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extended along either side and formed a Bernini's Pieta. semicircle at the southeast end. The other was closed by a row of carceres or, stables in which the chariots were kept before the FRANCIS C. SCHWAB, '02. races. These carceres vf&xe. built about 329 B.C. The whole structure gradually increased in '\^HITE marble, glistening in the ruddy glow size and magnificence, and after the great Of a taper-lamp that flickers fitfully. improvements made by Julius Csesar, the The shadows o'er thee bring back Calvary Circus Maximus had become one of the most And make the heart beat in the deepest woe: wonderful works of Rome. A Man with head on Woman's knee lies low, All stiff and lank, to death's supremacy Dionysius of Halicarnassus was the first to While she with hand upraised in agony, give us a description of the circus. The' -Resigns with faith to what she can not»know. lower tiers of. seats were of stone, the upper ones of wood. They were supported by three No quaking earth to fill the heart with fear; rows of arches under which was a line of No dripping blood to horrify the soul; booths and shops. The first row of seats, the No God to bitter pain and hate consigned podium, raised twelve feet above the course, To claim our pity at a sight so drear. was protected by a rail. To make it still No outward thing to add unto the dole— more secure in the case of animalfights, Julius The naked Fact now sinks into the mind. Cresar had a ditch eleven feet deep dug just inside the wall. During the empire the podium was reserved for senators and" the next The Circus Maximus and Chariot Baces. tiers for the knights; the third class occupied the remainder. The women, who had a section ALBERT L. KRUG, I9O2. for themselves at the theatres, here mingled with- the men. N' the long, narrow valley The divisions were marked by railings and between the Aventine and were cut into wedge-shaped sections by Palatine, extending from steps running from top to bottom. Often the northwest to southeast, lay emperor or presiding magistrate reserved a the Roman race-course o^ whole section for his friends or even for" the Circus. Maximus. The strangers. Sixty-four doorways led'into the work was begun by Tarquinius Priscus who structure. The spectators reached them_ drained the marshy ground and then had it through broad galleries. So well arranged made level. He assigned a part of this space were they that there was never a crush in to each of the thirty C2m'is in which to hold leaving the circus. The seats were wide their theatrical performances and games. As enough to allow a man to pass without brush­ the theatres of that period were put up only ing against those who were seated, and a temporarily, no -provisions for a permanent groove ran along each row to lead off the structure were made. The first permanent water in case of a sudden rain-storm. building probably dates back to the second The main entrance to the arena was at the Tarquin. The arena proper was about one northwest end.. The gateway passed between thousand nine hundred feet long and four two large buildings, each containing two hundred wide. The Aventine and Palatine ^:^z/r^r(?.y. These buildings also contained the ~

J* > --'-,: 274.- NOTRE DAME SCHOLAS'IIC, cages of wild beasts and the dwellings of their as among the Greeks. They wore short, keepers. Moreover, the loges of the emperor sleeveless tunics gathered at the waist by and presiding magistrate were situated at the a belt. The reins were fastened about their top. Up to the time- of Claudius, the carceres bodies, to enable them to get a more secure were made of volcanic sandstone. That hold. Each man carried a. knife with which ii emperor had marble ones erected in their to cut the traces, should the horses become stead. Opposite the main gate was the Porta unruly. A leather helmet that covered fore­ Triimiphalis by which the victorious charioteer head and cheeks served as some protection left the circus. in case of a fall. For the. same reason arms ft Down the middle of the course ran a spina. and legs frequently had a like covering. with Victor or turning posts at each end. Each The tunics, as well as the chariots and harness, one consisted of three conical columns placed bore the owner's colours. close together on a stone foundation. At Though the sympathy for a charioteer and first they were made of wood, but Claudius his team was great the interest manifested replaced them by others of bronze. The during the republic rested chiefly on the spina itself, a wall twelve feet wide and four party-spirit that sprang up soon after the high, was surmounted by statues and columns. introduction of the races. Even during the Augustus erected on it an obelisk which is republic there were two factions, the red and now in the Piazza del Popolo, and Constantine the white, so called because the drivers wore added another now near the Lateran. A red or white tunics. TVL'O more, the blue and platform, containing seven egg-shaped bodies the green came in £.t the beginning of the or ova was situated on the middle of the spina. empire. The red and-the white disappeared Each race consisted of seven laps, and at the soon after, and in later years we hear only completion of each lap one of these bodies of the green and the blue factions. was removed. This enabled the spectators to The chief support of these parties were see how much of the race had been run. the companies that undertook to furnish the During the republic, there was no wall supplies for the games. As the magistrates in between the turning-posts, but the spina was charge of the.sports never had enough horses marked by a row of statues and pillars. and men of their own, rich capitalists, of the The chief events that took place in the knightly rank provided all that was necessary. circus were the chariot-races. The chariots They kept large stock-farms and numerous were small and I'ght, and v;hen drawn by slaves who were trained as drivers. Free men, two horses were known as a biga, when with however, were also employed. Each faction four a quadi-iga. A team of three appeared had its o.wn training-quarters, .v/V?<^«/«7«, where very seldom,, but- experts sometimes, drove horses and chariots were kept and where teams of from six to ten horses. In the case trainers and charioteers lived: At the head oi di Inga both animals were under a yoke. was the qutzstdr factionis. He kept an account In a quadriga, however, the two on the outside of the money taken in or paid out and divided ran in traces. The horse on the left was the gains among the,owners or doniinifactionis. usually the best, for on it rested most of In addition to trainers, drivers, veterinary the strain of the-short turns. These horses surgeons and stable-boys, there were"-.many were gathered from all quarters by experts mechanics, tailors and engravers, who made -who. took into consideration pedigree, ?.ge chariots and trappings.. and build. The five-year olds were deemed After the formation of these companies it the best: The price scarcely ever fell below -became the fashion to wear one or other of fifteen, hundred dollars, and yet, according the representative! colours. Everyone, from to Vano,-there were at his-time four hundred the highest to the lowest, the emperor not thousand of these animals in Rome. excluded, worked himself to so intense an . In the earlier daj-s, the citizens themselves excitement over a mere colour that tumults drove; in the races. In later years, however, often a.rose. This spirit, which out-lived even they-,refused to appear for the amusement the Western Empire, was:still stronger in Con­ of the people, and?the office passed to the stantinople. .Here it had assunied more of a lower .classes especially slaves and- freed-men. political and religious colouring. During the As,in the case of the teams, skilful drivers reign of Justiniarii one riot after a race lasted were brought from alL(juarters. The charior three days. _ •.--"-.'' : ' teersstpod in the chariots, but not unclothed Let us return to Rome and witness a race NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 235

during the early days of the empire. The musicians, enter the main gate. Behind them games have been announced long- before, and comes the magistrate in charge of the games. the names of horses and drivers have been According to custom, he has all the insignia given out. On the streets, in the houses, even of a triumphant general. Clothed in the tunica at the schools, one hears of nothing but the palmata and purple toga and bearing an ivory races. Some people go to soothsayers to find sceptre, he stands in a triumphal chariot. A out which colour "will win. At the training slave holds a golden crown over his head and- quarters all is excitement. New horses and a group of clients in white togas follow- him. drivers are trained carefully, and the owners Behind the magistrate come the statues. of appear frequently to note the progress. Agents the gods and of the empejor, escorted by the. of respective, factions are trying to bribe the priests. The procession moves slowly and charioteers of others. Some trainers employ solemnly around the arena, and then the magicians to cast a spell over the opposing members take their respective places. The teams. A drop of this poison in a horses musicians take" their stand over the carceres ear will make him unmanageable. However, and the magistrate ascends to his loge. neither magician nor poison can harm the At a ^\%X\-AS. M^it. carceres are opened and steeds of our faction. Those small silver bells four teams rush out. Their positions, have on the harness bear a charm against that. been assigned by lot, and they draw up As the day draws near great masses of before a rope at the first turning-post. At people pour into Rome from all Italy. The length the magistrate drops a white cloth or houses of the knights and.senators are filled mappa. It is the signal to start. The rope with guests, and whoever has no more room falls and the competitors are off amid the applies to a friend. On the eve of the races deafening, shouts of the spectators. Thick people begin to pour into the circus as early dust envelopes horses and drivers who are as midnight. Though the building will hold bent low over the teams, encouraging them over two hundred and fifty-thousand, all who with voice and whip. Now this one leads, would like to see the games can not find now that one. The experienced charioteer" room. Many a poor, man has obtained a good restrains his horses for the finish, for the place which he will sell to-morrow to one in entire distance is about five miles. Six ova better circumstances." He can live for months have been taken down; but one lap remains. on the proceeds. Day davvns and still the -The dust clears for a moment. The racers people are coming. The desigiiatores or ushers are in the last stretch, but there are only are running about half'distracted in their three. Where is the fourth? In trying to efforts to find seats for the crowd. As yet, the make the last turn the charioteer cut. in too podium is unoccupied. That is reserved for closely. The chariot struck the metce, and senators, vestals arid foreign . ambassadors. was shattered. The unfortunate driver has" The seats set apart for the-: knights also fill been badly hurt. The spectators do not slowly, though many a man of the-third class mind this; it is a common occurrence. The has slipped in. The. designator has just caught main point is, which of the three. remaining ' sight of one. He hustles the intruder over, teams will win? All are nearing the line in the rail and drives him to the top row. a bunch. The drivers are urging their steeds to stronger efforts. The spectators are shout­ At last the immense building is"iilled. Let ing like madmen to encourage their favourites. us take a look at the" crowded seats. There They stand upon the benches, wave their are senators and knights with all their deco­ cloaks or clap their hands. At last what, a rations, and the other citizens are also in their cheer-goes up from the wearers of the blue-^ r national dress, the toga. However heavy and the charioteer-in blue forces his team to. a inconvenient this garment may: be, custom last desperate spurt, and passes the line just requires it. In the first days of the empire, all ahead of the.others. _ _ . - were obliged to go bareheaded, but this was soon abolished by edict. A hum, or rathei The first race is ended. One follows another a muffled roar, goes up from that throng. The till evening falls. In all twenty-four have crowd is too excited to pay any heed to the been run. The victorious drivers step before small boys who are offering refreshments. the magistrate's Toge to receive their prizes. Suddenly a burst of music is heard and the They salute him with their whips, and as ieach C spectators become silent. The festal proces­ prize is given out, the winner's name is pro­ sion approaches, and now the head, a band of claimed by a.herald. If he is a free man he^ 236 NOTRE • DAME SCHOLASTIC. keeps the reward; if not it must be given to the qu(cstor of his faction. Ccecina Volater- Varsity Verse. ranius is said to have used a novel means to ^^\ announce a victory to his distant friends. In INGRATITUDE. & passing from Greece to Rome, where his A KIN' to Pride—coeval with our race,— qitadridga was entered for a race, he brought l\ Ingratitudel Fit.climax for man's woe. i. a swallow from the house of each of his 'Mid Moses' train in olden times didst sow friends. As he belonged to the blue faction, A deathless seed that caused God's kindly face To turn in wrath; His sons their destined place bits of blue ribbon were tied about the birds' He bade them enter not, but to and fro m necks. Then, as his victorious charioteer For forty years by Thee condemned to go stepped before the magistrate to receive the In futile search through deserts' boundless space. m crown, Ca;cina set the swallows free and they fly at once to their homes. Product of Satan's wiles! well hast thou played Thy role on countless hearts since time began. To-day, the valley is lonely and barren. Thy past career bespeaks thy future sway The magnificent Circus Maximus, the scene O'er humankind. Thy venal darts invade of so many grand spectacles, has disappeared. With equal fury ev'ry age of man,— A Jewish cemetery lies among the ruins, and The healed, as old, forget and walk away. the brook Marana creeps, sluggishly along T. C. PARTING. between banks overgrown with tall reeds. • So now, dear friend, I say farewell! Though you have e'er been good and true, The Coquette. But for one fault, I'd love you still, •Nor would I ever part from you. Myriads of electric lights cast their rays to For often in the days long past the floor; a large fountain sent forth sprays With you I strolled where roses sleep, of water which glitter in the light. Across Or bat beside a rippling brook the floor came the coquette, a black lace Where humming waters sweep. mantilla carelessly thrown across her white In evening hours when work was done shoulders. Her e^'elashes twinkle, her eyes , And books and pen were laid away, sparkle. She looks back over her shoulder at I never had a dearer friend the men that gaze after her. Her finger comes To drive away the cares of day. quickly to her carmine lips as young Smith approaches her. On she glides, her skirt And when at night I sat with you rustling, her little red slippers showing, her Near to my heart you were caress'd. Nor could I have a swee'ter joy eyes playing. She shakes her fan at a Than when you to my lips were'press'd. doctor; she nods to a clergyman; she smiles at an actor. You question how it is I would Take up a newer friend for thee? "A sweet patient," says the doctor. The cause is plain, as you may know, "A fair penitent,"lthinks the clergyman. My old cob-pipe, you're strong for me. "A true Bohemian," mutters the actor. • ' N. R. F. The poet is still, but he is attracted by her WHEN THERE'S "REC." , gayety, her beauty of figure and face. Mrs. How charming to the student's ear, Samuels, deserted, with her two sedate And what a welcome boon! daughters, comments sarcastically on her. The news spreads'fast through every hall: : Old Sommers, bachelor and roue, turns his "There's rec this afternoon." monocle on her. A young officer, late from The idle fellow sitting there, the-war, grows abstracted as she passes. Who frets and longs for June, Near the arbor she talks to a fall, dark man. Picks up his cap and wildly shouts: She plays with her fan and makes figures "There's rec this afternoon." with her little red slipper, for she knows the The scholar poring o'er his books. eyes of the men are on her; but he gesticu­ His desk with papers strewn) lates and frowns. But she can not remain "- Looks up a.nd smiles, "Well, what's the use? serious, arid thus she goes on—now serious, There's rec this afternoon." . then smiling; he frowning, she,nodding, her eyes playing—and the lawyer, clergyman, Ah! the busy-.wdrld awaits beyond. And time will very soon 'doctor and poet in the distance "and Take us beyond those joyful words. looking. ; J. M. ' There's rec this afternoon." F.E. Q. NOTRE DAME SCHOLA:^TIC. •7 'i^

^forgot about bulls and bears and points and The Sentimentality of Mr. Brice. % margins. It rather shocked him as he thought of the days in the West when he was trying to BYRON V. KANALEY, 04. grind out a living and a reputation from the law, the days before he had learned to filch Something surely had happened to Brice. thousands in a gentlemanly way. "He strove He was known to his fellow-brokers on the to drive these thoughts from his mind on the street as a cautious, conservative man, cold way to Delmonico's, to forget the old scenes and calculating. It was a matter of street and their memories, but when he alighted from history, as familiar to the messenger boys on the cab at the entrance he did not see the Change as it was in the big offices, of Morgan crowd on the street nor the clancrincr cable- and Company, how Brice had seen a fortune cars nor the gay throng in the h'xg dining^hall, melt before the onslaught of the Bears, and bat instead a big house in a Western city with had coolly finished reading an editorial in a wide lawn in front and two big bronze lions the Times on Tammany and its Methods in the yard. b,efore he lowered his eyes to read his ruin Mechanically he walked to his accustomed from the ticker. table and ate his supper as though nothing The waiter who had served him every night had happened. Surely he must not have his at just this hour for the past ten years stood waiter see him smiling or looking sentimental. at a respectful distance and wondered. Brice The harsh lines deepened for a moment and was usually most methodical. He always came the jaw squared, but as soon as the cigar was Mnto Delmonico's at just ten o'clock, and the well under way Brice thought again of the stroke of eleven saw him go out from the big house and the bronze lions. ' ' *big doors to Broadway. But now it was far Somehow this was the first Christmas Eve by eleven and he still sat at his table. The in many that he had thought of the giirL hard lines and the square jaw had softened a Although she was now at Molokai, still she bit, an unconscious smile and the half-smoked was the girl. He had thought that when she cigar, long since cold, showed that Brice entered a convent all things feminine ceased himself did not know that something had for him only so far as they invested in stocks. happened. The hours beneath the big trees, the hard, A kind of friendship had sprang up between work he put in to win cases to attract her Brice and the waiter who had so faithfully notice and admiration, the presents he made, served his supper just to his liking for the came back in a flood. Above all and last, past ten years. The waiter intuitively knew practical and successful man of affairs that that the broker should not be disturbed, and he was, he could not help thinking of a he jealously watched that no one came near, Christmas Eve a long time ago when he told especially the gossiping, chattering holiday her of his love, but too late. Another and parties that were coming in. One higher had been his rival and had won, It was Christmas Eve, and for the first time and the lepers of Molokai were to receive in ten years Brice was thinking of it. He what Brice had lost. Then he had hated to did not know himself what started the thought, think.'of her beauty and talents and soft * unless it was when he stopped in front of charms wasting beneath the leper's curse. ' Wanamaker's to watch the crowd for a moment. He was proud and stormed, and the thing Then he had felt for the first time since ended in a quarrel. He knew now he was coming to New York that he was alone, and, wrong. -Strange he had never thought of it all in all, a stranger. The thought made him beforel—but perhaps he had not had time or ,a bit chilly. He wondered that,it had never had never stopped before in front of Wana­ occurred to him before. He saw thousands maker's on Christmas Eve to watch.the'throng hurrying, scurrying, laughing, talking, joking, pass by. He knew more of .life now' than and one and all looked merry. Even the then. He had seen. New York, and conse-- newsboy cried "Huxtree" with a something quently the world. For his lost happiness in his voice that spoke of Christmas Eve. " there were a thousand poor devils the better, Somehow or other z

The waiter coughed; Brice started. His "The World v^2S chosen because of its great cigar was out and the big clock showed far enterprise and its ability to perform wonders past eleven. The jaw was not square when in a few hours. Although but five hours have he arose and was helped into his top coat elapsed since the proposition was made still by his waiter. The man coughed again, this' the tenement has been selected, every inmate time much harder, and presently said: "Thank notified of the time and place, a;nd the dinner you, sir," with much earnestness. The broker will be served on a grand scale to-day at returned gently, "It's Christmas Eve," and twelve. the waiter in his own mind tried to think "The World v^ovX'^ like to publish the name of a previous Christmas Eve in ten years of the benefactor, but it was made an absolute that the broker had said this, gave it up, part of the agreement that his name, should and concluded that surely- something had not be hinted at in any way. The whole story, happened. He turned, and watched the portly with descriptions and scenes from the festive figure as it went down the big hall among gathering of the poorest of the poor in Hell's the gay throng .and out of sight. Kitchen, will come out in to-night's issue."

The' managing editor of the big daily A few minutes past, twelve Brice and the' down on Park Row tapped the arm of his managing editor alighted from a cab about chair with a pencil and said: a block from the scene of the dinner. They "I'm sure, Mr.-Brice, this is a rather novel entered the hall unobserved and stood by the proposition, but of course we are but too door. Two reporters were taking notes and a glad to accept it. It will give us a big sketch artist was busy with his pencil. The "scoop" and a page story. But we should "poorest of the poor of Hell's Kitchen" were much rather have your name in connection there just as the. World had said. They were with this because—" The managing editor there in all stages of dress, if there can be said hemmed and checked himself. He did not to have been any stages in the garments they feel like telling the broker zc/y/ he would wore. They ate and drank, and each jealously like to use his name in connection with a watched his share, afraid that the good things charity dinner, for Brice was not noted par­ could not last, for never before in their ticularly among his associates on the street. experience had good things lasted. There was for chanty. The professional instinct of the stillness, and nothing was heard except the editor caused him to sigh as he thought of steady munching sound as the jaws worked. the stunner he would lose if the. broker Only once a kid yelled across the table: "Say refused to allow his name to be used. Brice dere, dis is no Mill's lodgin'-house dream! returned: Dis is de goods and dey ain't afraid to dish "Emphatically, no. If my name is to be 'em out," used in any way I call the deal off. You It was an old thing to the managing editor, people may have the credit if you wish; all and he had his eye centred on striking details I ask is that you fix the details. Pick out and things for a good story. But Brice looked the lowest—the poor devils who stand the the motley crowd over and he saw them dirty, least show of ever getting a square treat— pinched; hungry, many criminals on a small this is all I wish. I'll call again, at ten." scale, but willing to be such on a larger if the The managing editor thought the affair of chance should come; diseased, and somehow such importance that he put the Sunday he thought again of Mqlokai, And as the magazine "special" ori the write-up. The next managing editor held the door to.allow the morning's issue of the World had a full column .broker to pass through he thought he heard in leaded type with the head-lines: , him say: ' ^ "Big Charity Dinner! The World gives a "If the street ever hears of it! I wonder if Christmas dinner to-day at twelve to a whole the waiter thinks I'm a sentimental fool!'' tenement!" And then the account went on: "Through the munificence of a prominent. New Yorker, who made the noyel proposition THE world is full of intellectual light and that the persons of the poorest tenement in moral fervor, which is hidden from the most the city should receive a big Christmas dinner as it is hidden from savages and mere animals. at his expense, the World \s enabled to do a Become thyself and thou shalt find thyself in great charitable work. a heavenly \i\Vi%Aom..—-Spalding. NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 239^

boats instead of the boats carrying, them,, But: I; Zebulon Pike and Pike's Peak. hardships- they had to endure, and this: was^^ not yet by any means the greatest; their food- JOHN JOSEPH HENNESSY, 02. supply had not yet totally disappeared, and\ they could at least work with a full stomach.- "All, all are gone. On November 23 they reached the third;- Yet still lives 011 fork of the Arkansas, near what is. now. known ^^ The fame of those who die." as the San Carlos. After a day's rest they biiilt:, Who has not heard of Pike's Peak; yet how here a breastwork of logs and left a few men., many can tell you, if you ask them, what that to guard it while the rest pushed on toward the r name means? What chivalric associations does Grand Fork. Now began their real sufferings.- not the very mention of that name bring to Often they had-to sleep in the open air, in the." anyone that knows a little of the history of snow without as much as a blanket to coverl the hero, Zebulon Pike? Well, to tell you about themselves. They rested a few days, ana agairi" it, so that you can tell your friends, let us go set out along the northern side of Fountanq'ue' back about ninty-seven years, when Thomas Bouille, keeping close to the mountains,^ arid , Jeffei'son occupied the president's chair. in a short time reached the base of- the- Shortly after the closing of the'Mississippi Cheyenne mountains, which stood directly in ' valley to American trade, and after a long front of'High Peak. .They began their perilous : negotiation with Napoleon Bonaparte, Pj-esi- ascent with the hope and desire of gaining': dent Jefferson, in 1804, purchased what was the summit of that peak which now bears the • known as the Louisiana Territory. This name of their daring leader, and which stands" . territory comprised the present states of 14,000 feet above the level of the sea. " > Kansas, Arkansas. Iowa, Colorado and perhaps Their" first da.y's journey up the mountain other states. Its actual boundaries were un­ was tiresome, and difficult. They were com-> known, and very little more was known of its pelled to climb rocks almost perpendicular,' inhabitants or resources. A few missionaries with wellnigh frozen limbs and hungry.: and traders had once or twice travelled stomachs; and at last when the shades'-of through it, but their records were too vague to night cast their sombre mantle over them', be of any practical service. Thus it happened they found not much relief. Their To'dging-"- that the Government detailed two expeditions place was a cave where they lay down without' to explore the Missouri and the Platte rivers. food, water or blankets. In the morning'j*. The Missouri party were under Captains Lewis however, when they gazed down at the ^ and Clarke, and the explorers of the Platte prospect below them, they declared that they , were under Zebulon Pike. felt amply repaid for their sufferings by its .: Pike's order was afterwards changed, and grandeur, though at the same time they were he was directed to the country lying between fairly freezing and starving, parched and • the Red river and the Rocky- mountains sore from the climbing of the day before; . to locate the boundaries between northern On they went undaunted, and on reaching'. Mexico and Louisiana. Strange to say that the summit of High Peak, they were up-to • being sent, as he was, on a great surveying their waists in snow, and the thermometer expedition, he had no surveyor assigned him, marked four degrees below .zero. Imagme:"^ no cleric in his company except Lieutenant their surprise and pain when they beheld the .i- Pike himself, who expresses his condition in object of their toil sixteen miles distant; and-- these words: "I was at once commanding twice as high as the mountain they had just officer, clerk, surveyor, spy, guide and hunter climbed. It would cost them a whole day' ' for the party; and kept my journal and drew of hard marching to reach even the'base of'. my sketches at night by the camp fire in the their desired peak. The kind-hearted Pike open air." believed it to be all but impossible for any \ Pike's party consisted of twenty men, with human being to • reach the summit; .His : a supply of provisions for four months. They soldiers were clad in light, overalls, with no.: started for Bellfontaine on June iij 1806. stockings in their rough military boots, and-i besides were half famished,: and so he .would" They first ascended the Osage river until it .'. - •-: ;->i-,-t- became too shallow to float their boats, then not allow them to advance. Thus it ;Wa;§; '-s'-==:;-i;- they crossed over to the Kansas and next through* an act of mercy that Pike";never; to -the Arkansas, sometimes carrying their ascended the magnificent peak that '> bears:

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his name—which name was not given to it until 1859, forty-six years after Pike's death. When Fox Meets Fox. Grievously disappointed our hero and his companions retraced their steps, amid renewed ROBERT E. HANLEY, I903. misfortunes and hardships, to the Arkansas river. Their provisions were so scant that four Landsbury was seated at his desk vainly of them had for a whole day to subsist on one trying to solve the intricacies of a passage in single partridge and a piece of a deer's rib. Demosthenes. Something besides Greek was At the end of two weeks' starvation they shot occupying his mind, for every few moments a buffalo, and for the first time in those two Jack would gaze into space and become utterly weeks appeased their.hunger. While Pike was oblivious o'f the fact that such a person as crossing South Park, he came upon a vast Demosthenes had ever existed. Finally he Indian camping ground, in the midst of which tossed his dictionary aside in disgust, threw stood a colossal wooden cross. "This is a sign," himself back in his chair, and savagely mut­ declared Pike, "that the Indians are Catholics." tered: "If George -Morton thinks that he's The explorer next traversed the Wet M9un- going to take Maud Black to the game next tain valley and crossed over the Sergre de week he's mightily mistaken. I know he's Christo mountains, near where Fort Garland going to call on Friday and ask her to go now stands." Here he made his fatal mistake. with him, but if I can help it he himself won't He took the Rio Grande river for the Red be here on that day." river, and advancing about eighteen miles After he had finished this soliloquy, Jack along it, he built a fort which he intended to spent some minutes in deepest thought. make the headquarters of his explorations. Scheme after scheme passed through his mind Scarcely had he finished his work when a band only to be discarded as impracticable. But of Mexican cavalry bore down upon him,,' little by little his countenance underwent a and* demanded that he should accompany complete transformation. The muscles around them to Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico. his mouth began to. con tract, and a cunning To his astonished protests they replied that smile appeared; The smile developed into a he was invading Mexican territory, and was chuckle of delight, and Jack gleefully ex­ on the Rio Grande and not on the Red river. claimed: "That will fix him all right." Hewais carried to Santa Fe and thence away Jack had never been an extraordinary stu­ South to Chihuahua in, Old Mexico. This dent, but for the next three days his answers capture ruined Pike's expedition, and it was in class were even worse than usjual. He did not till several months afterwards that he not mingle with his former companions, but returned through Texas to the United States. went-around alone. One of Jack's chums Seven years later, in our second war with seeing hiin walking about the campus in an England, this valiant soldier, or brigadier- abstracted manner, remarked to a friend: general, Jed a body of American troops "What in thunder is the matter with Jack against Little York in Canada, and there Landsbury? For "the last couple of days he received his death wound; He was struck in walks by his old friends without seeing the- head by a stove thrown in the explosion them-^there must be something on his mind." of a magazine which the English had prepared - "I shouldn't wonder if there is," volunteered beneath a large castle. However, he did not the friend, and perhaps it's a girl." expire till he saw_ the British town and "Perhaps," said the other,^—"but let's go seven hundred of the enemy in the hands over and speak to him." , of the victorious Americans. They vvallced to the other end of the campus where Jack was pacing to and'fro, The Euler.- "Hello! old man," said: the chum, "what the deuce has come over you for the last two The fate's'of empire ;bn.thee rest,i . *' days? You go about as if you had suddenly .;jEor>riaught withstands thy, sway, ; become a 'guard.'" ;';: :- And peace-/rom' nianthou'rt fain to wrest / "I haven'tibeenjfeeling very well for the " Since,Eden's fateful.day.;- - .' / . last day or so," answered Jack, with a tell-tale -Ayey.oft.thou'st provediV^barieftpjinan, redness, but I guess I'll-be/all right soph." ;Arid 6ft:made eyes;grow dini: .; '" ". ,, 'For caretnpu canst-too hghtly. span, j / "I hope; s6,'> said^his;^^^^^ " ' ;i^lSince ;thauiart woinai'swhim;':. :vEv:E.:W je MbrtpB's;:actipns^^during the week " ii:-.f NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 241

before the game were almost the opposite At noon, as he was going to dinner, he himself to those of Jack. He went about his tasks was handed a telegram. Opening ithie read:" ; in his usual happy and careless way. The "Your sister has suddenly fallen ill.. Come . company of Maud Black at the game was at once.—L.J. LANDSBURY." , i../^' almost a certainty, and the only one- that Jack was astonished, because he had receivedf?. could upset his plans was Jack Landsbury. a letter from his sister only the day: before! At first he did not think that such a thing was But,he did not pause to think more about*the" possible, but when he saw Jack so reserved matter. An hour later he was on the tifaiii C and quiet he concluded that some plan was going home. ' , _> afoot. The bare possibility of Maud being It's a-strange coincidence," thought ;Ja^ck;, in Jack Landsbury's company at the game as he watched the trees and fields fly by,: : made George, very angry and he determined "that the trick I played on George Mortonj'^ to prevent it by some means or other. should come, back on me- in, earnest. I'll; It was not long before he had formed a not send any,more fake telegrams." . .; plan which, in his opinion, could not, fail. On the day- before , the big contest. Miss; _ And when this was done he began to call up Maud Black waited in vain for either Jack.• visions of a football field surrounded :by a Landsbury or George Morton to appear,.and wall of frantically yelling humanity. He saw as evening fell she was very angry-at ithe, himself beside the lovely Maud,' explaining seeming desertion of her two admirers. ; .;^; / to her the technicalities of the play, and he Not until Claude Preston called wasi.her could almost hear her ejaculations: equanimity restored. He -told her that, both ' "The horrid thing! he struck one of our Jack and George had been called hoche,yand . . boys.—Oh dear! he must be killed." he asked to have the pleasure of her company- ' The clang of the clock recalled Morton at the game. She accepted his invitation, and to'- the world of reality, and told him that the next day Claude was kept busy explaining, it was tinie for class. the details of the play to her. , Whenever Jack and George would meet, On Monday Jack and George re turned;-to/ each \vould very solicitously inquire about college.- Each had found his family in, the- the other's health, and, strange to say, they best of health, and each saw that he had been would also ask about 'the folk at home.' Then tricked at his own game. Two more disap-:; as George would pass on he would smile pointed and crestfallen schemers than Jack; , knowingly and say to himself: "It's a shame Landsbury and George Morton would be hard • to do it, but they say all's fair in Xovo. and to find when they realized that Claude. Prieston ~ football." - " had completely woii over Miss Blick by'hisrV Two days before the game, while George untiring devotion to her during, the game. '; was sitting in his big arm-chair dreamingly watching the smoke from his cigar wreathe arid float away, he heard a knock at the door. A Young- Grlrl's Heart. In answer to his "come in," a messenger boy- appeared with a telegram. George hastily tore Life has no shadows for these young. girlsjV_^^.;f it open and read: Their faces are as fresh as the mornfrig;;:- v "Corne home immediately. Charles has met breeze. Those at the window are lobkihgrat^ > with an accident.—PETER MORTON." - the red roses moist with d^w which glisten;; \; ;• • George looked at his watch and found vin the sun like great rubies sprinkled :with;, -that the next train left \n twenty minutes. pearls. At the piano a young girl: is playing-1; "i / Hurriedly throwing a few things in his softly an old melody; another is;'reading:' J :' portmanteau, he rushed downstairs, called a the morning;papen ' . V; :^! 4 >^ :5^; cab,- and was on his way; to the railroad " Clyde Blake is dead," she: says, •ivitfroiitVv:^^^^ station. He barely had time to buy a ticket . looking from the page, s ': _ V.."'*^!v^"i^4 and pet on the train before "he heard the The music ceases, and one face is whiter.than*,; '.v conductor cry: "All aboard." As the trkin the. jessamine on' the young-, girl's"" go wn-*;;.^v "sped onvvard George muttered to himself: "I Her. hands stilL rest^oh-the keysVfand.she' X /..ri guess this is"retribution for the trick I played " stares at the score like a hare charmed :bjrc" J:;^ on Jack." -\ ' . ' " . ,' a-cunniiig;serpent: \;,;. /;; •[?''•? - -^'J,^-"V^c !^? Jack Landsbury had classes.all forenoon =6n A sincfle scream bursts frbrh her lips, and:^she::'--?^S^ the' day when • George -received' his :te)egra'"mV. swoons in the arms of her friends,' :lG^Wi:B?i' Sf- 242 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC.

—Just before the work of the fall session NOTRI DAME SCHOLASTIC. closed Professor Paradis' art class had. on Notre Dame, January J J, J902. exhibition,in the parlor, many clever charcoal sketches and a few water-color drawings. Men Publishii every Saturday iuring; Term Time'at Notre Dame University, that know say that there is a big improvement both in the scope and the artistic finish of the GtitereJ as sscoa.l-class^mitter at the Post 0 fiice, Notre Dame. Ind. wprk of this year over that of last. Those of us that were present at the display of the Terms, $1.50 per Annum. Postpaid. work of the art class a year ago understand Address: THE EDITOR NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC, what favourable criticism it then evoked. The Notre Dame, Indiana. young artists that supplied the sketches for the exhibition this year, Mr. John Worden, Mr. Orrin White, Mr. John Willard and Mr. Ttis Board of Editors. Eugenio Rayneri, are the ones, that produced some of the best work last year. JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN, I9OI FRANCIS DUKETTE, lg02 JOHN L. CORLEY, IQ02 We notice the improvement of these young H. EWING BROWN, I902 GEORGE BURKITT^ I902 gentlemen, and we wonder why we have not JOHN P. O'HARA, lg02 FRANCIS SCHWAB, I902 more enthusiasts in Professor Paradis'studio; P. J. MACDONOUGH, I903 ALBERT L. KRUG, I902 if not to become painters, at least to get that LEO J. HEISER, I903 JOHN J. HENNESSY, I902 perfection—the power to criticise and appre­ VITUS G. JONES, 1902 WILLIAM A. SHEA, I902 ciate a painting—which is necessary to a man JOSEPH L. TOOHEY, I902 < JOHN P. CURRY, I90I if he would have culture. JOSEPH KELLEHER, I902 FRANCIS J. BARRY, I903

REPORTERS. ROBERT E. LYNCH J. PATRICK O'REILLY —With the beginning of the new year the P. P. MCELLIGOTT JOHN HARTE SCHOLASTIC finds, itself sadly in need of verse J. DOHAN. and prose. And is looking for all those with bits of verse, essays or stories to turn them' in as soon as possible. The "Visit of Mgr. Palconio. The Christmas vacation must have been prolific of many clever romances, perhaps a A signal honour was paid to our Alma few tragedies, and an abundance of sonnets or ' Mater last Tuesday when his Excellency, Mgr. at least rondeaus. These we would like to see Diomede Falconio, Delegate Apostolic to on paper, for they certainly must be good, Canada, visited the University. The eminent being wrapt up as they are in the author's prelate had officiated at a brilliant ecclesias­ very existence. tical function in Chicago, and was due to The cleverness of a college paper does not return to Ottawa to resume the important depend upon the number of ponderous essays business of the Delegation on Tuesday; but it may contain, historical or philosophical. he delayed his departure from "the States" Those, for the greater part, are but the rehash­ a day in order to visit Notre Dame and St. ing of another's trite thoughts, and usually Mary's. We are happy to say that he showed expressed in language poorer than that of the the deepest interest in the workings of the author from whom they were taken. Tncy do University, and expressed admiration at its not appeal to the undergraduate, for the style marvellous growth, its elaborate, equipment is heavy, and to the man of erudition they are and the quality of-its work. His Excellency but the work of a novice. So to us it seems promises to return for-a longer visit soon. that they are without a mission; The essays With Mgr. Falconio were the auditor of the we desire are those that have aliterary turn Canadian Delegation, Father Shaefer, who and finish, or deal with subjects that are in made a most favourable impression; the Very themselves of great.interest. Rev. Hugh Crevier, O. S. M.. Provincial of the Short clever stories, pastels and verse are Servite Order; Father J. Bergeron of the the thijigs that give a; paper its standing. Church of Notre Dame, Chicago; Father B. They appeal to the undergraduate and to the Maguire, O. S. M., of the Church of Our JLady graduate on account of their orginality. So of Sorrows, and Father Charles 0'E.eilly of these are the things that we seek, for they St. Columkille's. \. show Vprk and thought. The biographical NGTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 243 essay, as a rule, represents nothing but a certain amount of time. Otir Teams. The Easter- number of the SCHOLASTIC is the Editors' number, containing as it does their The gym will afford us most pleasure from best efforts. Easter Sunday seems a long way novv on. Every day we shall mark the progress off, but we can not begin too soon our work of our men in baseball and track athletics.. for this number. Each man is limited to from Now and then there will be contests of such one to three columns; so it is up to us to work. a nature as to arouse us to congratulation and enthusiasm. Among the candidates for the track team are many old, familiar faces- —The relative training of men and women Herbert, Kirby, Sullivan, Ploover, Staples, along the paths of higher education seems Gearin, Uffendall, Steele, and Richon. With to be solved by Miss Celestia S. Parrish in this aggregation, ours can hardly be called a. an article, "Should the Pligher Education of one-man team, as it used to. We have different Women be the Same as that of Men"? This men to shine in the different events. However, .question has caused many an unwise philos­ there are still a few, on each of whom we opher to rack his gray matter; but from the can depend in a pinch to bring us ten or excerpts in the current Literary Digest we more points. conclude that Miss Parrish solves the question Last year we had a track team of which to her own satisfaction. we felt proud. The team this year promises She states that the higher education of to create a similar feeling in us. The absence, men and women should be in different fields, of Corcoran is a big loss, but one that may "to allow each to assume different phases of be compensated for by the "coming out" of the complex work which the home and family Dad Moulton's proteges. The man that sur­ necessitate." This upsets our old doctrine of prised us most last year was. Kirby. The harmony in thought, action, and feeling of others did big things, but these were expected. man and wife. Then she says, after glancing We look to Kirby to startle us again. He over the course of education of a Bryan will be able to get back to form early, and Mawr, A. B.: "By the time she reaches her ought to establish a record- in one or other Ph. D. degree, and even before, she may of his events." have attained a fairly good balance of powers, We have been, and hope to remain, strong. but one would hardly consider her ready in the runs and hurdles. What we are weak without further- study to regulate her own in is the shot-put and jumps. When we had life before and after marriage so as to secure Glynn and Eggeman we had no concern the best results for her children. Without over these events. They gave us our best assiduous studj'^ she would hardly know points. Things are different now. .We want enough of physiology or hygiene to regulate men to come out. and work along these lines. the physical life of a - little child; hardly Just think of it, fellows, a place on. the team, enough- of the psychological" laws to train means a seat at the training table, a daily rub , the delicate organism, the child-mind; cer­ by "Boots," a trip now and then; not to tainly not enough of chemistry or the hygiene consider the likelihood of meriting newspaper., of foods to prevent hopeless indigestion of notice, medals, and popularity; nor to con- :. her household; not enough of bacteriology template the best inducement of all, the glory to guard intelligently a household against of our own Alma Mater. germ diseases." The new fellows that have come out so " And yet this old world has been going far "to make" the team deserve some notice, on; and mothers without a single thought on They_are a "game bunch," and are goingto psychology, bacteriology or chemistry raising give-some of the veterans a fight for place. households of lusty, brawny children. And the- This is just the thing, fellows; make it good peculiar "fact about it too is-that the women, and hot for them. Make them feel some- who, before kneeling at the altar of Hymen, suspense and uncertainty about their places. " wait unti.l they get their ,Ph. D., or make The competition will make them exert their: assiduous studies into chemistry, bacteriology, best powers, 'and if the)- put you down :in: and psychology, with the intention of raising the end, they will have done something thatjr a superior household, have no offspring, to try will stand by them in their contests with their Wonderful theories on, . outsiders. 244 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTTC.

There is a spirit of rivalry among the candidates for the baseball team. The con­ Exchanges. testants for positions are many, and nobody has a "cinch" for place. The practice so far One of our co-workers on The Exchange— has been of a good, snappy order; the batting she of the young ladies' seminary—says the in particular has been strong. One fine day Exchange man would do better to comment less the men appeared outside on the Brownson on the cover design and,typography and more diamond, and their work was nearly faultless. on the substance of the magazine mentioned. "Bobby" had out his little book, in which he This, of course, was written most impersonally jotted down a memorandum of the individual by the young lady. However much adverse to merits of the players. He filled the book from startling innovations, we must commend the cover to cover. What a time he will have in sense of the remark. Who would have thought selecting his men, if he is to depend on any such puritanical simplicity of taste the part such thing as personal excellence. He will of the modern co-ed? Therefore we pass by have to resort to lottery to determine who is the very artistic "get-up" of the December entitled to a place. Georgetozvn Jotimal reraarkless, and at once The men that got on the baseball team last enter upon the meat of the magazine. Mind spring were, with one or two exceptions, well you, we shall not even say how cleverly it able to hold down their positions. There were is illustrated and decorated. The thought of some crack players among them, too. The the opening bit of verse, " Holy Night," is team's weakness lay in the pitcher's box, poetical and its expression closely patterns not that the men in that place deserve any after Tennyson's immortal little poem. "The criticism; they did all that they could. The Fool's Error" is well done. The olden, merry fact is they were in fast company. We have time of kings and Christmas-cheer is faith­ been accustomed to expect great work in fully drawn, and the Fool is funny—as most the box. Gibson gave" us the bad habit of fools are. The court physician takes unkindly depending on the pitcher to bear the burden the fool's refrain: of the game. Somehow, we still feel that the Some men are bald within their, heads pitcher is pretty nearly the "whole thing," And some are bald without, and'if we are over-critical with him, he ought But poor is he, whoe'er he be, to allow something to this presumption of Who's bald both in and out. oiirs, and not take our censure to heart. There is an essay on "The Training of the The box this coming spring, we predict, Publicist" that eulogizes "This latest offspring will be a tower of strength. In Ruehlbach, of letters, the publicist," in words and figures Dohan, Hogan and Higgins we have a set of most flowery and adorned. When allowance twirlers that may well give us cause to rejoice. is made for the undue but perhaps sincere What we want, fhough, and insist upon, is enthusiasm of the writer, the article is very hard, conscientious practice. The sooner all readable. "The publicist is the writer who get down to form the better. Now attend to guides society by means of pamphlet litera­ business, fellows, and we that can not work ture; he is the student of current events, the will do the shouting and cheering. philosopher of the world's movements, who We started out well in athletics this year. embodies' his thoughts and feelings in pam­ Our football team won the State Champion­ phlet form." Whether he is all this writer ship. Let the other teams follow in the wake says he is, is a matter left to individual of the best 'eleven Notre Dame has had. We opinion. The sketches and verse, with but one can not be content with local supremacy, we possible exception, are good. The exchange must extend our sphere. The Championship man, too, has a pleasing address. "of the West is what we desire. In baseball *' * * and track athletics we iiave less competition for this distinction. In the coming meets and The Minnesota Magazine for January opens games, then, let us keep in mind this one aim; with a very pretentious article on "The Poems and when the year is over, we shall perhaps of Miltpn." Study, of course, is shown in the have the pleasure to know that the recogni­ preparation of this paper; however, little that tion heretofore denied our college in athletics is original can now be said of Milton. "The has at last been gladly given to her. Problem" coifttains substance for a clever : • P.P.-McE.l sketch, yet jt4oses-4nucb in the telling. Under : NOTRE DAME SCHOILASTIC. 245 the heading, "Evening Lights," the writer makes a sensible plea for the old and natural 'The Juvenile Round Table." light of the heavens: "The lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also." If for no other purpose than to compare the "Juvenile Round Table" with a collection The modern certainly takes his light in large of those morphic productions daily stranded lumps, and from the eye-destroying artificial from the ocean of fancy, we should think that suns and moons generations of barnacled the Benziger Brothers' publication would, youths must result. Yes, if we could "go prove an interesting volume. As each one back to the peaceful influences of the stars and appreciates his own judgment, and we have all the moonlight and the hearth fire." Steven­ a strange love for our own choosing, readers have a very special prejudice against every son says the stars are "cheerful whisperers;" compilation—even the choicest. This selected we know they are a silent and blinking multi­ collection of short stories, however, from tude ready on any cloudless night to receive twenty of our foremost Catholic writers, meets^ confidences, and never ready to disclose them. that common difficulty better than any of the There is creditable verse to be found in this similar editions. Some of the selections, we number. think, are too evidently intended to convey * the moral, and such didactic, tame reading seldom fails to weary the young imaginative The January Xavier contains some well- mind. But the stories—and some are espe­ prepared work. The opening verse, " The cially clever,—the style of the writers and the Christmas Dawn," though written on a hack­ incidents described are so contrasted that the neyed subject, contains a pretty thought and volume on the whole is made very attractive to the juvenile reader. T.G. . rimes well. The dialect business should not be thoughtlessly taken up. Where there is nothing in fiction more desired than natural Personals. and spontaneous dialect, there is nothing so inexcusable as weak, unnatural attempts .along —Mr. E. Bosworth of Carroll. Hall was this line. "The Squire's Christmas Goose" is delighted when his father called to see him too "long drawn out!" However, there are Tuesday. some natural touches that show talent, arid the —Mr. Fred Baker of Dowagiac, Michigan, dialect is especially well written. The sjcetch entered his son Clarence in Carroll Hall. Mr. Baker is well remembered from his visits "Silvio Pellico" is an instructive account of two years ago. that unfortunate Italian's life. He will be —The Reverend John Wakefer (student remembered for his great tragic and poetic from 1892-'5) payed a brief visit to the composition, "Francesca da Rimini." University Wednesday. Father Wakefer is "America's Literary Inferiority" goes at the stationed at Lafayette, Indiana. matter in an ungloved manner. It is as. well —Mrs. W. D. Scott from Havre, Mont.,.- to make the best of it. Europe has still the entered her son, Robert, in Brownson Hall. better of us; but—^just how long will this be? Mrs. Scott made many friends while here, and we hope to have her call frequently. And does not some of our literary work —Mrs. Rochford of Omaha, Neb., came to compare favourably with England's present- the University during the week to enrolMier day writers? America is young and conceited, son as a student of Carroll Hall. We hope to still the thoughtful American knows he does have the pleasure of seeing her soon. not excel in everything, though, like others, —Mr. George Sweet, a brother of Brother he has hopes. "A Physical Study of Error" Alphonsus and recently from the Philippines, is written in favor of metaphysical arguments. has been at the,University for the past few The writer takes issue with Lewis who wrote days. Mr. Sweet has spent three years in the Philippines, and understands the customs,.the of the metaphysicians: "Their folios on social, political and econoniic conditions of metaphysics are fossils, monstrous and lifeless the Philippines. He takes no roseate view of forms of a former world, having little commu­ a residence in this country, and is strongly nity with the life of our own." Metaphysics, opposed to a young American accepting a indeed, is . a lively corpse, though its real position there either as a teacher or for a com­ activity takes place in an atmosphere rare and mercial firm with the intention of making a not breathable except to those who live years livelihood: Mr. Sweet states that a man can not do much commercially in the Philippines/ in it. This tendency to grapple with abstruse unless he has great capital to back hini up; problems is commendable. Only—the college all productive enterprises are held by English man should o'erstep himself. F. F. D. capitalists. '

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.. —Tommie D., upon reaching the Big City: A Card of Sympathy "Mister, will you please tell me where we are?"—Mister: "Why, I guess we're here, my It is our sad task to chronicle the death of boy."—Tommie: "Thank you. Have a smoke? Walter Geoghegan (C. E.'98), which occurred, and he passed his friend a cigarette. at the home of his sister, Pittsburg, during —^Judging from the following article in the the Christmas vacation. Here Walter had Elmore Weekly Gazaboo, the. merchants of the town must have increased their bank deposits been making his home, as he was a civil during the past week—"Lottie Collins is engineer in the employment of the Pittsburg spending a few days in the village." Construction Company. Typhoid pneumonia —These words fell from the lips of the was the cause of his death. venerable John Harte, as he came upon the Walter vi^as one of the brightest men in scene when two Latin-Americans were giving the famous class of engineers that got out a fencing exhibition to their friends: "If I had in 1898. He was one of the most genial a blackthorn stick, I could clean out the crowd." men the University has known; and had that happy faculty of making friends wherever —The track team will, in all probability, compete in the Milwaukee Meet early in he went. In Pittsburg he was as popular as March. So it is up to those that are desirous he had been at Notre Dame; and the papers to take part in this meet to begin training speak about his funeral, which took place as soon as possible. The try-outs will be held from St. Mary's Church, as "one of the largest about the middle of February. and most pathetic seen there in years." —Bill Cameron conceived the idea late in • Mass was said this morning for the repose the year that a vacation spent in Bento'n of his soul -by the President. Harbor would raise his fame in the historical world. Accordingly he set out to win the * * * admiration of his friends, and after finding WHEREAS, God in His infinite wisdom has taken that the village was well supplied with furnaces, unto Himself a,brother of Professor McCue, be it he ^came back minus that air of confidence RESOLVED: That we the students of the Engineering which has so long characterized him. courses tender to.our beloved Professor, Martin McCue, and to the members 6f his family our deepest sympathy —Manager Dailey of Brownson Hall Ath­ in this the hour of their sorrow and affliction; and be it letic A,ssociation has been.scheduling during RESOLVED: That a copy of these resolutions be sent the , vacation a number of games for the to the family, and tliat they be also published in the Brownson Hall basket-ball team.. These will NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. be played before the spring. In previous years FRANXISCO GASTON, Brownson has always had a magnificent basket JOSE M. FALOMIR, ball team, and with practice this year there RUDOLPH M. GARZA, is no reason why this hall should not come up THOMAS F. DWYER,—Covimittee. to the old standard. . ., —The second address delivered in this country by Mgr. Falcdnio since his appoint­ ment as Delegate Apostolic to Canada was his Local Items. thoughtful and deeply religious, exhortation to the postulants of Holy Cross Seminary. -^On Thursday morning Solemn High Mass Coming from the lips—arid the heart—of so was sung in. the Sacred Heart Church for eminent a churchman, it was most- impressive. Professor Martin McCue's brother, who has His Excellency's fluency in speaking English recently died. The students attended. ^ was a pleasant surprise. ' —During the holidays Harry E. Brown —We are always glad to get local news, made an address in the parlour, tendering the either accounts of games,-happenings on "the congratulations of the students in the University campus, anything, in fact, that will interest the to the President. Father Morrissey responded readers of the SCHOLASTIC. If-you have any with^ warmth. . - information of this kind either give it to the .—^T)r. .Dave has returned from his vacation, reporters or write it up, and put it in the and says the onions are so big in Wethersfield SCHOLASTIC box near the students'office. All you wouldn't know them. Instead &f stopping contributions should be placed in this box not at Niagara, he spent a fevir days, at Pittsfield.— later than Thursday, if they are meant for We wonder why? : the issue of that week. - -^Dr.Stafford of St. Patrick's Church; Wash­ .—John Dubbs, has returned. Out of the ington, \vill lecture in Washington Hall next woolly west he came. .Friday night he held weelc'dn Julius Caesar. Dr. Stafford is risgarded a reception in his room in which he discussed by many as the cleverest and most interesting the ^efficacy of- the modern fire escape, Shaksperiah lecturer in the country; ^^ _" it: is ruinored that our John stayed over NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. 247 at Goshen a few days incidentally to see the The Philopatrians under the direction of beauties of this rural town and to discuss Brother Cyprian will- stage "As You Like It" politics with Goshen's legal light. John Easter Monday. Those that saw the success reports that he saw but one explosion, took they achieved last year along this line, and no bad money and comes back prepared to under the same director, are looking forward begin life anew. to this play with pleasure. —Mike Dailey's Christmas tree is now but a Mr. O'Connor has his elocution classes memory to be recalled only when we think working on "Twelfth Night" which will be put of the $2.65 arid the jar of preserves that on the board March 17. The play \s one well hung from its branches. But Mike declares fitted for university men. Mr. O'Connor is an that he will never forget the absent faces of old student of the stage. So with an honest his friends (those not present) and the won­ co-operation on the part of the men to whom derful speech made by one J. Patrick O'Reihle parts have been assigned, can there be any who called attention to the fact that Mike doubt of-success? was and was not at the same time dead; —The Right Rev. Mgr. Robert Seton (LL. D., '93), they endeavored to hypnotize Mike's swarthy" who resigned as rector of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Baldwin Avenue, Jersey city, after a service friends into turning over some of the "long of twenty-four years, .officiated for the last time at green." But what use is there in recalling Sunday Masses yesterday. His final appearance here those sad, sad hours? will be at the thanksgiving service on the last day —Have you noticed that poetic fervour that of the year. Mgr. Seton will sail for Rome in a few days where glows in our poet's "eye. It came not into he expects to make his permanent residence. He has being yesterday, nor the day before, but began given his valuable library to the Notre Dame University to develop to its full perfection only during of Indiana.—Neiv York Sim. the holidays. Thereih hangs the mystery: The SCHOLASTIC extends a bo7L voyage to Holidays, Haney's, our poet, and what not; are' the Rt. Rev. Monsignor, and hopes to be able we obscure enough? Tw' o blue eyes", a talk to give a detailed account of his munificent on Keats, and a half-hearted compromise; and gift in a later issue. - then a few midnight, mid-winter dreams dis­ —Mayor Revokes a License. Privilege to Retail turbed by a fair visitant—"disturbed," did I Liquor is Taken from Martm Nelson.—Mayor Colfax say? The poet says "idealized." Murder must to-day revoked the city liquor license of Martin Nelson, out, and this heavy secret can not remain, who runs a saloon at 134 North Mam Street, and Supt» Kline, of the police department, notified Nelson that concealed much longer. "Oh, for the old he now has no right to retail liquor as provided in a city forbidden stile"! says the poet—Oh! license. The license was taken out last October, The police will watch Martin's place, and make it uncom­ —It is to be hoped that the Columbian fortable for him should they catch him disobeying the Society will come into being.this season. Last law. The cause leading up to the Mayor's action was session there was some talk among the the alleged sale of liquor to students of Notre Dame Brownsonites of re-organizing it, but no action University. Nelson had been notified not to sell them intoxicants, but, it is said by the police, paid little was taken. It is to be hoped that something attention to the notice. To stop, him Mayor Colfax indeed will soon be done, for surely it seems revoked the city license.—S. B. Tridune {]?in.^,igca). like criminal negligence to allow a 'society that has done yeoman service in past years, in —Mulvey on his return from the rural the matter of training young debaters, to go out districts of New York state, reports that some of existence. Four years ago the Columbians funny things happened to him there. It seems could conquer any team of debaters in the that the home village came down to the University, and easily demonstrated this when depot to serenade him on his arrival, and they defeated Sorin Hall in joint debate in then insisted upon calling him-"Professor." Washington Hall. A report went around that he was studying —In the course of a few weeks there will be medicine, and the women for miles around a published statement concerning the govern­ brought. children suffering with measles to ^ ment of athletics at Notre Dame, and it may him; somebody stated that he was a chemist be of interest to the members of the conference so the- villagers insisted upon his analyzing colleges to observe how strictly the rules an oil well recently struck. To prove the adopted are enforced. Certain newly accepted liquid was, oil, Mulvey put a lighted match regulations may not be retroactive; such is to it—then he had to light out. In the the case among the conference colleges with next village he became a social, lion. Now he regard to the ruling on summer baseball. It reports that the quiltings, snow parties, etc., is very likely that before a year has elapsed were too much for him. . . the conference colleges will realize that Notre —It is to be hoped that the genial "Boots" Dame is actually above the standard which Butler will be connected with the track team they specify in their regulations for colleges this year. As far as hard, conscientious work that have no legislative membership in the is concerned, we have never Had a better "Big Nine." - " trainer nor one that kept the team in better —-Two plays are in sight for this session physical condition. The honour of training a and many enteitainments in the embryo. successful team may go to those that have the 248 NOTRE DAME. SCHOLASTIC. reputation, but it \s often wise to look lower, improvement at least as loyal sons of the and see the men that are in a greater degree college. And then at the end of. the year responsible for the physical. condition of we can listen to the strongest and best band a team. Butler is undoubtedly an efficient Notre Dame has ever had. trainer, understanding that part of the game —At the beginning of the Christmas vaca­ as well as any of them. As a coach and" tion P. O'G. took it into his head that he would ' trainer he might be a great success, for after like to see Chicago. He said to his friends all we want a man that can keep the men in Orrin and Georgia, "I'm going to Chicago." good condition, then let each man, in his own Georgia turned away, and 3'ou could see the events, take charge of all the new men working tears start in his &y&s, while Orrin. sat down put with him. and had a hearty cry. But as P. O'G. had • —In explanation of recent newspaper made up his mind, a little thing like this did reports of an interview with Prof. A. A. Stagg, not feaze him. He packed his dress-suitcase, our representative says that it was an occasion and after putting on his new suit, he went for clearing up some misundei'standings which around and bid all the Sorinites good-bye. existed in regard to Notre Dame's attitude in Next morning found P. O'G. in the big city, athletics. Our representative stated in the sitting in the lounging room of one of the interview that Notre Dame is prepared to well-known hotels. Presently a short, stubby enforce the strictest rules that are accepted gentleman came over to him and inquired if by any University with which it may have he were a stranger.' P. O'G. assured the short dealings in athletics. And vvas pleased to hear man that he was a visitor in town, and informed Prof. Stagg assert that in such" event he would him where he had come from. When P. O'G. stand by Notre Dame. He has been held in, had made known the object of his visit, the' the highest esteem by this institution in the little short stubby man took him by the hand past- and no reason exists why the same good as kind as if they were brothers, and saj^s he, feelincr should not continue to exist in the "I'll show you the town,,sonny, and you can future, in spite of the fact that for .the present feel just as safe as if you were at home on the^ season he has not found it advisable to farm." P. O'G. accepted the- kind invitation, schedule games -with us. and. even went so far as to-display his roll by —The latest improved fire escapes will soon insisting upon paying the car fare. The short, be put up on all the halls in the University. stubby man noticed P. O'G's self-confident Sdrin and Brownson Halls have their full and knowing air, and upon their return from quota, and the other halls will be fully provided sight-seeing suggested a willingness to show before the end of next week. It is to be hoped P. O'G. a little game,to work on his friends. that there will be no Romeo and Juliet bal­ P. O'G. consented, and the two sat down at cony scenes, for the watchman, who is a near­ one of the tables. Three English walnut shells sighted gentleman, may begin target practice, were next produced and the game began. thinking that he was shooting at the "stars." " Now, sonny, I'm going to hide the little But this should not prevent the astronomy ball of paper under one of the shells, and I class> from gazing at the distant planets, and want yen to guess where it is," said the stubby if necessary keeping tab on the moving man. To the apparent surprise of the short goddesses. What romances and tragedies stubby man, P. O'G. guessed right every time. these fire-escapes suggest. However, be it as Finally, the short, stubby man cried: it may, may it be that the battle-axe,s hanging "You're mistaken this time, sonny." alongside the fire-escape windows, will not "Not on your life," replied P. O'G.. be brought into,requisition, not.even, for the "O yes," said the short, stubby man.with a purpose of showing the indomitable D. K broad;smile. - Omal" Lee. "I'll bet, you," answered P. .O'G., thinking .. —Professor Roche is looking for more he had a sure thing. material for the choir. He has been working "All right, I'll take^ you," replied the short, very hard with the men he has, but the stubby man. . , . . number is not sufficiently large enough. As P. O'G. produced , his certificates stating a rule, a man can tell, whether or ,not he can that there was:so much deposited to his credit, sing, and all those that believe, they can in the y. S. Treasury, and the bet was closed. should: call on .Professor; Roche with the The shell was liifted, but there was no ball of intention of having their,voices tested pre- paper. "The short, stubby man wished P. O'G. lirninary to the entrance into the choir. In a happy. New \^ear and-departed. P. O'G.' anotherfield has Professor Roche been making consulted- a judge-from Woodstock, and was great efforts to reach, a high standard of informed that he, the said P. O'G., at the time perfection, and, that is {with the band. The of the aforesaid nientioned game was suffering number is large, and reach maur is doing from what modern scientists call "Verdancy excellent, work; but feven here .the number of the Optics;" and that furthermore, the rule is riot: large enough. /Those that can play ot "Caveat Emptor" applies upon one's first should join the, band, if riot for their own visit to Ghicago. . . I .