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SUNDAY MORNING, THE PITTSBURGH POST JANUARY 17, 1909. After Over Four Hundred Years of Controversy Over Her Character the Warrior Maid Reaches the Threshold of Saint-hood Beatification May be Followed by Canonization on the Coming Easter. Will be tie Patron Saint of France Her Four tfeeMaib of r'leane to. 3c a Saint i 3oan of Hrc Soon to Be "St. 3oan" Character Has Withstood Every Assault of the Devil's Advocate Andrew Langs Tribute to Her Memory, "She Was the Most Perfect Daughter of Her Church.

1 9 Orleans standing by his She then ake.I to return to her home, but Charles pressed her to remain with the army and she yielded. Then began tiie reverses that culminated in her cruel death. She failed to take Paris, and, later, after breaking into Cornpiegne, as she had broken into Orleans, she was captured by the Burgun-dians in an unsuccessful sally. The Bur. gundians turned the maid over to the English, bv whom the was accused of Catholic maid, after long and careful scrutiny of the records of her career, has written a life of her in which he describes her as "the consummation and ideal of two noble human efforts toward perfection the peasant's daughter with the flower of chivalry brave, gentle, merciful, courteous, kind and loyal.

She was the most perfect daughter of her church. To her its sacraments were the verv bread of life." case passes through the hands of several commissions and finally the pope con- venes the sacred college for the discussion of the case. If the discussion develops nothing against the character of the candidate the pope assigns a day for the beatification, which is conferred with imposing and impressive rites. Then the pope appoints still another commission and still another "Devil's Advocate," and the testimony is threshed out once more, sometimes in a mere formal way if the investigation of the earlier commissions is considered as having been exhaustive enough, and if no adverse testimony) develops, the final rites of canonization follow. Thus the process of canonization is one of infinite precaution.

If the candidate Is finally made a saint it may be taken for granted that the most drastic efforts have been unable to uncover sufficient reoson why that candidate should not be a saint. Joan of Arc, or Joanetta Dare, which seems to have been her real name, was the daughter of a peasant of Domremy, a small village on the border of Lorraine. She never learned to read or write, and her religious instuction came almost solely from her mother, who had accomplished a pilgrimage to Rome in early life. WThile still a very young girl Joan became deeply concerned by the troubles that had fallen upon France. The English and their Burgundian allies had RANCE is'to have a patron saint, anu I it seems altogether warrior maid of Domremy.

It is i nearly 500 years since the Maid of Orleans died at the stake, and over 400 years since the "first step was taken looking toward her canonization. It was less "than a quarter of a century after her death when the Bishop of Rheims instituted the initial proceedings with a view to putting Joan among the saints, and now, within the past few weeks, the honor of beatification has been conferred upon her. For over 400 years she has been the center of one of the fiercest controversies ever waged among historians. Both secular and ecclesiastical writers have delved into the records bearing Upon her life. She has been denounced as a fraud; reflections have been castv upon her moral character by Voltaire and others; she has been called a lunatic only two 3-ears ago the French poet, De-roulede fought a duel with a Socialist deputy because that deputy had ventured to defame her memory in public.

Now the devil's advocates, both lay and cleric, have been defeated. The church that consented to her martyrdom is about to canonize her. Andrew Lang, an iconoclast among historians and a Presbyterian, one who could scarce be expected to be prejudiced in favor of- the vYy in v' v'Jj overrun most of the country, leaving but a small portion still in the hands of the French king, Charles VII. At the age of 13 she began to have visions and to hear "heavenly voices" that finally brought to her inner self the command to go to the aid of her country in its wars with the conquerors. She went to the king and offered her services, and by the religious fervor with which she was imbued and the ardor with which she presented her claims, she gained her point and was sent with Dunois to the relief of which was then besieged by the English.

She went in male attire, fully armed, carrying a sword and a sacred banner, and her presence inspired the French troops with intense enthusiasm. Site led 10,000 men against the investing army and broke through into the besieged city, carrying supplies and hope to the garrison. A succession of fierce sallies followed, the Maid of Orleans always in the van, and such was the ardor of the French troops under her leadership that the British were finally forced to raise siege. The tide of the war was turned. Charles marched into Rhiems, triumphant, and was crowmed there, with the Maid of FROM CHAPU'S STATUE IN THE LUXENBOURG.

Orselli Budget From the Eternal City Unlbrttten Law Force By Orselli. ROME. Dec. 29. I do not remember who once said that history is simply the opinion of a single man on a given person or event, given after the world has ceased to take any direct interest in the subject, and indeed contemporary history is always open to discussion and modification, especially when it Judges men.

Really great rulers must be dead for centuries to be viewed in their strue light; great things cannot be accomplished without wronging the rights and Interests of millions; while puny and Inflated personages who quickly become historical are soon forgotten by everybody but by learned students of useless things. In what category is Napoleon III. to be placed? It seems that the mark of his subtle and underhand politics is still felt In Italy and to such a degree as to yet raise the most lively discussions about the fatal or beneficial influence of his direct Intervention in our national life. Many years ago, not long, I think, after the Solferino and Magenta battles in 1SK, the eity of Milan voted a memorial statue in honor of the Freneh emperor whose armies had so bravely fought side by side with ours in behalf of our national independence. Fate willed, however, that this statue, an indifferent work of art by the way, never appeared in a public square of the city.

It remained in an inner courtyard of the senatorial palace, where it had been temporarily stored away. "Next summer Milan will celebrate its sorcery. The bishop of Beauvals and the University of Pans were party to the prosecution. Joan was taken to Rouen. There a long-drawn-out mock trial was held, during which the accused girl was subjected to shameful indignities.

The trial lateted for months, because of lack of accusing evidence. The girl faced her judges boldly, it seems that the main charges brought against her by the inquisition were that she wore her hair short and went garbled' in male attire. She maintained that she clung to the clothes of a man that she might the better be able to defend herself from the brutal assaults of her jailers. She was threatened with torture, but with no avail. Finally she was condemned to be Jmrned at the stake.

The death sentence, and the brutal treatment which she was forced to undergo, seem to have broken her spirit. She is alleged to have recanted, submitting to the church and attributing her revelations to the devil. At any rate her sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment. She put on female attire and began her prison sentence, but in a few days she resumed male attire. History has concluded that she must have been subjected to indignities untold during the few days in which she was at the mercy of her English jailers.

She clung to the male attire, reaffirmed her belief in her divine inspiration, and she was again condemned to die at the stake. The maid went to her death with undaunted fortitude and died unafraid. Now the Maid of Orleans is to be a saint. If fidelity to the church, devotion to duty, unselfishness, scorn of physical danger, purity of heart and faith in the Everlasting Arms are factors that make for sainthood, there can scarce be any just ground for grudging her this tardy recognition. Four hundred years of searching scrutiny has failed to reveal any blot upon the escutcheon of the warrior maid it would seem that any self-appointed Devil's Advocate of this late day would find her life a barren field In which to rake for evidence.

with his publications on the "Liber PontifieaUs," his first two volumes on the history of the church, and his studies on the origins of the papal dominion. The deep culture of those works and th brilliant style in which they are written put Monsignore Duchesne far above all possible competitors in those special studies. If he be elected to the place of Boissier, the French prelate will prove quite a precious acquisition to the famous literary institution of his country, largely- compensating for the loss of Cardinal Mathieu. It is remembered that some months ago Prof. Schorither, of the Munich university, was ordered by the Vatican under the penalty of personal excommunication to resign his theological professorship, his modernist ideas being in evident contrast with the pope's instructions on the subject.

It was at that time proposed to give to the professor a chair of philosophy, but the Vatican refused to compromise and Prof. Schorither had to retire from the university. It seems now that Monsignore Fruhwirth the new nuncio in Munich, a subtle and clever diplomatist, indeed, has found a way to keep the professor in the university, while obediently complying with the Vatican Instructions Rev. Schorither will be sent on a gov ernment mission to Italy to collect documents on a work he means to write on Savonavola. In this way the professor will be able to wait for the time in which, thanks to his ready submission to the pope's orders, he can earn his pardon and be restored to his professorship in the Munich university.

Vogue Again fact that there is no particular pop ular type of novel at present. Never have editions of fiction been more beautifully bound and printed, and never has the subject matter been poorer. He declares England to be at the close of one literary era and at the beginning of another; Some new form of expressing thoughts is needed. The Ruritania novel which Anthony Hope brought into vogue was killed by his imitators, who flooded the) market with inferior stories on the same theme. The story of adventure which Steven son produced in perfection has fallen so far beneath his standard as to cease to interest.

The problem novel has become tedious, aiyl except in rare cases is no longer taken seriously. "So," continues the publisher, "there is place lor a quite new form of fiction, since the decline of the present one is certainly in sight." With English literature it is said each period of decline has preceded a new burst of vigor, so perhaps the prophet is at hand, and by the next holiday season his work will have taken its place side by side with the great successes of this year. William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens. "Great Nature Is An Army Gay." Great Nature is an army gay. Resistless marching on its way; I hear the bugles clear and sweet; I hear the tread or million feet.

Across the plain I see it pour; It tramples down the waving grass; Within the echoing mountain pa.s I hear a thousand cannon roar. It swarms within my garden gate; My deepest well it urinketh dry. It doth not rest, it doth not wait; By night and day it sweeteth by; Ceaseless it maruheth by my door; It heeds me not, though I Implore. I know not whence it comes, nor where It goes. For me it doth not care Whether I starve, or eat, or Bleep, Or live, or die, or sing, or weep.

And now the banners all are bright; Now torn and blackened by the lisht. Sometimes its laughter shakes the sky. Sometimes the graves of those who die. Still through the night and through the livfe-long day The infinite army marches on Its remorseless way. Richard Watson GlKser.

A quite general misconception exists among the laity, especially among non- i Catholics as regards th nrocess of ran. onization. Indeed when the beatification of Joan of Arc occurred a few weeks ago, many newspapers hailed her as a saint already. It should be understood that canonization does not always follow beatification. There seems to be no doubt, however, that in the present instance canonization will follow, probably at Eastertide.

The first1 step looking- toward canonization is" a formal inquiry, which is Instituted by the bishop of the diocese In which the candidate has lived. The bishop's report is submitted to the Congregation of Rites at Rome, which then appoints a Promoter Fidei. that official popularly known as "The Devil's Advocate." This attorney for the prosecution" institutes a rigid examination of the testimony laid before the congregation and further investigates for himself the record of the candidate. The result of his work is also laid before the congregation, and if the character of the candidate has stood the test, the Congregation of Rites carries the case to what Is known as the introduction to the apostolic process, which involves the appointment by the pope of a special commission of prelates to further investigate the record of the candidate. This, report must not be submitted until at least 10 years have elapsed since the submission of the matter to the Congregation of Rites.

If the commission reports favorable the designation of "Venerable" is bestowed upon the candidate by the pontiff. Joan of Arc was proclaimed as venerable in January, 1904, by the present pope. The claims for beatification are then submitted by the pope to a new commission which reviews all the testimony and makes further inquiries as regards the qualifications of the candidate. Thus the semi-centennial jubilee in commemoration of its freedom from the Austrian dominion, and many have proposed to take Napoleon's statue from its undignified corner in a damp court and solemnly inaugurate it during the celebration somewhere in one of the most central thoroughfares of the city. "Let the names of Magenta and Solferino shine in the glorious sun of liberty." they say, with patriotic though rhetorical enthusiasm, "and the name of Napoleon be known and blessed by future generations." "Known? Blessed? Forgotten and cursed be that name:" exclaim the Socialists.

"If Napoleon helped us against Austria, in 1S59, he was handsomely paid for it with Nice and Savoy, while, when he did not see it to his interest to side with us he sent an army in 48 to restore the pope on his throne, and he crushed the Ciaribaldian army at Mentana so retarding for three years the realization of our national ideal. "Sedan," they add, "gave us Rome. If Napoleon had won over Prussia in 1870, perhaps Rome would not 5ret be the capital of Italy." And so we hav.e Napoleon exalted as a faithful ally, and branded down a3 a sharper and a traitor, both judgments given fn the selfsame city by men not yet qualified for Insane asylums. The "Unwritten" Law in Italy. The country Is saved! Italian law considers a man who kills his wife as temporarily insane, and consequently sets him free to console himself from the loss tionize the government of the colony upon the death of Cromwell nothing further was done in regard to the coinage until May 1, 1661, when through the instrumentality of Philip Calvert, who had become governor of Maryland in November, 1660, the Assembly passed an act for the establishment of a mint in the province of Maryland.

act provided that the coin should "be of as good silver as the currant coyn of English sterling money," every shilling to be above ninepence in value by weight of such silver, with the other pieces in proportion. Lord Baltimore at once made preparations in London to forward a supply of coin to the colonists and the General Assembly on April 12, 1662, in order to put this money immediately Into circulation, passed an act which provided that "every Householder and Freeman in the Province should take up Ten Shillings per Poll of the Said Money, for every Taxable Person under Their charge and Custody and Pay for the same in good Casked Tobacco at 2d. per Pound, to be paid upon Tender of the Said Sums of Money, proportionately for every such Respective Family." It has been estimated that as there were 5,000 taxable persons in the colony at this time the Maryland money thus put into circulation amounted to 2,500 of an actual value of 1,875. It is not known how much of this money was for the establishment of a mint in Maryland seems never to have been carried out. From what information can be obtained all the coins of Lord Baltimore were made in England.

The matter came to the attention of the English council of state, which sat from March 13 to October 13 during the interregnum between the death of Cromwell and the accession of Charles II. and proceedings were commenced against the Lord Proprietary for having; exceeded the rights given in the original charter of Maryland, which did not contain tne power to create a currency. It is thought that the case was allowed to drop and that Lord Baltimore continued to make and transport large amounts of his silver pieces to the colonists, for which he received colonial tobacco in return. The designs for these silver coins are cA New Lord Baltimore Penny Is Found pity for having killed my wife." And he found a jury who did their best to console him. Without assuming the responsibility of it, I take from the "Corriere della Sera" the following note on the possible nomination of Monsignore Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, to the sacred college: "It is well known that Hon.

Asquith, the English premier, had introduced for discussion by the house of commons a project on religious education. project had always been strongly and directly opposed by the Vatican; and indeed the English Catholics were persuaded that this intended reform, curtailing the state financial contribution to free schools, would have resulted in the suppression of many of them. In Protestant countries, as Germany. England and the Cnited States, Catholics rightly attribute a great importance to free schools which give them he means of successfully opposing the Protestant propaganda and upholding the rights of the church. The withdrawing, then, of the Asquith bill has been considered in the Vatican as a brilliant victory of the Catholic party in England, And this victory, following right on the steps of the great success of the eucharistlc congress in London, and coupled with the project of changing the royal coronation oaths, proves the strong position lately won by Catholicism in the political and parliamentary ground in England.

Monsignore Bourne, archbishop of Westminster, has been a great power in shaping those events so important to Catholic interests In England. At the Vatican they highly appreciate the tact and activity ot the archbishop, who has now great Dickens and LONDON, Jan. 17. Certain English Dickens lovers and many Americans of the same ilk ave long grieved over the idea that his popularity appeared to be on the wane in England. Not even the formation of Dickens societies pledged to read his books and keep his memory alive or the frequent exhibitions of various Dickens relics seemed to Interest the public and the sales of his books decreased annually This year the tide has turned and the popularity of Charles Dickens has gone up by leaps and bounds.

Not for many Christmases have this author's stories sold to such an extent. In fact he heads the list of those whose books were bought as Christmas gifts. New editions of his tales were brought out and sold out. Not only were his own works sold, but the various books written about him are also high up on the holiday yst of the popular works. Among the books published within the last few months relative to Dickens or his writings are "Readings from Dickens," "Miscellaneous Papers," "Mr.

Picwick's Christmas," "Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens," "Key to the Drood Mystery," "Character Portraits from Dickens," "The Christmas Books," "Highways and Byways in Kent," "Dickens Birthday Book," "Notes on Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, A New Spirit of the Age," "Pickwick Is Sued for Breach of Promise," "A Christmas Carol" and "Set of Frost's Illustrations to the Pic-wick Papers." Of course this list does not exhaust the number of books published recently about Dickens and his works in England, but it gives an idea of how much in demand all reminiscences, opinions and descriptions of the novelist and his writings are. Thackeray, too, took a sudden leap in sales this year. There are those who have long predicted his doom because, in the language of his own inimitable "Jeames," he wrote too much for and about thes "impper suckles" to please the present democratic British taste. However, he was more in vogue this Christmas than chances to be called into the sacred college. Some fear that giing a red hat to a prelate after a eucharistic congress may establish a precedent forcing the holy see to elevate to the same dignity all bishops presiding in future assemblies of the same kind; but it is to be considered that Monsignore Bourne finds himself in quite special circumstances, and that he covers one of the most important episcopal sees in England.

Monsignore Duchesne has at last won his right of citizenship in Rome, after having been so long among us as director of the French classical school in the Farneso palace. The death of Cardinal Mathieu made a vacancy among the immortals, as "the French modestly call the members of tbe Academy of France, and many names of prelates are made as possible successors to the deceased cardinal. Monsignore Cabrieres, bishop of jIont-peilier; Monsignore Baudriilard, rector ot the Catholic institute in Paris, and Monsignore Mignot, archbishop of Albi, have the better chances of success. Monsignore Duchesne is also spoken of in connection with those prelates as a candidate to the vacant Mathieu see, but if the monsignore finds his way into the academy he will do it as the successor of the late Gaston Boissier, and not of the cardinal. And indeed nobody would have a better right to take the place of Boissier than Monsignore Duchesne.

The author of "Rome and Pompeii" had already won quite a prominent place among the students of pagan antiquities, when he revealed himself one of the most competent Christian archeologists in the world Thackeray) Are in X- for some years past, though his sales did not nearly equal by a good deal those of Dickens. Sir Walter 'Scott's popularity is indeed on the decline, and this year very small sales of his "Waverley Novels" were made, while Bulwer Lytton is a drug on the market. llobert Louis Stevenson, George Meredith. Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling are always sure of a certain popularity, and this Christmas, as usual, they sold steadily and well. Exnensive editions of instructive Or informative new works were largely bought.

The demand for "Queen Victoria's Letters" was very great, while "The Queen Photographs" came next, for Queen Alexandra is an able photographer and the book is attractive and interesting. Even if it were not, however, the queen's personal popularity would insure it a large sale. Strange to say, Dr. Gairdner's' "Loi-lardy and the Reformation," which is very solid reading for holiday times, was" largely bought, while Nevill and Jerningham's "Piccadilly to Pall Mall," Andrew Lang's "Maid of France" and Lady Randolph Churchill's "Reminis-censes" also scored heavily as good sellers. But what or the new novels? According to the leading book sellers they had a smaller place in the Christmas sale than before.

They simply were not asked for by those seeking to please friends and relatives bv book gifts. Larger sales of books than ever before were made this Christmas by most book stores, yet the only three new novels which figured at all in creating this record were Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Diana Mallory," which struggled feebly In the contest; E. F. Benson's "The Climber" and "In Holy Orders," by TiTc-io rnroiii who can always be sure of selling whatever she writes to a certain public.

om. for fiction in libraries iiin Is just as great as ever before, but the book buying public is cnary oi puicimsmg the new novel in its first expensive form. It waits till it arrives at the sixpenny c-toro and then buvs largely. A certain publisher attributes this lack of Interest in the modern novel to the of the beloved one with a new marriage. In the Cifariello trial one of our most famous penal counsel, Mr.

lias expounded a brand-new theory. "A jury," he says, "has not to kep inside the boundaries of written law and apply it in all cases; the jopular judge has a right to modify it if the law docs not cover the question on and at Campobasso those lii peasants impaneled to judge Cifariello thought themselves legislators indeed, and they twisted the law to fit the case instead of measuring the cane on the pattern of the law. As I had foreseen, and the prophecy was not a difficult out, Cifariello has been found not guilty of the murder of his wife on the ground that at the very moment in which he emptied his revolver into her, he was absolutely- irresponsible for his actions. Just 10 minutes of madness to settle the business and then a sudden return to complete soundness and balance of ralnd. It was not a case of flagrant adultery, but just a at night in the silence of a hotel room, nobody noticing before the tragedy any unusual noise or violent dispute between the man and fhis wife.

When people broke into the room at the shots, Cifariello was simply exclaiming. 'Oh! what have -T done?" and to do him justice he could not have said less under the circumstances. A few hours afterward, before being taken into custody, he had recovered enough from bis state of madness to methodically collect all his valuables in the very room where the body of his wife was still stretched stark and bloody in 'the spot where it had fallen. As you may Imagine, the- Italian press very much alike. The obverse bears the portrait of the Lord Proprietary facing to the left.

Around the border is the legend "Caecilus Dns, Terrae-Mariae. etc." All the reverses show the escutcheon, with the Baltimore arms, which consist of a "lozenged shield surmounted by a coronet. Around the border is the legend "Crescite et Multiplicands. The shilling bears the Roman numerals "XII." to the right and left of the shield; the sixpence "VI." and the groat, or fourpence, "IV," In diameter the shilling is a trifle larger than the old-time copper cent. It weighs 66 grains, the silver being quite fine, or and its intrinsinc value was 16.73 cents.

There is but one type and one variety of this denomination. It is a very scarce coin in well-preserved state, and an extremely fine specimen, said to be one of the best known, brought $70 at the Mills sale in 1904. There is but one type and variety of the Maryland sixpence. The weight of this coin is 34 grains, the silver being of the same fineness as that in the shilling. In diamater it is about 14-16 of an inch, with an intrinsic value of 8.618 cents.

One brought $53 at "the Mills sale. Only Groat In America. The Maryland groat was the only coin of the title ever to be issued for America. Its design, was of two general types, of two varieties, the difference in design consisting in large and small portraits and shields. The groat has a of 11-16 of an inch, weighs 25 grains and has an intrinsic value of 6.336S cents.

It is the scarcest of the silver pieces issued by Lord Baltimore, and a fine specimen brought $S3 at the Mills sale. obverse design of the penny is similar to that borne by the Ihree other denominations, but the chief device the reverse is entirely different. Thi3 consists of a. ducal coronet, upon which are two masts, from each of which flies a pennant. The legend reads "Denarium: Terre-Marie." The diameter of this coin, which Is composed of copper, is betweei that of the groat and sixpence, or about 13-16 of an inch, and the weight 67V grains.

Is full of the Cipariello case; let me add. however, that we generally show ourselves decent enough to wonder, at least, at the verdict of the Campobasso jury. And the interviews with the famous artist? We are literally flooded with them. Here is the wonderful phrase which CJ-pariello is now constantly speaking: "Nobody in the world," he says, myself and my learned counsel can understand my complex psychology." And indeed super-men are incomprehensible to the common hAd, and who, hut Cinariello has better claims to that glorious tltlrV He goes so far in his all-embracing contempt fur common humanity that be swears that he will never forget the insult put on himself by his ungrateful country to have him Judged-by a set of Ignorant peasants. much for that unhappy jury of men who have given their verdict, stunned and bewildered by the astounding theories of Mr.

Manfred! on intermittent responsibility. Stern, hard life is sometimes in such close contact with low comedy that often it Is not easy to tell them apart. New Red Hat For England? An old, hoary story tells that an unfortunate young man having killed father and mother, recommended himself to the cKmency of the court on the plea that the lpss of iiis parents had left him a poor lone orphan. Well! Cipariella has simply said: "I am the most unfortunate widower in the world. I deserve great It is quite likely that the penny was a pattern coin and really never appeared in circulation.

The specimen found by Mr. Collins may have been worn by being carried as a pocket piece. Lord Baltimore makes reference only to the shilling, sixpence and groat of the coins directly is sued for Maryland, and It would seem that the copper piece was struck before the silver coins. None of the series, how- ever, bears a date. The pedigree of the original Lord Baltimore now owned by the University of Pennsylvania, seems to have been carefully kept.

In 1819 occurs the first printed mention of the piece, when it was sold in the collection of James Bindley, an English collector, to William Dinedale, another Englishman, for 12 10s. At the sale of the latter's collection in 1S24' the piece went for 9 9s, to the Rev.s Joseph Martin, of Kent, England. William Webster, of London, bought it in 1S59 for 75 and it then passed into the hands of an American collector, Joseph J. Mickley, of Philadelphia. When the latter's collection was sold the coin passed into the possession of a Mr.

Stevens -in 1867 for $370. Mr. Stevens represented a well-known New York Elector, Charles I. Bushmell, and when the latter's collection was disposed if in 1890 the coveted piece passed into the possession of Mr. Brock for $550, which was the last time the coin was offered at public sale.

Frazzled. One Nine Nine is safely here. Old Time has called its number; It came with varied sounds of cheer And mighty little slumber. We welcomed it along the phone. We greeted it with racket; The bip, cold night was all our oxvn And how we trimmed its jacket! One Nine Nine came o'er the wlra In midnight's razzle-dazzle.

And Nineteen Eight went in the mire Just beaten to a frazzle. Jj. S. Waterhousc in New, York Sun. Balsam.

Shelter, shade and slumber sweet In my boughs of balsam meet; Fragrant dusk and dream combine In the cool, soft heart of mtne. Sleep and hear again the tree "Whisper in the voice of me; Sleep, and breathe the spicy scent T-IintiriB' of thft Orient Pillowed on ray breast, be sure You shall find for care a cure; -k Charm and comfort, cheer and calni, Balsam's blessing, bliss and balm. -Frank Dempster Sherman In New York Eun. FOR many years but one specimen of the Xord Baltimore penny supposed to have been the first copper coin issued for circulation in the American Colonies was known to exist. Not long ago, however, another specimen of the Colonial rarity was discovered by a well-known Washington collector.

B. Col-ins among a lot of old and worn copper pieces. The new piece showed considerable signs of wear, which might indicate that coins of the denomination really had circulated as money. This fact has been questioned, owing to the excessive rarity of the piece. The first Baltimore penny came to light In England many years ago and was I purchased by a well-known Philadelphia collector.

Upon the sale of bis collection TK. another Philadelphian by the name of Urock Jurchased it. This collector presented his entire collection to the University of Pennsylvania. The second ppecimen also was bought by Mr. Brock and presented to the United States mint collection in Philadelphia.

The penny was one of a series of four coins, the denominations of the others being shilling, sixpence and groat. They were struck some time about 1659, when Cecil Calvert, Baron Baltimore, was lord proprietary of Maryland, for circulation in that colony. The dies, prepared In London, are said to have been the work of NichoiasBriot. the celebrated English coin designer. On October 17, 1659, samples of these coins were forwarded to the secretary for Maryland, Philip palvert.

Lord Baltimore's brother, the letter accompanying them reading: "Haveing with gTeat painesu and Charge procured Necessaries lor a particular Coyne to be Currant in Maryland a Sample whereof in a peece of a Shilling, a Sixpence and a Groat, I herewith send yow, I recommend it to yow to promote all you can the dispersing: of it." i Baltimore Suggests. Lord Baltimore only suggested that these ccins be used and placed the matter of their adpption ''in the hands of the 'TToToniBt. Owing to the disorders in Mjryjani nue iu me.