabboni!" and He, "Peace, be still." Crv out with crimson tongues against the deed?— Mv S(iul with sorrow and With grief o'erflows . (Voices Singing.) Until- I've found the body of niA'. Lord. Gone like the bubble that breaks {E.xit 1st Afary.) And leaves not a ripple behind it; A.VOEL. Gone like the flower's soft tear Peace! Peace! be not afraid. He is not here; When the beams of the morning sun find it. .• Behold the place where the\- did la\- Him do\\-n- . Gone is the J^ord from the tomb. Go tell His brethren risen is the Lord But soon I-Iis beloved shidl behold Him; And goes before them into Galilee. Soon shtdl His JMother of tears 2D MARY. Clo.se to her bosom enfold Him. He said that He would rise on the third da\-. The hour is past, so let us haste awa^-. 3D JMARY. These soft, sweet strains arc wafted from the tomb (Exic ^fnrys.) Where A-esterday there Avas but grief and gloom. ScK-KF. II.—1st JMnry M-eeping in the garden.

2n M.VRY. Let's enter in. JESUS. 1ST JM.VKV. 1 fear thcA-'ve moved nn- Lord. Woman, why weepest thou? Why here alone?

2D MARY. MARY. AI\' eves are dim with the excessive light Because UIA- Lord is stolen from the tomb That burstetli forth out of this rocky tomb; Like tlie unsullied pearl oiit of its shell. 4IO NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

Sir, if 'twas thou that moved Him from the place And 1 did find surcease of pain and grief Say where He lies and I will haste away, Within His sweet embrace. AwaA'! awa3'! Spill over Him m\- tears and with 1113- hair {Enter 2d arid Sd Marys.) Wipe out the blood stains, and anoint His head. PETER. .JKSUS. Mary. Too true the Lord hath risen from the dead MAKV (tnrnmig-.) Rabbonil As the immaculate lih- from the soil; Linger no longer here, but let's nAva3\ JESUS. DO not touch nie now Till I ascend.to that white throne above {Enter 1st Mary.) Unto the Bosom of Eternal Love. 1ST ]\'1ARY. (/Je vanishes,') Lo! 1 have seen the Lord in raiment white JVIARY. That did outshine the ever-burning sun; His Avounds which lateh' were like crimson springs Around His head a cloud of silvern light, Did sparkle now like jiools of Bethan3-. ' And in His peaceful e3'es a look serene. His e3'es were placid as the troubled sea He gazed upon me, and mine e3-es grew dim; When He did bid the churned wave be still. His voice, like oil poured out upon m3- heart, i^Exit 1st Mary.) Wounded and sore, did soothe and comfort me.

ScKXE III.—Jerusalem. The home of St. John. PETER. Enter the t\vo Marys, Peter and John. Would that the sun were fixed in the sk3', And shade and shadow hid in heaven's caA-es; 3n MAKY. - Would nn3'^ poor e3'es would not grow wearisome 'Tis true the Lord is risen from the dead. Until within the shade of Tabor's mount PETEK. I la3' me down to rest in. Galilee, Impossible! Your ej-es have been deceived, W'here the Redeemer risen I might see! 2D MARY. . {E.xit all.) .Not so, for we did go into the tomb. SCENE YJ—Eveninsr in the Garden of Gcthscmane. ^^ St- - The stone, we know not how, was laid aside. Enter Peter and John. There lay the milk-white winding sheet, and lo! JOHX. An angel seated in the tomb we saw, The bird of dawn soars crimsom to the west His face was as the lightning and his cloak The night is on, the warbler seeks its nest. Was ciystal-white as the late-fallen snow. PETER. , "Peace! Peace!" he said, "\'Ou seek the Crucified; But hark! a shepherd crooning in the hills. He is not here, but risen gloriously {Singing.) And goes before A-^OU into Galilee." Joirx. Can it be so? Safe m3'^ sheep ~ I. watchful keep PETER. iet's hasten to the tomb.. Through all the silver night. I fear that sorrow hath besieged their minds ; I'll wind m3' horn And oped the floodgates' of their mightj"^ grief, W^hen da3' is born Working deception to their very sight. , And welcome in its. light. ^ ScEXE IV.—Be/ore the tomb. Enter. Peter and John. TOHX. They examine the sepulcher. Sweet song doth-well refresh the outwoi"!! heart, PliTER. , . And like a child awcary^ of the da\' Great God, forgive 1113' doubt, and give me wings I could lie down and gaze into the sk3', That I ma3' speed me into Galilee; , W^atch the bright stars plaA- hide among the clouds , Spread out.tln-^ slcA'aljOA-e me as the hen Or daiice upon the \voof of heaven's floor Spreadeth her wings over her little chicks. . Until my CA-CS hcaA'3" with the long shades That I ma3' meet no wrong until the hour , Should close unwillingK' in plccisant dreams. \Vlie'rein P-ve found the Lord in Galilee. PETER.* ^. •..•.' JoHx:: i 1 : . . • -^ . , _ HoAA' full of mystery this da3' hath been Away; awaA', nn-heart doth crave for Him; ''[' But to the end God's hand hatlr guided all. Like a yvild bird imprisoned doth it beat - The hills liaA-e been laid low, the A'alle3^s filled W^itli anxious flutterings,against my breast. And the impossible made possible. -That holy.bosorn now doth rise and fall%. , .Dawn did.these sorry troubles all rcA-^eal, = As.on the night when we did eat,the pasch, Day rolled, them up and EA'ening set the seal. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 411

rAmazement.

AS some rapt gazer in a lowly vale Beholds the mountain with tall pines upon it, So look vtxx e\-es in wonderment at you Crowned Avith your fortv-dollar Easter bonnet. T. E. B.

The Vacant Stare. herself the cj-nosure of critical feminine eyes; but when she discovered several pairs of masculine eyes staring at her, denevicve JOHN C. MCOINN, '06; w^ished she had been more modest in the selection of her Easter hat. OR. w^eeks Genevieve Hanran had It wasn't long, however, till Genevieve's talked of nothing but her new circle of friends and the quiet people of Easter hat; in fact, she thought Wakefield became familiar with her new of little else, and • oftentimes creation. Indeed, she might have forgotten would interrupt her companions all about it had not Ernest—Ernest was in the midst of their girlish con-, her beau—dropped her a line asking her to versation and interrogate them about their come over to Natic and go to the theatre Easter bonnets. w^ith him. Now Genevieve wanted to go to Usually a hat is a A^erj^ unassuming orna­ the show; yes, and she wanted to w^ear her ment, but not so with a w^oman's hat, and new hat because Ernest had not as 3'et seen particularl^r the hat that Genevieve wore it and she knew he wanted to sec it because on Easter Sunday. And no wonder, for she had talked to him so much about it her undivided attention had been given and had even gone so far as to make him to the making of this hat, and when assist in selecting the flowers which were to her mental forces were centered on any adorn it. particular object, well, the result w^as Well, Genevieve found one of her chums, usually sensational. So it w^as with her one that Ernest did not like particularly Easter hat. Stich a creation of loveliness well. As a rule, Genevieve acted like other had never before attracted the attention girls, and when Ernest asked her to bring a of the girls of Wakefield, nor the young friend along ^th her, she usuallj" succeeded men either. And this made Genevieve in taking one for whom he did not care ^ happy — happy because it made her much. Now whatever else could be said conscious that her's was liiore than the of her it could not be tnithfulh'- said that ordinarv'- Easter hat. she was slow^, at least as to time; and so As she strolled leisurely^ homeward from on the appointed night at the appointed church she felt that everyone was looking time Genevieve and Helen Gone strolled at her and her hat, and in the complacent arm in arm into the appointed cafe. , smiles and nods of her girl friends Genevieve Perhaps had Genevieve known that her found the reward of her past weeks of hat was goinsr to cause her anv annovance w'orry about her bonnet. When in the after­ she would have doffed it the moment she noon she w^ent for £i drive people turned in entered the place; had she been aware of their carriages and commented upon her the amount of trouble it was going to exquisite coiffure, and Genevieve experienced bring upon her she would have hidden' it the joj'^^ which all girls do wdieu they know under the table. But Genevieve was no , that others fire talking about them. mind-reader, so she kept her hat on. But this sense of gratification did not last The bonnet attracted the usual amount of long. It soon faded into a queer feeling attention. Her first ten minutes in the cafe of uneasiness when she found herself the told her this, and she was pleased because object of everybody's indiscriminate gaze she knew Ernest would be pleased too. He and comment. She didn't care much, in always liked to see her made much of. This fact she felt rather elated when phe found inward sense of joy, however, soon vanished, 412 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

for she had not been seated long when she been told b^'- her older friends that the best became conscious that a very dark man, waA'^ to keep a beau Wcis never to let him sitting some distance in front of her, had know just how much A'-OU realh' cared his cxQ: riveted upon her. At first she for him. thought it was the grandeur of her hat that How she squeezed his hand as he stood off elicited this attention, and tout a coup her and admired her. Genevieve's only thought old ieeling of gratification was revived. now was to get out of the range of that But when she perceived that he was not horrid Qxe. She dared not tell Ernest for, looking at her hat au\' more, but was thought she, he might get into trouble, and staring, actually staring her in the e\^e she she liked him too well to see him in finy kind began to feel imeasv. She didn't mind of trouble. She would leave the place at people staring at her hat, she rather liked once, and not tell him a word fdDOut her it, but she could never get accustomed to annoA'^ance. But Helen spoiled it all. "M3'!" jjeople who stared her in the eye. And this she exclaimed as she pulled Ernest's coat was just what that horrid fellow was doing. sleeve, "see he is actually staring A-et." "What in the world- is keeping Ernest," ."Oh, Helen," moaned GencvicA^e, but it she muttered to Helen, "will he ever come?" was too late, Ernest- knew something was Oh, how she felt like rushing out of the wrong. place. What if she did and he should follow "Why, Genevieve, what is. the matter? her. It was not at all unlikeh', for she had What niidvcs you so pale," asked Ernest in often read how girls under similar circum­ bewilderment. stances had fai'cd badl3'- at the hands of Genevieve's pale fjice became livid and her such ruflians. She might get up and run hand trembled. She felt as thotfgh some­ screaming from the place; but no, she would thing dreadful was going to happen, not do that. For.fully ten minutes she sat and, if Ernest would be injured she would there, and that horrid man staring all the be the cause of it all. But explain she while. By this time Helen w^as as badh'- must, so in a few words she told him nil, frightened as Genevieve, and although she beseeching him at the same time that he let had not brought on the calamitv she felt the matter drop. But not so. Ernest Wcixcd sure she was going to participate in it. angrier at everj'- word. He would go over Genevieve actualh'- withered as the slow, immediately and rebuke the uncultured and painful moments passed. Her cold, perspiring villainous rascal. hands lay limp on her lap. Her head felt as "See what you haA'c done," moaned though it was going to burst, so intense Genevieve to Helen who stood b}-^ trembling, was the -pain that throbbed beneath her "he is going over there, and that fellow massive hat. Once or twice she threatened may kill him ! " to iaint, but changed her mind when Helen Ernest went straight to the inti-uder. w^arned her that the evil-e\^ed one would But the man noticed him not. Not even a be the first to rush to her assistance. But muscle of his.dark face twitched. He even do something she must for she could stand appeared to scorn Ernest, for he did not so it, no longer. much as look up as he approached. Just as Genevieve had determined on a bold "See here, 3'^ou insolent scoundrel," began move her heart almost leaped to her throat, Ernest novv^ fimous, "how dare you sit for there, coming through the doorwa^^, she there and stare—" recognized the \velcome figure of Ernest. The man apparently disturbed and angry Ah, how she felt like rushing up to him and ttirned his head and looked up scowlingly throwing her. arms around his neck and at Ernest. , . , bursting into'tears just as she had seen the Ernest bewildered, stopped short in his heroine do on the stage.- But-nOj she wasn't; rebuke, for in that sudden turn and uplifting a heroine, nor was she on the stage; more­ of the face- he made an awful discover)^,— over, there were too man3'- people around, instead of looking down into the cool and and besides she did not want Ei'nest to know- calm e^'^e of; a: scoundrel he stood helplessly just how much .she cared, for. hiui even at. gazing into the lifeless glass. eye of an this critical moment, for sh^ always ; innocent stranger. . ; . . NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, 413

Easter Morn. Easter Reflections. Rabboni!

C. L. O 1). COKNKHUS J. IIAGEKTV, '06. E. P. B.

^-DANCING sun, a sparkling SUA-, Jf^ FEW WCcks ago (^^^ knelt in sorrow by the tomb. The wind-sUrred Avatcrs glint along; '^1$u£ the Solemn AVaril- All comfort now withdrawn. Glad robins in the new buds nigh— 6^-^ iwg' "Now^istlie T'lc Master spoke and Mar\-'sJieart A shuwer uf blossoms falls their song. acceptable time, llOW is Leaped radiant as the dawn. . the day of salvation," was being ' Ijroclaimed on all sides most earnestly; but that grave tone has j now given place to the ring of Easter triumph. All things have their season— yyx as well as sadness; and what a sweet thing the joy of Easter is I What "shining, morning faces" the faithful wear after the long period of discipline and nnsellishness! You can tell those who have kept Lent well by the brightness of their smile and the elasticit\'^ of their gait. Lent, and the dtu^ we enter heaven onr true The promise of the Church in her Preface Easter." The ligure seems ii beautiful one. for Lent is fullilled: "Qui corpomli ichinio It does not mccin that life is altogether vituL coinpnmis, mciitcm clcviis, virtiitcw gloonw or dreary or laborious, but that hivgivis ct pracinhi"—The sacriiices of Lent we should not hope to tind perfect happiness arc rewarded by the suppression of sin, except in heaven. There is a whole* lot of the lifting up of the mind, the gaining of legitimtite x>lt''isure in life, but there is also strength and other graces. The daiW "little, labor and piun. We are here to sbow what nameless, unremembered cicts of kindness we are made of and to prove tliat we can and of love" have borne their fruit in joy— live virttiously even in adversit\'. Thus the the faithful " have sown in tears but reaped serious, calm view of life is the best one, if ill joy." Good Friday is the saddest diiy in • w^e reidize tluit we have got to discipline the year, but Easter the most joyful, and ourselves while remembering that there is so it is alwa\'S. When eveiythiug seems no pleasure so genuine as that derived from gloomy and austere, sooner or later there the performance of dut\*. Then after allris comes a crisis, and then the sun shines more over there is the grciit, Ijig Easter w;ith,' its brightly than beibre. It is ea.syto persevere endless joA' and complete happiness. It in doing right if we remember during seasons would be very hard for a man to keep when thiniis sfo coiitrarv to nature that his Lenten resolutions unless he thouglit there are a whole lot of sweet things iiiter- often how. happ\'^ he would feel on Easter mingled with the bitter things of life that Sundax'; so, too, it would be hard for 'k make it eminently, endurable. nicin to be good all his life unless he* thought, We feel at Easter how much more genuine now and then, how happy he would be when happiness is to be derived from doing our his great, long Lent Avoidd be over.arid duty at all times than from seeking for he had entered on his everlasting:. Ea^teV. pleasures not to be met wdth in its path. It is in the feeling of joy which surrounds The thrill of spiritual joy experienced by childhood that Wordsworth finds material the man who has subjected himself to strict for his Ode on Immortalitv. Nothing could discipline during Lent is worth infinitely'- be more reasonable than to argue to the more than all the bodilj-- satisfaction felt immortality of man from the existence of IDA"^ the man AA'^ho has gratified his desires. joA--in the Avorld. Wotild it not beamnatural. No one knoAA'^s the superiority of A'irtue to for us eA-^er to be jov^l, or for the sun to mere physical pleasure except him Avho has shine, if all the countless millions ,Avho haA'e practised the former. Lent is usually the trodden this earth Avere dead, completely season when good Catholics live the most dead, forcA^er? It is at such seasons as spiritual HA-^CS, and there is no day in the Easter that "we catch a glimpse of the year so joyful as. Easter. immortal sea" W^ordsAvorth speaks of, and St. Bernard says: "Our whole life is a best discoverjthe 414 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

truths that wake, the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ, To perish never; refers to that unknown power that unites Which neither listlessness, ,' nor mad endeavor, us as far r' as we are united-j. n, andi i• s capabli i e Nor man nor boy, .. ^ ,, _, ' ., .^ /,, , Nor all that is at enmity with joy, o^ uniting US perfectty. It seems pitifol that Can utterly abolish or destroy. there should bj^ Sinj quarrelling and enmit^^ . The joy of Easter is the joj^ of chastened among men when there might be harmoiw souls; and would it be possible, even though and a spirit of mutual interest and help, thej- could forget all who have gone before We are happier when we get along well them, for such rational beings whose visions together, and we can do so easity; so if we are not obstructed hy passion to expand do not we are not vei-y intelligent. As with jo3^ if the3- knew they were going to Christians we - are followers of the Risen live only a few troublesome, laborious years Christ whose whole mission was to teach and then cease to exist? No, if a person men to be gentle with one another and to catches himself in a state of pure joy, he love one another. We could not celebrate finds he is taking it for granted that there this feast better than by reflecting on what is an immortal life of happiness after death a divinely fair plan His is of making eveiyone of which present joy is only a figure or a tolerant, kind, agreeable and loving. We foretaste. The idea of Wordsworth in his show our patriotism well by appreciating Ode is noble. He thinks it inconsistent that the laws and institutions our fathers have the birds sing joyous songs, that handed down to us, and we show it better . the young lambs bound ^^3' tr^dng to carry out the destiny- of the As to the tabors sound, countr\^ for which tlicA'' lived and died. So if man, the master of all the earth, is to live wc show our aiDpreciation of our great his life here, Avhich, according to Job, is spiritual Leader b}'^ doing our part to bring "short and evil," and then be annihilated, about the accomplishment of His, plan, soul and bod3^ which is simple like Himself: "That we love Another thought inseparable from Easter, one another as He loved us."

On the Border.

LKO J. COONTZ, '07

I'LL meet A-OU on the border of the Lake of Lour Lomon With a bark upon the shore,—an embrace and we are. gone, AYhere the wa^'ward Avoods shall greet us as thcA"^ lisp unto the breeze. Where the golden sun shall kiss3[us throughj the parting of the trees.

Where the fading evening shadows seem to shimmer and to break, As they mingle with the waters and spread far uj)on the lake; And-the lilies on the border; like a host of fairies blown, Are bowing to the shadows that] the ijurple eve has sown.

AVill 3-0U meet me on the border ? Else my. soul shall drift alone Out across the landscap'd waters to the gardens of Minone. - There'll be others " on the border waiting there for those thcA^ love,— The3'^'ll be waiting there and crooning like the soft-eyed • turtle-dove. ^

In the shadows of the lilies, in the sliad6\ys all alone I'll meet \-ou on the border of. the Lake of Lour Lomon, • In the paths beside the border where the red; deer comes to drink, , .- In. the fading evening shadows of the lily fountain's-brink. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 4^5

Sykes: A Drama.

HUGEXE P. BURKE, 'OG.

Persons.

SvKEs—THE HERO. DR. MUI.EY—A DEXTIST.

THREE BOYS—COM PAXIO.VS OF SYKES.

SCEXE I. Any large city . Before Dr. Miiley's office. Enter Sykes, his head tied up with a black silk handkerchief.

^ YKES. I guess this 's th' place. SYKES. Yes, but I ain't got no string Mother said I've got to get it and Mother saj's I got to go to Dr. Muley, l^t^- pulled, and there's no waA^ out 'cause he's pajnng 'tenshun to Emeline and ^'^^^^ of it. And Dad saj-^s I can't> we want one of the family in a professhnn. •^ keep him awake all night with I guess I'll go up then and tell him Mother lUA'- howlin' I think fathers ought to have said to pull it without hurtin'. You'd some feelin' for their onh^ . sons anyhow, better come up too, 'cause .sometimes they for they^ i^ay be President of the United has to hold a fellow^ in the chair when he's States some dav, or of 'some Insurance havin' an extraction done. Company, and then they won't give their 1ST BOY. We'll go with vou, Svkes, mavbe fathers a job. he'll a:ive YOU eras like Seed took when.he Enter three boys, with dishevelled hair had his wisdom tooth pulled. (Sykes opens and soiled clothing: the door and looks up the long- stairway.) 1ST BOY. Hello, Sykes, who hit jon? SYKES. Gee! the place smells just-like SYKES. Who said I was hit? when you get y^our arm cut off. 1ST Bo\^ Well, your face looks like it. 1ST BOY. Y^es, jes' like a hospital. (They What is it? ascend the stairway, Sykes leading.) , SYKES. Ulceration. • SCENE II.—Dr. Mule\'^s o&ce. 2D BOY\ Gee! that's a whopper. AVhat does it mean? The Doctor readinsr. A knockinsr withonf. SY'^KES. It's a toothache, but Mother calls Doc. Come in! (Enter Sykes and Corn- it ulceration, and says the doctor wall have panions.) Well, what are you going to do, to extract it. bombard me? 3D BoY^ I think that's what Percys Prinn's SYKES. Eh, no, sir. I've got ulceration, and professor had. I heard Percys tell Mrs. Mother says you're the best on that, and Higgins that . his professor got nervous she wants j^ou to do the extraction without ulceration from studying too hard, and he no pain like it says on your window. • has to go to Ireland and rest. 3D BOY'. She said he should come right SYKES. Gee! I didn't get this from studv-. home if you can't do it without hurtin' It's from eating candy, Mother says, and 'cause she's 'fraid of lockjaw. I got to get it extracted—^that's the waj^ Doc. Well, that's all right. Thei-e will be Mother says, "pulled out." ^ no pain and you needn't fear lockjaw. Sit 1ST BoY^ Why don't you do it yourself up here (pointing to the dentist's chair). like Red Mason does? SYKES. I'd better take off Emeline's hand­ SYKES. HOW'S that ? kerchief so I can open my mouth. 1ST BOY. Why, he gets a stone as big Doc. (aside) Emeline! (to Sjies). What as you and I could lift, and ties a string is your name ? around his tooth. Then he ties the other SYKES. Jimmie Dolan, but the fellows end to the stone and gets up on a chair call me Sykes. and counts three, and when he says three Doc. WhA--, yes, I thought I. saw soine- he lets the stone drop, and his tooth flies thing famihar in 3'our face. I'YC often been^ out without a bit of hurtin'. Up to your house. ' - / 4i6 NOTRjz DAME SCHOLASTIC.

SvKES. 1 know it, sir. Sicut Dixit. Doc. So? Plow do you know it? 1 don't remember seeing you there. SvKiiS. No, 'cause Emeline never let me DEHOLD the Lurd upon the Cross go into the parlor. She said I couldn't A criuihuil lie dies, 'preciate music, iDut I can whistle all them But ill the ijlow of Easter morn tunes you play on the piano. AiiAdiow, I A King He doth arise. J. H. G. had to go and get that ice-cream she gives you what's colored like a barber's pole. Easter in the York Cycle. And she never nuide that ctdce she stiid she did, for I bought it at ToncA-'s, the baker. Doc. AYell, well. Now sit up here and AVESLliV |. DONAHUE, "07. I'll look at your tooth. SvKiiS. {Sitthig hi the cJiair) This looks iNGLISH literature still retains like a barber's chair. {The Doctor examines several cx'cles of old miracle the tooth for a moment.) Do A'OU think 13la3'S—the cycles of Chester, I've got to take gas? Coventiy, Towneley and York. Doc. Oh no, no; there will he. no pain. Of these the last is most literary (To the other hoys.) Be careful, bo\-s, not and has of late attracted the to drop any of those instruments. AA*idest -attention. Way bcick in the 14th, SYKHS. Gee, Doctor, mx- tooth's not ach- 15th, and 16th centuries, Avhen the influence ina: no more. Mavbe I won't have to 2;et of the Church AA^as at its highest, these old it pulled. plays AA^ere staged. TIICA"^ are based almost Doc. Well, the tooth's badh^ decayed, and entireh'^ on >Scripture, and the sid^jects range it Avill ache when you go out into the air. from "the Creation doAvn to the Last I think you'd better liaA'e it out. Judgment," but • the three events chiefly SYKES. Well, then, all right. {The Doctor commeinorated AA-ere the Nativitx", Passion gGts Jiis forceps and the three hoys gather and Resurrection. Around these three great around the chain) happenings the medieval dramatist, Avork- Doc. Now, Jim, open A'our mouth Avide ing at the Church's bidding and Avith her and I'll have the tooth out in • a minute. blessing, AVOA^C the simple miracle plaA'^s. The {The Doctor pulls at the tooth.) Y'^ork CA'-CIC included forty-eight plaA'S, live SYKES. (Catching hold of the Doctor's of AA^hich maA"- also be found in the ToAA'iicley hand.) Oh!—oh!—^^ow!—ouch! collection. On Corpus Christi dsij of each Doc. That's the man! You stood it year AAathin the AA-alls of old Y'^ork these braA'ch'. AA'^ere enacted. To the trade guilds, an 1ST BOY. Did it hurt, SAdces? important institution of luedieA^al history SYKES. NaAV'^! Tha± don^t hurt {Spitting); resembliugin part the labor unions of to-daA', I Avouldn't take gas for no tooth. Avere entrusted the staging of these earh"- Doc. Well, I kncAV it AA'^ouldn't. NOAA'^ dramas. don't forget to tell Emeline how Avell I did it. Let us imagine ourselves back in Y'^ork SYKES. All right. {Spitting continually.) on, the Feast of Corpus Christi. "Here is an And saA', Doctor, Avill you ask her to let me open market-place, rows of quaint, narroAv- go in AAdien A'OU are playing the piano. I gabled houses'Avdiose window^s are aliA^e Avath can't hear Avell Avhen all them doors is shut. faces closing in the square, AAdiich is thronged Doc. A-^eiy. Avell, I'll speak for 3^ou. {The 133'^ a motlcA'^ multitude,—Y^orkshire rustics, hoys go out.). green-clad y^eomen, j'^oung clerks and squires SCENE III. same as SCENE I. in man3'^^-coloured, picturesque costumes, The hoys gather around Syies curiously. gowned and hooded friars, kerchiefed 1ST BOY. Say, Sjdvcs, let's see the hole. Avomen, here and there a knight injglisten- 2D Bo\^ Yes, let's see the hole. {Sykes ing mail, eA':erywhere beggars, children, opens lliis' mouth and the hoys examine it dogSj^alL pressing toward the lofty stage, carefully.) : adorned -with crosses and streamers, which 3QYS. (tao;etier.) Gee! ;. : rises in the centre of the_scene. On the^stage NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 417 all eyes are fixed." Let ns further imagine And never did ill is dead; that the C3^cle of plaj^s has been run through "To wdiom," w-eeps Mar\'- Satoiiie, down to "The Resurrection." All the suffer- To Avhom now shall I make my moan mg and agom'- of Calvary'- is over, while an Since He is dead. expectant people await the joj'^s of "The Thej^ approach the tomb and are conjectur­ Resurrection," the play staged by the ing as to how thej' can remove the stone, Carpenters' Guild. when -lo! to their surprise they discover The opening scene shows ns Pilate addres­ that the stone is .rolled back while an angel sing the Jews of Jerusalem w-ho had jnst appears telling them Jesus is not here, He taken part in the crucifixion of Jesns. Pilate is risen and gone to Galilee. and Caiphas declare they will stand by their He shall he ibimd in Galilee deed, namelj^, the death of Jesus. The con­ In tleshe and felle. spirators, Annas and Caiphas, tr\' to smooth Two Marys depart, "but she who loved over the inurder by maintaining that "By much" remains at the tomb weeping. law" it was done." Annas saj's it never Alas, m\' katilTe herte will break in three should be mentioned again, but Pilate can When I think on that bod\- free not help speaking of it. During this con­ How it was spillte versation the Centurion enters. Saluting Both feet and hands na\-led tille a tree Withoiiten gilte Pilate and: the priests he exclaims: For trespass did He never none T dread' rae that \'e have done wrong The wounds He suffered man^- one And' wonder ill; Was for m3' misse It was m\- dede He was for slayne for, he continues, yoti have slain a righteous And nothing His. man. Angered at this accusation, Pilate tells By this time the soldiers awake from their tlie Centurion he should- support and not slumber.' With shouts and swears they find oppose his superior; , but the Centurion the tomb emptA'. At last the\' decide to tell growing bolder answers: Pilate the truth and set out for the palace. To Tnayntayne tmtli is wele worth\- Scene HI. reveals Pilate's hall into which I said so when I saw Him d}' the soldiers are just entering. That He was Goddes sonne alhiA-ghty That* hangeth there "Pilate," says the spokesman, Yet saie I'so and-stand thereby- Our watching is worthe nought For. evermore. The prophete Jesu " Sajdng this the Centurion departs, angrily Is risen and gone for all oure awe With ma\'ne and m\-ght. ordered awaj'^sbj'; Annas, but Pilate broods upon his words. Caiphas now warns Pilate Pilate and .\nnas then storm at the sol­ that Jesus said PTe would rise on the third diers, accusing them of being traitors and day, and, adds Annas: cowards. But the soldiers explain that they were powerless. He rose alone while melody His latter deede is more dread filled the air. Than is the first: AVe heard never sence we were borne For, continues lie, it" Jesus' men steal Him Nor all our faders us be-fore away they will* say Hfe rose. Accordingly' Such melody ui\-dday we morne Pilate sets a watch telling the soldiers to As was made there. guard the tomb of Jesus until-the third-day. Pilate and Caiphas immediately recom­ The soldiers go to their appointed place mence their plotting. A scheme is arranged. declaring notraitors shall steal Jesus away; It is to be represented that Jestis was stolen The next scene- opens with the arrival-of away hj force: the Three Marys- at the tomb. "Jesiis-is Sir knights, dead" is the one'thought that is breaking Herkness what ye shall say To evcr\'. man both night and day the- hearts; of the three. First, Mary That 10,000 men in good arraye Magdalene speaks: Came until Griste- TxvjK Master inoste of m3'gh't- With force of arms bore Him away • Is dead fro me. Against your will. Alas, adds Maty the mother of James: A bribe" is paid and as Pilate adds. Jesus that was of love so sweet Thus treason shall for tntthe be tolde. 4i8 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

lacrihce.

CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, '06.

HE seed that falletli in the ground T Must die, become as naught, Before the virtue in it found Yields up the harvest sought.

E'en Christ who is of life the Lord And so, nn- heart, W\\ flame must die, Gave up the bod3-'s breatli. Th3'self must broken be— With God's own law in meet accord, Alone when love doth shattered lie To quicken bj His death. Cometh love's victorv.

The Test. I suppose he knows. Going to die," he repeated, "noAv, when the good end seemed so near; now after I have worked so long ROBERT i. BRACKE.V, 'OS. and so hard to acquire all those things a man wants; now when, I am in a position AA'^E for the few srrav clouds to get all there is in life; now—and I'm behind which the sun w^as going to die. I'll last about a year,— slowlj"- sinking the sk3'^ was that's what the doctor said—about a year." perfectly clear. A soft, cool Then, as if hoping for an answer, he asked: breeze had arisen and blew "Do yo\x know what I came down here gently across the water; the for, do you?" lonesome quiet of the evening was descend­ Even had his silent companion been able ing. The light breeze coming off the lake to reply the man did not give him time, rustled among the dying leaves which clung but continued: "It looks cold out there," to the fast fading branches as one clings looking out on the still blue water. "It to the last hope when the end seems near. looks cold and lonely, but—" A man came slowh-^ down the path While he had been talking apparent^ which descended from the citj-^ above. He unconscious of his surroundings save the walked along the narrow waA-^ until he dog at his feet, a child just able to came to a; large maple tree on the lake's walk toddled down the path toward him. promontory- Seating himself on a fallen Some nurse in the park above had neg­ log lying old and weather-beaten he looked lected her charge, no doubt, and as the far out into the waters. His dog, a large infant came slowly down the path smiling Newfoundland, came and-lay at his feet. and trying to talk, she at least was pleased Placing his hand on the dog the man with her freedom. The dog which had looked dow^n at the animal and stroked dropped at the man's feet w^hile he had the large hairy head with a kind hand. been talking, sprang up and rushed toward "Well, Monte," he began, "I must tell the child, but a warning word from his some one—some one w^ho will understand— master caused the animal to stop. you w^on't, but I'll think you do, and you The baby stood looking at the huge black can not say anything to show me that mass of long hair, but did not appear you don't. Any one would understand part frightened. Rousing himself from his seat of it, but the rest—" the, man walked over to the child and asked: As though to answer him the dog arose "Little girl, are you not out pretty late ? " and looked knowingly into his master's "Goo." face. Pulling the animal nearer the man "You aren't! Well, then you might tell said: "He told me I was going to die. And me where you are going." NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 419 The Year's Easter. While he had been speaking the dog had walked up to the child and playiulty he caught her tiny /^^ONE purple claA's of passion, hands in his long curly coat and appeared content Gray nights of brooding grief; in trying to pull the hair out. Spring bursts the bonds of darkness,— "Well, Miss! aren't you going to answer me? Behold the clover leaf. Where do you live, and where are you going?" C. L. O'D. "Goo," was all she said. The dog was demand­ ing all her attention and she did not have time or inclination to answer such unnecessar3'^ questions as this man's appeared to be. Picking her up in his arms, he returned to his seat on the log, and the dog came as before and lav at his feet. "You are otit taking a walk?" he inquired Monte ? Of course you don't, though," he of his newly-made acquaintance. added. "But I'll tell A^OU. One goes away, a "Home," replied the child. long way too, and he never comes, back—^goes "Home? Well, that is what I want to away and never comes back. And, Monte, know. Where do you live?" to think that in three months I was going to "Home." be—^married. In three months, and then—[^ "Y'^es, I know. But where is it? Where The child moved and opened her eyes. is home?" Looking up she saw him and smiled to him, "Home," was all. Then looking up at then settling herself more comfortably she him she put her little white hands in his ^^^sed her eyes again and went to sleep. face and moved them over his eyes, and For a second time the man sat silent- forehead caressing him in her own sweet longer than before. He stared out on the waA^ Growing tired talking to the dog, blue waters. Suddenly, as if pulling his for the dog was the most curious thing to thoughts together he said fiercdvl her, the man although an utter stranger, ." To think, Monte, that I even thought of had at once been accepted in her good such a thing. That even for a moment I graces, she found a place where her head dared to think that it would be risfht. just fit, and settling back into it she Right for me not to tell any one, and instead relapsed her small bodv and prepared to ^^ ^oing out there,"-he looked again far remain in comfort. ^ away on the water-" I would go and marry ^, ^ . . . 1^1 n r 1 • her; forlmight not die after all. And I would The dog inquiring as best he could 01 his marr» y her, w^ero e she in my place. She would master what it all meant was looking do it too; but because she would is the very anxiously at the child. Noting the ques­ reason why I shouldn't. Still, now, I might tioning appeal in the animal's eyes the not die, you know, and if I didn't, or even man said: if I did, no one would know." Interrupting "She is pretty, Monte, I wonder who she himself he went on: is? I do not know any more than you. "See, Monte, I can not help thinking that Don't 3^ou think she's pretty ? " But the dog way^. Of course it would be w^rong, and only looked and wagged his tail in approval. I won't do it, but you see I couldn't Whether to show her appreciation of her go and tell her. If I wasn't a coward I surroundings, or whether she was tired could, but I am, I am and I know it. I from her walk, the child, with a parting can not help it." Continuing he asked: smile at the dog, closed her eyes, and was "What do you suppose she'd say? I know- soon asleep, her head pillowed on the man's though,- she wouldn't say anything; she'd arm and one Httle hand nestled under his. just look. You Left to his own thoughts again the man never saw that R ejoice. sat silent for a time. Now and then he would look, Monte, look down at the sleeping child and note God—" OE is Risen 1" said tHe angel . the sweet smile upon her partly hidden Lapsing into And the echo of that voice face. Speaking low lest he should disturb the silence again he Down the ages comes a-ringing, :^ peaceful sleeper he again addressed the dog: sat still longer Bidding mankind to,rejoice. L_ "Do you know what it means to die, than any time W.J.:!). 4*0 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

before. His heart filled with interminable sorrow, and for whom ? Not alone for him­ assing. self; not for his father and mother, for thc3^ had long since travelled the journe\'- from THOMAS E. miTJKK, '07, v^diich no one returns. Of the woman then he thought AYIIO had given him all; the AGAIN the tjolden lenf ifives place woman to whom he had given the best To the green Ijiul of lender grace that was in him. And now the end was Upon the liongh. So age must yield to _vovith, and we near; but oh! so different from the end they ]^^ust move on to Eternitj- had looked to, As thev do now. "Go and tell her," he told him.self "Yes, -*•»- that is what I should do. Go and tell her, and then," but he was silent again. liis e\'es The Easter Controversy. grew bright and his face flushed slightly as some idea unknown before Hashed through JOHX H. RYAX, '06. his mind. "I never thought of that. I will write to her, some one will find it. Oh, if I ASTER, the anniversary could onh-^ tell her, but T can't. No," he con­ of Our Lord's Resur­ tinued after a moment's reflection, "no 1 rection, is the greatest won't do that. No matter what T do, it festival of the ecclesias­ will hurt. If I told her it would break her tical 3'car. From the heart, and then she'd have pit3' for me alone. earliest daA^s of the If I do not tell her, or write to her, she Church down to our will never know, and although that will own time this day has hurt, she may forget—forget, because all been celebrated with the greatest yox and the world will help her, and will try and accounted the queen of festivals. Never make her believe I did not care. God! that since the days of the Apostles has there she should think that—^that I did not care! been an3'' difference of opinion as to win- But it will be better; it will hurt more at we celebrate Easter, but there has been as £rst, but in the end— to when it ought to be observed. Tliis was "It looks so cold and louelj'-, but what the first great question that agitated the difference, a man's soul goes a long way Church and one of the principal causes for alone,.no matter Avhere the starting point." C(mvoking the Great Council of Nice. He arose from his seat, and as he did the The Easter controversj' grew out of a child dropped from his arms. He had for­ diversitA'^ of custom. The early Christians, gotten her; he had forgotten everything especialh'^ of Asia Minor, were derived from but that which he was bent upon. With and connected with the Jewish Church. a cry the child opened her eyes. Although These naturally observed the old festivals, not injured, but badlj' frightened, she looked though in a different spirit than hitherto. up at him with wondering eyes. Hastilj'^ he Now they commemorated actual events stooped and gathered her up. Once again which formerly had been but shadows. It safe in his arms her fears passed, and smiling was in this manner that thej: came to the same tiny smile, she said, "Home!" celebrate Easter on the 14th day of the "Home," he answered; "home," he repeated. Jewish month, Nisan (March-April), the The moon was shining now.and the bright feast of the Paschal Lamb. The Christians reflection traced a path across the'wateri outside of Asia Minor.and particularh^ those He took one last look far out where he had in the West remembered that Christ rose looked before; then turning aw^ay^ he bent upon a Sundaj^ and the3'^ therefore kept the his head and kissed the little upturned face. following Sunday^. The3^ hoped thus to cele­ "Home," he repeated again and again. brate the actual day and also to distinguish Once he stopped and looked back, but the their festival from that of the Jews. child crushed against liis breast reijeated There Avas still another fact that tended the word "home." to arouse controversy^, and that was the "Yes," he replied, "we are going home." Jewish calendar year. This, consisted of ivOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 421

twelve lunar-months containing alternately The decree in Avhich Victor threatened all twenty-nine and thirt3^ daj^s. This made who refused to conform with excommuni­ in all three hundred and fiftj^-fotir days. cation Avas sent to PolAxrates, Bishop of To make up the defieiencj'' of eleven days Ephesus. This province was the only one they added eveiy three 3^ears a thirteenth AA'^hich had not adopted the Roman Easter, month of thirti^ days. This method of Poh^crates ansAA-^ered by a letter in which he reckoning at times brought the fourteenth defended his practice as an old custom and da3^ of Nisan ahead of the vernal equinox. further said that in all matters of faith the Now the Western Churches considered the exact teachings of Saints John, Philip^ and equinox as the l3eginning of the new A^ear. Poh'carp Avere observed. The all-important ThcA' therefore objected to a mode of reckon­ fact that matters of faith AA^ere carefully ing which w^as liable to make them hold cherished induced Victor to allow^-the Easter twice in one A^ear and not at all in practice to continue. the next. In the earh^ part of the fourth century The question which naturalh^ arose as to matters came to a crisis. Constantine the who was right in this discussion was, since Great in order to secure uniformity aiid; stop it referred to a pure matter of discipline, all controversy had the first great council of tolerated b}- Rome. About the middle of the Church couA'oked at Nice, A. D. 325. the second century, however, it began to Here a decree AA-as unanimoush' passed that cause trouble and give scandal to those " Ever\nA-here the feast of Easter be observed wathout the Church. The pagans rebuked upon one and the same daA"-; and that, not and ridiculed the Christians for their internal the da3' of the Jewish PassoA'er, but, as has dissensions and apparent schism. This fact, been generallA' observed, upon the Sunday coupled with others of minor importance, afterwards." Other rules Avere also made caused St. Poh-carp, Bishop of Smyrna, who in order to prevent all further disputes. It happened to be visiting Rome, to • question AA^as dccreeed that Mjirch 21 should be Pope Anicctus upon the matter. St. Poh'- taken as the A^emal equinox; that the full carp, an advocate of the ea.stern practice, moon upon or after that day be considered pleaded the example of St. John Avith Avhom the full moon of Nisan; that the Sunday he had ob.scrvcd the festival, also the folloAA'ing that full moon be Easter, and example of St. Philip and other eastern finally, if the full moon happen on Sunday, saints. Pope Anicctus replied that the West Easter da.3' shall be the Sunday after. observed what had been taught them hx The Great Council partially accomplished Saints Peter and Paul. Neither wotild its object: it caused Easter to be^tmiversally make aiiA' concession and soothe matter observed on SundaA'-, but it did not entirely w^as dropped. settle the controvers3'. It Avas still a ques­ The end of the centiir3' saw a change in tion of dispute what calendar was to the sitiiation caused Iw a heretical sect be used to determine the position of the called the Ebionites. The3' insisted upon the moon. Some churches adopted one rule, complete observance of the Mosaic laAA' and some another, and a^ a result Easter ranged AA-^cre particularly iirgcnt AA'ith regard to the from March 21 to April 25. Of course it was Jewish Pasch. This aroused the Pope, as generalh' agreed that as Alexandria was he feared an3'' further delaA^ in settling the the scat of astronomical learning the Bishop controA'crsx'- w^ould result in the Asiatics of that place should inform the Pope and being led into this error. Pope Victor sent the Patriarchs regarding the time of Easter. letters to all the provinces commanding The impracticabilitA' of this SA'stem, because them to. hold S3mods and report to him of the delaA-^s and other incouA-eniences, was their findings upon the Paschal discipline. soon evident. Rome then adopted a cycle Almost all the reports condemned the of cightA'-'four A^ears which w^as supposed to eastern custom as encroaching upon matters be the time required for the moon to return of faith. Thoroughl3' aroused b3'- the thought to the same da3^ of the AA-eek and month of danger to a part of the Church, Victor for its changes. This SA'stem was generally commanded all to conform to the Roman adopted in the West and remained until the jpractice. (Continued on page 429.) 422 NOTRE DAME .SCHOLASTIC.

there where he lay, Paul had moistened From the Beginning. his lips and bound his wounds on that dreadful night; loved him because of Jim's EmVARO F. 0'Fr,Y.V.N, '07. djnng request—"Take good care of her, Paul,"—loved and married him because of of Jim Hogan's praj'^er. T was early April and Easter And so her thoughts went on with the time had come. Already the stream as it flowed into the ocean whose buds were breaking, and there farther waters washed that western island came through the pines the where he lay. Because of these'things she sound of the torrent's rush as had married him, and she had been happ3^ it tore down the mountain's There had been times, however, when she side and threw itself with its debris into saw a strange look in her husband's the Silver Bow. Off over the valley it crept, face. How long it had been there she a sapj)hire thread in the niat of green, and could not tell, for it \vas but lateh' that as it flowed into the West, Mrs. Morton she noticed it. watched it, and on its waves sent her "What's the matter, Paul?" she woukl thoughts; sent them out into the West. sometimes ask, but he would answer: The West in whose vastness somewhere lay "Why, nothing, Nell; does there seem to liis bones, for he had been gone a decade be something?" But he grew worse, and of years and was dead. now he paled when he looked at her as A decade of 3'^ears, how long a time, and though she were ill, or as if he saw some­ what a change it had brought! Often in thing. Sometimes at dinner he would start the beginning of that decade she had gazing long at her and half frightened. thought it a strange philosophy which Seeing him she would answer the look, but made birds and pines for mountains, and she seemed to know^ it w^as only the nearest gold, and purple for evenings, and music thing to what it should have been. For it and flowers for spring, which, in a word, was only his because Jim had gone, still made a world full of harmony, and yet had Morton did not see, for he loved too taken him from her. For it would seem much. that in the beginning, when such harmony There were times though when he fright­ was conceived, he had been meant for her. ened her, and once after looking in the same Then she would blame him and' wonder; strange w^ay he rushed to her and clasping knowing her heart as he sureh'^ must, was her to him held her there saying: it higher patriotism to go than to stay? "I^Io, no, girl, there wasn't, was there?" His country reallj'^ didn't need him and she Looking up at him she asked: did; and after all, what is the end of life "Wasn't what, Paul?" if not happiness ? Should we fight and bleed "Nothing, dear, only—" if it be not necessary ? And surely, she "Only?" thought, it wasn't necessary that he should. "Only just you, and the impulse," he But despite her tears and prayers he went laughed. "The impulse, you know how it with young Morton into the islands of the comes on you and sw^ells up in you and West to follow the flag and in the end .to overflows and then,—and then I catch you be wrapped in its spangled folds, in the and let it spend itself—tiU, I let you go like stars he loved so well, and buried in that that," and he pressed his cold lips to her foreign land. She heard it all with broken forehead. heart from Paul Morton on his.return; and Still she wondered; for the impulse doesn't what a true friend Morton was. come with cold lips and frightened ej^es. ;,Yes, Paul was big and brave and true. But do\en town in his ofl5ce Morton knew, That w^as w^hy.. she married him, and grew for sometimes there he would recall the to. love .him., Loved him-^because. he w^as shadow at her side, and when alone he brave and.true, because he had. fought to would start at the sound of the voice the last trench until Jim Hogan fell pierced hissing in his ear. Then all would be still, by a Moro bullet; loved him because out still as death, save the heavy beating of NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 423 his heart thumping heavily against his side. "Nothing," he said; "only the shadow— Then again the death-like silence and the the voice." flutter and leap as the voice would hiss "The shadow—the voice?" she repeated. again: "To kill; to lie!" But he was all right now, for the moment The strain was dreadful, and each daj^ was gone and she w^as very near him, so the he grew worse. Seeing it she wondered, shadow left her side, and when she spokie and thinking him overworked begged him to the voice seemed still. But life became a take a rest. He did, and took her to the torture to him. At times he thought he East and its great germ-filled cities. .They would go mad, for the voice grew louder, and crossed the seas and the crisp salt air did now^the shadow- seemed to be near her con- him good, but on the ocean's depths the tinualh"-. He resolved to do something, to go voice still haunted. In the great salons away, even to die. How or where differed of Paris thej- sat and enjoji-ed the delights;, little. Anywhere -w^ould do—only soine place. for thej'- had eyes to see, and to such Maybe in that other world the voice would there is enjoyment in gazing on gorgeous haunt him no more and the shadow would spectacles where beauty splendidty gowned fade. Anyway, he would be away from her and men Avho know, talk and sip and listen and her trusting gray e^'-es. while music enchants. But Paris tired him, But before he would go he would write • and the}'' left for Berlin. One evening in the her all. He had not the courage to tell her. great Park when thev had stolen awav He would write and the note would explain. from the gaieties to a seat in the grove he It u^ould tell her how he had lied to her turned and looked in the same wild way. from the beginning, and how in the blackness Then suddenh^ he caught her to him to of the drizzling night he had crept from make sure, saj'ing all the time: "Ain't I behind, like a Moro wretch and stabbed his onl}'-—and—" chum and friend. Even novr as he thought Just to quiet him perhaps, but maj'be .of it he felt that last death clutch of Jim's because she parth^ guessed, she replied: as he stretched out in the darkness and "Yes, Paul, 3''ou, onty 3^ou, because, 3'-ou caught him. The vision of the death-scene came back, and again the dying eyes and know he told you to." Then because it was haggard face of Hogan gazed at him, as in dusk she could not see the paleness that the last movement of the struggle he pulled crept over him. him closer, closer, till his hot breath suffo­ Back from the Old World they came; she cated him and the death grip tightened on full of life, thinking how good it is to live, him and the quick gasps caused his heart' and, like a foil red rose at maturity, more to flutter and leap. He sickened to think of beautifol than ever. It was hope onlj- that it and that last awftil smile Jim gave when made her think him improved, for he grew he saw who the Moro was, and slowly worse and more nervous. Then it was that relaxing his hold he feU groaning: '' My God, she became alarmed and wondered still more. Paul,—A^ou to kill, to lie! ONell!" but .the It was wondering about his strangeness quick gasps ceased and his lips were against of late that led her to the window this the earth. morning to look out on the great Silver Morton tried to shake off the vision, and Bow g.s it flowed into the West. wiping the sweat from his face resolved to Suddenly Morton, who had been lying ^o. But that night he fell into a fever. His down, awoke with a terrible look on his face and body burned, and the voice tortured face. The pupils of his eyes grew twice their him as he rolled on his bed of delirium^ size ^ and through them he stared at her Like a hovering angel she moved in the fearfoUy, for the voice had awakened him: room never leaving him, and so for awhile "To kill, to lie!" She came to him quickly, the voice would be still and he fancied at but when he saw her at his side, covering times the shadow left her side. his face as though to hide something from Late in the night he grew.worse and as himself, he cried out: "I know it; I know he lay there the thought raced into his it; but, God, how I loved her!" burning brain that ten years ago to-night "What is it!" she asked. he had killed Jim Hpgan, Suddenly he arose 424 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. in his bed, his mouth open, his T\-hite hand pointing" at her and his eyes staring" wide Barred. and wild. He grew ghastly pale, and noting him she rushed to him, but seeing his-hand •TIIB cold gray n-alls of the silent tonih, pointing", turned. The .Master's forni could not retain; He leaped from the bed to catch her as At the narrow hearts of sin-stained men, she fell fainting, but the shadow at her side He seeks an entrance-^but in vain. touched iiim and forced him back. T^eaning W. J. O'D. over her, his burning eyes ]ocercd at the shadow; then throwing up his hands, he cried: "Thank God! thank God!" and that Her Last Sons;." was all. He lay there still and cold, but the wild look Avas gone and the voice v^-as still, though the shadow remained. WAT.TER J. O'DOX.XEH,, '06. When she awoke she looked into Jim Hogan's tanned face, and he tenderly took LI;*'H E imiversal gloom and sor­ her out to the window where the pine row of Holy Week was but a whispers played, and she could watch the ^ reOection of the sadness that great Silver Bow as it flowed into the gold ^•^^ oppressed SignoraPazzi. Scarcely and purple; for it was to have been, and %>• ^--^ three days had passed since she now she knew she was right when she %, saw her husband lowered into thought him meant for her from the the earth and heard the dull thud of the beginning. frozen ground as it fell from the sexton's spade on the rude pine cofiin. Then she did Easter Joys.—^A Yawp. not fulW realize the dreadful consequence of the separation; but now as she sits p.-VSTER! huddled in an arm-chair, her cold mourning Ain't, it great ? shawl drawn closelv around her and gazing" I feel so jrood intently into the open hearth, its enormous- I don't know wh\- ^ T should 'Cept my Lent ness and weight come upon her with all Was well silent. its terrible i-ealit}-. But gosh, I'm glad it's over She must provide for her child. Grief 1 feel like I'm in clover, had wasted her bodily strength, but her Can have some dish 'Sides- eggs and fish. mind Avas clear, and this serious question wa.s now seeking its solution. The A'oung Say,, it-Was fun" woman was not highlv gifted, but she W'hen Pa's egg went crack! just like a gun. thoughtfully and carefull3'^ reviewed her Gee whizz! several talents. All were found inadequate, Pa ran for the door none could be used to earn mone^- for her And swore He'd eat Ijoiled eggs no more, child. Pride forbids her depending on any But would have them fried. one. She will face the task braveh^ and The A-oung chick died, aloiie. She fears, however, that it will be Our old hen almost cried; more than- she can bear, and falls into a She set six days reverie from wdiich she is aroused .133' the On that egg I brought for Pa's dinner.. opening of.a door and the entrance, of Ain't I a sinner! a. maid - leading a child,, pale, fragile^ and- But say : . delicate as a'flower-^ that has never been I'm feeling .fine to-daA- thrilled, liy, :the life.r giving rays of the Cliurch liells ringing, ^ .sun.. >" . ' • ;• • - •. • c:;;.-"-• --'".- '- ' Church choirs singing, - ' .Sun's so bright, '. . > " - ", "Mamma, sing,'' the little one,entreats as f Slc\''s so bluci. \ :- : • the jnother, clasps^her to her v bosom.. She- But. here comes the cop, . , bow-cd" with grief, :and. her .mind, distracted« So'''- -'y''//•..'• - /'• "•'• by. harrowing ;thougIrts wasi in no- mdodv , -^ric. : -•••;>: -; •;• • • "'. , ? :-- Skidoo., ;,. r . W^. J..DOXAUUE. , for-singing, biit the; child's "Mamma, do!" NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. :425 coidd not but win, and the mother sang her cxhtLUsted, iind sick Avitli a mentcd nausea. favorite song: However, she was not entirely discouraged: Dui"iiiL'Z incs ji)Iis The next morning she journeyed , forth, Dans Tus pctiLs lits, determination to succeed \vritten_ on her_ Dornicz petits iras, stms effroi countenance, but returned home dejected Car vous n'ctcs pas Ics fils du roi. antl sick at heart. The third, fourth, and; Lire lonla, fifth days brought like rcsidts, but on the Loiila. sixth ii glccim of hope faintly illumined the The room re-echoed \vith the harmdnioiis and well-modulated voice, and the mother almost impenefrcdjlc darkness that yawTied was lovingW rewarded by the clasp of the before her. A new comiJiiny was organizing, little arms about her neck. and the manjigcr disked to he^ir her sing. "Signora sings superbh'," the nurse He w£is delighted with her bcciutifiil A-oice remarked, "and even excels many of our and her perfect iutefpretation of the music. grand opera singers." This generous praise He immediately employed her at a very made a deep impression on the young high salaiy, and appointed the evening for w^oman because she knew it w^as not tinged her first public appearance. AYitb joyful with flatterv. Sing on the stage—but she heart Signora hastened to her child. At last must have time to consider the matter, and the wiiv was clear, she could earn moncA-; tenderh' imprinting £i kiss on her beloved she could be independent. : one, made sweeter 133'' the mother's deep, All day she romped and played with unailoN'ed affection, she bade the maid to Yvonna in the nurserx^; care-free and. light- \vithdraw to the nursery with the child hciirted iis a child who knows not sorrow's whose e\'es were now closed in peaceful name. The evening was not long in eomiMg slumber. and she hurried off to the theatre. She Avas Sing on the stage! Why not? she mused a stranger to the avidience. Her name Avas, after the^- had withdreiwn. She drew her unknown, but tdter her first appearance the shawl still more tightly around her as applauses and prolonged cries of "BraA'al if, to i)rotect herself from an imxjending Brava!" were ample proofs that her meiit dansrer. How manv are there not who Avas keenlv recognized. - - sing- before audiences, but she shuddered— The next diiy the cult of ncAvspaper- reason however she ma^-—at the thought men felt it its duty to praise the exquisite that the work was tainted with opprobrium voice of the unknown singer, and the and its followers generalh-- lose social caste. manager in his shrewdness and zccd for his This was the onh^ means wherebx'- she could OAvn lUEiterial Avelfare ad\-iLnccd her already earn money to take proper care of her child, high salarA', for he knew that Avhen the, but the idea was almost abandoned. Placing, posters announced that Signoni Pazzi AV-OU1CI however, all her olijections in one balance . sing, the box-office Avould be inordinately and in the other her child's welfare and a thronged and the receipts Avould be doubled. mother's love, the- scales turned in iavor of Her renown and fame,grew Avitii each per- the latter, and she resoltitely resolved to forniimce, but she AVCIS neither ekited nor imdertakc couragcqusty the work th^it alTectcd hy the u£itural pride thjit commonly otherwise w^as so distasteful to her. ttttends any public success. All was for her Few, indeed, were the difficulties SigTiorji child, Avho alone gave her the courage to Pazzi thought she would meet with. She sing on the stage; and many of the thoughts need, but apph--, she imagined, and employ­ that croAvded her mind as she plaA'ed. AA-ith ment would be given. The next morning Yv onna, AA-ere the inspirations of the sdngs she set out in quest of work. Courteous she would sing in the evening. The multitude managers informed her that the\- were of bouquets that Avere shoAvered on hci- rat" Sony, but there w^ere no vacancies. Others,. each ai^pearance Avcre carefully -brought less polite,, told her that the^-^ would home, for Yvonna loved floAA-ers, and Avere notifj^^^her were her services required, while employed in decking the nursery AA''hci-eiii others bold and impertinent offered her a this floAA^er of infinite Avorth: Avas.laboring, IDOsition *as chorus singer. At evening she to gTOA\'- andbloom cleprivediof thestmshine, returned home wearv and - worn, pale and of health. , . - ifA-i::"^. : 426 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

But one daj-, however, Yvonna became the child replied, and then entreated: peevish and cross, and the kindly old family "Mamma, sing." physician w^as called in. At a glance he The poor mother Avas readj"" to faint, but saw that • the case was serious, that .the struggling hard to control herself and keej) child's life Avas held hy a mere thread. And dowm the choking sobs that arose in her as he looked up he also read in the mother's throat, sang the song Yvonna loved so well, pale and anxious countenance, as she leaned and which had scarcely'' ceased re-echoing over the bed that the severing of that in the vast theatre. thread meant not the destruction of one She was not half through when the child but of two lives. At the mother's eager sank deeper in her pillow and closed her entreaty regarding the seriousness and CA'Cs as if listening to a far-off call,—she had nature of the ilhiess, a look of alarm spread heard her mother's last song. Softer and • over the Doctor's usuallj"- calm face; he softer grew the. mother's voice and then coughed nervously, and then rubbing his died awaA'^ entireh^ When she had finished hands together, genth^ said: "It is onh- a she drew near the bed, thinking Yvonna had fever that is prevalent this' time of A^ear." fallen asleep. She tenderl3'- raised the thin He prescribed medicine, and left with the hand that lav outside the coverlet; an promise of coming again in the afternoon. uncontrollable trembling immediateh'- pos­ In the afternoon he returned bringing with sessed her frame—^the hand w^as cold. She him another physician. On leaving the\^ then placed her hand on the child's heart, assured Signora Pazzi again and again but only to discover that its life-w^ork Avas that the child would be better in the completed. A low moan escajDcd the ashen morning. Thej'- bade her not to worr}^ and lips as she fell to the floor a lifeless form, not to omit her regular evening dut3^ and both AA-^hite souls entered into happi­ That evening she remained at home longer ness together. than usual, and kissing her child she hurried oflf, her soul weighed dow^n with a mother's Bonnetology. inconceivable sorrow for her beloved one's siclcness, to amuse and cheer the buoj'-ant spirits and happj- hearts of a thought­ JOHN F. SHEA, '06. less audience. When she had acquitted herself of her part of the program, heedless HEN I AA'^as assigned Easter of the thundering applause and vociferous bonnets as a subject for a short ax^peals of "encore," she quickly descended sketch lUA'' pen trembled as^^if to her carriage and was hastiW driven ^with ague, and^a mental^^fog of home. Aiounting the stairs leading to the surprising densitj'^ settled doAA'^n nursery she half heard the words of the upon my numbed faculties which Doctor, addressed in a subdued tone to the intenselj'- obscured my point of A^CAA'- and nurse: "Can't live^^readfiil shock." made what at first seemed only to be a Bursting into the room Signora Pazzi casual subject of interest, a wide monoto­ demanded of the phj'^sician: "Who can't nous desert of ribbons and gilded hat pins. live, Doctor; who can't live?" After some thought and a good deal of The kindly old man was pierced to the hesitation I became couAanced that the first core by this pathetic appeal, and trembling objectiA'^e point of my theoretical research as a leaf v\,'^hen swayed by summer's breeze, was to trace if possible the CA'^olution of the conducted her to the bed whereon Yvonna bonnet from its first simple state to the lay. The child was lying with eyes wide open •present complex, intangible fabrications of and without any trace of fever. She smiled string, ribbon, wire and feathers Avhich lovingly at her mother w^ho was standing adorn the civilized croAvn of vanity to-day. before her in all her theatrical magnificence. Working with this end in Aaew I found "My dear, Yvonna, how cruel I Avas to that the origin of the feminine bonnet was leave you," the mother sorrowfully said. shrouded in obscurity, and so many theories "I w^as iiot lonesome. I'm never lonesome concerning it had been originated and when, Jeannette is here to play 'with me," forgotten that I felt encouraged to evolve NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 427

one myself for the occa­ fourth, those which sion Avhich would fur­ .vening. attain a shrubbery nish plausible grounds effect through the em­ for its acceptance and THOMAS E. BURKE, '07. ployment of flowers ; a reasonable w-orking and lastly, those head­ h3'^pothesis for those DED da}- steals out of the western gates, gears whose sole claim savants whose work­ And Luna fair with her hair unbound to distinction is the ing field is the science Spreads flowers over the sleeping ground, number of yards of of bonnetology. As she moves about in the foamy clouds. ribbon they bear. These It may seem unkind And the Pleiad Sisters comely and fair divisions of the genus and unjust, but all in­ When the winds entangle their silver hair bonnet do not include dications seem to point Dance all the night on the sky's soft floor the widow's bonnet to Mother Eve as the With a merr\- laugh and a happ3- song, which sometimes looks originator of the Easter While the star of eve shines all niirht lomr. very stunning w^hen bonnet. The evidence trimmed with jet and In the case seems to run as follows: Eve chiffon and set jauntilv- on a shapely blond had frequently annoyed Adam by con- head. One fatal drawback, however, ^vhich tinuall3'^ asserting that she was the most prevents it firom attaining greater popularity » beautiful woman in the world until he, after is the price, which is always most reasonable, standing her self-adulation as long as his It might be interesting to describe the nuisculine patience Avould iDcrmit, admitted technical points that go to make up a the truth of her assertion, but retorted stunning Easter bonnet, but my.object in that while she might be the most beautiful this brief article is not to go into the woman in the world, it b}'- no means pre­ minute details that go to make up the science cluded the possibilily^ of a woman even more of bonnetolog3'^ but rather to announce the beautiful. formation of an anti-bonnet association This taunt made Eve furious, and snapping whose purpose is to unify and consolidate her fingers in Adam's face (thej-^ did not the resistance and passive antipathy of use rolling pins in those days) she refused long-suffering husbands against this night- to recognize him as her lord and master, mare of feminine ingenuity that exists under and said that as far as she was concerned the name of Easter bonnet. WitiK this aim he was a complete nonentit3^ Seeing that in view I have started an international Adam was not a bit disturbed by this organization to be known as the "United announcement, Eve resorted to drastic Anti-bonnet Association of the World." The measures, and seizing him hy his flowing purpose of this organization as stated locks she dragged him around the old apple in the preamble of the constitution is as tree until he showed the white feather and follows: " We the long-suffering, demonetized cried for mercy. Now in my theory this men of the world, in order to form a more white feather is the undoubted precursor perfect union, provide for the common, of the bonnets of to-day, for it as trufy defence, insure domestic tranquillity (if represents the submission of man to the possible) and the spending of our money tj'^ranny of his spouse as the Easter bonnet for cigars instead of Easter bonnets, do of to-da}-- represents the complete ascend- ordain and establish this union." Thus has aucy of feminine control over the masculine a glorious movement been started which pocket-book. in time wiU become w^orld wide, and the The origin of the bonnet being thus satis­ unity of effort which will result from its factorily cleared up it remains to devote extension wiU enable sufferinsr mankind to a few words to the present status quo of forge a thunderbolt capable of wrecking these Easter monstrosities. For convenience the most gorgeous of Easter bonnets and the bonnets of to-daj"- maj"^ be classified annihilating forever the sender of those into five general groups: first, those devoted exorbitant bills that read: Mr. Henpeck to vegetable display; second, those bearing to Madame Milliner Dr., and agita.te the specimens of fruit; third, those containing slumbers and waste the resources of wdl- stuffed ornithological specimens (dead birds); meaning men, 428 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

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EUGENE P. BUKKE, '06 life tliCA' ahvaA'S jjossessed. CHAS. L. O'DOXNELL, '06 JOHN F. SHEA, "06 Wn-LIAJI A. BOLGER, '07 JOHN Jl. RYAN, '06 —The New Alusic SocietA' of America which THOMAS E. UUKKE, '07 JOHN C. .MCGINN, '06 gaA'e its first concert at Carnegie Hall, NCAA* WESLEY J. DONAHUE, '07 LEO J. COOXTZ, '0 7 York, last month aims to present to tlie CORNELIUS HAGEKTY, 'OG EDWARU V. O'ELYNN, '07 public the xjroductions of American com­ WALTER O'DOXNELL, '06 ROBERT L. BRACKEN, 'OS posers. The\'- do not intend to estaljlish ii national school of nuusic, but "there is a not inconsideniblc and incretising body of —This edition of the SCHOI^ASTIC has been Americiin orchestral music," says a writer prepared exclusiveh'- by members of the stiiff, in the April Amerienn Review of Reviews, and in order to give the editors time to "that voices, Avitli distinction and artistic make the Easter number more elaborate competence, an authentic ideal of betiutv." than the ordinarj- weekh'^ edition, the Sciio- Much of this American music has been ]^ASTic,was suspended last week. It has denied a pulDlic hearing owing, pcrhiips, to been the custom to print in our Easter the prejudice of those AVIIO hcive control of issue the pictures of the editorial staff, and our concerts, and it is the end of the New modestly comph'ing Avith this custom Ave Music Society to create a medium through submit our ^Dhotos with our work. Avhich the productions of American niusiciims luaA^ reach the pulDlic.

—The ceremonies of Hoh' Week were carried out this year at the University with —Of the thirty'- athletes AVIIO Avill represent their usual solemnitA^ On last SundaA"^, America at the Ol.vmpic giimes to be held after the distribution of the blessed palm, at Athens April 22 to Max- 2, onh^ three Solemn High Alass was celebrated by our are intercollegiate stars. Few of the under­ Rev. President during which the Passion Avas graduates could obtain leave of absence solemnly sung by Father Schumacher {Evan- during the time appointed, and the asso­ gelista), Crumley (Christus) and Maguire ciation complied AAdth the Avishes of (Petrus). On WednesdaA^ Thursday^ and TJniA'^ersity Faculties. Those AA'^ho haA^e Friday evenings the services of Tenehrae obtained leaA^e to enter the lists are Schick, Avere held, and on ThursdaA'^ afternoon the of Harvard (runs). Friend of Chicago and A^ery^ Rev. John A. Zahm, Provincial, C.S. C, LcAdtt of Williams (hurdles). The others performed the services of the.'Mandatum. wdio Avill make np the group AA'^ere picked This morning the Paschale Praeconium was from our athletic clubs all over the country, sung^by^ Father Maguire, and the penitential and it is the opinipia of Mr. James Sullivan, season was fittingly closed with Solemn secretar3^-treasurer of the association, that High Mass and the chanting of Alleluias. we Avill bring home the victory. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 429

{Continued from piigc •t-2.1.) of the A^efir and the one upon w^hich all the Tear 4-57 A. D. when it was changed for other movable feasts depend, it is necessary the more correct computation of Alexandria. that a uniform date be observed. It \va This latter c\-cle was made up of five found in 1582 A. D. that the Victorian c\-cle metonic cycles or ninety-five years. was faidtA', and Pope Grcgor\- had the The British Isles alter the Council of Nice, calendar revised and gave us the one we now where thcA* hiid rciDresentatives, cidopted use. According to the present arrangement the Ronicin cvcle of eiuhtv-four ve^irs. This the festivid may fidi on uny Sunday- between they faithfulh"- preserved until the middle of March 22 and April 25. It is the first the seventh centur\', though isolated from Suuda\^ after the full moon which falls on Rome by the Bcirbarian invasions. The or after March 21. It must be remem­ svstem being erroneous caused the zealous bered, however, that the ecclesiastical ludon disciples of Saint Columba to be called is not the iictiial moon in-the heavens but C[uartodecimans by the Italiim followers an imaginarx' one about two. days in and successors of St. Augustine. In Great advance of the real moon. Britain, owing to the missionary zeal of the two great religious orders, the controversy took a peculiar'turn. It was not uncommon Athletic Not es. to have members of the Scime household defending opposite s\'-stems according as NOTRE D.viiE, 6; SOUTH BEKD, 2. the}^ were educated b\' the monks from lon^i We jiot awj.iv with the first game anvhoTv. or the Benedictines. It was this very iact The Yarsitx' trimmed the Greens good and that caused a speedy end to the controvers\^ X3lent\' in llie first game of the series and It happened one year thtit Oswy, King of set a clip thiit, if the\' follow, will put them Northumbria and Bretwalda of the Saxon at the head savy time the score is added up. princes, was celebrating the Ecister festivi­ Perce and O'Gormiin pitched for the VarsitA-, ties w'ith his princes, but the queen Avas just and Moffit, McMan and Ferris did the fancy betrinnino- liolv Week. The fact thcit onlv bending for South Bend.- part of his famih' could or would take Perce showed great improvement over part in the festivities so vexed Osw\' that last year and gives great promise. He is he determined to have the question settled a good, steady man, always working, uses one wixy or the other. To accomplish this his hccid, and never gets up in the air. Bill end he called a council at Whitby (A.D. 664) is also a good hitter and outfielder. And at which he himself jDresided. Colman, his work Tuesdtu- marks him as one of the Abbot of Lindisfarne cind a monk of lona, coming- pitchers in the West. defended the eight3^-four year cycle as having Ccq^tain McNern\'—which was most fitting been taught b\^ St. Columba, while Wilfrid, for the Captain—Ccirried off the batting a 3'oung Saxon Bishop and advocate for honors, making two pretty singles. the Roman usage, declared he saw prelates The team showed up fift\' per cent better from all over the world celebrating at. in the first game this year than they did Rome. He also made a strong conclusion last season. Not an error was made through­ to' his speech by quoting the passage from put the game, and considering the weather, the gospel where Christ made Peter head which w'as anything but baseball weather, of the Church and gave to him the kcA'S it is quite remarkable for the team to go of I-Ieaven. King Osw\'- was so influenced through the first game without an error. b_v the thought that he might be offending Moreover, everv- man had his ej^e on the the g^ate-keeper of Heaven that upon ascer­ ball, and as a whole the team hit well. The. taining the truth of Wilfrid's words he scoring started earh'. Anderson, the second^ decided at once in favor of Rome. This ended man iip for the Greens, beat out a bunt and the discussion as far as Northumbria Avas w^ent to second on a passed ball. Richardson concerned, and Archbishop Theodore finallv' . followed with a hit, piitting Anderson on established the Roman usage throughout third. all England in 669 A. D. Francis tlied out to right field and "The As Easter is the most important festival Goat" scored on the out. Capt. McNeirny'S; 430 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

men came right back at them the first time although there seems to be little doubt that around and tied the score. McNcrny hit; the first three men Avill wear the new suits, Farabaugh struck out; MurraA' hit and "Long Tom" Tobin, or "The Man Avith McNeru}' went to second. .Johnson booted the Initials," maA^ hand out something new one and McNeniA'^ scored. In the fifth, J-'erce and unlooked-for and displace one of the drew a free ride, went to second and third "sure things." " on' errors, and scored on Stopper's out. " Ton\'" Stojijper will again do the reaching In the fii'st of the seventh South Bend tied around first base. And on the way i^ast, it the score again, and to get even the Varsit3'' might be mentioned, Stopper is hitting the 2:ot on Ferris for three hits in a race and ball on the nose and is easih'- out-hitting four scores. As a whole the game was good. an}'- man on the tetim £Lt this stage of the We showed the good effects of the long- game. winter training in the GAHU, cind gave great Capt. AlcNcruA^ Avill receive the high and promise for the college season. low ones from the catchers, at second base, Notre Danic K II r A K £ind from the game he has ]Dut tip for- the Bonaii, r. f. 0 0 0 0 0 past two years, it is enough to saA'- "Mac" Z^IcNcnn-, 2h. 0 10 Avill again be on second. Farabaugh, 1. f. 1 1 TOO "Wild John'" Shea, will cover all the ^Iuna\-, c. 3 1 9 2 0 ground between second and third base and Stoppei", lb. 1 1 .S 0 0 Sheehan, c. f. 0 0 2 0 0 AA'ill use the one-hand hook that has made Broii^aii, 3b. 0 1110 him' famous. With Shea on short-stop the Shea, ss. 0 0 0 10 man Avho gets, one past him can have a Perce, p. 10 0 2 0 hit and a home run Avithout the asking. O'Gornian, p. 0 0 0 10 He can coA^er more ground than aiiA-- man Totals G G 21 8 0 on the team, and is undoubtedh' one of the South Bend K H I' A K fastest college short-stops in the AA^est. Fleming, 1. f. 0 0 2 0 0 Brogiin Avill make his debut in Varsity Anderson, c. f. 1 1 2 0 3 clothes on third base. This will be his first Richardson, 11) 4 0 1 1- 1 A-ear, but from his work in practice he looks Francis, ss. 0 0 3 1 2 Tilnian, c. 0 0 0 0 to be there, and although he has an aAvful Johnson, 3b. 0 0 1 1 pace cut out for him,.folio wing in the foot­ Trouteman, r. f. 0 0 0 0 steps of ex-Captain. O'Connor, it is safe to Grant; 2b. 0 0 1 2 sa^'- Brogan Avill keeip up the reputcition, and •' Aloflit, p. 0 0 0 1 0 McJMfin, p. complete one of the best infields Notre 0 00.0 1 Dame ever had. Ferris, p. 0 0 0 1 0 Farabaugh made his Monogram two years Totals 2 2 21 5 S ago as catcher, but this year he AA'ent out Struck out—B3-Perce, G; In-O'Gornian, 2; b3'Mo flit,, -t; bj jMcMan, 1; In- Ferris, 1. Hit by pitched ball— for left field and made good at once. He AIurraA'. Passed ball—Murray-. Wild ]jitch—O'Gornian, Perce. Bases on balls—B3- Perce, 1; In- Moflit, 2. is a good hitter and a fast fielder. Unipire—ShaughnessA-. . Birmingham A\nll pku^ in ccntrefield. This Avill be his first 3'^car here, but little doubt Capt.^ McNerny has w^eeded off all but can be expressed as to his baseball ability. fifteen men, and from this number will be He is a AA'^onder Avhen it comes to covering chosen the team that is to rej^rcsent Notre ground, has a good arm and is a good hitter. Dame the coming season. The onhj^ jaositions Bon an is another outfielder, and like that are not exactl^"^ .certain are the back- the former is a good hitter, JL fast fielder stoiDS and the /pitchers. .MurraA' appears and has a good arm. With such men as these to. have first position cinched behind the three in the-.outfield and with the infield 'bat, and Slieehau and McCartln'^. are doing before mentioned, ever^'-thing points to a tlie lieavj- . work for second honors, and good team. .; :,', - . chances look,to be.abbiit even. ,Murra3^is:another man AA-^ho is.an except /Waldorf, Perce, O'Gbrman, Tobin and tiqual hitter;; tiulike .Stopper, he does, hot Keefe wall all be giyen a chance t some jDoke ' oiit > little ; singles, biit, slains the ball pitching ;;stints . aga.iust:; the -Greens,, and £lgaihst the bui^eid feucie. - > , NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. MT^

NoTKE DAIVIE, G; SOUTH BEND, 4. Bonan, c. f. 1 3 10 0 McNcrnx-. 2b. 2 1 1 S 1 And ^ve \von the second—the score was 6 Faraljaugh, 1. f. 0 0 10 2 Murray, c. • 1 19 0 2 to 4. South Bend started out like a winner, Stopper, lb. 0 17 0 0 getting on Keeffe for four hits in the Shcclian, c. 0 0 0 0 1 Brogan, 3b. 0 0 0 0 1 first time around, but the four hits only Shea, ss. 1 1 2- 2 0 made one run, and w-hen the Yarsitx- got Keefie, ]i. 1 10 0 0 AValrlorf, p. bus^'- with the stick W\Q.Y ended the inning 0 0 0 2 0 two runs to the good. Totals 6 S 2112 -T Capt. McNenw's men scored three_ more Two base hits—JMcNernv. Tilman. Three base hits— Stopper. Bases on balls—Off Waldorf, 3; off Keefe,.3. - in the second. Shea led off with a hit, and Struck out—B_v Keeffe, 2; bv Waldorf, 4; by Williams, stole second on the first ball. Keeffe followed 1; Ijy Ferris, 1; b\' Goal, 1. ••Sr with a hit, scoring Shea; Bonan sacrificed, •5- * . McNerny connected for a prettj'- tw^o-bagger The-old time custom of having an inter- and scored Keeffe. Farabaugh reached first hall baseball leagtie at Notre Dame ,was ; on Francis' error, and McNerny Avent to re-established this 3^ear hj Mr. McGlew, third, Murraj^ hit a fast one to Grant who is endeavoring to make this season an scoring McNernv. exciting one for the different halls. Last, South Bend tried hard in the fifth to even Mondaj'- evening the managers of the hall up things, but had to be content with two teams, Mr. Ouinlan representing Holy Cross runs. Waldorf w-ent in in Keeflfe's place and Hall; Mr. Collier, St. Joseph's Hall; -Mr. was a little wild at the start. Francis Monahan, Corby Hall; Mr. " Donovan,. drew a pass, and Tilman hit for two bases. Brownson Hall, and Mr. Plilton, Carroll Johnson drew a pass and Trouteman reached Hall, met in the Gj'ifi and drew up the first on Mttrray's high throw to Stopper. follo-^nng schedule: Grant hit and scored Tilman and Johnson. April 19—Corby at Hoh- Cross In the seventh the Greens got one more. " Carroll at Brownson Anderson- reached first on Brogan's bad " Sorin £it St. Joseph's throw to StoiDper. Richardson hit to Mc­ /Vpril 22—St. Joseph's at Hoh' Cross " Sorin at Carroll ' '. Nerny'' who got his hands tangled up with " Corbv at Brownson the ball, making Richardson safe and Ander­ April 2G—Holy "Cross at' Carroll son on second, and he scored on the. next " Brownson at St. Joseph's two outs. " Sorin at Corby Brogan's hitting was the feattire of the April 29—^Brownson at Holy Cross " St. Joseph's at Sorin r game. He w^as up four times and got three May 3—St. Joseph's at Corby • singles and a sacrifice. Grant of South Bend " Ploty Cross at Sorin • ; shared the hitting horses with Brogan, get­ " Brownson at Carroll - j ting three out of four. Waldorf showed all May 6—Holy Cross at Corby : . of his old-time speed, and although a little " Brownson at Sorin . . -/ " Carroll at St. Joe wild it was his first game. Birmingham, May 10—Carroll at Holy Cross / . who has been confined to the infirmaiw with " St. Joseph's at Brownson , ^ a severe attack of maleria, was on the bench Maj"- 13—Holy Cross at St. Joseph's and -vxnll probabh' get in the game the last '' Corb\' at Brownson of the- Tveek or the first of next. " Carroll at Sorin MaA-- 17—^Holv Cross at Brownson : StTM.M.VKY. St: Joseph's.at Carroll ' •/ ; Sotith bend. K 11 V A Iv " Sorin at Corby ' ", - Fleming, 1. f. 1 1 0 0 0 Mav 20—-Sorin at Brownson . - : Letcher, 1. f. 0 0 0 0 0 Corby at Carroll .; Anderson, c. f. 1 0 2 0 1 Richardson, lb! 0 1 S 2 0 Mav 2^t—Sorin at HoU^ Cross • . ; Francis, ss. . 1 1 -1 2 '" , Corby: at St.'joseph's:, ;:- Tihnan, c. 1 2 4 1 -0 Johnson, 3b. 0 0 0 1 0 Sorin Hall was not represented at, the ., ' Trouteman, r. f. • 0 0 0 0 0 meetihsf, and it is not known vet whether ' v Grant, 2b. , , 0 3 3 1 0 AViUiams, x'- . - 0 0 0 2 0 or not the\^ intend to enter -fche league. The,-.1 Ferris, p,, Goal p.;. 0 0 0 i' 0. schedule,-however, was made out to ^allo.w ;. . Totals . 4 S IS 11 3 for the possilpilitv of their, entering.'.. . ->-;:- 43- NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC

Posts of South Bend will be held in the Card of S5'mpathy. UniversitA^ Church, Mav 27, at ten o'clock. The sermon will be preached b^'" the President of the UniversitA'-. Whereas in His infinite wisdom Almighty God has seen fit to call to Himself the —Charles Minotti of Carroll Hall is crit- mother of our friend, Ezra Cowles. Ave the icalh'' ill of x^^cumonia in his home at undersigned in behalf of Carroll Hall desire Charleston, W. Va. Minotti has had more to extend to our bereaved hall-mate our than his share of sickness and ever\'- student sincere sympatliA". will breathe a fervent praA'er for his speedy " L. Dillon recoverv. J. Lee —At a meeting of the St. John Berchmans' M. Cartwright Sancttiar\' SodalitA', held April 7, the cere­ L. Garcia—Committee. monies of Hoh' Week were explained, and the members chosen to represent the Apostles at the Mcindattim on Holy Thursday drew lots for their names. Local Items. —Air. McGlew is arranging a schedule for the inter-hall baseball teams. Each hall is —The University Choir will sing Concone's to pla\" two games with evcr3'- other hall, Mass in Ao on Easter morning. and the team most successful is to have a trip in the latter part of the season. It is —^Bro. Leander has recenth' received from hoped the hall teams will get busy and try a friend a valuable set of books for Dujaric for the championship. Hall. —A hungrv visitor latelv went into the —^Notre Dame has a plaA'^cr named Stopper, Universit\^ Art Studio and secmg several but he plaA'S first base instead of backstop apples and oranges in a basket took one or shortstop.—Cln'cngo l^ribune. and did eat. The Professor in a fine frenzA' —Lost, — A small gold watch. Finder ran his fingers wildh' through his hair, and please leave the same with the Bro\\mson cried: "Stop man! 3-011're eating mystudA'; Hall Prefect and receive reward. I have part of it on the canvas." The —Two young men went up to visit with hungr3'- one remarked later that the fruit Mike Discan, but noting the number on his tasted as though it were painted. room door (23) turned hurriedly away. —^In a small building to the left of the —One of our neighbors while examining Brownson Hall G3'"m, Bro. Hugh has con­ the shore of St. Marv's Lake got dizzv and structed a box ball bo\vling-allc3'. It is fell in—the first outdoor swim this season. about fort3- feet long and two and a. half —There is good reason for believing that feet wide. The fioor has been slighth^ raised the street cars will soon be extended to the to xDcrmit the balls to roll back beneath. Universitv grounds bv wav of Napoleon and This game is all the rage among the Eddy Streets. Brownsonites now, and some have become ^A beautiful marble Pietn has lateh- been remarkably skilful, notablv Willie Rice Avitli placed in the University: Church. It was his high ball. brought from Europe bj^ the Rev. John A, —^l^hc custom of beating a tatoo in unison Zahm, Provincial, C. S. C. on the grand stand in the athletic field is —There are no limits to the ambition of one which should be promptly dropped. the Seniors. Thev have been working for The grand stand is a sti-ong structure, but some time on the Dome, but last week the\' it w-ould have to be much stronger than began work on the Clouds. it could be made in order to stand the pressure of five hundred 3-oung men jumping —On Easter MondaA^ the Philopatrians in unison to the air of a popular song. wall put upon the boards "The Prince and Drop the stamping and avoid funerals. the Pauper." The Philopatrians have a reputation for doing their work well. —The.SciTOLASTic is requested to announce that the Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D., of —The SCHOLASTIC wishes to thank Mr. T. Washington, D. C, has been secured for the Dart Walker for its beautiful Easter cover, Commencement oration. Dr. Stafford is a also Professor Ackermann for his artistic scholarly priest of charming character and arrangement of the Staff photographs. . enjo3^s an international reputation as a —Mr. John Voight of last 3'^ear's class is perfect orator and lecttircr. It is said of him. now engaged in the stud\^of law at Jefferson- that in_ the Cit3'^ of Washington where he vilkjlnd. He is a fine example of the \0y3i\iy lives, he could fill the theatre every night that ought to characterize every Notre in the 3^ear if he were willing to lecture so Dame man. often. The class of '06 is to be congratulated —The Memorial Exercises of tlie G. A. R. - n their Commencement Orator.

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