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Show I Of Til teres o Eadp fyaders i THE WISER FAITH. (Charlotte Prry.) A monk of the oldf-n days that he might have oil for his cup Planted urn olive sapling, then straightway he lifttid up Ills voice and huart in prayer, gayingr: '"I pray of thee, O Lord, that its roots may drink, send the g-entle shower to mv tree; Send th snft, warm rajn tlmt it needs." So of his love and power The Liord sent the gentle shower. Ag-ain prayed the pious monk: "Dear Lord, this tree of mine. That its fruit may e rich with oil ag the trrape with wine, Keeds the sunshine warm and sweet, and again I pray of thee That the sunshine's blessings fall on my oliva tree." And tha frracious Lord of His bounty bade It be a3 the monk had prayed. "Sunshine an' rain are. pood and my tree hath mm of these." lie said, "but the frost hath strength; graciously let it please The-a to send now the sparkling frost, the cold but kindly frost. Its tissues to strengthen and brace, else purely my tre were lost." And lo! 011 the treo at dawn the dear Lord kud The frost, as the monk had prayed. .Uut behold, when the iihaxiows of even'irnr fell The tren was dead! To his brother's ceil "Wont the sorrowful monk, his tale to tell. Then hw brother said: "I too had an olive, tree; Like yours it was youn? and strong, like j ours it was fair to see; Lut who.il I set its roots with care nealh the kindly sod . 1 made no conditions for it, I trusted my mo to God. Better than I could know he knew what it needed most ; He knew whn to send the sunshine, the rain and the frost. Mv tree is a froodly sicrht, for my simple i ne.-ds well lit: ' And tlio Lord who knoweth best hath cared for it." HER STORY. ('Charlotte "Whilcomb.) A winsomrt herb contented jnst to crow Grew brave and true within a wilderness. wilder-ness. Day fell upon her like a soft caress; Bhe s;iw the dawn tind twlitrht come and I 8". fl And star-sit night. Life was nil. good, I and ko I ?ho yielded frafrrar.ee as pure souls con- 5 IVss I In wordless prayer the heart's deep ten- j d "ri.cSf-. I When lo! a mower ame that way to mow. I Yor hor delight recurrent flashed the I blade. I For her in measured music dropt the I grays; j "Shall I have meat and fall to render I grace?" I Eh-e said, and fell not only unafraid, ! But lull of joy that so her life could I pass. And now her soul of sweetness fills the 1 place. 1. j . HERE COMES THE EASTER HAT. 1 In English Fashion. It Hakes Its Ar- rival Considerable Ahead of Time 'j Straws and Chiffons The Hel- ' ' met Will Be the Popular Shape, j Piled High With Chiffon Puffs I The '"Bonnet" Is Poke Shape. ' New York. March 1. The penitential season ia enlivened by the promise of ; faster beauty. From the sombrenese if church the demure fasting; woman featus hor eyes upon the f-hop windows which, by eome chance, always happen ' to line her path to and from her daily 1 devotions.. ; The beginning of Lent is the time when the shopkeeper clears out his liwt window of other finery and proceeds pro-ceeds to iill it with hats. And such hau?, Kaster hats, of course, . brilliant and loaded with flowers! Thie ear they are not only bright, but tx- s teedinglv pretty. Quite different from the Easter hats of last year, which were undeniably grotesque.' The Counters Capteilane recently nr-fl- red for herself an Easter hat which will cheer Parisians' Easter Sunday. It Hccma st ran pre to take back an Easter hat to the City of Fashion, but it is1 a fact that the eyes of fashion's world ; turn toward the western hemisphere 'i more than they formerly did, and less , ; toward the p'nops of Paris. Can it be i that New York is taking the place of 1'arif? ' The hat which the counters ordered was made to order. It was a. rough fdraw toque in the natural straw colors. Its only trimming; was a wreath of ; cherries with their leaves around the crown, and at the side stood a dwarf j . cherry tree. The hat was lined with i leaf green eatin in such a way that the lining showed as the hat sat back upon the hair. POPULAR EASTER SHAPES. An Easter hat which will be among the popular shapes ia the Minerva, with Point pulled low in front and back; the sides, instead of being turned up, are turned down. This is really a helmet shape and is called by that name in many of the shops. You may find this same hat known under the name of the "tropical hat," because it is the shape chosen by the ladies who go to Cairo in the winter, there to pass a warm I season when it is cold at home. Called by whatever name, the Minerva, the Helmet or the Tropical hat, the ehape is becoming to all faces. One of these hats ordered by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, that society woman about whom there is so much to be read in the New York society columns j just now, was a straw helmet composed of folds of chiffon cunningly laid between be-tween folds of chiffon. The top was piled with sun-plaited blue chiffon in loaf shape so arranged that the loaves rose one above the other until the hat was very tall. It is a custom not so very new, yet all the time gaining in favor, to have one's hats of such a description that they can be worn all the year around. The soft "made" hatp are of this variety, va-riety, and so, latter-, are the rough straws in which 'velvet and silk are woven. The Easter bonnet proper will be a cabriolet set well bacK upon the head and trimmed inside and outside with pink and yellow roses. It will be topped by a black velvet how and a black velvet streamer wil be tied un-3er un-3er the left ear. If one were aeked to select four Easter hats for a bride one could not do better than chocse the tour recently described by a New York milliner who wan making them for a very wealthy bride of Easter. One is a rough straw toque in tan color trimmed with blush roses;-these nrees are in a new pink called crushed rose pink. They are small and are capable of very clever treatment when uted in wreaths or massed upon a crown. Another is a toque of pastel gray chiffon trimmed with bands of rough gray straw. At the side is a very large bow of gray-blue Liberty satin caught with a big steel buckle. The thirdMiat with which this happy bride is to be blessed is a helmet shape in silk, also trimmed with bands of straw and with many puffs of almond green chiffon. The fourth in the series of hats is a bonnet with strings of chiffon and black j velvet. The bonnet, which is a large flaring straw, is profusely trimmed with white roses with hearts of pink. A heart-shaped buckle of silver is set at the top of the hat and through the buckle is drawn a double loop of pink velvet above which stand many flaring jets. QUIET HOUSE GOWNS. The season for ball dresses comes to an end at the first toll of the Lenten bell. After that come the house dresses and the very modest dinner gowns, for there are no big functions during Lent. A pretty gown which can be worn in any season was chosen by Mrs. George Gould the other afternoon at the first meeting of a sewing circle over which she is to preside during Lent. The dress was a princess in black and steel striped Liberty satin. The yoke was of white satin appliqued with steel sequins, se-quins, and over the shoulders were bands of black velvet ribon. This dress could be fashioned in cloth with a yoke of dark satin which would be very serviceable, ser-viceable, or it could be worn over different dif-ferent yokes. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, who dresses a great deal in purple, wore at the latest la-test New York fad, a "Persian Garden." Gar-den." a-grown of purple taffeta striped with black satin. It was made with a a vest of white taffeta embroidered with silver. The skirt was a tunic oi the purple striped satin over an underskirt un-derskirt of plain purple taffeta. Another gown remarkable for its beauty was worn by Mrs. Ogden Mills, who leads the most exclusive set in New York. It was of palest almond green satin embroidered with gold threads arranged in such a close and wavy design that it suggested an Oriental Or-iental fabric. A fischu of real point lace was brought around the neck and tied under the chin in a large bow, through the knot of which was fastened fas-tened a diamond buckle. TWO NOVEL DRESSES. Two very pretty dresses belong to two young women who, for matrimonial matrimon-ial reasons, are just now in the public DARK GREEN VELVET JACKET WORN BY MAT GOELET IN PARIS. '5 I i , eye. One of the young women is the newly married step-daughter of Thomas Thom-as Nelson Page. This young woman, who will some day be very wealthy, an immense fortune having been left her by the Field family of Chicago, wore at her first reception a very simple sim-ple though effective dress of lace cloth thickly strewn with pearl beads. The belt and stock were of silver grey - 'm m TOQUE OF PANSIES TRIMVuii WITH KOV; )? WHITE LACE. panne velvet, the belt being fastened with a handsome pearl ornament at the front. This lace gown was worn over a s'ip of pale grey Liberty silk which in turn fell over an under slip of grey taffeta. This fashion of wearing three dresses piled over each other is a growing one, and though a very expensive ex-pensive style, it is certainly pretty;' for thin materials are given body by their many linings. The other young woman just now in the public eye is Miss Swan, stepdaughter step-daughter of Elisha Dyer, son of the Governor of Rhode Island, and the most famous cotillion leader in New York. Miss Swan, though only seventeen seven-teen years old, has recently become engaged en-gaged to Mr. Max Muller of Washington, Washing-ton, and the wedding is said to be in the near future. Miss Swan, who has scarcely emerged from short dresses, received with her mother not long ago in a dress of chrome yellow taffeta with a panne velvet bolero jacket over which thei'e was a small black lace bolero. An overdress of black lace draped high in the back and long in the front gave quite a Spaniah look to the gown. Everywhere one sees the fade shades. If you look in the shop windows you will notice that the new colors are light ones. All the public tastes seem to run toward these pale shades, and many are the fanciful names given to these pastel tones. They certainly do look faded and justify their familiar name of "fade" colors. There is this about the pale tones which are coming in. they are to be worn with a touch of black velvet, thus giving them a becoming background. BEATRICE. BELLES OF WASHINGTON S0-rrrTrv : Never Was It So Gay Among th( Young People at the Capital. i Society in Washington has never beer , so gay as this season, and there will be a great deal more of entertaining during the few days that will elapse between now and Lent; then there will be a lull. Ash Wednesday will mark the beginning of the end of the social festivities fes-tivities for this season, for society in the capital is devout and the forty days of Lent will be penitentially observed. At present, however, gaiety is at its height. The unfortunate illness of many of the wives of prominent diplomats turns attention to the charming daughters daugh-ters and relatives who are filling the vacancies so capably. A debutante toward to-ward whom there has been attracted much attention is Miss Grace McKin-leyl McKin-leyl neice of the President, who makes her home at the Executive Mansion and is of so much assistance to Mrs. Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley in the performance of the social duties of that distinguished hosteas. Miss Grace is the only child of President Presi-dent McKinley's dead brother and is a graduate of Holyoake College, Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, from which institution she came forth with high honors. She is winsome without being strikingly beautiful, beau-tiful, with brown hair and eyes and a very musical voice. Miss McKinley lost her father and mother when quite a child and from that time until the death of the mother of President McKinley Mc-Kinley her home was in Canton, in the old McKinley homestead. Since her graduation she has been a member of tht family circle of the White House. Misa Grace is the first young woman since the days of Miss Nellie Arthur to add the charm of her presence to the rather gloomy quarters of the Executive Ex-ecutive Mansion and is therefore the recipient of much social attention. Of late she has been devoting a great deal of her time to the entertainment of her cousin, Miss Sara Duncan, who is also a niece of President McKinley. The luncheon given to these young ladies la-dies by Mrs. Charles G. Dawes early in January was one of the most brilliant bril-liant "small" affairs of the season, among the younger contingent of society. so-ciety. It is rumored that a reception will shortly be given for Miss McKinley by Senator and Mrs. Hanna. The Hannaa have established v themselves in the magnificent Don Cameron house, until recently occupied by the late Vice-President Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart, and entertain enter-tain lavishly. Senator llanna has taken Mrs. Hobart'e lease, which does not expire ex-pire until March, 1901, and it 'is said that at that time he will renew the lease until the end of his senatorial I term. There is also a daughter in the Hanna household. Miss Hanna and Miss McKinley are very good friends and are often seen together in society. "Miss Hanna has only been in Washington a few weeks. The eldest daughter of Secretary of State Hay, also an intimate friend of Miss McKinley, is a favorite in the capital's beau monde. Miss Hay is a handsome young woman and her mother's moth-er's almost constant companion at the dinners and receptions given at the Secretary of State's palatial home on Sixteenth ami H. streets. The Hay Mansion overlooks Lafayette Square, which is the only property that intervenes inter-venes between it and the President's house. The library, Miss Hay's favorite favor-ite spot, is one of the finest in Washington. Wash-ington. It is upholstered in plush and there is beauty in th soft hangings at the windows, the rare pictures, and everywhere. ev-erywhere. The ceiling Is of panelled oak with deep caissons in the squares of which are golden discs. It is here that Misa Hay spends the most of her time, for she has inherited her father's predilections for literature and has gained quite a reputation as . a writer of verse. Her short poen en- ' titled "An Evening in Washington," is specially clever, and has won for Its author the favorable comment of the j best literary crijtics of the day. Miss Hay is of a musical turn of mind also. She was partly educated in Europe, is I a devotee of art and a linguist of no mean ability. She is said to be "whole hearted and fancy free." although while in London,, where her father was ambassador at the Court of St. James, it was known that many a duke and lord would have gladly laid his heart and fortune at her feet. Miss Hay is of attractive appearance, ajaceful, tasteful in dress, and in short, Vie possessor pos-sessor of all of those talents and requirements re-quirements which gain for a young woman the enviable title of belle in a circle of all beautiful and accomplished . young women. 1 In Secretary of the Navy Long's household there are two daughters, Miss Helen and Miss Margaret. Both are popular, but Miss Helen seems to i care most for society, Miss Margaret devoting more time to her profession, which is medicine. She is a graduate of a famous medical college in Baltimore, and volunteered her services as nurse during the late war with Spain. Miss Helen Long, to the regret of her many friends, has not been in the best of health lately. She came to Washington Wash-ington in the spring of '97 to preside for her father in the enforced abcenct of Mrs. Long, caused by ill-health, and it i9 supposed that the strain has been too severe upon her nerves. During her stay in the capital, Miss Helen has instituted in-stituted a protracted series of public functions that have rendered the Long parlors at the Portland the most attractive at-tractive rendezvous in the west end. She is very much liked by the foreign diplomats and their wives, as was exemplified ex-emplified by the fact of her being offered of-fered the charge of acting as sponsor for a recently launched Japanese battleship. bat-tleship. In the summer the Longs all go to their beautiful home in Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, returning early in the autumn au-tumn to assume their part of the social responsibilities of the Cabinet. Miss Long is a very sweet-faced young woman with an easy, unaffected manner that has won her a host of ! friends. She. is of a literary taste and ! finds congenial companionship in her father and his political aspirations. She Is a great friend of Miss Wilson, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, who is also one of the most popular pop-ular of the Cabinet daughters, of j which the present administration is so prolific. Miss Wilson presides at the social functions given at he father's j home, and its it noteworthy that these ; entertainments are patronized by the : most fashionab'e of diplomatic society rather than the maswes of the people. j They are simple, yet. elegant, and at-' at-' test more effectively to the refined and artistic tastes of this young woman i than words could ever do. ' A NIGHT AS A MESSENGER BOY. BY A WOMAN REPORTER. . 1 "No. 492!" ! I feel a nudge, and a tiny little fellow, in a blue suit with silver buttons, whis-i whis-i pers in my ear. , "That's you. It's your turn to take s a message." I awake with a start from my rev-i rev-i erie for I have been indulging in a day-dream and, as I suddenly awake, s I think myself still in dreamland, for I, too, am encased in the blue uniform and silver buttons, and I have been waiting to perform my first duty as an American District messenger boy. "Boy?" you say. Yes, boy, as for the nonce I have donned the complete com-plete uniform, determined to see for myself just what is the nightly experience experi-ence of one of these youngsters. In order to do this it was necessary to get permission from the proper tu-thorities. tu-thorities. The superintendent kindly loaned me a new suit and cap, and then I went to a wig maker's on Fourteenth street, near Fourth avenue, to get a wig. Then I had to borrow a pair of boy's shoes which I wadded with cotton to make fit, as I had always noticed that messenger mes-senger boys had feet well, larger than a girl's. For the next few days I made a careful study of every messenger boy I met, noting his walk, the way he carried himself, etc. So, when the eventful night came, I felt quite in humor for the story. But after getting into my boy's clothes, even in spite of the shoes, I wasn't quite a boy. There was something the matter with my face. Just then the costumer came. How I blessed him, for I had been wrestling with the wig in vain. But, after using an enormous quantity of hair-pins, and after a little twitching and pulling and tugging, the wig was in its place. The day manager of the office is about to surrender his duties to the night manager, as I walk jauntily into I the office and present the way bill that i the superintendent has given me to the ! night clerk. A way bill, by the way, is a little slip of paper that is handed I a messenger when he is sent from ! one office to the other for the night. Upon it 13 the date , of leaving, number num-ber of messenger, time of arriving, etc., etc. "Take a seat on the bench," said the night manager, "and await your turn." I He evidently didn't know me. I turned to the night clerk, who was busy over an immense book, keeping track of the messages as they came in : and were sent out. ! "Will you take care of my rubber coat?" I asked. And then the manager recognized me, and joined with me in the laugh that was at his expense, i "Go over to the Grand Hotel." said the night manager, as he handed me a pink call slip with the name and address of the Grand Hotel upon it. A messenger boy enters the hotel just as I do. He ia the night sergeant, George Wood. No. 996. He tells me that a second call had been rung, and that he had come to look me up. I walk up to the clerk at the desk and present my slip for him to sign. He gives me a curious glance, which I meet unflinchingly, then hands me 15 cents and a rubber coat and a card with "Mr. C. Vanderbilt, 60S Fifth Avenue," upon It. "Take this coat to this name and address," he says. When I got back to the office I discover dis-cover that my hawk-eyed cabby has been whispering to one or two other cabibes, and I am subjected to a little more hard staring. There is a t'.all from Mr?. -, East Thirtieth street, near ! Madison avenue. 1 de. not give the ! number or name; although I should do j so; but I have them written down in 1 my little book for future reference. As I am about to step out of the door I notice there are four or five curious on-, on-, iooKers standing about. I draw back dismayed. This causes one or two more to stop. "This will never do.' 'I say quickly, "in a moment we will have a crowd, and I can never face even these few." "Oh, come right along," says the night sergeant. 'They'll never notice you if you walk bravelv out." "But I can't face them," I say, now j beginning to realize my position and j feeling just a bit ashamed of my boy's I apparel. j Now, I had been particularly in-i in-i structed to go to the basement door; but in the general excitementl had forgotten for-gotten all about it, and it was not until I had walked up the stone steps and rung the bell that I remembered my instructions. Then I hastened down the steps, wondering vaguely why it was necessary to go to the basement when the door was opened from above , and then quickly closed. I ran up the steps1 and tapped on the glass door. "Hello!" I said, and then started PLAYING ESCART. My most interesting experience was the escorting of two pretty young girls home from the Manhattan theatre. Oh, what dreams they were! One beautiful beauti-ful blonde, with wavy, golden hair (natural (na-tural gold), a perfect nose and pearls for teeth, and the other with raven tresses) and the sauciest eyes and most kiseable mouth that it has ever teen my good fortune to see. My newspaper friend, who had somehow some-how gotten lost in the shuffle, suddenly turned up. Btu I didn't know him, and he didn't even so much as get a chance to look at my pretty charges. A"? we got into the cab the blonde whispered to the brunette: "I say, Arline, did you notice what a refined face our mesenger boy ha.-, and what pretty hazel eyes?" I believe be-lieve he's of good parentage." "I believe he's a prince in disguise, Maud," said the brunette, "and I'm quite in love with him. What a pretty pret-ty little hand he has! Let's talk, with him." They did. Oh, what musical voices they had. I quite liked being a messenger mes-senger boy after this. I found myself quite forgetting that I was a girl, under the witchery of their pretty glances. But at last they reached their home. You want to know where? Ah! but Ji- J J W '.: "H5UCH CUIKOHPlMK, WHO RCOET j ' GRfvrfcFUUUY Ofirt-Fft5H10n.0n - ; HE.R. tony "POTTY." A LIFELIKE AND GRACEFUL POSE FOR A CHILD FOND OF OUTDOOR LIFE. you shan't, for I shall be loyal to my charges. The brightness of my companion messengers and their courtesy, added to the courtesy of the whole staff, will ever linger as a bright spot in my memori". At about 3 a. m. the night clerk, who has won my particular admiration during dur-ing the evening by the way in which he handled that big book and kept account ac-count of every message that came in and went out not an easy thing to do, by the way, in this busiest office in the city hands me a yellow slip. For a moment I do not understand, and then, upon second glance, I see that it is my "messenger pay bill." I smile when I pee the significance of it, for upon it Is the message "Good night." CONSTANCE MERRIFIELD. FISH RECIPES. Boiled Salmon. Boil a pound of fresh salmon in salted water about twenty minutes; turn off the water and lay the 6almon on a hot dish. Plave ready a cup of eweet cream, a small piece of butter and salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Cut the fish into squares with a sharp knife and pour the hot cream over. Serve at once. - Eaked Salmon. Stir up one tablespoon table-spoon of flour with milk, and thicken one quart of hot milk as you would do to make gravy. Add to this while hot Ik 1 A WHITE SATIN STRAW TRTMMETJ WITH PINK AND WHITE RIBBON. two-thirds cup of butter, teaspoon chopped onion, pinch red pepper, one-half one-half teaspoon of sage. Drain all the oil from one can of ealmon and take out all the bones, then put in alternate layers of rolled crackers and ealmon and dressing; put a little butter on top and bake half an hour. Cream Salmon. Take one can of salmon; mince it fine and drain off the liquor. Boil one pint of milk, two ftltfe- '. ?: j Hms. OCM PAUL KRUGEP. IN CALLING ARRAY ' tablespoon fuls butter, salt and pepper to taste. Have ready a pint of liut I bread crumbs, which place in a layer 1 in the bottom of the dih. Upon this put a layer of minced salmon, then a j layer of the dressing made of the milk j and butter, then a layer of the bread ! crumbd and so on, having bread crumbj J for the last layer. Lake until brown. : i Codfish Balls To a cup of boiled j codlish. finely shredded, add one and I one-half cuius mashed potatoes, sea- J soned as for the table, one well beaten j ter and a liberal sprinkling of pepper mix well together; form in flat cake-; or rolls, dip into beaten egg. then roll in bread crumbs or craker dust, drop into boiling fat and fry until a W;ht brown. 4 Mothers' often sy that children ehould have a "good time." as they will soon be unhappy enough over the serious duties of life. If a child its brought up in idleness? and does nothing noth-ing but have a "good time," work will come mighty hard. The duties of life will prove very disagreeable, and the grown child will be apt to regard the good times of youth as the natural sort of a thing and th? stern duties of life as unnatural. Children should be happy, but parents should not carry the idea so far as to ruin their children and make loafers of them. J Don't Throw It Away. The breaking ' of one or more of the teeth in a comb, particularly if it be a fine one. usually results in its utter us'aleesness if our locks are long and fine, even for ordinary or-dinary use, as the uneven edge?! of the broken teeth tend to tangle and sever the hair in combing. But this can be remedied by simply filing with a small file the rough edges till only a smooth surface remains. In this way the comb can do common service for a long time after several teeth are wanting. Enigma. En-igma. Cream of Chicken and Rice. Make a stock of the bones of yesterday's yester-day's capon, w'ith the inferior parts of the chickens used for tomorrow' fricassee; add a pint of milk, salt, pepper, pep-per, a white roux, made with two table-spoonsful table-spoonsful of boiled rice; rub all through a. fine ieve: return to th fir rinil srir In slowly the yolks of two eggs, beaten with a grill of cream, a teapoonful of powdered curry and half a pint of dice 1 of cooked white meat of chicken. : CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY ITEMS. (.Special Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) Washington, D. C, March C The annual retreat of the professors and students of the University opened in the Divinity Chapel, Caldwell Hall, on Ash AVecknesday evening, and continued until the following Sunday morning. The exercises consisted of mediations and special conferences. One feature of the Retreat was a daily conference for the benefit of the lay students and professors. pro-fessors. The exercises were in charge of the Very Rev. Walter Elliott, C. S. P.. arid were attended by all the students, stu-dents, lay and ecclesiastical, as also by the professors. The Right Reverend Rector, accompanied accom-panied by Very Rev. Dr. Pace and Dr. D. W. Shea, attended the conference of the leading Universities held at Chicago, Chi-cago, Feb. 26 and 27. This meeting, which originated with the University of California, has for its object the interest in graduate studies, and particularly par-ticularly the protection of the Ph. D. degree. The fourteen universities represented rep-resented California, Catholic University Univer-sity of America, Chicago, Clark, Columbia. Co-lumbia. Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Hop-kins, Leland Stanford, jr., Michigan, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Wisconsin and Yale were selected by a committee commit-tee consisting of California, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Chicago Universities, who considered that these were the leading universities in graduate grad-uate studies. The conference resulted in a permanent organization, having for its purpose the promotion of discussion dis-cussion a3 to the best means of developing devel-oping the higher studies in the universities. uni-versities. An event of great interest always to the University is the celebration of George Washington's birthday by a public lecture by some gentleman dis-tinguisihed dis-tinguisihed in public life. This year the orator wan Chauncey M. Depew, United States Senator from New York. Despite the storm which prevailed, the audience filled the spacious lecture room and listened to a most eloquent and Instructive discourse on "The Place of George Washington in History." The juniors of the Law School have had their midwinter examination, and the members of the class passed mos't creditably. Very Rev. Dr. Shahan attended the celebration of the St. Patrick's Temperance Tem-perance Societies of Montreal, Feb. 26. The University Club gave a very enjoyable en-joyable reception to their frientls on Monday evening, Feb. 26. The Rev. Dr. Henebry, professor of Gaelic, gave hi3 second public lecture, "Gaelic Melodic Schemes in Word and in Sound," on Friday afternoon, March 2. The' lecture created a good deal of interest in the public and student bodies, bod-ies, and was listened to with clo?e attention. at-tention. Dr. Henebry said in part: "The characteristics of the old Prosody were: Exact syllable reckoning, the division of the long-line by Caesura, and ornamentation by alliteration, and by three kinds of rhyme or final correspondence. cor-respondence. The new Prosody suddenly sud-denly appeared in the seventeenth century. cen-tury. It shows a complete break with the traditional system. Its characteristics character-istics were beat-accent, alliteration and an overflowing wealth of assonan-tal assonan-tal correspondence." A short historical discussion of harp -playing introduced an enumeration of the various kinds of music. Then followed its characteristics, characteris-tics, especially those that' differentiate it from modern frmrtfe. Those differences differ-ences arose from d) differences of scale, and (2) diferertccE of Jlonica or keys. Irish music Ls composed on a lilii WkmiMiMIHPi JWU JiiNiiiiimwWiHy.if'.P.'UM.yjiM"iwi.ujlmi.JWWiiil.iiiimp) Jm.il gapped; quinquegrai'.-'! ? al" without tonic ": dominant, whor.'o-f the inter-val.i inter-val.i did not ei.rrei'noi'd with. thos- of the modern sea!-. Each tone b-.-vaine tonic in its turn, and thti-' five- kirda of scales v. ere (.vehmed. whereaa the modern r 'T S'-ah; is ritid. ARCHBISHOP KEANE'S COLLECTING COLLECT-ING TOUR. March 7, tho Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, is the I'atronal l'-.Ht of tho Faculty of Philosophy, and will be N e-brateu wit a tho iSMtul cerenioiu-c-. i n ! s.'rmon on the occasion will h i preach- I j cd by Rev. Dr. i'. 'A. i Cooker. j Tito archbic-.h: has thti: far niado I. j appeals for ih' I'imv- iity in the t.'a- I thedrnia of BaUimoro. rhiLirklfl.ta, I ' New York. Alba.:-", yracu.-i. Buii'alo. I Boston, Sprir.gu-;: 1 and Providence, be- i ! sides preaching in several of the minT I i cnurches. Everywhere himself and tiio I I cause which lie r-preP'-nU? have xu-t ! with a incut cordial v.b'omo. The -u-: eponse both on the p.u-t of th? cier.-i'y j jp.d of the laity h.is been a't that he.trc I could wish, as far an warm expression j of good will could go. The Archbishop j has everywhere deared that ho 13 rot i asking immediate returns; that he. I wishes no one t.. make, under the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of present fe-Ming, ouch an offering ad might be made at the present pres-ent moment, but to take the nuilL r I seriously into consideration, and to what offering might be made at any time during "the course of the present Holy Year that would bo worthy of the dignity and magnitude of the institution institu-tion for which it it? aeked. He intonus 'himsuf to go ail over the sanu ground again during next fall and the; coming year, and it is probably to himself him-self that the offering will then be made; but it is also understood that the contribution-; may at any tim-i be put into the handd of the Bishops or p the local Clergy, who will be happy to transmit them to the University, with the iiani'M of the contributors. On the 3th of March the archbishop intends to begin hid work in the west. His first stop will be in the Cathedral of Cincinnati, to which the venerable Archbishop of Cincinnati has extended a cordial welcome. Then he will proceed to St. Louies, where Archbishop Kain hn (hown his friendliness to the Uni- I versity by making beforehand truly I elaborate preparations for insuring.ihn success of the work in that city. The appeal is to b made on the lth of March, in the Cathedral Chapel; on the i.'dh in St. Ignatius, the Church of the Jesuit Fathers; and on the first Sunday i't April in St. Alphonsuf, the Church of the Redemption idt Fathra. On th evening of the 2.1th h" is to deliver a lecture" in aid of the House of the Good I Shepherds in St. Lnuis. From St. LotU he is to proceed to the principal cities. Among the visitors at the University lately were Right Rev. Mathefw ILar-kir.. ILar-kir.. D. D.. Bishop of Providence, R. I., and Right Rev. Jam --.? A. Healy, D. D., Lie-hop of Portland, Me. |