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VOL. XXVIII. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, NOVEMBER IO, 1894. No. 10.

brilliant idea that has just occurred to him. ""Wlien Skies Are Gray." Why not expeditiously settle a number of epistolary claims by sending an occasional {A Rondeau) letter to the SCHOL.^STIC, and then referring to f^HEN skies are gray and Summer's light its columns all my creditors in the matter of Has faded from the land, the knight, correspondence, as.suring them that they will November, comes with lance in rest find therein full information on the only sub­ And visor down; a cruel quest • He rides upon; his glance is blight. ject about which they can reasonably expect me to write, at least for several months to Swift as the winds his steed, and bright come,—my summer in Europe. His sword, as sunbeams when they smite And what a supremely glorious summer it A path through storm-clouds in the West, When skies are gray. was! The realization of a thousand day­ dreams,—a vision of. delight in anticipation, a Crimson and gold, the leaves took flight thing of beauty throughout its passage, and a At Autumn's whisper; but his might Blasts field and wood; his sable crest joy forever in the retrospect! Ten brimming Nods death to all; for none may wrest weeks of life and light and glowing movement, His empire from him, his by right. of changing skies and heaving ocean, of storied When skies are gray. shrines and famous cities, of modern splendor DANIEL V. CASEY. and ancient ruins, of the noblest monuments reared by man and the fairest landscapes traced by his Maker,—yes, it was a glorious A Summer in Europe. holiday, and recompensed a hundredfold the previous industry that had made it possible! BY A. B. My exclamation points, however," are grow­ ing numerous. Perhaps I had better.heed the French injunction, and "moderate my tran­ I.—THE OCEAN VOYAGE. sports," lest I degenerate presently into the HAT a peculiarly disagree­ emotional hyperbole of the gushing damsel able sensation it gives one who furnished an anti^climax to our first ocean to be reproachfully glared at, sunset. " O my" she shrilly exclaimed, " ain't day after day, by a growing it just too ecstatically gorgeous for anything!" pile of unanswered letters—, To be quite prosaic, then, the summer was a big, bulky letters from valued most enjoyable one; and not the least pleasant correspondents who expect equally bulky re­ portion of it was the ten days' trip across the plies, and who are probably accusing one of Atlantic, from Halifax to London. Ten days unpardonable neglect because the replies have may appear an unduly long period for the not already reached them! Such an experience passage, especially in this epoch of " ocean has been the writer's during the past few greyhounds" and broken records; but as we weeks, and to it must be attributed both his were travelling for pleasure, and not on busi­ present unsatisfactory frame of mind and the ness, an extra day or two upon the billowy 146 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

deep was a matter of congratulation rather than ship in a perfect paroxysm of retching, was regret. Indeed, had our programme of con­ boisterously accosted by a fellow-passenger tinental sight-seeing admitted of the delay, we with: "Hello, friend, are you sick?"—"Why, would readily have consented to the prolonga­ you bloomin'-(whoo-00-oo-oop), you bloomin' tion of the voyage for an additional week. idiot," was the response, "you don't suppose To the tired brain-worker, there is surely no I'm doing this for fun, do you?" other form of summer recreation so thoroughly No; there is no fun in seasickness, even in its grateful as ocean travel. Where else can the mildest form; but for one who is impervious to nervously-exhausted professional man, the its attacks, there is a world of pleasure and worn-out college lecturer, or the weary " knight exhilaration and ,delicious rest in a voyage of the quill" enjoy repose so complete, luxuriate across the ocean. O the luxury of reclining at in idleness at once so perfect and so healthful, full length in an adjustable steamer-chair on as on the mighty expanse that stretches away the sunny side of the saloon, deck, and noting, from the New World to the Old? If the best between puffs of your postprandial cigar, the vacation (for the man who really needs one) is ever-varying aspects of the multitudinous blue- that which affords the fullest change from his black wavelets dancing away on every hand to ordinary life—change of air and diet and ideas join the engirdling sky! The full, deep draughts and scenery and people—what transition can of life and vigor that one drinks in while briskly compare with that from lecture-room or study promenading, in the early morning when the to the breezy deck of a handsome liner grace­ breezes blow fresh and the pearly tints of dawn fully gliding through summer seas! are lost in a flood of golden glory as the sun "All very well," interjects some biliously emerges from the eastern waters! The sense incredulous reader, "but what about seasick­ of incomparable beauty that captivates and ness?" Seasickness, my dyspeptic friend! Why, enthralls one's being when the malady is old-fashioned, out of date, " the moon is on high. obsolete. At the very least it is no longer an Hung like a gem on the brow of the sky," inevitable, but merely an optional, concomitant and the gaze wanders from the myriad star-jets of life on the bounding wave. In the lexicon that flash their radiance athwart the azure of the prudent ocean-traveller, strong in the vault above to the phosphorescent glow that resources of the American druggist, there is no fitfully gleams in the troubled wake of the such word as mal de mer. When you purpose coursing ship! crossing the Atlantic, nowadays, you provide Boundless sky and water day after day and yourself with a bottle of Elixir Prophylactic, night after night; but what infinite variety of manufactured by tht Brush Chemical Company expression in both immensities, alternately of Boston; you take a dose every three hours thrilling the soul with a realization of the sub­ on the day before sailing; and, your internal lime, and steeping the sense in a spell of love­ economy absolutely undisturbed by pitch or liness! And to think that there are mortals so roll, you sleep with the tranquillity of the hopelessly prosaic as to complain, even on veriest Jack Tar, and eat with an appetite that their first ocean vo3^age, of tedious monotony, Jack would blush to acknowledge. and -sigh for the unattainable daily paper! Such, at least, was my experience. Yet, lest Thank Heaven! they were not represented in any reader should feel inclined to quote: " He the muster-roll of passengers on board the jests at scars, who never felt a wound," let me Halifax City,—possibly because the roll was not say that the quotation would be the reverse of a very long one. No; our score and a half of apposite. I have felt th^ wound of the baleful fellow-voyagers were a cultured body; and inal de mer. It was years ago, on the Bay of although some no longer found in ocean sights Fundy; but I preserve a very vivid remem­ and sounds the attraction of novelty that brance of the ineffable misery and utter accentuated the pleasure of the greater num­ wretchedness of my condition during that first ber, none proved insensible to the manifold encounter with the sea. It taught me that charms of magic sunsets and starlit nights and there is very little exaggeration in Mark Twain's the soft, strong melody of the rolling waves. comment on the malady: "For the first ten Our route lay across the northern Atlantic, minutes you're afraid you're going to die; after and we were consequently treated more than that, you're afraid-you're wo^f"; and it put me once to the impressive sight of those majestit in thorough sympathy with the English trav- rovers frogi the Arctic seas, the icebergs. Most ellei:, who, as he leaned over.the side of the of the gigantic masses were from two or three to NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 147

eight or ten miles away; but even at this latter size with pawns, two of the smokers invited distance, several of them loomed up like lofty- the precious child to have some fun with them. spired cathedrals, or the battlemented castles They smilingly insisted on testing the elasticity of feudsi days. Of one we had a nearer view. of his ears, the solidity of his muscles, and the It lay directly in our course, and our helms­ resisting power of his hair; and so impressed man sheered off merely enough to allow the him with the peculiar character of the "fun" steamer to pass it in safety. A perfectly sym­ he«night expect whenever he visited the smok­ metrical quadrangular pyramid, measuring ing-room, that for the remainder of the voyage fully one hundred feet from apex to visible the misguided youth gave that apartment a base, its dazzlingly white surface glittered and wide berth,—and his disciplinarians earned our flashed in the morning sunshine as though it cordial gratitude. were some colossal monolith reared to the And now the voyage is evidently nearing its memory of the hardy vikings who swept of completion. With increasing frequency we sight old the Atlantic's bosom and. sank to .rest full-rigged ships, and stately barques, and beneath its billows. graceful schooners, and mammoth steamers Even had inanimate nature appealed less whose triple funnels belch forth dense black strongly to our sense of the beautiful, the clouds that stretch away, a darkened trail, for voyage would still have proved a delightful miles behind them,—and we hardly need the experience. Our company was an eminently captain's assurance that we have entered the sociable one; and, a day or two sufficing to • English Channel. We are not extravagantly become acquainted with one another, we were everjoyed at the sight of land; are half sorry, thenceforward merely a large family-party, rather, that the trip is almost at an end. We each member of which genially contributed have fallen in love with life on the ocean, and to the general fund of mirth, diversion, and are'loath even now to bid it good-bye. daily pastimes. There were shuffle-board and As we pass the Eddystone Lighthouse, Miss ring-tossing tournaments on deck, concerts and R., the charming young Irish girl whose mellow pool-auctions and cards in the saloon, pro­ laugh is a musical treat worth listening to, tracted conversaziones (with fabulous yarns) deplores the fact that, although she has not in the cozy smoking-room, witty sallies and been ill a single moment, she will never be able gay repartees at lunch and dinner,—and, every­ to convince her friends at home of her immunity where, a spirit oE cordial, frank good-fellowship from the vial de mer. Some one suggests that that was simply irresistible. she should procure a bill of health; and an Occasional brief annoyances occurred, of hour later, she rejoices i« the possession of a course, to disturb the serenity of our habitual legal-looking document to which are affixed the good-humor, and remind us that life, even on signatures of captain, officers, and passengers. the ocean, is never wholly free from shadows. It certifies that she " has, throughout the One of our shadows was a too, too precious passage, been absolutely and indisputably free boy of mine, a child most unequivocally spoiled from any and every kind, sort, variety, species, by injudicious parents; and another was a or description of seasickness,—a fact the truth diminutive maid of three, dowered by nature of which has been made superabundantly with the temper of a Xanthippe and a yell as manifest by the above-mentioned young lady's piercing as a locomotive's whistle. Whenever invariablesprightliness, activity, and imperturb­ this latter sweet cherub began to manifest her able geniality; and furthermore corroborated vehement disapproval of the existing condition by the robustness of the said young lady's of things in general, we invariably retreated appetite at breakfast, lunch, and dinner,—not beyond the range of her vocal organ; but the to mention sundry supernumerary and inci­ spoiled boy's exasperating rudeness was not dental 'snacks' at other-periods of the day." so easily shunned. He was ubiquitous and Here, however, in quick succession, are Port­ irrepressible. land Bill, the Isle of Wight, Brighton, and At .least, he was irrepressible for three or Beachy Head. We steam by night through the four days. One afternoon, however, when he Straits of Dover, the lights on the French invaded the smoking-room, playfully emp­ coast visible in the distance; pass Ramsgate - tied several match-boxes into the spittoons, and Margate in the early morning; enter the denuded two or three novels of covers and title- busy, but unlovely Thames; and afewhourslater pages, and, discovering the chessmen, began to are lying at Victoria Docks in the greatest city whittle kings, queens, and knights into uniform that the world can show us--London. 148 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC,

Varsity Verse. Henrik -Ibsen.

BY EUSTACE CULLTNAN, 95. WHAT MARS IS DOING. When down in the West sinks the Sun-god to rest, In the East there uprises old Mars, Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet and Who watches the fight with the greatest delight dramatist, has had a great vogue among the 'Twixt the Chinese and Japanese stars. more highly educated circles of Europe jcnd N. E. C. the United States; and his theories on social VACATION. institutions have been warmly discussed and O time of greatest joy and pleasure sweet, commented upon. He is one of the most famous How ardently all youths do long for thee; of the authors of the present day. Thou art their heart's desire and they feel free All his works have been produced in the lat­ When thou dost end their troubles. It is meet That they look forward longingly and greet ter half of this century, and the best known of The welcome time in which the moments flee. them since 1875. I'^'s early dramas were done As clouds before the wind. They all agree in verse, and are said to be great poems, strong, That thou shouldst bring them joy without deceit. terse, dramatic and with an interest that never O sweet vacation! of thy many joys flags. These, however, have not aroused as The greatest is the meeting of the dear much interest in him as a few productions of And loving parents, brothers, sisters, all. maturer years, in which he propounds social The visiting of places which, while boys, problems of new and striking importance. In We frequented; but now for many a year them he is entirely taken up with the subject. We have not seen or given them a call. There is no attempt at metre or poetic beauty; G. F. P. everything, even the commonest and least A BAI.I.ADE OF NIGHT. pertinent remarks of everyday life, is intro­ Ah! e'en as I watch them, the forests of gold duced to make the scenes more realistic. His That stretch afar off as a sea in my sight. And seem to foretell that the.snow and the cold^ characters, as he says himself, I believe, are not Will soon come to cover the whole land with white; so much persons as types of classes, and they These too fade away in the gloom of the night. have no thoughts that are not common to a When sunlight's last ray lingers low in the west; whole class of men like themselves. When stars in their joy fill the heavens with light; Consul Bernick is not any one in particular; When nature is sleeping, and man is at rest. he is a commercial and philanthropical fraud. The sweet evening Angelus long since has tolled Mrs. Alving is not the wife of Captain Alving, The death-knell of day; and the moon, calm and bright. but a woman who still clings to the old-fashioned Sails silently on in its pathway of old notions of the duty of wife toward husband. And drifts through the dark, dreary clouds in its flight. As some snow-white swan, that is fleeing with fright. And if they had spoken in verse it would have Glides in 'mong the rushes. These hours I love best; seemed more like a miracle-play of the Middle For then there's no longing for wealth or for might. Ages, when virtue and vice personified entered When nature is sleeping, and man is at rest. as dramatis personce, than a bit of nineteenth The mantle of stillness doth calmly enfold century realism. "The slumbering cities. Ah! then, 'tis delight But, to return to the principal subject. His To wander about 'neath the stars; to behold views on social subjects are directly antagon­ The world while it sleeps; for the faint sounds unite. istic to the generally accepted opinions of That come from the forests, and sing like a sprite men; but they are presented withal so power­ That hums a sweet lullaby. - Thoughts that oppressed My mind pass away; and all wrong becomes right fully that they force themselves upon our When nature is sleeping, and man is at rest. attention. It is a defect of many people thkt ENVOY. they philosophize on the history of dead Come with me, dear friends; for the scene will not blight nations, but never for a moment remember that The fairest of hopes; yet would I request the news of the morning is as much history as That you will view with me this fair world to-night. anything contained in the library of the British When nature is sleeping, and man is at rest. Museum. Ibsen brings this truth to mind most \ E.J. M. clearly. In this time of strikes, of organized labor fighting with organized capital, of nihilist and 'Now dally not with time, the wise man's treasure. Though fools are lavish on't—theifatal fisher" ' anarchist agitation, of mushroom fortunes that Hooks souls, while we waste moments." are gathered in a night by the oppression of the- ^OTRB DAME SCHOLASTIC. 149

poor, when question upon question is returned tion of society? Who can"deny that the whole by our legislators practically unanswered, men world is tainted with this dread disease, worse, turn naturally to anyone who claims to have if possible, than open scepticism and unbelief? a means whereby their evils may be done away Not that society'is conscious of its own rotten­ with. At any other stage of the world's exist­ ness. If the "pillars of society" could only ence, perhaps, Bellamy and Ibsen would have see themselves truly, there would be hope of passed without notice. As it is, they are read reform. Perhaps Ibsen is aiming to show them with the most intense appreciation. their own reflection. Surely it is bad enough Behind the counter of an apothecary shop, to move them to a change. in an obscure town.of Norway, Ibsen began to Ibsen, turned thus from religion by what he meditate upon the thousand subjects of the saw, beheld or fancied he beheld, at the same day that drew the attention of the philosopher. time, men of intelligence who thought as he did, And while still engaged with drugs and pre­ still clinging blindly to the old forms out of scriptions he formed some of the conclusions respect to public opinion. In " Rosmersholm" that have found expression in "Ghosts," "The he portrays a case of this kind-: Pillars of Society" and other plays: Pastor Rosmer, a retired minister, has for . While he-was yet a young man appeared his several years had doubts concerning his relig­ first tragedy, " Catilina," which was crude in ious belief. At length he determines to openly many ways. The more finished ones that acknowledge that he is no longer a member of followed, as well as the many influences that his church. He has also transferred his helped to form his style, I shall not dwell upon. political sympathies to the radical party. At To do so would require a separate article. the opening of the play he summons up courage At home in the small village where he enough to tell his old friend, Rector Kroll,- of passed his early life, Ibsen noted many things the change in his opinions. Kroll is a violent that disgusted him with the whole fabric of conservative, and an estrangement is the result,. modern society. The religion of the town, as Rosmer is scurrilously attacked in a paper con­ well as of the whole Scandinavian peninsula, trolled by Kroll. So shocked is he at this was Lutheranism; but at heart the people branding of himself before the public that he were not religious. True, they said the tradi­ loses confidence in all his fanciful schemes for tional prayers, attended the traditional church, emancipating and ennobling mankind. He has and professed the traditional belief of their not the courage of his convictions, and is driven" fathers in which they had been brought up. to seek refuge by drowning in the mill-dam. But much of it was cant and hypocrisy, as Here is a man who, having grown tired of prayer, morality, and religion must always be the hollowness of the religion he professes, when practised unintelligently and without throws it off and accepts unbelief. The sym­ fervor. The spirit of faith which makes virtue pathy of the reader goes with the struggling real and strong had died out, and what was minister, vainly seeking for the light; and left was mere form and outward show. The when he enters at last into what he thinks to syphilis of falsehood had attacked the very be truth and freedom, we cannot but sorrow backbone of the whole structure. Respecta­ with him that his plans have fallen through, bility was the first,of virtues. The owner of the his friends deserted him, and all hope of ever manor-house went to church regularly and all beine of service to his fellow-men vanished. the parish with him. Pious sentiments were Ibsen presents a problem to us. Rosmer, uttered by a very respectable gentleman, and whom he takes as a type of a large class, has . they were told in a hazy sort of way what they • either to live a lie in the face of the world, or ousfht to do. But after all what did it all suffer for doing what he thinks right. He takes mean? No one knew and no one admitted the second alternative. Granted that he does that he did not know. Each man went home, right, what else could he do? The dramatist and, if he felt like doing so, sinned as much as suggests no other solution. He knows none. he pleased. But he always took good care to AH religions are to him the same. He has avoid public reproach; no one was openly found a similar condition of affairs existing in shocked, and no one was hurt. Whose business every country of northern Europe and perhaps is it if one injures himself? For his part, he felt in southern Europe also, and in despair he sets comfortable and self-satisfied, and why should his face against every religion. ,any one else feel otherwise? This is no place to expound the doctrines of Who can affirm that this is an isolated condi­ the Catholic Church and show how all her I50 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

teachings contradict the assumptions of Ibsen smaller monarchies, Saxony and Bavaria i regarding the views of morality held by her particular, where the political institutions still children. Little does he understand how treated the individual as something more warm and living is the faith that is in true than a mere factor of an immense population. Catholics. He is not the only thinker of the The state was a bugbear from which he was nineteenth century who has revolted against always trying to escape. He himself expresses forms of.worship from which all spiritual life has his opinions on it in the following words con­ long departed and which preserve now merely tained in a letter to Georg Brandes: the corpse of what was once, no doubt, a living "The state is the curse of the individual. creed. Of these, the greater, the more logical, How has the national strength of Prussia been the more fortunate, have found rest and satis­ purchased? By the sinking of the individual faction in the Roman Catholic Church, while into a political and geographical formula. . . . the misguided ones now grope in the exterior The state must go. That will be a revolution darkness of agnosticism or scepticism. which will find me on its side. Undermine the Let me not be misunderstood. It is not a idea of the state; set up in its place spontane­ new thing, I am aware, to say that the Church ous action and the idea that spiritual relation­ can give the only answer to the questions of ship is the only thing that makes -for • unity,. the day. We can say this, and it means noth­ and you will start the elements of a liberty ing; we can say it again and it means every­ which will be something worth possessing." thing. Here on earth evil indeed exists; the This, in brief, is the text upon which most of poor are wronged and the good suffer, while the Ibsen's social preaching is built. And that wicked prosper. Wrongs there are — Ibsen there are great and crying evils of the kind he knows it, Leo XIII. knows it, everyone knows protests against no one can deny. But the it. Anarchy will not eradicate them; they will only remedy he can see for the diseased con­ always exist; and we can look for redress no­ dition of affairs is the total annihilation of the where but in a future life. The Church does, state as at present made up, and reconstruction practically and in good earnest, present the of the whole fabric of society on entirely new only solution to Ibsen's problem. Her life is lines. He does not attempt, in his plays, to perennial and divine, and in her are none of the suggest how these new lines are to run; he elements of decay. simply declares that everything, as it is now, is Convinced that religion was an imposition wrong, and that it is our duty to set it right. and a hindrance,. Ibsen directed his attention This is well. But man has not yet reached towards the political state of the world. His that stage of evolution or improvement, or investigation was equally disheartening. In progress, or whatever you please to call it, every country the state had absorbed the indi­ when he will, of his .own volition, obey the vidual, and dwarfed him in his development by natural law and keep from breaking in upon making his owii interests subservient to the his neighbor's rights. " Spontaneous action common weal. and the idea of spiritual relationship," if they In every kingdom citizens were obliged to mean anything at all, will not work so radical waste five, six or seven of the best years of life, a change in human nature. just when the greatest good is derived from Moreover, the state,- year after year, hinders influences of all kinds, educational, religious the individual less and less; but the alteration and social, in military service. And all this has been brought about, and is still being com­ at a time of peace, when nothing was to be pleted, not by any sudden revolution, but by feared but the jealousies of the nations, one slow and natural steps. There will never come for another. .As a consequence, also, of the a time when rulers can be dispensed with. Kings, maintenance of these vast standing armies, presidents or consuls—we must have them, if the taxes were everywhere exorbitaqjt and only as matters of convenience. We must bear oppressive; the people impoverished; the men with government^f for no other reason— who were needed to till the ground kept in because it is the less of two evils. idleness at the public expense. And of all this (TO BE CONTINUED.) injustice and misery the state was the cause. Therefore, the state is an evil that should be ^ • » abolished. THE heart can put on charms which no Flying from these scenes of state tyranny, beauty of known things, nor imagination of as he judged it, Ibsen lived chiefly in the the unknown, can aspire to.ernulate. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 151

stood a deserted lumber camp. The place had The Engineer's Story. only recently been deserted, for we found every­ thing in good repair. Here we concluded to ARTHUR W. STAGE. spend the night. We were all used to rough­ ing it, and made ourselves at once at home. I am a civil engineer and I work for the G. R. While Mike made a fire and cooked some of & N. M. railroad. A couple of years ago, in the trout. Earl and I went out and gathered the latter part of August, Burt Earl, who was pine boughs with which to make beds. After then next below me, and myself, were sent to eating our fish supper we sat around the fire, Burock, a lumbering town on the Maiden divi­ smoking to keep the mosquitoes away and sion of the road. We were to run a spur track told fish and other stories. from Burock, to tap a belt of timber land about About nine o'clock, Mike went out to get a two miles west of the town. drink. He had only got outside when he We arrived at Burock on a Thursday even­ yelled for us to come out. We ran out and ing, and the next morning we engaged a found him looking over toward the other side .section hand, a young Irishman named Mike of the clearing. Our eyes turned the same way, Shanahan, for our chainman, and started in to and away off over the forest we saw a bright work. On Sunday we slept all morning, and red glow in the sky. We thought it was only in the afternoon, to pass away tlie time, we some barn burning, but Mike said that it was went fishing. There was a trout stream about a the woods on fire. As there was no wind blow­ mile from the town, and to this Mike piloted ing, none of us had the slightest suspicion of us. We followed the stream down, and had danger. After looking at the reflection for such good luck that we did not notice how far some time we went inside, and lying down we had gone or how long we had been fishing on our pine beds, we were soon in the land till, being admonished by my inner self that of dreams. it was supper time, I looked at my watch and I was awakened once in the night by the door found that it was after six o'clock. I called to blowing open. I got up and closed it, and noticed the other fellows, and we packed our rods at that the wind was blowing rather strongly. . once and prepared to return. We did not I.soon dropped off to sleep again. My dreams . know how far we had come, but we thought were rudely shattered by Mike who was shaking we were not more than a couple of miles from me and shouting at the top' of his voice: the town. Mike was certain he could take us "Wake up! Wake up, Ed, the fire's coming this straight home by a short cut, so we told him to way!" I was up and out in a second. I shall lead and we followed. never forget the sight that met my eyes when , The woods were already growing dark, so we I got outside. A quarter of a mile beyond the started off at a good round pace, as we knew clearing I saw a roaring mass of flames leaping from experience that it was no joke to get high in the ail* and rushing towards us at a caught in the woods after dark. We should terrific rate, urged on by the wind which had have reached the town in a short time; but it now risen to a gale. Sparks and cinders were grew darker and darker and still there was no falling all around us and the heated air was sign of the town.' As we went hurrying along black with smoke. "Run for the lake," Earl in Indian file, I was suddenly brought to a cried; and at the word we started for the shore. stand-still by running into Mike who had Drawn up on the shore we found a fiat-bottomed stopped short. When we recovered ourselves scow, left, very likely, by the woodsmen when - we found that we were on the bank of a small they deserted the camp. It was still water­ lake, and in the dusk Mike had almost run into tight, and, shoving it out, we jumped into it. it. You can imagine our feelings when Mike We found an old board in it which we used for coolly told us that he hadn't the least idea a paddle. We made for the opposite shore, where we were, and that he had never seen and Earl and I were foolish enough to want to the lake before. It was growing dark so go across and try to outstrip the fire. Mike rapidly that it was out of the question to try had seen a forest fire before and would not let to find the town. We must make the best of a us do it; for he said we would never be able to bad bargain, so we started out to find a place outrun a fire, travelling at such a rate. Tlie'\ in which to camp for the night. We followed lake was about half a mile in diameter and wet the lake around, and in a few. minutes we came were soon in the centre of it. Here we stopped'"' upon a small clearing, in'the centre of which and watched the coming mass of flames. 152 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC,

It was the grandest, but the most terrifying arms and tied thesleeves around one of the seats sight I have ever seen. The flames roared, and of the boat. This helped to hold him up a tossed in the gale and literally leaped from tree little, but all the time one of us had to support to tree. Before we knew it the fire had reached him, while the other at frequent intervals had the clearing, set the camp on fire and was on both to dash water on the boat. Every minute sides of the lake. Tongues of flame stretched seemed an age. I do not see how we ever far out over the water as if trying to reach lived through it. Time and again I felt like us. The air had now become scorching hot, giving up the struggle, but still I managed to and we were almost smothered by the smoke. keep up. Hanging on to Earl, who was now Sparlfs fell hissing into the water around us unconscious, we blindly prayed for aid. After and even into the boat. A large brand fell a terribly long time the sparks ceased to fall, on my hand and burned it, and that accounts and the wind was cooler. I was just ready to for this scar. It was too much for human nature give up when, on going out to throw water on to stand, and with one accord we jumped over­ the boat, I felt a cool drop on my head. Turn­ board into the lake. To our surprise we found ing my face up I found that it was raining. the water not more than three or four feet Diving under the boat I told Mike and both deep and with a firm sandy bottom. We ducked together we loosened Earl and got him outside. under the water and stayed under as long as The rain refreshed us, and we could now breathe possible; but when we came up to breathe it more freely, as the wind blew the smoke in was worse than ever. The boat was fast drift­ gusts and it was not so warm. We were so ing away when Earl cried out: "Let's turn the weak we could hardly support Earl. I saw boat over and get under it!" It was no sooner the boat beginning to drift away and letting said than done, and in a couple, of minutes Mike hold Earl I grabbed the boat and tried we had the boat over and we were under it. to turn it over. I had a job in doing it, but We had to remain in a very uncomfortable finally got it over and bailed some of the water position and the water was quite cool; but it out of it with my hat. Then we tried to get was a relief from the scorching air and we Earl in. Mike got in and pulled, and I lifted were content. It soon grew warm and close, him as best I could and we succeeded in tum­ and we heard sparks and brands falling on the bling him over the side. I could hardly get in boat. Mike dove out and dashed water over myself, but with Mike's assistance I did so. the boat and got back as soon as he could. The rain was coming down in torrents and it He said it was terrible outside and that several put new life into us. Tearing up one of the large brands had been blazing on the boat. In seats we used it as a paddle, and pa,ddled to a few minutes I went out. I shall never forget where the camp had stood.. We ran the boat what I saw when I got the water out of my on the shore, and then we -lay down in the eyes. The fire was all around the lake, and it bottom of the boat utterly worn out. I did not seemed as if we were in a ring of fire. The mind the rain in the least and in a minute I heat was terrible; it was like an oven. My skin was fast asleep. I do not know how long I had cracked and the smoke made my eyes smart. been asleep when I awoke to find a crowd of Putting out several large sparks I got under woodsmen around us. We were lying in a the boat as quickly as possible, but not quick couple of inches of water and it was still rain­ enough to escape being burned rather severelj'^ ing. The woodsmen helped Mike and myself by falling sparks. After that we took turns in out; but poor Earl was still insensible and had dashing water over the boat. to be lifted. I was so sore and weak that I We were all badly scorched and lost some could hardly stand, but a big drink of whiskey hair, but in the excitement we scarcely noticed strengthened me. our burns. Before long the water grew quite The town had been saved by the clearing warm, the air under the boat became close and around it, and as soon as the rain had put put suffocating. We were weakened by standing the fire, a searching party had set out to look for in the water and were almost dying for want us, and by a lucky chance, one party had gone of air. Poor Earl was the first to give out. I directly to the deserted camp and there had saw him slowly sinking back into the water found us. The men knocked the boat to pieces and grabbed him, and held him till Mike got and improvised a rude litter on which they hold of him on the other side. Together we carried Earl. Mike and I were able to Avalk, succeeded in holding him up. I pulled off my supported by a woodsman on either sicle. In this coat; made a rope of it, and got it under his' way we set off to the town three miles away. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 153

The tramp in the rain, through the ashes and —Sct'ibner's is always a surprise, even to its over half-burned logs, was a dreary one, but we " constant readers." It is the apostle of novelty were only too thankful to escape alive. At last in magazine making, and one always picks it we reached the town, where we received every up with a comfortable feeling that here, at attention. Mike and I, after a long rest, were least, he will find something new, timely, out all right, except that we were covered with of the ordinary. In the November number burns and had lost most of our hair. Earl Julian Ralph, perhaps the best known "special was not so fortunate, and before that night he correspondent" in America, writes, in an was raving in the delirium of brain fever. For intensely interesting way, of " Election Night in three weeks he lay between life and death, but a Newspaper Office." Mr. Ralph was born a the doctors finally pulled him through. The newspaper man, and his vivid pictures of the survey was never completed; the fire had swept scenes in and about the editor's room on the away all the timber which the spur was intended evening of the first Wednesday in November are to tap, and Earl and I were ordered to another almost photographic in their realism. The illus­ division within a month. trations are by B. West Clinedinst who here makes his bow, we believe, to the magazine public. In his second article on " English Rail­ Book Revie-ws. ways," Col. H. G. Prout gives some interesting THEORETICAL MECHANICS—FLUIDS,]. E.Taylor, glimpses of the life of the engineers, porters M. A., Longmans, Green & Co.: New York. and guards who move the trains. Prof. Nl S. This little volume, recently added to the long Shaler's article on "The Horse" is peculiarly list of Longmans' Elementary Science Manuals, valuable because it is written by a specialist is one intended by the author to give students who does not forget that technical terms are, a thorough drill and preparation in the ele­ very often, Greek to- the ordinary reader. mentary principles of the " Mechanics of The fiction of the number shows a decided ten­ Fluids." The introductory chapters treat dency towards realism. "True Pictures Among briefly of motion, force, centre of gravity, prop­ the Poor" are sympathetic sketches of life in the erties of matter, work and energy. The defini­ tenement districts. The writers, Robert Howell tions of these terms are first given in language Russell, William T. Elsing, James Barnes and not too difficult to be understood by the average Edward W. Tousend,know whereof they speak, student, and then, which is especially to be com­ and they carefully avoid anything that savors mended, each principle is followed by illustra­ of the romantic. " The King of the Currumpaw" tions and practical examples, thus enabling the is the life-history, remarkable because true, of a huge wolf, who defied, for years, every effort of student to acquirca more complete knowledge the New Mexican ranchmen to kill or capture of these elementary principles of mechanics him. It reads like a fairy tale, and one feels than can be.obtained by any other means. The really sorry for the old hero, when his love for subjects, Hydrostatics and Pneumatics, are so Blanca, his mate, leads him to captivity and fully and clearly developed that one who studies death. Of the other articles, "The Third these topics, as presented in this little volume, Relief," by George I. Putnam, is a rather weak will be well prepared to continue the work as and colorless incident of army life. The Novem­ laid down in the more advanced text-books. ber "Point of View" is especially good. Two Nothing adds so much to the value of any of the four miniature essays recall the piquant text-book on science, especially mechanics, as wit and lightness of touch of E. S. Martin, clearness, conciseness and illustrations. The whose "Windfalls of Observation" comforted author of this little work evidently understands and edified the old and young last year. these qualifications. ,He aims to be simple; yet —The Photographic ZZV/Z^J is intended, of course, his language-is sufficiently scientific for the for the knights of the camera, but even the subject of which he treats. The illustrations "rank outsider" can find pleasure and profit in are many; and added to these are five hundred its well-written articles and beautiful photograv­ examples of various grades, the solution of ures. The frontispiece, " On the Wharfe," is a fine reproduction of a photograph by John which gives the student an opportunity to apply Naylor. There are articles on " Solarization," the principles developed in the text. The "The Subject," "Defects in Amateurs and paper and binding are of the usual high order Apparatus," " Toning with Uranium" and of excellence characteristic of the work done " Gold, Silver, and Platinum in Photography," by Longmans & Co. valuable alike to amateur'and professional. 154 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

It is unnecessary to praise Bishop Spalding's lectures. They have passed beyond the regions nmm. of praise; they are accepted by cultivated Americans as unique in scholarship and admir­ Notre Dame, XovciiiTjcr J 0, 1894:. able in expression. Bishop Spalding is, to-day,

^u&Iisi){I) Atm JSaturlias tiarmj Stnn JTimf at S". B. Snifctreitj. the first literary representative of the Catholic Church in the United States. Of all men,—if Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Notre Dame, Ind one ma}'- judge by his utterances,—he is the manliest; of all writers, the most sincere, and Ter?ns, Si.jo per Anman. Postpaid. of our philosophers, one of the most profound Address: EDITOR NOTRS DAM:^ SCHOLASTIC, Notre Dame, Ind. and best equipped. His "Education and the Higher Life" is already an American classic; Staff. his " Things of the Mind," just issued, is a riper and fuller expression of noble thoughts and JAMES A. :vrKEE, '93: DANIEL A^ CASEY,'95;- aspirations. In this book, John Lancaster Spal­ -DANIEL r. MtJKPHY, '95; ding gives round and full utterance to thoughts EUSTACE CULTJNAN, '95; SA:MUEL A. WALKER, '95; JIICHAEL A. RYAN,'95; that with Carlyle, Ruskin and Emerson, are FRANCIS W. DA•\^S, '95; ARTHUR P. HUDSON, '95; inarticulate, because they knew neither how to HUGH C. MITCHELL,'95; believe nor to love; they lacked faith and, con­ NICHOLAS S. DINKEL, '95; JOSEPH A. JIARJION, '96; anCHAEL J. NEY,'97. sequently, a knowledge of the divine charity that illumines the world. Probably, no words better give the character of this great man than —It was with pleasure that we noticed how these from "Things of the Mind": "When the Religion, Art and Literature combined, in the high hope and thought of youth remain real memorial services of October 31, to offer a and living in the mature man, the result is a tribute of love and respect to the memory of great and noble charactei-." our Founder, Father Sorin. Bishop Spalding is a man who retains the "long, long thoughts," and the enthusiasm of ^ • »• youth for higher things. He divines that —vThe Rev. President very appropriately beneath the outward materialism of the Ameri­ remarked, at the reading of the Bulletins last can people lie the springs of the higher life. week, that the official announcement of each Emerson knew this; Lincoln knew this; but student's class-standing was not to be regarded Spalding knows it better and sees it .more as a mere formality, or a thing perfunctorily clearly than these men. performed. Nor was its object to humiliate To follow him is to follow, the motto " excel- those who had failed to obtain a high percen­ sius;" to read his works is to breathe the rarer tage, but to serve rather as an incentive to better atmosphere of an ideal land; to hear him is an efforts. May the desired result be obtained! event which the students of, '94 will remember well in the future; and to treasure his wisdom is to become each day more of a man. To be his —Let those whose enthusiasm hurried them disciple is to begin to make a man of oneself; on to append their names to the volunteer and a man is not born,' but made by him­ subscription list, in behalf of the Athletic Fund, self with striving and hope. To hate the low come forward and substantially prove the and the vile, to love the good, at all risks, is genuineness of their intent. It is too early in the lesson Bishop Spalding teaches by his life life, boys, to act the role of those who, while and work. The highest prudence with him is they do a great deal of talking and advising the most lucid sincerity. "What gives pleasure," how things ought to be done, seldom give a he says, in "Things of the Mind," "is of little hand to anything, and, as a rule,subscribe more moment; what gives power.and wisdom is all than they pay. , mportant." These words, we may be sure, will ' be the key-note of the lecture on Thanksgiving —^The Rt, Rev. John Lancaster Spalding will, eve; and-it will be only the callous and the we are glad to announce, lecture for. the stu­ careless who will not profit by the words of one dents of the University on the eve of Thanks­ of the greatest priests, the most profound giving Day. philosophers and the finest poets of our time. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. iSS

He gained the applause and esteem of a Doctor Holmes. nation; the whole world was his friend. So opti­ mistic.was his nature, bubbling over with good spirits, and always seeing the sunny side first, It seems as though we are about to enter the that he could have almost lived in a solitude, twilight of American literature. All our most perfectly contented. We do not first think of famous writers are dying with the century. Of him as the poet, or as the essayist, or as the that great New England school, so renowned novelist, but as the man. His kindliness of. in our history, not one is now left us. Emerson, heart, his sweet temper, the gentle disposition the poet and essayist; Longfellow, who sang so that was able to produce the feeling of friend­ sweetly the songs of the hearth and of the liness and good-fellowship wherever it went,— human heart; Whittier, that stern old Quaker, these are the qualities that will always distin­ whose muse would out, and Lowell, the diplo­ guish him especially among all our American matist, essayist, poet, truly great in each,—all authors. have answered the last summons, and are now quietly sleeping in their lowly beds. On a calm The versatility of Holmes was remarkable. New England Sunday, while the church bells He is great in three distinct lines of literary about him were ringing a sad requiem. Doctor labor. He is famous both as a poet and a Holmes, the last of the great New England writer of prose, and it is difficult to decide in group, closed his earthly career and joined his which he excels the most. His verses, although departed brethren in another life. We look they are few in number and none are of any about us in vain to discover men who will fill great length, appeal directly to the feelings and the places of those who are dead. They are sympathies of men. His poetic fire was not of gone; the brilliancy of our literary firmament has the highly spiritual order; he never attempted been dimmed, and America will have to wait anything very lofty or sublime; he was con­ for at least another generation before she can tent to remain with us on earth, and to ennoble recover from the literary losses she has sustained by his art that which is taking place about us in this. every day of our life. The delicate pathos and The kindly, genial doctor of Cambridge has humor of "The Last Leaf" is a good example peacefully closed his long life, and he has left of his great power. His humor is always elevat­ a void in the hearts of his numberless admirers, ing and of the highest order, and by simple which can never be filled by another. No more little touches, here and' there, he causes the shall the people of Cambridge see Oliver Wen­ heart to soften and the eye to moisten from dell Holmes,—their mpst honored citizen—pur­ pure sympathy. suing his accustomed way along their streets! But, without doubt,it will be as the "Autocrat" The grave has hidden him from view; but he that we will the longest and the most lovingly has left that behind him which will never die. remember. When will ever such another keen, The children of his brain are destined for an witty, sprightly companion of the breakfast immortal life. While the name of America table be found? As autocrat, as professor, as survives, or one American breathes, his name poet he is charming. His simplicity wa% his will be held in the highest respect and venera­ especial characteristic. He writes just as he tion. His works will live; they will always would speak. There is nothing forced or un­ remain with us. That was the ambition that natural in his conversations. One is at times inspired him; that was the motive that spurred almost tempted to answer him as though he him on to higher efforts,—to leave after him were at one's elbow. There are no deep philo­ something which time could not destroy. sophical dissertations; he had something to say, The life of Holmes was the ideal one of the and he said it in a straightforward, highly inter­ man of letters. It was, in a manner, quiet and esting manner. His wit and humor he uses secluded; but by no means was it that of a with brilliant effect. His satire never leaves a recluse. Surrounded by a few choice companions sting behind it. It goes straight to its mark; and all the material comforts the heart could but there is never a sore spot to tell where it: desire,: he enjoyed .life to its fullest extent. No struck. great, or unusual sorrow disturbed the calm As a novelist. Holmes was also noted, and tranquillity of his being. The fates allotted to he carried on all his labors in literature in him a rare degree of happiness and success. addition to his work in his chosen profession. \t 15^ NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

seems that love of literature was born in him, One point in Mr. Musin's playing especially and he pursued it as a sort of recreation after aroused enthusiasm among the audience, the the ordinary business of the day had been done. downward'^/rtc^rt/f? iji his Tyrolian encore piece. He was never so busy that he could not find The perfect rendering of this movement alone time to pay some attention to the demands of may be considered a criterion of the artist's societ5^ But now, alas, the great change has admirable techniqite. come! The "last leaf" has silently fluttered to Mr. Edward Scharf, the solo pianist, opened the ground and thousands of hearts are mourn­ the concert with a difiicult selection in which ing its loss. he fully showed his art. His exquisite dex­ terity and delicate fineness of touch convinced all hearers that he deserves his reputation as a Ovide Musin at Notre Dame. performer on the instrument which was the source of renown gained by von Bechstein, Our college theatre has often re-echoed Ibach and Steinway. with loud and prolonged applause given to Mr. F. W. Elliott did not fulfil the expecta­ musicians whose proficiency in their art elicited tions which the audience had centred upon fi'om the audience well-merited acknowledg­ him. He was suffering from a severe cold and, ment. It has been our rare privilege to admire in consequence, floundered noticeably in his the genius of Remenyi and other celebrities; attempt to reach the high C. His voice, how­ and year after year our Lecture Committee has ever, is certainly a good one, and were we to given evidence of its good taste and discretion judge him by his passable rendition of the in inviting musicians and vocalists of superior Kermesse from "Faust," despite his indisposi­ talent to display their powers upon our stage. tion, we. would say Mr. Elliott is a tenor of no Enjoyable, however, as were the imisicales of mean ability. former years, we doubt if any of them excelled . Madame Musin, the "American Nightingale," that given during the week by the famed pleased, the audience with her purity of tone Musin and his troop. and richness of vocalization. Her voice is of When on Wednesday afternoon the Faculty, an exceedingly light timbre, but her execution students and visitors filed into Washington and method are of the best. She sang the Aria Hall, all were convinced that the entertainment from Gounod's "Queen of Sheba" very credit­ they came to witness would be a rare treat. ably, and her other selections were also warmly- And the result proved that the expectations of received. all fell short of the reality. The performers Miss Bessie Bonsall held the audience com­ were artists; their performance was artistic. pletely spell-bound. Such a wondrous contralto The star of the entertainment was Ovide voice we have never yet had an opportunity to Musin, the violin virtuoso of American and hear. She by far outdid the other singers, and transatlantic fame. The selections he rendered we should have liked to listen to her more called into play the utmost skill and perfect frequently. The perfect ease which she evi­ ieclinique of the master. His graceful manner denced in her singing, the charmful modulation of bowing, the flexibility, rapidity and accuracy of her "carefully trained voice, delighted all of his fingering, his sureness in striking the whose fortune it was to be within earshot. • Her flageolet notes, his ease and grace of posture— first number was a lullaby. This artistic pro­ all bespoke the born artist. One may without duction she rendered magnificently, and in it fear of objection rank Mr. Musin with barasate displayed her marvellous powers as a vocalist. and Joachim, the two most proficient modern To some her bearing upon the stage during the violinists. The violin is of all musical instru­ singing of this piece may have appeared stiff, ments the most difficult to play. It takes long but it was in keeping with the character of the years of arduous practice before the learner music. Her voice blended sweetly with that acquires any noteworthy degree of facility. of the soprano. Both adapted their acting to But, then, no other instrument yields to the the nature of their selections, and charmed the artist's efforts such satisfactory results. Mr. audience with the gracefulness of their carriage. Musin has thoroughly mastered the violin; he The " Laughing Trio " by Martini, rendered has perfect control over it; he can elicit from by Madame Musin, Miss. Bonsall and Mr. it an accurate rendition of the most intricate Elliott at the conclusion of the entertainment, passages. Such variety of melody, such rich­ was a "roaring" success. The demeanor of ness of harmony, such truth of interpretation! the singers, so expressive of the witchery of NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 157 this composition, electrified the audience. With using other than gentlemanly measures towards one accord they retained their seats and called such delinquents. Let it be understood that a for a second rendition of the superb song. failure to respond readily to the captain's orders The concert had about it nothing stiff and will end in a forfeiture of place, and, we are formal. The performers used no voluminoiis sure, prompt obedience will be secured. tomes of music, and there was an agreeable * * * absence of dress-coats and stage-sweeping The St. Johns University Record, hailing from trains. We extend cordial thanks to the musi­ CoUegeville, Minnesota, has a very clever cians and vocalists for the readiness with which article entitled " Conversation." We cannot they responded to our encores. Throughout the help thinking from the berating given to " pro­ entire entertainment, the music was of a high fessional punsters, hobby-riders, egotists and character. There was an agreeable inter­ singers of their own praise, and appropriately change of classical masterpieces and old folk­ all those addicted to the deplorable vice of songs. The evening which it was our pleasure cracking stereotyped antediluvian jokes," that to spend with Mr. Musin and his troop was the author has had a sad experience. We one exceedingly delightful to all. sympathize with him, and hope henceforth "his B. R. P. < • »• lines may be cast in pleasant places." Exchanges.

It is with a feeling of regret that we notice Personals. in the editorial and exchange columns of some of our contemporaries a decided leaning towards —J. Pl.Shillington (Com'l), '94, is at present literary Philistinism. This finds expression in the Chicago Office of the Anchor Steamship chiefly in a careless choice of words. Slang is Line. He intends to return to the University used, not because it is especially happy in next session. expressing a delicate shade of thought, or is —M. M.White (Law '88). has been elected particularly forcible, but ratherbecause it is a County Attorney of Ida County, Iowa. We convenient substitute for more careful diction. congratulate him on his successful campaign, and assure the people of Ida that they could Would that we could impress upon the writers nof have made a better choice. of these columns the following words of Agnes —Father Van Pelt and Gilday, both of St. Reppelier: "For every sentence that may be James', Chicago, and Father Dennison of St. penned or spoken the right words exist. They Bernard's of the same city, were amongthe lie concealed in the inexhaustible wealth of a many visitors at the University lately. Notre vocabulary enriched by centuries of noble Dame always feels honored when visited by the thought and "delicate manipulation. He who clergy, particularly thosejfrom the'great metrop­ olis of the West. does not find them and fit them into place, who accepts the. first term that presents itself rather —Mr. Harry Prichard, B. S., a member of the graduating Class in 'go, paid his Alma than search for the expression which accurately Mater a flying visit this week. On leaving and beautifully embodies his meaning, aspires college he became identified with the Charles­ to mediocrity and is content with failure. The ton National Bank of Charleston, West Va., exquisite adjustment of a word to its signifi­ and now holds the position of cashier. He is a cance, and the generous sympathy of a word young man of keen business proclivities and- with its surroundings—these are the twin perfec­ sterling principles, which make him invaluable. The bank is to be congratulated upon the wise tions which constitute style and substantiate selection which it has made. genius." —Mr. Joseph Sibbel, the eminent modeller *** and sculptor of New York, paid a visit to Notre The last issue of Res AcadejniccB contains an Dame Thursday morning. Mr. Sibbel made editorial upon the action of Captain Hinckey the colossal marble statue of Archbishop in the football game between Yale and Will­ Feehan, which stands in the centre of the Chi­ iams. In it the writer attempts a defence of cago department of the Catholic Education Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. The what, in our opinion, was a bit of downright bust of the late Bishop of Brooklyn and the rowdyism—the kicking of Beard. We concede bass-relief of Bishop Hendricken in the Bishops' to the Res that some players are naturally lazy Memorial Plall are from Mr. Sibbels' atelier. and must be brought to work perforce; but we —The many friends of Rev. Joseph McManus, will not admit that this justifies the captain in student '72-'75, will be pleased to learnthat bu 158 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

was lately made Dean of the Port Huron dis­ evening on account of the interest taken in the trict by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Foley of Detroit. reorganization of the Temperance Society. Father McManus is one of most popular clergy­ —Miss Mabel Sherwood, of Chicago, spent a men of the Detroit diocese; and his promotion, few days at the-University this week visiting while a source of edification to his parishioners her nephew, Robt. Catchpole of St. Edward's and the Catholics of Port Huron, is but the Hall. natural consequence of his devotedness to duty. The ScHOLASic offers its best wishes to the —During the absence of Col. Hoynes in Chi­ Very Reverend Dean. cago last week, Mr. James F. Kennedy lectured before the Law class on "Common Law Plead­ —We take much pleasure in copying an ings." extract from the Los Angeles Herald in regard to Mr. McGarry (Law), '94, who rendered —Several new football suits have been pro­ valuable assistance to the SCHOLASTIC durmg cured by Bro. Hugh for the.Athletic Associa­ the last scholastic \'^ear. " M. J. McGarry, son tion. They are a great improvement over the of ex-councilman D.M. McGarry, was admitted old ones both in padding and make. to practice in the Supreme Court. Mr. McGarry —It is said that every night when the watch­ passed a very creditable examination in Law at man goes through Sorin Hall, one of the bright­ Notre Dame University, and was admitted to est luminaries sticks his head under the pillow practice before the Supreme Court; of Indiana. for fear the watchman might think there was a His office is in Room 30 Bryson Block." He light in his room. is a hard and diligent worker, and this, aided —Captain Miles, of the Carrolls, has had his by his tact and ability, will, no doubt, soon men practising on the gridiron during the past place him among the foremost lawyers of his week. They are in good condition now, and it native state. is hoped that when they meet the Niles' team ^ • » they will be victorious. —We may expect a hot game with Albion Local Items. Thanksgiving day. Last week she defeated Hillsdale 12 to 0. It was remarked by one —Who was flirting with the Count? who was present at the game that both teams —^Don't fail to join the Hand-Ball Associa­ played a far better and stronger game than tion. when they were here. —The first snow of the season was welcomed —The Manager of the Wabash football team by the students. writes that they will play our eleven about the —FOUND—A pair of scissors. Owner apply 15 th of this month provided they have enough at Students' Office.. men left after the game with Purdue on the loth. He says that they don't want to fix any —The Astronomy class took up the study of definite date at present as their team- may not "Uranography" last Monday. be in a condition to play us. —The Carrolls were not so successful this year as last in procuring hickory nuts. —On Sunday evening last the Sorin Hall bulletins were read out in the chapel by Rev. —There is a Carroll who wears a number 9, Father French. The Rev. President also spok'i and he is not from Chicago, either. . a few words to the boys, complimenting them —^J. Devanney—Name omitted from the List on their creditable showing, and pointing out of Excellence for Descriptive Geometry. what part the students of Sorin Hall were ex­ —^The fat man says that he does not like to pected to take in the Jubilee commencement. play football because the ball is made of pig­ —It should be thoroughly understood that skin. Athletics at Notre Dame are not wholly con­ —The members of the Belles-Lettres class fined to football, nor yet to baseball; for are discussing the influence of the essay in while the inclement weather forbids both these literature. sports, and the heroes of gridiron and diamond —For the past week the Criticism class has are lolling in their cold-weither haunts and been looking into the construction of the exotic recounting many, glorious victories, there is forms of verse. great and increasing activity in the hand-ball —Glancihg, Jim, at your note, we must con­ alley.' Rain, snow or shine the development fess that it ivoidd stock our columns to answer of muscle and brawn goes impetuously on with the mirage-query? Herculean proclivities. LOST—A navy-blue sweater, with N. D. U. —The Philodemics held their regular meet­ across the breast, in yellow letters. Finder, ing Wednesday evening on the 7th, and the please leave at the Students' Office. question, "Whether or not a military spirit should be encouraged in the United States," —The other day Das Kind was trying to was ably discussed- by Messrs. Walker and manufacture some new explosives. As a result Shannon for the "affirmative, and Messrs. he wears bandages on most of his fingers. Keough and Ryan for the negative. The exer­ - ^^—The Columbians did not meet last Thursday cises were very interesting and well receiyed. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. ^59

A good subject is on the tapis for the 14th, game. To the communication, he received and it will be ably handled by Messrs. Murphy, no answer. Again several telegrams were sent, Shannon, Casey and Prichard. but no answer came. During this time several .—Rev. Father French called a .meeting of letters were received from Mr. Roby stating the Total Abstinence Society on the evening of that the Chicago team would very likely come the 1st inst. A large number attended. Officers down here soon. Acting on this information, were elected for the coming year: Vice-Presi­ Manager Mott wrote a letter to Manager Stagg dent, T. T. Cavanagh; Treasurer, William P. last week, but no reply has yet been received. Burke; Secretary,Jas. Barry; Sergeant-at-Arms, If Mr. Stagg does not want his team to play R. B. Stack. The next meeting will be held on here he should at least answer the telegrams the first Sunday of December. The members and letters sent to him. are enthusiastic over the organization, and if —Oh Monday evening the members of the their plans do not miscarry they will have one Brownson Hall Hand-Ball Association met in of the ablest orators in the country to address the commercial room for the purpose of re­ them soon on the subject nearest their.hearts. organizing the society. Wm. Fagan was made —On Saturday, Nov. 3d, the Law Debating chairman pro tern. Startling motions were made Society held its third regular meeting in the and numerous rules and regulations adopted. Law room. The work of the evening was the Then the scramble for offices began, and the debate on the question: "Resolved, That the Hand-Ball Association has not held such a medical profession confers more benefits on wild meeting in many a cold day. When the humanity than the legal." The subject was smoke cleared away the following officers were well handled by Messrs. Francis Keough and found to have been elected: President, Frank James McKee for the affirmative, and Thomas Plesse; Vice-President, Ralph Palmer; Treas­ D. Mott and James Barrett for the negative. urer, A. Corry; Secretary, Wm. Fagan; Director, After a long and. interesting discussion, in Brother Hilarion; Critic, Chas. Montague; Um­ which many good arguments were brought for­ pire, Raymond O'Malley; Scorer, Thomas Fin- ward by both sides, the judges decided in nerty. The members of the Committee on favor of the negative. Arrangements are E. Gilmartin, Joseph Ludwig, Richard Stack, Wm. Galen. The alley com­ —On Thursday evening, the Carroll Hall mittee consists of Norwood Gibson, Bernard division of the Temperance Society held its Weaver, G. Anson.and O. McHugh. first regular meeting under the presidency of Rev. T. H. Corbett, who explained the object of —The following is the programme of the the society. The election of officers resulted Band Concert to be given next Thursday for as follows: President, T. H. Corbett; Secretary, tke benefit of the Athletic Association. Joseph Sullivan; Treasurer, John V. Ducey; PROGRAMME: . Sergeant-at-Arms, Jacob Reinhard. .A large PART I. programme was mapped out for the next regular March—" Queen's Light Guards " Thovias meeting, and, judging from present indications, " BohemiaiT Girl "...; Balfe it is safe to say that this branch of the Univer­ Piccolo Solo—" Thro' the Air " , Damm • Mr. Oscar Schmidt sity T. A. Society will surpass its predecessors Gavotte,—" Queen's " Walter in membership and active work. "Comic Tattoo" Myrelles —November third, the first anniversary of (A musical strike in which the players, becoming- disgusted with the repetition of the same melody, the solemn obsequies of our lamented Father gradually leave, and the leader is left alone with the bass Sorin,.a life-size portrait bust of the great de­ drum, the drummer .thereof having gone to join the parted was unveiled in the Lemonnier Library. strikers). The bust is an excellent artistic effort, and the PART II. sculptor, Signor Alfredo Luzi, is .to be congrat­ Overture—" Band Union " Soiith'well Song and Dance—" Something to Adore " Boos ulated on the success with which he has made Grand Concert Waltz—"Jolly Fellows" Gressinger permanent the familiar features of our loved Musical Smash Up—" Splinters " Rollinson Founder. The profile view of the bust is espe­ (Everyone is anxious to play his favorite tune as "The cially good. Signor Luzi is a Roman artist of Red, White and Blue," " Hail Columbia," " Cheer. Boys, Cheer" and other national melodies.) renown. He modelled the busts of St. Paul March—"American Cadets " Lono- and Father Sorin, which grace two of the niches BETWEEN PARTS I. AND II. of the University rotunda, and the bust of Flute Solo with Auto Harp Accompaniment—" The Monsignor Satolli in the Bishops' Memorial Notre Dame Patrol" Treston Hall. Mr. Oscar Schmidt and Prof. Preston. —It looks as if Chicago University is afraid — On the 4th inst, the Special Eleven of St. to meet our team on the gridiron. Their corre­ Joseph's Hall defeated the Lowell Heights, of spondent, made a statement in the Chicago South Bend, in a well-contested game. The Herald to the effect that they would come down latter have been coached by Zeitler of the Var­ here about the middle of the month to give us sity Eleven. Murphy and Neville made several a practice game. Almost immediately our long runs around the ends. The interference Manager sent telegrams to Stagg, and asked of the Hall boys was at times very good, but . him to fix the date of the promised practice it was noticeable that they lacked coaching and i6o NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

training. They scored four touch-downs and Clerk; Thomas D. Mott, Jr., U. ^. District At­ a safety, missing all of the goals. The interfer­ torney; Frank P. McManus, Assistant U. S. ence of the Lowell Heights was poor; the District Attorney; E. V. Chassaing, U. S. Mar­ backs being downed every time they under­ shal; Thos. • J. Mapother, Assistant, U. S. took to go around the ends, and only three Marshal. times did they get through the line. Gorman, UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Howard and Mortz did the best work for the Alphonsus A. Heer, Commissioner; George Lowell Heights. The visiting team was con­ N. Anson, Clerk; W. R. Gillen, Assistant Clerk. siderably heavier than St. Joseph's team. At the end of the second half the score stood i8 to o in favor of St. Joseph's Hall. The follow­ ing is the line up: Roll of Honor. ST. JOSEPH'S HALL LOWELL HEIGHTS Grady ' Right End W. Neenan SORIN HALL. Onzon ' Right Tackle Hoban Messrs. Barrett, Barton, Burns, Casey, CuUinan, De- Smith Right Guard Talbot vanney, Eyanson, Foley, Gibson, Hennessy, Kennedy, Berry and Oberly Centre Mortz J. Mott, T. Mott, McKee, D. Murphy, J. Murphy, Mc­ Bukswell Left Guard Jones Manus, Murray, Oliver, Pritchard, Pulskamp, Ouinlan, Bouvens Left Tackle Howard Ryan, Slevin, Shannon, Stace, Walker. ~ Sauter Left End Sullivan BROWNSON HALL. Martin Quarter Back Chearhar:t Messrs. Arce, Arnold, Alber, Atcherton, Ainsworth. Neville R. Half-Back Hanley Anson, Baird, Browne, Barry, Byrne, Boland, W. P, IMcHugh L. Half-Back Gorman Burke, W. J. Burke, Brinker, Bennet, Blanchard, Colvin. jSIurphy Fuli-Back J. Neenan Corry, Craft, P. Campbell, Carney,' T. Cavanagh, A, Campbell, Costello, Crilly, Cullen, J. Cavanagh; Dowd —UxivERSiTY COURTS:—It is believed that Delaney, FoUen, Fagan, Falvey, Gibson, Galen, Hal­ practice in the different courts connected with ligan, Hengen, A. Hanhauser, G. Hanhauser, Harrison, the Law Department cannot fail to be highly Herman, Howley, Hindel, Hierholzer, Hesse, J. T. Hogan, J. J. Hogan, Hodge, Hentges, Hennebry, Hanru- beneficial to students in the prosecution of their han, Jones, Kegler, E. Kaul, J. Kaul, F. Kaul, Kinsella, le^al studies, and to that end a fair share of Karasynski, Landa, Lingenfelter, E. McCord, Monarch time and atteution will be given to practical Mathewson, Murphy, J. McCord, Medley, McHugh, H. work in the University Courts during the year. Miller, S. Ivloore, Mulroney, Mapother, Moxley, J. Mil­ ler, McPhee, McKee, Masters, Manchester, B. Mona- Early in the week these courts were organized han, J. Monahan, A. Monahan, R. Monahan, J. Moore, in the order following: Melter, Ney, O'Malley, O'Brien, Palmer, Pulskamp, Piquette, Ouimby, Rowan, Reardon, Rosenthal, J. Ryan, MOOT COURT. R. Ryan, H. Roper, Schulte, Smith, Sheehan, Schultz, Hon. William J. Hoynes, Judge; Leigh F. Scott, F. Smogor, C. Steele, S. Steele, Stack, Sullivan, Gibson, Clerk; James B. Barrett, Assistant- C. Smogor, Stevens, Spalding, Spenkler, Thornton, Turner, Tinnen, G. Wilson, Walkowiak, H. Wilson, Clerk; James A. McKee, Prosecuting Attorney; White, Weaver, Wensinger, Ward, Wilkin, Wachtler, Daniel P. Murphy, Assistant Prosecuting At­ Zeitler. torney; Richard J. Halligan, Sheriff; Charles CARROLL HALL; F. Steele, Deputy Sheriff; Dr. Ryell T. Miller, Messrs. Austin, Bloomfield, Ball, Bartlett, Burns, R. Coroner; Peter White, Jr., Referee; James J. Barry, J. Barrv% Benz, Campau, Canneil, Connor, J. Ryan, Notary Public; Alphonsus A. Heer and Corby, Corry, Cypher, Cullen, Ducey, Druecker, Danne- Arthur W. Stace, Reporters. miller, Erhart, Flynn, Forbing, Fennessey, Franey, Foley, Fitzgerald, Fox, J. Goldstein, T. Goldstein, Girsch, COURT OF CHANCERY. Gausepohl, Gainer, C. Heer, L. Heer, E. Heer, G. Hig- gins, E. Higgins, Howard, J. Hayes, L. Healy, W. Healy, Hon. William Hoynes, Chancellor; Oscar F. Hoban, Herrara, Hagerty, G, Kasper, F. Kasper, A. Schmidt, Clerk; Frank E.' Stevens, Deputy- Kasper, P. Kuntz, J. Kuntz, Keefe, Konzon, Krug, Kirk, Clerk; Richard J. Halligan, Sheriff; William Lantry, Leonard, Lowery, Lane, W. Morris, F. Morris, T. Flynn, Deputy Sheriff; Abraham B. Chidester Massey, Monahan, Monarch, Minnigerode, Miers, Mc- Shane, McPhillips, McCarthy, McKenzie, McPhee, Mc­ and James J. Ryan, Masters in Chancery. Donald, Plunket, Pendleton, Rockey, Reuss, Ranch, PROBATE COURT. Roesing, Reinhard, Sachsel, Speake, Spillard, Shipp, Shells, Stuhlfauth, Storey, Sheekey, Sullivan, Stearns, James F. Kennedy, Judge; M. F. Hennebry, Strong, Smith, Tong, Tatman, Tuohy, Tempel, Under­ Clerk; Charles Zeitler, Assistant Clerk. wood, Ward, Watterson, Wallace, Zwickel, Zitter. JUSTICE'S COURT. ST. EDWARD'S HALL. Francis D. Hennessy, Justice of the Peace; Masters Allyn, G. Abrahams, L. Abrahams. Audibei t, Francis M. Keough, Clerk; Harry A. Miller, BuUene, Bump, Brinckerhoff, Breslin, Brissanden, Bar­ rett, Curry, Clarke, Cressy, Campau, A. Coquillard, J. Constable. Coquillard, Catchpole, Corcoran, Cassidy, E. Dugas, - SUPREME COURT. G. Dugas, Dalton, Durand, Devine. Elliott, Egan. Hon. William Hoynes, Chief Justice; Hon. Fitzgerald, Finnerty, Goff, L. Garrity,- M. Garrity, Hart, Hei-shey, B. Hesse, R. Hesse, F. Hesse, M. Jonqiiet, J. Lucius Hubbard and Hon. Abraham L. Brick, Jonquet, C. Kelly, L. Kelly, Kasper, Lawton, Leach, Associate Justices; John G. Mott, Clerk; A. J. Morehouse, Moxley, Mclntyre, R. McCarthy, E. Mc­ Galen, Assistant Clerk. Carthy, G. McCarthy, McElroy, McMara, McCorry, B. UNITED, STATES DISTRICT COURT. Nye. Noonan, C. Nye, O'Neill.^ Paul, W. Pollitz, H. Pollitz. Roesing,. Ryan, Spillard, Sontag, Swan, Steele, Hon, AVilliam Hoynes, Judge; Francis J. Strauss, Sexton, Thomas, Thompson, E. Van Dyke, J. Onzon, Clerk; James H. Browne, Assistant i Van Dyke, Waite, Welch. ^ ..