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The times., 1898-01-16
Squirrel Town.

Where the oak-trees tall and stately
Stretch their branches to the sky,
Where the green leaves toss and riutter
AS the summer days go by,
Dwell a crowd Of little people
Ever racing, up ana down
Bright eyes glancIng. gray tails whisking-
lhis is known as Squirrel Town.
Bless me, hat a rush and hustle
S the happy hours speed by!
Cnitter, chatter Chatter. chitter,
Underneath the azure sky,
Laughs the brook to hear the clatHor,
Chirps the sparrow, gay and brown;
welcome! Welcome, ever ybodyi
Jolly place, this Squirrel TOWN."
Honey bees the fields are roaming:
Daisies nod and lilies blow;
Soon Jack Frost-the saucy fellow
Hurrying, VIII come, i know.
Crimson leaves VIII light tie woodland,
And the nuts come patteriug down;
Winter store they all must gather
Busy place, this Squirrel Town.
Blowing, clustering, sweeps the north
ind
Seel The snow is flying fast.
Hushed the brook and hushed the arrow,
For the summertime Is past,
Yet these merry little fellows
10 not fear ola Winters frown:
Snug in hollow trees they're hiding
Quiet place is Squirrel Town.
-Alix Thorn.
The times., 1898-01-16
A Home story From England.

Sunset" by Beatrice Whitby, is a
story in which children play an i'm
portant part. and the author under
stands them and evidently loves them.
There is little waif of a neglected
girl in the first chapter, and there is
a spoiled small boy further on in the
book. The description of little Alix's
frantic endeavor To rescue her toy
horse. Brownie from the nursery
CRATE is both pathetic and humorous in
a gentle way. The hunt of the heroine
and a servant after a naughty young
ster, called, for some inscrutable rea-
son, Fra" who has pulled up all the
flowers he can lay his hands on and
then run away, viii waken reminis-
cent thrills in most women's hearts.
Some exception might be taken TO the
English heroine who declares she is
not cracked" and describes her love
affair in these words:
Belle, it hasn't taken me that way,
If George has changed, heaven knows
SO have ]. Only George changed off
and l changed on, so things are bit
awkward for me. I shall get over it.
] want time. but j shall get over TO
the other side of it"
Shades of Dickens and Hawthorne,
and all the dear old-fashioned souls
who lived in days when women thero-
ines at leasO We're angels and talked
angelic English! OF course, however,
they said La and Il protest. and
talked the genteel slang of their day.
Frances is a likeable heroine in spite
of her matter-of-fact way of convers-
ing. The sequel Of this speech is that,
concluding she has had a disappoint-
ment," and would do well to take to
good works." she mothers the forlorn
AliX. And the ending of ii all is, of
course that somebody named Harda-
ere appears in the last chapter and
says: Frances. will you never give
me the right to take care of you? am
lonely, and you are lonely, and / have
him the right, and the two happily
watch the sunset light on the hills
Altogether the story is a clever one,
and an interesting one, though dealing
with no startling adventures of strange
lands, only the simple, common. every
day life of an English girl. Whatever
philosophy, whatever humor, whatev-
er tragedy may be found in its pages
must be evolved out of the problems
of everyday eXperiences-a child
earnest working over a child's puzzle,
or the water ripping over stones in
May night. while the church clock of
Wayfield strikes eleven-Wayfield is
name full of the scent of clover and
grass And children's troubles and chill
dren's pleasures are not too trivial TO
find room in its pages. 1New York: d.
Appleton G. Co. Washington: All book
sellers)
The times., 1898-01-16
Love.

love thee not alone fol what thou art,
put for a glory which is shed on thee:
Not only for thy body packed with sweet
IF all this world: that cup of violet wine:
1nat mortal rose sweet in The night of life:
That blossom by the early rain brought on:
Nor for that stirring bosom all besieped
BY drOWSlng lovers; nor thy perilous ha ir.
Nor for that face that might indeed pro.
woke
Invasion of high cities! nor thy brow
Pale as moon that on the summer steals.
Nor for thy freshness breathing like strange
sleep.
Not for this only do 1 love thee, but
Because Infinity upon thee hroods:
And thou art full OF whispers and Of shad-
owS.
Thy voice is like to music heard ere birth
Some spirit lutte touched on spirit sea.
Thy face remembered is from other stars
1t has been sung of, though / know not
when;
1t has been died for, though 1 know not
where,
1t has the strangenass Of the Turing West
And of sad sea horizons beside thee
/ am aware OF many times and lands,
or birth far-back, of livesi in many orb
o beauty, lone and like a candle clear
In this dim country of the world. light,
o sudden taper lit in far-off dark:
A silent beam to the uncertain soul.
Thou meanest what the sea has striyen to
say
Thou art what all the winds have uttered
not,
The lovely secret of the swooning breeze
Stephen Phillips, in the Spectator.
The times., 1898-01-16
A Comic Opera Emperor.
From Harper,s Weekly.l


william II, Emperor of Germany, to the
superficial eye is managing his empire very
much as some of our sensational publishers
manage their new wspapers. He is con-
stantly declaring his ow n Importance and
exaggeratin the Significance of every event
in which he or his government plays a
part. The other day kiel he took leave
of his brother Henry, on the departure of
that hopeful imperial ADMIRAL for China.
Henry is going on voyage which is not
at all likely to end in war. He goes to take
possession of X leo Chou Bay, which China
has practically surrendered The cereno.
MES at the departure were OF such Inelo-
dramatic character that they would have
been ludicrous IL Prince Henry had really
been going to certain battle and probable
death. They either furnish theme for
coinic opera that could be most fittingly
treated by Gilbert and Sullivan, or they
suggest that the two princes who partici
pated in them should he treated for hys-
terra.
The times., 1898-01-16
CURRENT VERSE.
Richa I'd Kirkland.


There had been an awful battle
AT the foot of Marye's Hill,
And the desultOry firing
Told OF sullen passion still.
Thirty thousand Northern soldiers,
Eager for the deadly fray,
Yesterday hadfcharged the trenches
Where the Southern army lay.
Fierce had been the rage of combat,
flerce The sDOrur OF shot and smell,
When above the din of battle
Rose the angry rebel YELL"
Then the Northern troops had wayered
Meath the shower of Southern lead,
And had left their wounded comrades
Lying mid the mangled dead.
And above them ragged the battle,
AS In agony they lay,
And around them angry bullets
Whislled through tile long, long days
Water, water!'' moaned the dying,
Writing on the crimson sod;
Ind they cried in bitter an,<iish:
Water, i'll the mamie of Gou.'
"Water."-and deep emotion
Tender pity for tneir Woe,
Filled gallant soldiers bosom.
Though he was their country's foe.
Over the protecting rampant
Boldly Richard Kirkland sprang,
And the bullets whistled 'rounu him,
And the DIN of combat rang.
"Water!h-and he kneeled and gently
Raised thirsty, bleeding foe,
And ne gave him co9lIng water,
And lie eased his bitter woe.
Water, wateri'' moaned the dying
Writhing on the. crimson sod;
And lie gave them, in their anguish,
water in the ams of God.
Quickly then the deadly firing
ceased, and, resting from the fray,
Loud the gallant Northern soldiers
Cheered the wearer of the gray.
This is all, for Richard Kirkland
Did o soldiers duty well,
Till at bloody Chickamauga,
Wounded inortaly, he fell.
But his memory let us cherish,
And his name Wen honor s5iL
For That gallant deed OF mercy
AT the foot of Marye's Hill.
George III. Murphy.
The times., 1898-01-16

You said recently that the church fes-
tivals are pagan feaSts, 10 what pagan
feasts do these festivals belong. EaSteT
sunday, Christmas. Corpus Christi, AS
cension Day. Whit sunday, Js0Cd trI-
day, Immaculate Conception. Trinity sun
day. Feast OF the Annunclat!0n? = Why
is UUOd Friday so called! Why IS II oh
served as holiday in so many countries?
A. Y
Easter is the Christian modification Of the
pa gan spring festival, the feast day of the
goddess Ester. or Oster; Lent is the spring
fast. during which the people made up for
their winter revelrieS. Christmas takes the
place of the Roman feast Of Saturn; Corpus
Christi dates only from about 1855 50
cannot be aScribed 10 pagan festival dl-
rectly; Ascension Day and Good Friday
are really Christian in their origin. WHIT
Sunday is the Jewish harvest festival,
whicn the Jews got from the Egyptians,
proba bly,; the festivals Of the Immaculate
Conception and Of Trinity Sunday date
from the twelfth century; the festival OF
the Annunciation dates from the seventh
century, SO these. like Corpus christi, can
not be ascribed directly to pagan festivals.
We do not know that any complete list has
been made showing the origin of the
present church festivals, but besides those
mentioned, it seems that st. Valentines
Day taxes the place of the Roman Luper-
Gala; that st. Johns Day replaces the
feast of RaaI. or Bel; that All Saints re-
places the Lares PTaeStiteS on May 1
Though moved afteTward to November II
In our first answer We had in mind less the
holy days than the holidays. 2. Because It
is the day which represents ChTiSt'S cruci-
fixion. 1t is not a holiday in any place;
it is a hoIy Cay and fast OF obligation"
because of what IL represents.
The times., 1898-01-16
New Champagne Glass.

(From the Chicago Times iIerald1
"A new champagne glass has made its
appearance at the fashionable resta
in New York, and also is used at home upon
the dinner tables of those who are &c
Counted among the 400 1t is queerly
constructed, being deep in the bowl with
an exceedingly short stem that forces one
to grasp it around the middle. 1t really
looks like the beer glass used in some 81
looms. The new champagne glass holds
twice as much as that formerly in vogue,
and this is said to be one cause of IFS
popularity.
The times., 1898-01-16
Last Portrait in Steyenson,s Gallery.

The tale is told; the story ends,
The last of those attractive friends,
Friends WI hose conpanionship We owe
TO that lost master Of romance
With w hom we fought against the foe
Or staked the desperate chance.
Since first we tasted the delights
OF FIorizei's adventurous nights,
OR paced the 'Hispaniola's' deck
And wished John Silver far away,
Or roa MED the moors with Alan Breck,
Or supped with Ballantrae.
Now bold st. Ives admittance Graves
Among these fascinating knayes;
With him froiu prison walls we weep,
With him our hearts to wrath are STIR
red,
With him we tremble, laugh. and weep,
Until the final word.
The story ends: the tale is told,
And though new books new friends may
hold,
Though Meredithians we may meet,
Or WesseX lads with w essex wives,
That portrait gallery is complete
In which we place st. Ives.
st. James Gazette.
The times., 1898-01-16
A Threnody.

What, what, what,
What's the news from Swat?
Sad news,
Bad news,
Comes by the cable led
Though the Indian Oceans bed,
Through the Persian Gulf, the Red
Seas and the Ned
Iterranean-he's dead;
The Ahkoond is deadl
For the Ahkoond / mourn,
Who wouldn't?
He strove to disregard the message stern.
But he Ahkoodn't.
Dead, dead, dead;
CSorrow Swats!)
Swats wha hae wi Ahkoond bled,
Swats whom he hath often led
Onward to CORY bed
Or to victory,
As the case might be,
Sorrow Swats!
Tears shed,
Shed tears like water,
Your great Ahkoond is dead.
That SwatS the matter!
Mourn, City of Swat!
Your great AhkoOnd is not,
But lain mid worms to rot,
His mortal part alone, his soul was caught
tBecauSe he was good Ahkoond)
Up to the bosom of Mahound.
Though earthly walls his frame surround
iForeyer hallowed be the groundD
And say He SNOW of no Ahkoond!'
His soul is in the skies
The azure skies that bend above his loved
Metropolis Of Swat.
He sees with larger, other eyes,
Atlfwart all earthly mysteries
He knows what's Swat.
Let 5 wat bury the great Ahkoond
With a noise of mourning and Of lamen-
tation!
Let Swat bury the great A Ahkoond
With the noise of the mourning of the
Swattsh nation!
Fallen is at length
Its tower of strength,
Its sun is tii ,i:rf1fd e re 1t had nooned;
Dead lies the great Ahkoond,
Tie great Ahko0nd of Swat.
Is not!
George T. Lanigan.
The times., 1898-01-16
Such Is Fame.

From the Brooklyn CitiZen.l
has been in the habit of questioning raw
recruits on simple matters of national his
tory. Here are few replies to his question,
who is Bismarck" Bismarck was en-
peror of the French" Bismarck is dead"
Bismarck took part in the campaign of
1870 and received medal for good
conduct" bismarck descends from the
HohenZollerns, and was born on April l."
Of siXty-siX recruits whom the officer had
to instruct, twenty-one had never in their
lives heard the name of the iron chancellor.
The times., 1898-01-16

John Ames Mitchell. the editor of
Life appears this season in the role of
story teller His book is Gloria Vic
tis,'' which seems to hint, by the way,
that we may have an epidemic of Latin
names for novels. This story, however,
has nothing to do with the ancient Ro-
mans. 1t is the story of one Stephen,
a boy with criminal father and an
insane mother, who is lovable in spite
of his hereditary tendencies.
The times., 1898-01-16
How Marriage Works.
lFrom the tchinson Globe. J

A heart affair in town has reached
that stage where it takes the young
man five minutes by the clock in which
to put on his girls jacket at the close
of an entertainment However, if the
affair leads to marriage, she Will be
putting it on alone in few weeks.
The times., 1898-01-16

Why are barber poles painted red,
white and blue? .. Why DO all signs
including the face OF a clock nave the
hands point to $50 O'Clock? I. X. II.
In the days when nine out Of ten sur
giCal operations were blOCd-lettinCs the
BARRIERS were the surgeons As the method
OF taking blood from a patient was to
bind a limb spiraIIy, red and white sDirals
on post became the barber surgeon 'ssign,
and are retained by BARRIERS tOdav. Mis-
guided patriotism sometimes adds a wind
ing blue line to make the signs hueS cor
respond TO those Of Old Glory. but red
and white merely are more often seen.
.. We don't know why, nor were we
aware that the fact was as you state it.
Possibly to some eminent sign painter Of
days agone the hands thus placed seemed
to effect a better balance in the counter
felt clock face, and his fellows copied
his method If. as you Sav, all sta
tionary clock hands point To $50, it is
a singular Circumst ance.
The times., 1898-01-16

Who was the Colossus of American inde-
pendence2 2 What " as I ne Murphy move
an. Isle of ShoalS2 4. What persons OF
national ettIinenCe have died Since lSSo,
ana what is the date OF death OF each? o.
Name an Important event Of the present
gro Exodus in 1879? Z. How many trans
Continental railroads have We = How
many transatlantic cables. V. h v
Washington. .. Atotal a bstineuce move
meut, begun and carried on by Francis Muir
phy. g. None that we know Of, unless one
has been erected recently III memory OF
Celia Thaxter 4. Garfield, September
19, 1881; Longfel!ow- March "a, 1SS2'
Montgomery Blair, July %, 1888; Tom
Thumb, July IL; Josiah Henson t'Cncle
Tom'0, MAY 8, 1888; Henry b. Anthony,
September 2; Judah p. BENJAMIN, May; W
II. Charming, December: Bishop Matthew
Simpson. June II, 1884; +. /. Frellng-
huysen, May 20; Grant, July -; Irwin
Mcdowell, Nav 8, 1885: Ben Holladay, july
g. 1887; Louisa VI. AlcOtt, March D; Asa
GRAY, January 80; Sheridan, August D, 1855
John Ericsson, March 9, 1889; George
Bancroft, Januar vi I; James Russell Lowell
Auo,,st 1 .: p. T. RarnuIn April Z Sherman.
February I41S9I: Walt whitman, March
26. 7. G.. Whittier, September Z, lSS2,
Blaine, January II; Carter Harrison, DC
tober 90; K. Il. Hayes, January y, 1898
David Dudley ield, April 13. 1894; W. h
Russell, July 10, 1886. or course, thiS
list is not complete 3. The passage OF
the Dingley tariff act. o. Partisans
eager 10 use the negro vote; spectators
desiring population in waste lands west
of the Mississippi; unjust acts OF indtvid-
uaIs; fanaticaI attempts to establish re-
ligious bodiesi have all been suggested
as causing the exodus. There seemed at
the time no definite reason. .. Three
tile Northern, the Central Union and the
Southern Pacific Railroads. The CANA
dians nave one. s. Twelve.
The times., 1898-01-16

Who wrote the Constitution OF the United
States? a. O. X.
Many great men helped - writei 10. James
Madison drew UP scheme. which was ex-
panded by Edmund Randolph, AMI wa : pre-
sented To the Convention asthe Virginia plan.
This plan was considered as a whole, and
many changes were made in it, until the
Constitution OF 1877 was evolved.
The times., 1898-01-16

The music at st. Patrick's this morn
ing will be Marcos third Mass. with
quartet; "Pater Noster," Conterno, as
offertory. On Sunday last Nine. Mama
sang a ''Veni Creator" by O'Shea, in
her usual brilliant manner. The chorus
at this church is one of the largest in
the city, consisting of fifty voices, and
is especially we'll trained, showing in
their perfection of attack and tempo.
with purity of Latin and clearness OF
enunciation, the careful drill to which
it is subjected and the perfect con-
troll of the director. Professor Mariana
Mama.
The times., 1898-01-16

wish TO know the number OF miles Of
raiIroadin in Texas, January 1S9s2 :. u. O..
According TO the official reports. there
were 9,4SS 81 miles of railroad in Texas
On December 81, 1896.
The times., 1898-01-16

David Starr Jordan has written a
book for children, called The Book of
knight and Barbara" and the particu-
larly attractive thing about it is that
the stories have been selected, correct
ed and illustrated by children.
The times., 1898-01-16

Are the terms Bohemian taste" and
Bohemian habits" derived from the SiHi-
ilaritv to the tastes ana habits Of the people
of BOhemia? 2. What is the correct
etiquette Of a CyCliSt meeting a pedestrian
on the sidew ak; to the right always. 10
the outside. or to whatever is lett for the
cyclisJ TO take?
No; not as most commonly used, though,
strictly, the capital b implies that mean
ing. 2. In majority Of cases to get at
once into the roadway; but the idea that
should dominate always is that sidewalks
are for pedestrians, not vehicles, baby car
riageS excepted.
The times., 1898-01-16

Please give the date when the H0OSac Tun-
nei was commenced, and the cost up 20 the
time the first train passed through on Feb
ruary 8, 1875. j. II. TN.
Experimental digging vas begun as long
ago as 1851 but actual tuBneling began
only in 1856. The State took hold in
1862, and the headings met on TbanksSiv-
ing Day, November 2T, 1873. There is
no account OF the tunnels cost, separate
from that Of nearly forty miles OF "a lsoad
and the interest on the investment. The
tunnel is est timated TO have cost about S13,-
100000.
The times., 1898-01-16

Chicago seems to be coming to the
front in literature THE Greatest of
These by Mr.. Henry b. Fuller, ap-
pears in the Atlantic, and Mr.. Robert
Herrick writes of "A Pension Love
Story in Scribner's.
The times., 1898-01-16

Where has the money taken In at the
Worlds Fair gone? For VIVA par pOSes was
it used2 2. Has the United states paid it's
civil war debt! QCES1fONER.
The money taken at the gates was spent
in maintaining the great show in aging
for the buildings andimproving the grounds.
2. No.
The times., 1898-01-16

Who was Charles Knight who wrote a
history OF Engiand9 Is the WORK accurate,
comprehensive. and unbiased Is there nv
other history covering the same length or
time superior to it? HISTORY.
Charles Knight was London bookseller,
publisher and writer. He wrote his Pop
ular History OF England" as carrying out
the purposes OF the Society for the Diifu-
sion of Useful knowledge. The work is
not standard one it was written for pop
ular u.s., without pretensions as d STANDARD
or exhaustive work, but with one exeep-
ton it is probably the best general history
OF England.
The times., 1898-01-16

Henry Drummond wrote in his leisure
moments a little book of children's sto-
ries, which has just been published.
Ii bears the odd title of The Monkey
That Would Not KILL
The times., 1898-01-16

The program at st. Mary's Church
this morning will consist of Beider-
mann's second Mass, which was given
for the first time in this city on Christ
mas Day; -Jesu Del Vivi," Verdi, trio
for soprano. tenor. and baritone, as Of
fertory. The vesper service viii be
Giorza's complete. with Magnificat.
Alma Redemptoris," Campana trio
for soprano, tenor and bass. 20 Salu-
taris,' Waldecker, alto solo. and Tan
tum Ergo" in d, Fr Rfga. The
quartet consists of Miss Cecilia V.
Murphy, soprano; Miss Margaret
Eichhorn, alto; Messrs. AL s FenneIl,
tenor. and Frank Rebstock. bass. Mr.
William Waldecker, organist and di-
rector
The times., 1898-01-16

1t is a curious thing. but there seems
to be a sort of rotation in crops where
fads are concerned. and old fashions
are periodically revived with the Ger
tainty of the seasons. Away back in
the fifties. when French literature and
French art and French gowns began to
come over here. there was sort of
epidemic of French things. Then the
French craze died out and nothing
really took its place until the present
Anglomania swept over the land. Now
it is reported that the interest in French
seems to be growing apace, and there
is a society in Boston called 'L'Alliance
Francaise." whose object is to cultivate
French conversation and do honor to
French literary and artistic visitors.
The times., 1898-01-16

Does the government OF France pay a
pretuinn ON children? II 50, what ana in
what way" NJ W.
Certainly not. A proposition was made
recently to reduce the taxes Of persons
with families of u certain size, but we
think il was not embodied ia a law.
The times., 1898-01-16
f41tljt[lI71lt|[:1fa-l ia 3 t|[:f-

ability and undoubted command of
language. Whether it is anything more
whether it possesses the elements
which make a classic-will be for time
and the public to decide--New York:
Frederick a. Stokes Company
The times., 1898-01-16

The members of the choir of the
Church of the Immaculate Conception.
We're each presented with a gold medal
by Rev. S. F. Ryan, the pastor. as a
token of his appreciation of the excel
lent work which they are doing under
the direction of Mrs. Clara Baker
Smith.
The times., 1898-01-16

There is so much rich and wonderful
material for romance in the West IN
dies that one wonders that so little has
been done with IL. With the exception
of Lafcadio HeaTn's Two Years in the
West Indies,' nothing which gives the
atmosphere of the strange, dreamy,
semi -barbaric islands, has been given
to the public. Macmillans, however,
have in press book by Mrs. Schuyler
Crowninshield, which is called by the
alluring title of Where the Trade
Wind Blows and is collection of
West Indian tales.
The times., 1898-01-16

Mr. Richard Harding Davis was once
a reporter, and there are people mean
enough to say that he has become
ashamed of the fact. OF course, no
body with any discernment believed
this, but Mr. Davis seems to have TAX
en- it so much to heart that he has call
ed his latest work "A Year from a Re-
porters Note Book" So there!
The times., 1898-01-16

At the meeting of the Sunday Night
Music Club this evening. the program
for the coming concert of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra will be played.
The times., 1898-01-16

How many clerks are employed in the
Pension Bureau, and what is the average
salary paid? j A b.
There are about 400 clerks in the Office
at Washington, besides heads of divisions.
medical examiners, chiefs OF division, as
sistants and principal examiners. The clerks
and staff of the local pension dgencies are
not included here. The average salary is
about ST 900,
The times., 1898-01-16

Mr.. Otto Luebkert will be the soloist
at the first of Mr.. Letters organ re-
citals at Epiphany Church. Mr.. De
Offeo Brown, organist at the Pro
Cathedral. who has been announced as
taking part. will be unable to appear
on account of severe illness.
The times., 1898-01-16
NOTES AND QUERIES.

What is ground hog day2'' NJ,
The second day OF February.