Show CHRISTMAS AT COLLEGE our college closed on the of december and will reopen re open on jan 2nd and 1889 many students ants have go gone nehome home to spend the holidays on the coast of chesapeake bay having communication by rall rail with an all parts of the union and by water ater with all the great centers of industry and bom commerce merce on both shores abdrea of the browl broad atlantic baltimore with a population of about is an excellent extel lont location for a medical college the monumental city is one of bf the chief seats of learning in america here herb are gathered students from all parts of the civilized world to attend first class blass colleges and universities the college of physicians and surgeons is centrally situated has hag good hospital and laboratory facilities land and a very able faculty we get a it fair share of the numerous dum erous accidents which occur while our four hospitals furnish ample clinical illustrations of the didactic lectures on medicine diseases and all kinds of surgery besides americans we have english irish scotch welsh german and french atu dentt numbering in a all it nearly am the fact that a mormon had matriculated at our college was soon jooa in the ears of all and numbers of the students came to ask concerning the cM mormon ormon bible and our rib religion ligion i also about the truth or falsity of many of the anti mormon newspaper and pulpit stories some of which they could hardly swallow while others they said must be correct having come frota from ministers of the gospel the credulity of civilized civil lied man is something remarkable what monstrous stories have been and are believed I 1 but have not the people been educated by press and to weigh matters in the scale of intelligence and judgment only to a very limited extent too often editors have taken a course which men of true dignity never pursue and ana many papers are disgraced by the employment of narrow minded and 1 but 41 educated simpletons simple tons who would rush by it woman in baltimore or tj chicago chicago carrying about 50 feet of lumber pounds of coal or coate enough to partially load a horse cart in n order to elaborate a long article on the innate brutality bru brutality y a and nd m meanness of some mormon who according to an associated press dispatch had been sailo assisted ted in the harvest fields ok 0 far or off utah by his wife or daughter we can excuse those back woodsmen woodsman woods men in georgia aho who in 1684 1884 were ware reported to ibave h ave said to so some me city visitors we reckon gin ral jal grant Is d fine president but allow abow he is a right smart while hale in stopping the war also a man man in florida who two years ago so a student told mb came into a small town in that state with cwb slaves to sell further that somewhat illiterate and partly dor dormant marit people do not bildt know who is president thit that the war aj Is over and that thai slavery avery hiti has been abolished seems deems hardly credible but what shall we sa say of a newspaper man who at ai this late laib dij tiles to ta make people bellve believe the afie yarn that president young is still alive that his death and burial ire are only shams and other e equally idiotic stories ig Moravia ns rise bestow some meet reward on dull devotion what about the ministers educating the people poor souls many of them put it honestly when th they e y confess to god every sunday in prayer that they have I 1 jone gone astray like lost sheep 1 I one 4 with fth aai an apfl armful of perishing heathers heathens he tw is gathering money to support missionaries in india or timbuctoo another becomes boaras gioi over crime and illiteracy in utah where herb the christians are hoping 16 t 6 establish toi tory y homes hoines for women who are im pure if not purer than their bh wives A third having proceeded very ft far an ah the roid road to perfection Is s now going to tarry a few moments to knock thid the life out of political trickery trie atry in ID the united and another resurrects in an ancient greek and danced him before his congregation abir ari hour of course to help halo these practical bert sermons horig oart the lords prayer is 19 sung A fe few times ot or chanted ath with unnatural rell gio nasal intonation the long suffering congregation is re ie lieveld by the penitente penitents peni tents ils prayer while the wet thief oh ah the cross poor chap is lugged in very often to prove the sublime truth that it man can live ii a life of sin and be saved at the last amt moment why not preach about and devise means mearis to stop such places as beards bards liall hall il winter gardens the he souse rouse of roses roi and a hundred other such places scattered all over this city baity where thousands of younk young men begin their downward course bourse and where here poorly paid and i hard worked young women enter the h 6 gates of h bell 0 11 i a temporal I 1 hell ell it at least jet columns column might be filled with the recital of the and godless i condition of fm families ches living id miserable hovels hotels and dark dait filthy ahers or of the poorly clad men man women and children we meet till all over the city begging theli their wad bread another evil eh might be bb considered the fiendish but comman common practice of murdering the unborn ani AM blit there here Is fe our modesty and fiats n the way ay it A is id true thousands aa are egl nning to th have tair kneir eyed trained 6 0 I 1 see gee objects a little 1616 nearer than affia ahma and yet too mari aa are straining at the gnat and d too aten the jhb leaders s ot of the people evade living living whim issues and the influence which ire are constantly y wrecking thousands thouy of people especially the duhg tells aig us that thai christmas is here aze and it seems is as if ah 0 had to id baab in deed a deity merry time the clergy tae nave said mid their W tamo pieces gibout the won wonderful dehl bath and AM jonona among other thing shave told arist was not hot dorn born on december 25 th any more dinote thin than ile he was AN on the ath of july jul the newspapers have fathered th ever izirer item general ideal and abd personal have given detailed accounts df all we the hartlee part lee es peAly the private otias ones and eddings who ha were weib at them how 0 all dressed dree sed the ind ind lafue of the presents coign mid arid style of cards icat wonderful ken geans lits the reporter hi h described dekolb bd the games th iff iv leys at taffies ta rames flies and zid it at pool ta az idd and even iab gives the names of the luca lucky mah uch crep beep and profitable subhead te he delights to io dwell in fad some journals seeni to vie with ith each other as to hib aa print prim the atlea rea teat amount of sn rind worse ad thim than andish nonsense sense I 1 trees were re and aad dad aida at f broa afif fifteen to three doil dollars kl ana no doubt to have followed them thein those set u up in such places te As the IWO raes wynah marble palace on st paul street all the way down the line to the simple pine bough in the little one roomed paper windowed hut on Q alley would have given a 4 history similar in a few w pointe but widely diver s in others santa claus car to D the charitable institutions at some me of bf which balls and concerts concer te were W given the unfortunates in woo plon were remembered AU all kinds of f good things were sent into the peu pen roast poast coon and possum and nd many other delicacies were round fad by the warden who opened tahe th but packages before delivering theta them one present a roast turkey beom tt a 4 widow to her only son a small volume to the on christmas eve a large se crowd gathered on the street far from here I 1 went outs out and tb wese was wah IL a young woman lying on thebold w cold pavement Pa her head resting on a the bo marble doorstop doorstep door stop step of a prominent 1 mana n ft christian and by her ad side lay a pool of blood and blood nt gull running ronning from a long gash on the head she was drunk and on 04 her way home fell felt receiving a bad aut it in au all this there is nothing for foi such sights are not rattles ates but just at the time Qs 0 the e great hurrahing hur and over the supposed barday day of christ me bee how his sis tb luft are Igno ignored redl the by aders laughed at the suggestion wa we should help her home clr blee L who lived near would not but I 1 could bandage 1 lier her wound which had to be daled ia by the of m light a street lamp traen aue man at t whose doorstep she lay was ae uc 11 indignant gnant and sent for the po who came calne with a patrol wagon baw an hurried her to the station house yet re thac poor creature will be a her td in a month f or two alas alag saty of christian charitel char ityl abny hospitals must have places to the sin 44 A at one which our college coina were a mashed m bed leg fr c Eit skull eull and several km and nd ads all requiring our at these were a few of th 9 gifts of bad w baughs Al ohp theofil TheA fil music the mons find the many other theve noted troupes brou trou pea sod saut oft which draw immense yd yand and night BM IV diB dibak NF tK y week the first theatre thir e in L america ca was built in this city its lii naw used by a coal and wood sealer can be won seen on the right ald in passing up saratoga froni from gay to calvert street it was called by the classical name the mud theatre and properly so I 1 think when a brick just above the door of a house near by wears this inscription high water mark july 25 1868 ap that slimy but delicious fish the oyster one of which is given with every drink at most of the saloons becomes prominent just now the maryland state navy has haa been fighting the fishermen over a month for catching oysters on forbidden ground though the ground is under water this is free advice to those who do not eat oysters the navy has got the worst of it so far and a leading paper announces that the navy can be bought for a yoke of oxen and a yellow dog balta more has about 1000 boats in the oyster trade each boat has two dredges or iron scoops having a capacity to hold seven bushels of oysters A boat makes a trip in from seven to fourteen days and according to its capacity icings brings from to 8 bushels at a load some borne time since the NEWS contained an interesting letter written by a medical student at ann arbor by it I 1 see ow our students there hold their regular meetings which is an ex excellent plan I 1 have been at many churches here but have not got religion 12 from affy of tb them era S H A maryland december 1888 |