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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1906. afternoon last. Slade Risteau were the Cuba and the Philippines. They supported IK AND ABOUT TOWN IN SUBURBS AND COUNTY Death Of Judge Andrew Dorsey At Harrisonville. from our pulpits.

A very sad, but true, fact Is that, as a rule, If a minister or educator dares to point out the low traits, censure the. existing evils and advise their eradication from among us, he is soon practically shut out; he Is not wanted in most places. So long as these things continue the race FROM THE PEOPLE Letters From Readers Of The Sun On Subjects Of Interest. CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE place by every breath of wind, as one may see by placing himself in a level, open place where they are numerous, when he will see clouds of them being blown along to other places by the gentle southeast wind, or he may coast along the Tangier or Smith's Island and see clouds of them being wafted from these, their native homes, to distant points up the Chesapeake to Smith's Point, Point Lookout, Cedar Point and Poplar Island and Baltimore, If the OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS -MM- What Is this new-fangled notion, That Is causing such commotion From the ocean to the ocean. From the gulf unto the lake? Pears to me they have grown daffy.

Feeding other persons taffy, And their words are only chaffy. For. the whole thing's just a fake. Government Ehould take the railroad. Operate It by Its own mode, Ana according to a new code.

Subject to politicians' craft So that some their nest may feather In the calm or ttormy weather. If the clouds come, let them gather While they're taking in their graft The Idea of a politician Strong enough to take position With the wand of a magician Run a road and make it pay Without any previous training. Knowledge from experience gaining. Its high standard still maintaining Out upon him, he's a jay. Two million railroad employes.

Bending, suppliant pliant knoes. Lest their masters they displease And their venom on them bring. Fifty thousand odd postmasters, Make by contrast alabasters, And I'll bet a few piasters We re not ready for this thing. Take a ride In Government train, Swiftly rushing o'er the plain An accident may cause you pain. Then the change you'll surely ma, You may lose your limb or life.

Lose your children or your wife Tis no cause for legal strife. For Uncle Sam you cannot sue. MiLTQy HEATHCorm. THE DEVIL IN WASHINGTON The devil came up from his realm below To Washington city some time ago A blistering, blazing summer day. With Congress and President both away.

It matters not Just In what month and yeart Though historians all on that point are clear. 'Tm np here on business a little -He said to a journal, with quiet smile. "When Congress and President both are here My interests are safe and I've naught to fear. In stirring up mischief and making strife They are fully my equals, upon my life. As agents of mine they are hard to beat.

And never In winter or summer heat Allow an occasion to pass them by Of playing the devil as well as Just here said the journalist man to himt "In summer news items are few and slim Pray, give me a brief little interview Some 'hot stuff' that's racy and crisp and new To let every one of my readers know (Before to the summer resorts you go) If all of your Interests, far and near. Are prospering well, as they prosper here. "Not now," quoth the devil, "my friend, not now." And, pausing and panting, he mopped his brow. "But say to the people of Washington all The devil invites them to make a call Invites every woman and child and man To pay him a visit if come they can. To cool themselves off in this fearful spell.

For Washington city is hotter than (He fainted before he finished.) Howard Mcktos. Washington. D. C. THE GIRLS IN BLUE must lose ground.

The better classes among us should agree and unite with and all persons and uphold all measures that tend to honesty, frugality, morality and industry. The thriftless, worthless, low and vicious must be done away with. We don't need them. Instead of encouraging them by silence, excuses or openly defending them which is generally done by pen and voice and sheltering them from justice, as is now the case, we. should withhold from such, expose their evil and allow them to stand the results of their own sins.

Our street corners and alleys are crowded with worthless, brutal, drunken, vicious classes who do not and who will not work, but, instead, are supported by poor, silly women, who wort for them and live Illicitly with them and take their abuse besides. This Is how the character of our women and girl-children Is being destroyed. are truths that cannot be denied. Shame on a profession of morality I In dustrial Institutions are needed not fakes that are doing nothing that will teach honest labor among us. Honest labor is becoming among us a lost art.

Probably one-half of the people among us are shunning honest labor, while there are opportunities on every side for all who desire to fill them and still better positions lor such as are willing to prepare thoroughly. Our colored women crowd the barrooms from year to year; their 12 and 18 year old girls do the same; their virtue Is made market of and prostitution instilled in our children thereby. Daily our courts are filled with such, while the others sit still and complain if vice Is censured. Many church members professing Christianity of course they are not Christians are Bald to be living illicitly together, and raising families in many instances, while the pastors know the situation, but seem afraid to mention the facts where they will count. Can a race prosper while such rottenness exists? Drunkenness, murders, thefta, assaults, divorces and general prostitution are a few of the crimes that are common among us here.

Shall we continue to stand it? Will anyone dare to excuse it? These facts are gathered during a period of mora than four years, and from authentic sources- Christians, brethren, officials, what can we do? Rev. A. Manship Molock, Bible Training School, 915 North Vincent street, city. As To "The Clansman." Messrs. Editors I am glad to see that there is at least one newspaper in this city that gave "The Clansmen" the proper credit it deserves and is not afraid to stand for white man's supremacy, and not be like our leading evening paper, devote almost an entire column in an editorial In denouncing Thomas Dixon, and his play, accusing one of the leading newspapers of the State of Georgia of being almost entirely responsible In bringing about the recent race riot there.

It Is getting beyond endurance when a man cannot write a play or book that would have some tendency to ruffle the feelings of the negro, even though it be founded on facts, without being denounced as something awful by some of our leading newspapers, but the large audiences that greeted the play at each performance, and the spirit with which It was received proves that the people are to Judge for themselves what suits them without aid from some newspapers. The negro can do almost anything and the same newspapers do not publish one editorial denouncing them. Take that excursion that was run to Ocean City a few days ago when the citizens of that place were compelled to tell the railroad company if they ran any more excursions they would meet It with a vigilance committee. Tike that Incident on the Emory Grove car recently and a thousand and one others, and not one word in denunication. But Just reverse these conditions, and, oh horrors, they would rise up in their righteous Indignation.

The Sun never printed anything more true than when it says "The Clansmen" will be re-enacted in a different way, perhaps, but with the same result that water will not run np hill that black can never be white and that white can never be black. May The Sun forever continue to stand for white man's rights and white man supremacy. Anglo-Saxon. The Sokol Amerielcy. Messrs.

Editors: I have recently received a copy of your Sunday edition, dated September 16, 1906, where I have found a very bitter and alto gether not deserved attack upon our pub' lication, the Sokol Amerlky, ofllcial paper of the United Bohemian Gymnastic Asso ciation in the United States. We are class! fled, according to your informer, under the heading "Baltimore's Prosperous Colony of Bohemians" with the most dangerous journals, "Immoral" and "heretical," or a conspicuous example of an anti-religious paper printed in New York, being of objectionable character, not fit to be clrcu lated In the mails, etc. We do not deny that we are law-abiding citizens of the United States, free and strong in body and mind, the complete health of our people, their education and progress being our greatest aim. We do not deny that we are free-thinkers, but we must emphatically protest against such and similar Insinuations as stated above and published in your article; and ask you as the colleagues of the pen to do us Jus tice and to the organization of our Sokols, the members of which have carried the first prize not long ago at the celebration and Jubilee of the great city of Baltimore, being the best-trained body in your procession. And now the same" people and their paper are attacked In such a way because somebody somewhere told your reporter so and eo.

I do not know If such and Bimilar attacks are In accordance with the title of the respective article and, knowing your informer personally, would not consider It worthy of reply but here is an attack upon our official organ, of which I have the honor to be the managing editor, and as such I would like to state the following facts Our organization of Sokols, the Bohemian gymnasts in this country, has more than 5,000 members, besides two other organizations numbering totally 12,000, including the ladies' and children's classes, besides the Slovaks, Polish and Croatian organizations, with, about 8,000 members, and the great organization of our brethren in the old country, Bohemians and Slavs, totally about 100,000 Sokols. The Baltimore local society has about 200 members, with ladies' and children's classes. These great organizations for healthy development of the body and mind have more than 28 Journals of their own and their own technical literature for educating purposes only, our aim being to better the conditions of our people socially and in such a way that they would be strong In supporting all free institutions, especially in this free country. The Sokols, and our brethren In Baltimore specially, have supported for at least 80 years In this country everything which was for the betterment of man. They gave freely to those who needed help they gave equal rights to the women In their national association, and, being progressive, in time of need they stood always loyal, to the Stars and Stripes, offering their sons' blood and lives to the Union when called upon tn the last struggle In THE POETS Three Views Of Separation Act First Serlons Breach In Napoleon's Administrative Edifice.

Messrs. Editors: One or two letters have recently appeared upon a subject which is engrossing more attention in Europe than any other, viz, the conflict between church' and state in France. In one of these letters. Rev. William B.

Starr, pastor of Corpus Chrlstl Church, of this city, refers to the lectures of Mr. John E. C. Bodley before the Royal Institute In London as giving a temperate contribution toward an understanding of the case, Mr. Bodley having spent years in France, being a corresponding member of the Institute of France and having embodied in these lectures his profound 6tudy of the situation.

As these most Interesting lectures may not be generally accessible, the following summing up of the conclusions to which his long and profound study has led him may not be without interest to some of the readers of The Sun. In his preface to the lectures, Mr. Bodley says "Only two things seem to be certain: One Is that the abrogation of the Concordat is the first serious breach made in the administrative fabric constructed by Napoleon, which for over a century has preserved France froni anarchy through three revolutions and seven changes of regime. The other is that the Separation law, though the work of antf-clerlcals, is an ultramontane act. For the first time since the French people became a nation, the Pope is the absolute master of the bishops and clergy of France.

Galllcanlsm, long declining, has received its final death blow, and Pius himself sang Its solemn obsequies on Quinquageslma Sunday, when in his basilica of St. Peter's at Rome he consecrated the first batch of 14 non-concor-datory bishops, forming one-sixth of the entire French episcopate blng, it is said, the largest number admitted at one time to the pastoral office since the Day of Pentecost, when it was conferred on 12 overseers of an unestablished church. The conclusion of his second lecture Is In the following words "There are three classes of commentary made upon it by French politicians, who represent the average opinion of the nation. Many Moderate Republicans, together with the survivors of the old Liberal and the like-minded members of the Right, regard the law as an act of repression Intended to starve, religion out of the land and aimed against religious liberty. This they consider was best safeguarded by the Concordat, which likewise was an admirable instrument for subordinating the spiritual power to the temporal in the state.

"There Is, then, the Governmental vlew held by the more moderate supporters of the Ministry which passed the law, and of M. Fallieres when he was elected President of the Republic a month after Its enactment, as well as by a very small minority of the clergy. The line that they take is that circumstances had made the relations between the French Government and the Vatican Intolerable, so that a rupture could not be avoided. It was better, therefore, for everybody that separation, having become inevitable, should be effected before new irritation should provoke a less conciliatory act than they claim the law to be. They say that it is law which restores to the church its nominations and its councils which leaves to the faithful the indefinite enjoyment of their places of worship which regulates in an equitable manner the devolution of ecclesiastical property which authorizes the constitution of private budgets of public worship and permits rich associations to go to the aid of poor parishes which, by its transitory arrangements in the matter of pensions, makes the change gradual for ministers of long service which contains no vexatious regulations as to ecclesiastical costume or processions this, they say, is not a measure which can be called a law of violence, of persecution and of natred.

"The third view is that taken by certain philosophical radicals, some of whom are too skeptical to be sectarian in their anti-clericalism. Their view was set forth by M. Clemenceau in a remarkable speech in the Senate on November 23, 1905. He declared that the Chamber of Deputies, while professing to desire the denunciation of the Concordat, had acted entirely In a concor-datory spirit; that the sole preoccupation of the promoters of the bill was to conjure two dangers the peril which threatened the state If It renounced its prerogatives and the peril menacing the church if those prerogatives were not surrendered to it. The real peril, M.

Clemenceau declared, was that of maintaining a system of privilege for the authority of Rome in a regime of liberty. "I will not decide on the respective justice of these three views. What seems to me the most anomalous feature of the act is that it is not a law of separation of church and state. It is a law of re-establishment, under which the church will eventually lose a revenue of nearly receiving in compensation the right to nominate its own bishops, who in turn will have the privilege of meeting In synods and councils. 'With a great sum obtained and this freedom might be the motto to set up in their convocation house, if, indeed, it was freedom that they had procured.

But It is not real liberty. The concordatory spirit to which Clemenceau refers is visible in every line of the new act. The difference between it and the statute, or treaty, of 1801, under which church and state have lived in peace in France for a century, is that the Concordat was the work of a stupendous genius, and the Separation law of ordinary mortal men It is the first Important breach made In the grand administrative edifice reared by Napoleon in his reconstruction of France after the revolution, which has survived a century of revolution and changes of regime, as the permanent framework of stable government." J. S. B.

Hodges. St. Denis, Md. Some That Are Needed. Messrs.

Editors: Our race has some ministers, lawyers. are eduted Christians, ladies and gentlemen and are doing much to elevate the race mentallv morally, industrially and spiritually. We need more of them. These of whom we speak are not afraid to speak their convictions for ths good of the people, and willingly unite with and support any and all legal and reasonable measures for the improvement of all the people and seek all possible openings to instruct and. aid our race to rise in the scale of morals, general intelligence and usefulness.

But there are others. There are those among us who are well Informed, but who lack the moral courage, and others who- lack the moral character to uncover crime. They Bhield vice, immorality, drunkenness and all that is low and mean. While there are many who are honest. Indiistrinno bta nn.vi though ignorant, there still are hordes of ignorant ana vicious classes that need to be managed.

These facts apply especially to this city (Baltimore) and State. There are needed more among our own race (colored) who are willing to see those punished who are guilty instead of shielding them from the law or otherwise. We need to defend character and principles of right GEMS FROM auctioneers, and good prices were obtained. SUBURBAN PERSONALS Items Of Interest About County Folk And Their Friends. Miss Minnie Skipper, of Eges lane, Catonsville, is spending several months at Piedmont, W.

Va. Mr. and Mrs. William Bloomier, of Ca tonsville, have taken a cottage on Irving- ton avenue, Irvlngton. Mrs.

Hogarty is seriously ill at her home at Paradise, near Catonsville. Mr. George L. Muth, of Melvin avenue, Catonsville, has returned from a stay in New York. Mr.

and Mrs. John Caines, formerly of Catonsville, have removed from Annapolis to Baltimore. Mr. Kent Lawrence, bf Catonsville, has resumed his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr.

William Perdie, of Mount Airy, las been the guest of relatives in Catonsville. Mr. Frank Lilly has returned to Washington after a short stay in Catonsville with relatives. Mr. John Bujac, of Philadelphia, has been visiting friends in Catonsville.

Mrs. Mortimer Mercer, of Winters lane, Catonsville, has as her guest her 6lster, Miss Clara Davis. Mrs. Homer K. Collins, of Washington, and Miss Laura Bergan, of Petersburg, are the guests of Mrs.

William D. Curry and Miss Annie E. Curry, of My Lady's Manor. Miss Carrie Bacon, of Baltimore, Is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis M.

Bacon, of Philopolis. Rev. Joseph H. Schaeffer, of Newark, N. has been visiting his mother, Mrs.

Schaeffer, of Eastern avenue. Mr. George Kane, of Highland avenue, has returned to Princeton, N. J. Misses Dorothy and May Peters, of Highland avenue, have returned from a visit to relatives in Illinois.

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Fulton, of Cockeysville, are visiting relatives near York. Last Chances To Register.

The offices of registration in Baltimore city will be open tomorrow and Wednesday from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. These will be the last days when persons can qualify themselves to vote at the election for judge and Congressmen this fall.

Those who give their party affiliations now will be privileged to vote In the primaries of their party next spring. Those who fail to register disfranchise themselves and deprive themselves of the highest privilege of American citizenship. NOTED ANATOMIST IS HERE Dr. Franz Keibel, Of Freiburg, Visiting Hopkins. Dr.

Franz Kelber, professor of anatomy In the University of Freiburg, Germany, has been spending a week visiting the laboratories of the Johns Hopkins University. Professor Keibel, who has carried on some very interesting experiments in compare tlve anatomy, and has, through his researches, added much to the knowledge of the development of the human body, was asked to come to America as the guest of Prof. Charles Sedgwick Minot, of Harvard. At the recent celebration commemorating the completion of the new medical buildings Dr. Keibel was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws of Harvard.

After leaving Cambridge he visited Yale University and later, while in Philadelphia, was the guest of Dr. Milton J. Greenman, director of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy. Most of his time, however, will be spent in Baltimore, where he has been studying the methods employed in the laboratories of the Johns Hopkins University. He has been favorably Impressed with the attitude toward research In America, especially in anatomy, and he has been much Interested in the Ingenious methods devised for carrying out original investigations.

On account of the many courtesies which he has extended to the Johns Hopkins students who have worked in Freiburg, Dr. Keibel has received a cordial welcome to Baltimore. During the last 10 years a number of students from the Johns Hopkins have spent part of their time in research work or in completing anatomical dissections under his guidance. While in Baltimore he has been the guest of Prof. Franklin P.

Mall and Mr. Eben C. Hill. Several dinners have been given in his honor, and later in the week Messrs. Haynes, Plaggemeyer, Le Cron, Budd and Crawford, who have worked under Dr.

Keibel' direction in Freiburg, will tender him an informal reception at the Johns Hopkins Club. On Saturday night Mr. Hill gave a dinner in his honor at the Baltimore Country Club. During the next few days Dr. Keibel will visit the Smithsonian) Institution, Washington, and will later spend a few days In New York at the Rockefeller Institute.

On October 27 he sails from New York for Bremen and will return immediately to Freiburg for the opening: of the winter term. OBITUARY MRS. O'BIUEX. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Ellicott City, Oct.

7. The funeral of Mrs. Julia O'Brien took place from St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church here to day at 2 o'clock. The service was con ducted by Rev.

Peter Tarro and the in terment was made in Cathedral Cemetery. Messrs. Jamea E. Vansant, B. Wallen-horst, Michael and James Cooney, James Heavey, Henry Temmlck, Joseph Ells Matthew Powers were the pallbearers.

Mrs. O'Brien was born In Ireland more than 61 years ago and had lived In Ellicott City more than 35 years. She is sur vived by her husband, Mr. John U. OJBrien, and two children, Miss Mary Bunsworth and Mr.

John M. O'Brien, all of Ellicott City. MR. HARRY WITVTER. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.l Ellicott City, Oct.

7. The funeral of Mr. Harry Winter, son of the late Henry Winter, of Howard county, was conducted by Rev. Mr. Payne, of Mount Calvary Episcopal Church In Baltimore, and the services at the grave were conducted by Rev.

Edward T. Helfensteln, of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church of Ellicott City. Mr. Winter was born In Ellicott City 53 years ago and died last Friday In Baltimore.

His body was Interred In St. John's Cemetery. He is survived by two daughters. MISS KATIEJ GREGORIUS. The funeral of Miss Katie Gregorius, who died on Friday, took place from her late home, 1904 Presbury street, yesterday afternoon.

Rev. Curtis Lee Laws, of First Baptist Church, and Rev. Herman G. Wlemer, of Friends German Reformed Church, officiated. Burial was at Loudon Park.

The pallbearers were Messrs. Samuel S. Gerhardt, Robert R. Williams, Lewis E. Stigler, Richard R.

Schuster, Samuel L. Brlttain and James A- Dudley. Mr. George W. Little was undertaker.

MR. ALFRED FELBER. Mr. Alfred Felber, who for many years conducted a woolen mill on the Frederick road, died last Saturday In Philadelphia, where for several years he had been making his home. Ills brother, Mr.

Simon L. Felber, 110 Patterson Park avenue, left for Philadelphia to attend the funeral, which will be held there tomorrow. HUSSAR BAND AT MARYLAND Manager Kernan To Present Big Vaudeville Bill. The battle of the vaudeville managers has begun in earnest, and the opening gun has been fired by Manager James L. Kernan, who has arranged for the presentation of a big vaudeville bill at the Maryland this week.

It will be headed by the Red Hussar Band of 54 pieces under the leadership of Lieutenant Amers, of the British Army. Besides the band there will be a vaudeville bill of Keith stars, Including Ned Nye and his rollicking girls, one of the late spectacular feature acts, 10 star numbers and the great Albas as an additional feature who does a slide for life from the dome of the theatre. In the rathskeller, the Tyrolean singers and Instrumentalists will give afternoon and evening concerts. It is Manager Ker-nan's Intention to have some form of en-tertalnment going on continually. One Is Enough.

Suburbs I have only one objection to domes ties as a. class. Flatleiffh And what is thatT Suburbs They axe uumQj "autttera." Ohicaea Netfa, every national undertaking and gave willingly to the good work of higher education. Besides the German gymnastic societies, Turners," the Sokols are the oldest organ izations in the United States that have made it a special object to develop the human body by means of regular and systematic training. What is the meaning of the name Sokol? Translated literally it gives us the name of a bird a falcon, the symbol of the swift, active and free, the symbol of those who believe in education, progress, the per fect maintenance of health of the individual and a strong nation under the one banner of Stars and Stripes to whom free thought, with the freedom of all and privileges to none, is the most sacred duty.

We have been most active in the education of our children and our physical culture work from the standpoint of systematic exercise ever since our grand leaders Fuegner and Tyrs gave us the Impetus In the old country before 1860 in Prague. Our societies are found in every city in Bohemia and in every Bohemian settlement in the cities and all parts of the United States, and we are proud to state that we are stronger every year and, like the Germans, are giving to this country the best material in strength and citizenship. Our brethren in this country, In Bplte of all the obstacles and discouragements of the different churches, denominations and sects, when they first met In St. Louis about 45 years ago and founded the first Sokol society In the United States, were pioneers of. dawning liberty for the people of their country, some of theTn being banished and others hoping for better days in this country of the free.

Such was the first material of ours. No wonder that the social position of the Sokols in the Bohemian population Is a leading one, that the accumulated energy often has to Bhow, if not always, and that the Sokols stood foremost whenever and wherever rational ideas and moved the public minds. Their open and nnrestrained opposition to slavery, superstition, predomination of any class of people In this free country, a fundamental maxim In their platform, their love of freedom fostered and propagated In their schools, the recognltlQn of the personal rights in education of their Eons and daughters, with the love of fine arts, the sciences, the drama, music and mutual friendship, are a few examples of their work in their homes or gymnasiums, with all the modern equipment and all the opportunities for everyone without distinction. The societies are, therefore, not only Bohemian, but Bohemian-American, with all the alterations which might perhaps follow in a few years, if the Bohemian Immigration should cease to pour fresh blood into the veins of the organization, which in the end certainly is not encouraged by the pulpit on account of its progressive and liberal ideas. And these and similar ideas we have the honor to propagate in our paper and also to defend.

Dr. J. Rudis Jicinskx. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. October 2.

Ohject To Mr. Wachter's Joke. Messrs. Editors: While Mr. Frank C.

Wachter, Congressman from the Third district, may think that the remarks which the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Baltimore, denounced as an Insult to the Irish race in this city should be regarded as a "joke, and while no one who knows him thinks that there was any malice in what he did say, yet those who participated in that convention represented 3,500 men and women in this municipality to whom the portion of the interview quoted was not looked upon as a "joke," and furthermore never will be so viewed. It is not too much to say that at least 9S per cent, of the real Irish who are proud of their race and who do not allow "Anglo-Saxons" or other races of Americans to be the conservators of their racial dignity, but who arrogate to themselves the right to think as they please, are of the same opinion as wer? those who composed the Hibernian convection. At best the words of Mr. Wachter were hasty, ill advised and by no means replete with reverence for the aged of the Irish race. Judged from Mr.

Wachters remarks the average old "Mick, has a face like a dog. My father, from his viewpoint, was an "old Mick," and so was and is the father of every Irishman and Irish-American in this city. The Irish are a race who, like the Jews, are noted for their filial love. It is a sentiment which I am aware finds only too little favor in our American life. To be old is a crime today in our country.

To be over 40 Is to be branded with the badge of Cain by the average American trust and corporation; to be gray-haired la to be as an Ishmael In our "young" country, whose liberties were dearly bought by the gray-haired patriots of the Revolution. But to respect the aged is a tradition among the Irish It Is a faith, it is a sentiment based upon the ideals of a poetic, a spiritual and an historic people, the oldest In civilization in the modern world. To have a sensible man, representing as he does tho Government of our common country, make such a remark is, to say the least, deplorable. That he deserves rebuke there is not a doubt No one who knows Mr. Wachter but admires his genial characteristics.

I have known him from boyhood and always admired him, and do admire him. I shall continue to do so, while I reprobate the interview which is attributed to him. His words, like those of the average stage buffoon, were and are calculated to contribute to the degradation of a proud and sensitive people. For years the Ancient Order of Hibernians has been endeavoring, and in many sections of the country "has succeeded in driving from the boards the so-called "Stage Irishman," he of the green whiskers, dog-face, monkey-face, the awful nightmare which is like nothing In the sea, the earth nor the air, of which God's Kingdom possesses not a prototype, a thing fit for the realms of nightmares and for the caves of the gnomes and fiends. This monstrosity, coined through a paucity of wit upon the part of the molders of stage "wit" and "humor" and "ideas" has done much to degrade and to humiliate the Irishman In the eyes of the American public, to Ive even the Irish-American a contempt for the Gael.

The order has taken hold of the condition boldly and has, In spite of the "Influence" of the stage managers and the power of the press, driven him to the tall timbers. It is the right of the Irish to do this, and It is no other man's right who is not Irish to dispute their right to be the conservators of their own racial dignity. Anyhow, we do not allow the right, and that is the end of it, no matter what othor classes of "Americans" may think of the situation. Therefore we regard Mr. Wach-ter's "break as pernicious in the effect it may have had upon the average American mind.

It Is perfectly useless for other persons who are not Irish to laugh, to disparage, to try to minimize the effect of ridicule upon the Irish. The Irish know how their race has been saddled with degradation in this land through the education of the "stage," the literary rot called "Dooleyism" and similar "humor" which Is called the intellectual novelty of contemporary American life. God save the mark The Mibernians have gone Into this work and they intend to stay in It, whether press, forum or other Influences are against it or not It Is not funny to us. We are the mostwltty of races and have done more to make the world laugh than any other. Our Sheridan, our Goldsmith, our Knowles have contributed the best comedies ever written In the tongue of the "Angry Saxon," to the enjoyment of the world, but we object to lampoons and reflections upon our race, either from friend or foe.

And we have that right D. J. Sccl.lt, State Secretary Ancient Order of Hibernians. The Mosquito Appropriation. Messrs.

Editors: Of all the many useless acts of the City Council of Baltimore and consequent waste of the taxpayers' money perhaps there never was one so useless as the one now before the City Council for the destruction of the mosquitoes of Baltimore. The most that has been said and written about the pest has no better foundation than mere hearsay, made on insufficient observation or none at all, especially as to their places of breeding and migration. From some of these writers one would conclude that the little tin cans of water and water-holding depressions In the back yard are the chief, if not the only, places of breeding, and with their destruction there is an everlasting end to the pest, since there are no other places for them to breed and none will migrate from their native homes to take their places. That these representations have no foundation In fact may be proved by anyone who will place a vessel of water In the yard and let it remain for a few months or a year, examining it frequently with a microscope. After five years of such examination I have failed to discover a single germ or mosquito and presume others would not be more successful.

As to their nonmlgratory character, we have no means of knowing anything whatever; therefore, all that has been said on that subject is wild guessing and worthless aa to tha formation of a conclusion of any value. But we are tel from 4laoa -to Almanac For Baltimore This Day. Sim rises. 6.10 A.M. Sun sets.

5.33 P.M. Moon, 9.40 P.M. Moon 4.U A.M. Street llghta lit Monday. 5.20 P.M.

Street lights out Tuesday A.M. High water. 10.35 A.M.. 11.12 P.M. Calculations expressed in Eastern standard time.

PHASES OF THE MOON FOB OCTOBER. Full moon 2d I New moon 17th Last quarter: 10th First quarter. POLICE BALD STABLE Xegrroes Make Dash For Freedom, But Ten Are Captured. Ten negroes were rounded up late Saturday night by the police of the Southwestern district In an exciting raid on the stable at Raborg street and Stockton alley. Each was fined $2 and costs by Justice Beach.

Captain Moxley detailed Round Sergeant McGlean, Sergeant Reynolds, Patrolmen Steinman and Quinn to make the raid. At the arrival of the police about 15 negroes who were there at the time fell over one another in an effort to escape. Five Jumped the fence, with the bluecoats after them. Four vere caught in a yard about 100 yards from the stable. More Trouble For Swallow, Detective George Seibold, who is handling all complaints against "Col." Gordon G.

Hamilton, alias Swallow, received one Saturday from Rev. James Frazier, of New Windsor, Carroll county, who wrote that "Colonel" Hamilton swindled him of $25 on October 3, 1903. Rev. Mr. Frazier Bald the "Colonel" told him he wanted to enter his son at the college conducted by the minister, and he wished to pay in advance for his tuition.

The price was named and the "Colonel" drew up a draft for $25 more than the required amount. He told Rev. Mr. Frazier he would take either the cash or a check, and when he received the check he lost no time, it is said, in cashing it in Westminster. Family Physician Can Certify.

City Solicitor Bruce yesterday gave an opinion that the School Board must accept certificates of physicians in private practice showing that the children have been successfully, vaccinated. He holds that it is not necessary for the certificates to come from the Health Department. In the opinion, which was sent to Health Commissioner Bosley, Mr. Bruce says that the Health Department officials have a right to enter a school at any time and examine the arms of the children. If it Is found that they are not properly vaccinated, they are to be vaccinated either by the health wardens or family physicians.

Officers Of Silver Cross Home. The board of managers of the Silver Cross Rest Room, which is conducted under the auspices of the King's Daughters, at 525 South Charles street, for the accommodation of girls working in the factories in that neighborhood, the old officers President Mrs. H. Medley Price. First Vice-President Mrs.

W. H. Dunbar. Second Vice-PresIdent-Mrs. Ezra.

K. Bell. Recording Secretary Mrs. F. M.

Howell. Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Isaac Fowler. Treasurer Miss Ross Elliott, Bancroft Society Officers. The Bancroft Literary Association elected the following officers President Archey C.

New. Vice-President George S. Tost. Secretary Herbert I. Schloss.

Corresponding Secretary Charles B. Jones. Treasurer Titus L. Mason. Sergeant-at-Arms James Sloman, Jr.

Curators Harry B. Coblentz and Gilbert Rosenthal. Membership Committee Emil Prettyman and Carlos Schmidt, Serial Entertainment Committee Iilngiira B. Bob-bitt, Jerome B. Sloman and Wm.

E. Harrison, Jr. Cartridge Blew His Flnkers Off. In trying to remove a blank cartridge from a pencil on which it was stuck Ernest Krieguer, 203 West West street, had three fingers of his left hand md the thumb of his right hand blown off yesterday about 11 A. M.

Dr. Henry Waldschmidt was summoned, and after dressing the wounds sent Krieguer to the Maryland University Hospital. To Have 'Half-Hour Car Service. Mr. James Hartlove, the proprietor of Thompson's Sea Girt House, has Induced the United Railways to give special service between Highlandtown and Dundalk every day, as advertised in The Sun.

The cars are to run every half hour during the season from Highlandtown between 3 and 9 P. and on Sundays every 20 minutes between the same hours. For Presbyterian Brotherhood. A large crowd attended the mass-meeting at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, Hollins and Strieker streets, at 4 P. M.

yesterday In the Interest of the Presbyterian Brotherhood. Mr. J. C. Day, representative of the brotherhood, made an address.

Rev. W. A. Price 13 pastor of Covenant Church. TO TEACH WINDOW-TIinnriNG Y.

M. C. A. To Start Innovation In Educational "Work. A wlndow-trlmmlng class is to be started at the Centrel Young Men's Christian Association Wednesday night to provide ev opportunity to young men to learn the art cf arranging a display in a store so that it will be attractive and artistic.

The economy required and the device? used by experts will be taught. The teacher will be Mr. S. R. Macabee.

The decision of the association to have the class, which is believed to be the first of its kind south of New York, Is partly In answer to the many inquiries from merchants for young men who understand window trimming as a side Issue. There are hundreds of retails dealers who cannot afford to employ a professional window dresser to keep their store displays in a varied and attractive state. Many of these have intimated that they will attend the class bo that outside assistance will not be required at all. The class will meet Wednesday and Friday nights of each week. ELKS TO HAVE GERMAN FEST Delicacies Of The Fatherland To Be Served.

The Elks are preparing a German fest, which will be held on the evening of October 15, for members only. The social sessions committee has arranged an attractive program. Among the delicacies that will be served under the direction of Exalted Ruler Leon Schlff, will be sauerkraut, frankfurter sausages, German Vienna rolls and liquid refreshments. The social sessions committee in charge of the entertainment is composed of Messrs. Leon Schiff (chairman), Graham F.

Walker, Fred Andre, Ralf Sach, George Herr, Samuel House, Nathan Hess, Lee Selig-man, Lenie Wertheimer, G. Fred Kranz, S. Steinmuller, J. J. Boff and P.

J. Scully. Sacred concerts will be given every month on Sunday nights, when the building will be thrown open to the lady friends of the Elks and their friends. Notable professionals and the highest class of amateurs in Baltimore will appear. EXAMINATION FOR CADETS Revenue Cutter Service Vacancies To Be Tried For.

Capt. D. P. Foley, Revenue Cutter Service, has been selected to conduct the examination of candidates for cadetships in the Revenue Cutter Service to be held this week in the Baltimore Custom House. They begin Wednesday, October 10, at 10 A.

M. with medical examinations by officers of the Marine Hospital Service. Mental examinations will continue on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and resume the following Monday, October 15. Candidates have been designated by the Treasury Department to appear for the examination, but those who have not had time to be designated will, on establishing to the satisfaction of the examining officer that they are within the prescribed age limits, citizens of the United States and able to prove good moral character, be permitted to take the examination subject to the establishment of these facts to the de-partment later. Tio Harm.

Two Irish farmers who had not seen each other for a long time met at a fair. They had much to tell each other. 1 "Sura, it's married I am," eaid Murphy. "Tom don't tell me so," said Moran. "Faix, yes," said Murphy, "and I've got a fine, healthy bhoy, which the neighbors say is the wry picture of me." Moran looked for a moment at Murphy, who was not, to say the least, remarkable for his good looks, and then said: "Och, -well, what Is the harrum so long as the child's healthy." London Tribune.

NEWS OF CHURCH ACTIVITIES Mm. Mary S. Shultheise Dead Mr. Tiirnbnll Talks To Prisoners Farm Help Scarce. Judge Andrew Dorsey, a veteran of the Confederate Army and 10 years ago a judge of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore county, died yesterday at his home, at Harrisonville, Baltimore county, after an illness of seven weeks with typhoid fever.

lie was born in Harrisonville 72 years ago. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Troop First Maryland Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia, lie served throughout the war under Col. Rldgely Brown. He leaves a widow, who was before marriage Miss Frances Scott Key. The funeral will take place Tuesday I rH nn vll 1a nil emvliaa n-Ml inn ducted by Father Mcllenry.

The pallbearers will be Confederate veterans and the burial will be in the Confederate lot at Loudon Park. In And About The Churches. The nineteenth annual meeting of the Women's Home Mission Society will be licld at Grace Church, Carrollton avenue und Lanvalo street, October SO and 31 and November 1. On the evening of October 30 the address, "The Sign of the Cross at the Hates of Empire," will be given by Rev. Dr.

William A. Frye. The Canton Congregational Church, Elliott and First streets, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with appropriate services on Thursday evening. A program, musical and literary, has been arranged, including an address by Rev. Oliver HuckeL of the First Congregational Church, Baltimore.

The Junior Leagueof the Illghland Methodist Episcopal Church has resumed Its sessions. Mrs. James Fisher is the new superintendent. Two interesting sermons were preached yesterday morning and evening by Rev. B.

B. Abbitt, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Towson. His subject In the morning was "The Uniqueness of Christ's Death" and at night was "True Repentance." A violin solo wus rendered during the morning services yesterday at Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Towson, by Mr. Edwin Ix Turnbull. The sermons, which were preached by the rector, Rev.

W. H. Powers, in the morning and evening were heard by large congregations. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered at 11 A. M.

yesterday at the Catonsville Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Rev. John R. Edwards Is the pastor. Rev. riimn.

TMistnr rt Kf MorV'o Catholic Church, Catonsville, preached an interesting sermon yesterday on "The Eo sr.ry." The first annual rally of the Sunday- school connected with Epiphany Church, Govans, was held yesterday afternoon at 3 clock. Addresses were made by the pastor, Rev. Carroll E. Ilardlng, and by Mr. Arthur B.

Warner. The muslo was under the direction of Miss Matilda Backus, organist and choir leader, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Benson, of Wilmington, Mr. and Mrs.

O. Eldridge, Mr. R. J. Griffin and the Misses AllaJr, Kohlup and Mrs.

Kohlup and Messrs. McCulloch, O'Meara, Prince, Aula and Hunter. Sparrows Point And Vicinity. Mr. FJ.

G. Relst, paymaster of the Mary. land Steel Company, Is visiting his old home, at Manhelm, Lancaster county. Pa. Miss Mattle Day, of Rldgely, Is the guest or relatives here.

Mr, C. S. Jacklns attended the Vanderbllt cup automobile race on Long Island Saturday. Mr. William Gambrill, 619 East street, confined to his bed by illness.

Mr. Andrew Miller spent Sunday at Ha- gerstown. Mr. Charles Henry, of the time office, who was married last month to Misa E. B.

Oldham, of Baltimore, has returned from his honeymoon. Dr. Edward R. Miller, of Leominster, was a visitor at the Point Saturday and went through the steel works. Mr.

and Mrs. George Merryman have returned from a visit to their son, 'George Merryman, and family, of Steelton, Pa. Mr. Griffith Mathews, of the main office, is spending hla vacation this week in and about New York city. Mr.

Edgar F. Lyter has returned from a visit to York. Mrs. William B. Price has returned from a visit to relatives at Easton.

Mr. Henry Martens, of East street, has BA hla guest his sister, Miss Louise Martens, of Fredericksburg, Va. Mr. and Mrs. J.

It. Carnes are visiting relatives in Harrlaburg, Pa. Mr. Richard Anderson and wife have moved to Washington. Charles Hummel Is visiting his sister, Mrs.

Harry Matthews, at Mount Pleasant, Frederick county. Miss Minnie Rcholl is visiting relatives in Harrlaburg. Mrs. I. A.

Stelner recently had as her guest Mrs. Warren Stelner, of Washington. Mrs. Frederick Strobel and children are visiting relatives In York. Agricultural Club Sleets.

The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club met Saturday at Echo Farm, the home of Mr. Charles II. Price, near Sparks Station. Mr. William D.

Curry was foreman. He and Messrs. Upton II. Tarbert and Edward E. Scott composed the inspection commlt-lee and reported much of interest, as the farm is one of the best in the county as to buildings and fertility.

The barns are filled with produce and the dairy herd shows well. Mr. Thomas V. Richardson showed a sample of good alfalfa of six weeks' growth on land that was plowed after three crops of alfalfa had boon cut during the summer. Mr.

Curry reported having cut over six acres of alfalfa four times this year and ob-i ained three tons per acre. Other members have sown alfalfa with good results. The occasion was the thirty-second anni versary of the club. Two of the original members Messrs. Joshua G.

Boslcy and Charles H. Trice are still affiliated. The minutes of the first meeting, October, 1874, were read. A collation was served after the meeting. Masquerade At Burtonaville.

A pleasant suprise masquerade party wift given Friday evening to Miss Dora Aitcheson at her home, Birmingham Manor, Burtonsvllle. The young folk met at the homo of Mrs. William A. Poist, of Laurel, and drove to their destination In a hay wngon drawn by six horses. Among those present were Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Aitcheson, William A. Poist. Misses-Anna Reardon, Dora Aitcheson, Katherine Hohman, Louise Hohman, Imogono Collins, Careen Aitcheson. Mrum Ernest Wclford, George Bond, 8.

S. Aitcheson, Walter Brown, Douglass Kelloft, Llndencole, Edward Hohmnn Conroy. Mrs. Mary S. Shultheise Dead.

Mrs. Mary S. Shultheise, widow of Albert Shultheise, of Baltimore, died Saturday night at the home of her father, Mr. Patrick Scally, near Cockeysville. She is survived by one child and was a Elster of Messrs.

Patrick Lawrence T. and. William Scally, of Cockeysville; John Scally, of Baltimore Mrs. Michael Nop-penberger, of Baltimore, and Misses Josephine and Loretta Scally, of Cockeysville. Mrs.

Shultheise was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Texas. Full-Grown Partridges Appear. Full-grown partridges are beginning to show up in Baltimore county, as is shown by the appearance on Wednesday evening last of a large covey of full-grown birds flying into the back yard of a Towson residence, and showing by their actions that they were perfectly at home. After taking a view of the surroundings the flock then strolled off into some high grass in an adjoining lot.

Talked To Prisoners. Mr. Chester Turnbull gave an interesting talk yesterday afternoon to the prisoners a the Baltimore County Jail at Towson. His address seemed to be appreciated by the listeners. Forced Out Dy Scarcity Of Help.

Recause he found it Impossible to secure Pablo help, is the cause assigned by Mr. Vllliam II. Todd for giving up the milk business on bis farm, on the Tot Spring road. Eighth district. Mr.

Todd sold his line herd of cows at public sale on-Tuesday wind continues light and long enough. Therefore, to clear Baltimore of them it is absolutely necessary to begin the work at Cape Henry and extend it all over the eastern counties of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey to Jersey City, the native" homes of these pests, which would require all the coal oil of the world to affect even fairly well. The only practical and useful measure, and all that 6hould be thought is the clearing of the banks of the streams which run through and along the city of their undergrowth' and fill up the marsh ponds and holes about the Spring Gardens and Westport and Curtis bay. All else will be labor lost and the taxpayers money wasted, for the taxpayer has had quite enough of costly worthless experimentation. Medicos.

Denies Hazing At V. 91. I. Messrs. Editors Numerous reports have been circulated by the press to the effect that hazing of new cadets at the Virginia Military Institute this fall has been both exceptionally severe and cruel.

According to these rumors, which appear to have emanated from Lynchburg reports, new cadets are knocked to the floor and beaten over head and shoulders with bayonets and broomsticks, often into unconsciousness. Such reports are utter falsehoods, absolutely without foundation. No cadet has been beaten across the head and shoulders or has been knocked into unconsciousness, as has been reported, and neither are new cadets forced to shine the shoes of an upper classman, as a second rumor had it Any old cadet who forced a new cadet to ehine the shoes of the former would In every case be entirely shunned by his classmates. These reports have been bo various and are bo injurious to the heretofore excellent reputation of the school that strenuous measures are now being taken to pervent all hazing. Guards constantly pace to and fro past the doors of the new cadets in the barracks and officers are alert everywhere.

The penalty is the severest and already there have been three dismissals. No cadet, old or new, is allowed under any circumstances to enter the rooms of the others excepting-by permission of the officer of the day, and all cadets caught breaking this rule are Immediately placed under arrest According to very reliable Information there is no hazing whatever at present going on in the school, and both old and new cadets are indignant over the rumors. P. Lexington, October 2. Should Fay For Their Blunder.

Messrs. Editors The late episode In connection with School No. 87, wherein the costly mural decorations so generously bestowed by our noble art association for educational purposes were destroyed by stupid painters, reveals a state of affairs in striking contrast with the blare and boast of our jubilee as an up-to-date progressive city. The stigma which it fixes upon our6chool authorities can never be wiped out and is another emphatic testimony against modern political methods municipally applied. Of course, those painters were "Johnnie on the Spot" at elections and their only interest in the work done was drawing their pay, and whether it was destroying costly works of art or painting exquisite bronzes "green" or scraping a ceiling off on the carpet and tramping the debris in with their feet, it mattered not to them as either was profitable.

That anyone worthy of the name of a painter could make such a blunder passes belief and is a gross reflection upon a noble and worthy craft I presume they were painters after the order of an old sign I noticed years ago in South Baltimore "Whitewashin in all colors done here by John Johnsin." Until this pestilential Bystem of corrupt politics is broken up in our city administration we shall be always thus liable to be made ridiculous abroad. The responsible parties should be made to restore the work their stupid workmen destroyed from their private purse. A Lover of Aht. Confederate Women's Home. Messrs.

Editors: The managers and the ladies in the newly established Confederate Women's Home at 1020 Linden avenue express their deep gratification and thanks for the liberal donations which have been so generously given them, which Is only another evidence of the noble charity that moves the hearts of Baltimoreans when occasion presents. May these gifts so cheerfully and bounteously bestowed be the foundation and upbuilding of a home in every sense for the Confederate widow to which each donor may proudly point in after years and feel that this work of charity was a part of their life's work to make others happy. Mas. William M. Wells.

The Fire Memorial. Messrs. Editors: We Bee many ideas of late In regard to erecting a memorial of the great fire. Would it not be well to make it a useful and paying one? I would suggest to connect the middle section of our city, east and west, by a direct street say Franklin street cut through into Old Town by building a bridge similar to the North or Cedar avenue structure, built of concrete. Begin the same at the cdrner of Franklin and St Paul, bring It on a line with the elevated railway on North street to and over the Falls and Western Maryland road and down by easy grade to Forrest or Gay streets.

Citizen. The Late Daniel Henderson. Messrs. Editors: Before me as I write is a copy of Daniel Henderson's "A Bit Bookie of Verse." Ha gave it to me December 0, 1905, and on the fly-leaf wrote "The world has never too much sunshine." And now he has gone to the land where it is all sunshine. I open the bookie at random and find these words.

Please publish them God's in tho world For all its bustle and din-God's in tho world For all its sorrow and eln God's In tho world Shaping a world to be; Come ye apart a trhllo Out of tho world and sea. And now he sees face to face, so sweet, so pure, so noble a soul, so near he lived to Nature, tender and true we will all miss him. It is. very sweet to know that before he went home to Heaven he had a visit to the land he loved so well. Ruxton, Md.

Suysmxa Hawks. No Counterfeits On ''Busted" Banks Messrs. Editors: Your appropriate editorial reminds me of something that happened about 80 years ago. Two persons, one a worldly man and the other a brother of the church, were discussing the points in a controversy they had over a business matter. The worldly man was showing, the brother the bad points of the brothers and named several brothers who were more or less found wanting.

As the brother knew all of them, he was compelled to acknowledge all that was said by the worldly man. In replying to the worldly man, while admitting the truth of particular Instances clted.he wound up the discussion thus "You never Been a counterfeit on a busted bank, did you?" It was more the force of the reply than the grammar that, caused the worldly man to subside. S. Pleased With An Editorial. Messrs.

Editors All honor to The Scn for its splendid editorial on "Religious Bank Wreckers." Such an article in a secular paper is bound to do some good. It is a good sermon for those prejudiced against religion and also refreshing for the pious. Sincerely yours, J. H. Poetteb.

Pastor of the Reformed Church, Walnut Creek, Ohio. The Bohemians. Messrs. Editors: The letter defending the Bohemians did not Include or mean Father nornung, because, according to ecclesiastical law, a Catholic priest Is not a man-ordalned preacher. The general standard of the New York Truth-Seeker everyone interested should decide for himself.

The communication on the Bohemians In Thb Sun September 21, signed T. could be answered very nicely. The general character of the writer whom mentioned Is open for public Inspection every day (week days), and you will find his earthly quarters well filled. No race suicide In that family. But the good book Bays, in the words of the Master "Do not cast jearls before 1 To the ladles who don the blue apparel Ik the Johns Hopkins Hospital the following lines are respectfully dedicated The first in line are "the men in white Their job is to "tell what to do But with all their knowledge they're "skinned a mile" By the corps of "The Girls in Blue." Then "the girls In white," and they have a right To wave some authority, too But where would ihey be, with all their "power," If it 'weren't for "The Girls in Blue'? To the class that's next of the fairer sex.

With their cast of a "pinkish hue." I'm sure there's nought more enjoyed by them Than when they In Their path is not strewn with roses red, Nor with beds of violets blue But their faces are never without a smile. And just to see them makes pain "skldoo. So here's Joy and health here's beauty ard wealth Here's peace and a long life, too. For there's naught too good that the world can give To the band of "The Girls in Blue." But of all these "girls," with their braids and curls. And with "beauty galore," "Oh, gosh There's none in.

this ward or In any of the rest That can touch Miss T. R. Hoffsiax. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ward F. ITALY'S LOVERS Happy are ye, her lovers whose hearts on her bosom Bleep, While the stars ye used to watch quiet watch over ye now keep The thunder rolls unheard through the rocky crags in Alp and Appennlne.

While the forked lightning sears the oak and splits the lofty pine. The dark cypress, mourn In groups around some lonely grave. While afar Bounds the lapping of the quiet ocean wave. Which washes Naples' sunny shore or the rocks of Capri's Isle, But ye sleep on, nor hear the laughter of the beggar's barefoot child. Ye cannot wake to greet her ye love, but happy should ye be To He forever on her bosom, ber arms encircling thee; For which fear death, if he could forever be.

With loved ones around him, beneath some sunny eky. Staunton, Va. Mahjohie Chermsidh. A PRAYER From Psalm cvii. Oh.

Thou who knoweth long beforehand all my needs. Teach me to pray as Thou wouldst have mo pray, An earnest supplication blossoming deeds, And strengthen Thou me day by day. No supine clinging, nor to do In part. The work which Thou commandeth shouldst be done, But to give my strength, my life, my heart. That I may Bay, Lord, Thy will, not mine, be done.

Teach me to live as Thou wouldst have me live to Thee, That I may share the promise of these words of Thine, "He bringeth them into the haven where they would be Then are they glad, because they are a rest." Eleaxora Eversfield. College Park, Md. CONSOLATION In looking over Teddy's words Some changes seem quite risky (risque). But glad are we, tho' less an Ve," Men still pronounce It "Whisky." And then, again, amid the gloom. There comes a ray of cheer, To find, that when we write for it, We BtlU can spell It "beer." Above all else, how glad we are When these their work have done.

We can rejoice just as of old And say, we've "got a bun." t. o. a Ever see a Coffee Toper? They generally can get back to comfort with hum "There's a Reason. P0S UTSCRIPTIOX OX THE MOJTUMEJXT TO A NEWPOTJIfDLAJfD DOG. Bx Loed Bxnoir.

When some proud son of man returns to earth Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe And storied urns record who rests When all Is done npon the tomb Is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend. Whose honest heart is still hia master's own Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonor'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied In heaven the soul he held on earth; While man, vain In sectl hopes to be forgiven. And claims himself a sole, exclusive heaven. man, thou feeble tenant of an hour.

Debased by slavery or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love Is lust, thy friendship all a cheat. Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit! By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame, Te who, perchance, behold this simple urn, Pass on It honors none you wish to mourn; To mark a friend's remains these stones arise; I never knew but one and here he lies!.