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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
IRON AND DUST

The mighty ones who wrenched the
world with pain,
Far in the past,
AttiIa raging Ger the bloody plain,
The Seourge Of Heaven. and bCId Tam
erlane-
Where are they now2
The dust OF centuries old Time has
cast
Above each brow
Where reams the spirit of the Norman?
Where
The untamed soul
That from the sea, a lion from its lair,
Arose 'gainst England? Where the ban
ner fair
The world saw wave
Ger Harold, resting in mans common
a narrow grave?
What profits Alexander now, that ne
Across the world
Bore ruin. SORROW, death. and misery?
The grim phalanX which irresistlbly
Moved Ger the field
Dust-alI is dust! The war-fags all are
furIed-
Gone every shield,
Man lifts his voice and fills the universe
For ere short hour
With blatant vauntings Of his sword or
purse.
For God a sheer; for Destiny curse,
Times stroke is SLOW;
But when Il falls, man witheTs at its
power
And bows HIM low,
Mans arm Is strong; his footstep shakes
the land;
His iron grasp
May hold mighty nation; but his hand
Withers and falls when stops the run
ming sand
In old Times glass;
Deaths finger touch-a shudder-cry-a
gasp,
The strong ones pass!
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
JEFFERSON'S TREES
By l. l,


especial pride
which
haveb bend
practice reached
regarded
cleared
from
The time when
business
nothing proper
thoughtess and
woodlands people
places recreation
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
BIRD MUSIC

Bird music presents q fascinating field
for exploration. says Henry ". Oldys, in
'eE4arper's Magazine" What seems to the
careless glance only q mass of unrelated
tones becomes under the more intense
gaze OF the student a coherent and sys-
tematic structure The gradual develop
ment from simple cries and CALCULATIONS
OF the remote past to the elaborate com
binations Of different notes that the
present offers TO the ear has not moved
in a chance direction, but has been an
der the guidance Of a law that apparent
y shapes its course toward a fixed ideal
Such general laws are never perfectly
uniform in their operations, or we
should miss that variety which makes
nature 50 attractive. Herce It is not
surprising that We ind in some quarters
development Of mere vocaIIsm para
mount Birds often have beautiful
voices and great skill in using them
whose songs show little appreciation Of
musical form The mocking- bird and ca
nary are striking examples of rs class
On the other hand, many birds. such as
the wood-thrush and chewink, with per
haps smaller compass and less brilliant
execution, must be ranked higher when
judged by the composition Of their songs.
II VIII doubtless occur 10 the critical
reader that it Is Incorrect 70 Judge bird
music By the standard by which human
music IS tested The student Of the phi
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ing, what may We expect from the prom
Use Of the new" This is his reply.
This new pride is. we believe the best
outcome Of the self-conscIousness of
modern times. The doctrine Of human
dePravity has had its day Faith in the
dignity Of humanity is the faitss By which
alone the residuum can be saved. It is
TO qualities and not to sche.ass that
We must look for a solution Of social
problems. The self-respect Of the lover
classes is beginning TO awake Men are
refusing 70 De dirty. to be ignorant. to
live under conditions which education
can but make the more degrading. Pride
has been paradoXicaIly called the only
vice which is a substitute for all the
virtues II this pride does but pene-
trate low enough, we shall have a power
full lever indeed by which to raise 1ae
masses out Of the sordid slough Of in
difference into a region Of respectable
ity from whence alone they can obtain
q glimpse Of height tina. is higher %
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

It IS no wonder that the British
AGA lemy of Sciences was thunder
str tx when one Of It's members. Sir
Frederick Bramwell, advanced the
suggestion that Italian ought to be
made The universal language. Such a
proposition, coming from one whose
mother tongue Is today practically the
world language, was well calculated 10
take away the breath Of the disiin-
guished men to whom 1t was ad-
dressed.
What Is there about Italian to give
It the prestige which would entitle It
to be regarded as suitable for adop-
ton by the nations of the earth as
the medium Of international inter
course7 IF anything, it has lost
ground rather than gained 1t, for out
side Of music It Is heard but little out
side of us own country. That 1t Is
soft aud musical IS true, but this ap-
plies with almost equal force 10 the
Swedish tongue, and yet no one
would be likely 10 propose that as the
language universal If French has
been unable 10 attain the distinction,
with all the prestige OF centuries Of
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
By His Eminence
PATRICK FRANCIS CARDINAL MORAN,
First Australian Cardinal.

There Is one economic feature of Ireland at the
present day TO which we cannot close our eyes We
see nevereeasug gradual decrease of population, 50
that while fifty years ago had more than 100000
of Inhabitants, today commencing new century,
not more than 100000
IN this however. there is one redeeming feature.
As d result of the emigration from Irelands shores
new 1relands springng up every side. girding
the world with friendly nations wherever the language
or scepter of the British empire holds sway.
And now, as Of old, the sea-divided Gaes are one.
We are one in sympathy and affection for the old
land We are one with Il IN national life. in
solve that in far in us lies every grievance IN
der which the otherland Of Erin suffers shall be re-
dressed
It has been often said that the Catholic Celt has
gone with vengeance from IreIand's shoe4s With
out doubt we have gone 10 many lands No En-
gIislispeakirg country Is 50 remote but Erins sons
VIII be found among the most prosperous. the most
enlightened and the most industrious of It's citizens
foremost Ia love and justice in hatred of tyranny,
and in defense Of freedom
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Two Sides Of d Fence
HIS SIDE.

HIS SIDE.
Over that high board fence I hear
The sound OF singing sweet and clear;
A break a pause, and then just after.
Bursts of merry girlish laughter
Over that big board fence. lin; just over
that ugly fenceI
I can hear it all. but I cannot see.
My neighbor is quite strange TO me;
But I'm sure as guns she's a charming
miss.
With lips just saucy enough to kiss
And she's over a high board fence. Jim;
over a blooming fence.
Drat these social laws that block the
way
To my dropping over some pleasant day.
To think of our being dull in a place
When I'm just dead sure there's a pretty
face
Over a blasted fence, jim; Just over a
measly fence:
HER SIDE.
Over that high board fence I hear
The sound Of a whistle. shrin and clear,
And d deep bass voice. with doleful
tone.
Which sings the refrain, 4 am all
aIone,''-
Over that great board fence. dear: just
over that rough old fence
I can smell the smoke of q good cigar,
And hear the twang Of a sweet guitar.
I've had to guess at looks as I can
But I know there's a bona-fide man
Over that tail board fence. dear. just
over that horrid fence,
OF course. 'twouId be an awful sin
For me 10 write and ask him in;
But think Of our being duh. my dear,
With nice young man so very nearI-
Over a dreadful fence. dear. way over a
TnsGn old fence,
Puck.
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use as the language Of courts and 20
lite society in Europe. what hope Is
there for the language Of Dante and
Tasso and AIfeTi?
Some years ago the ambition was
entertained in Germany that by rea-
son Of the growing political and COM
merciai Importance of that country
German might in time come to be
adopted as The universal language.
but today that idea Is entertained no
longer. It Is evident-and the sur
prising thing Is that 1t should not be
evident to an EngIishman- that the
language winch IS spoken by nearly
one-half Of the worlds population
and Is understood by many more mil
lions. is the only one likely TO become
universal. Next TO it Spanish holds
rank. but even that, with ali the pres
tige Of centuries Of use in many parts
of The world, can never hope to be
accepted as a universal language. En-
glish : concise, virile, practical, and
if ever any language viii serve as the
universal medium of communication
between the nations Of the world 1t
viii be none other than English
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II we have gone with vengeance, viii be sure
to come back to MotherIand. I do not say that We
viii come back with vengeance for the word ''re-
venge' IS not TO be found in our vocabulary But we
will come back with all the ilial affection due to the
mother whom we love
We cannot bnt regard her grievances as our own,
her suferings and humiiations as our own and with
strong arms and generous hearts we will leave nothing
undone that fial pety may inspire to achieve for
old Ireland the fullest measure of those blessings
which enjoy in the reinotest homes OF our exile
! thank the Almighty that | was born in Ireland
poor Ireland, suffering Ireland holy Ireland ven
crate the footsteps Of Ireands early saints, her ruin
ed sanctuaries, her waysde graves. 1 love her har-
bors, her rivers her lakes. l rejoice In her blue
mountains, her messy streams her unduating plains
cherish every leaf of her forests every flower of her
meadows, every shamrock of her green hills.
So long as life remains it viii be my prayer that
faith. hope and charity, the virtues typifed by the
triple leaf of that dear little sacred plant may every
day abound more and more among Erins sons, and
that every blessing that HEAVIER can besow nav be the
inaenable heritage Of that dear old land
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losophy Of music. in particular. will feel
satisfied that from the apparently for
tuitous manner in which We have ac-
CURED our present musical standard the
development Of bird music must neces-
saTiIy ne moving in anothS- direction
and along different lines. But however
cogent the grounds for this belief nav
seem. investigation shows that there is
striking evidence that the evolution Of
bird music has paraueled the evolution
Of human music, and that both are tend
ing toward the same ideal
The history Of human melody dfscl9ses
that the pleasing features Of songs which
appeal TO the esthetIe taste Of civilized
man have been gradual accretions dur
ing the progress Of music from its start
ing point. Rhythm. or the metricaI df-
vision Of musical utterances: tones Of
fixed pitch. which. passing through vari-
Gus stages, have become limited to those
that constitute our present scale-seven
Ia the diatonic and twelve in the chro-
matte; the sense OF modern tonaIity-tbe
constant mental reference throughout a
tonic or keynote-aII these have devel-
Oped at different stages OF progress
Other esthetic rules have also become
established, prominent among which is
that Of repetition. Repetition OF single
notes. Of single phrases ION the same or
q different Pitch, and OF combinations
OF phrases, all have their pIeaeurable ef-
fec;.
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The End of the Quest.

Unarm him here. Now wish him
rest,
His vas the fate Of thuse who fail:
Who never cad the knlshtly quest.
Nor ever find the Holy Grail.
He was the heriest lance IN 4if
That virgin honor called TO dare;
The courtIiest Of the knights inshaIi,
The boIdest at the barriere.
Joyful he took the sacred Task
That led him far by food and field:
His Iady's favor ct his easque.
Gods cross upon his argent shield. /
See where the Paynim point has cleft
The crimson cross that could aot
saveI
See where the seimitar has reft
The favor that his lady gave!
For this poor fate he rode so far
With fate untouched BY toll or
time;
A perfect knight in press Of war.
Stainless before the Mystic Shrine.
One finds the Rose and one the rod:
The weak achieve. the mighty fail
None knows the dark design but Ged.
Who made the Knight and made
the Grail
The single eye, the steadfast heart,
The strong endurance Of the day
The patience under wound and
smart
Shall all these utterly decay
The long adventure Testeth here;
His was the lot Of those who fail,
Who ride unfouled by sin or fear,
Yet never find the Holy Grill
Frank L. Pollock. IN the Atlantic.
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Legends Of POTS and Fans

In the dim legendary days of giants
and fairies there dwelt On the mountain
/ tops o'erIooking the winding Pennine
Vale. along which lies the town of Sad
dIeworth, two giants named Alder and
Alphin, says a writer in the ..Manches-
/ ter England Daily Dispatch Such
colossal creatures were they that they
amused themselves tossing great frag-
ments Of rock across the countryside. as
small boys would throw pebbles into
stream In recent times one of the gi-
ants toys, boulder several tons N
weight. was found lying miles away at
n-under-Lyne, the marks Of great
fingers impressed upon its hard surface
For long Alder and Alphin were friends.
their Businesses being upon adjacent
hiIltops; but at last they quarreIed. Nat
urally enough. there was a woman in it.
The fair maid Rimmon lived hard By,
in Rimmon Pits. lovely dell,
Near Greenfeld's utmost bounds
4 circliag rock crystal fouut surrounds.
Where beauteous Rimmon oft concealed did lave
Her flowing trescs in the silvery wave.
Both giants were enamored. but the
woman's choice rested upon AIphin. and
him she married. The rejected Alder.
in rage and chagrin. sent Alphin chai-
lenge to mortal combat, and from the
topmost peaks Of their lofty hills the
giants hurled great rocks across the
valley at each other. until AIphin was
struck down and died Then the uuhap-
py maiden flung herself over the preci-
pice. and the fountain nymphs tenderly
lifted her corpse and laid it In the same
grave with that Of Alphln, at the foot of
his hill Of Greenfield. This is bat one of
many quaint legends which cluster
around that rugged district. where the
spurs OF the PENNIES shoot out TO the
westward, into the IowIands of Lanca-
shire and Chesire. Few individual peaks
are more richly crowned with folklore
and historical Renaissance than that
near Saddleworth. which goes by the Gu
rious local title of Pots and Pans
It was from this summit that the muir
derous Alder hurled the death-dealing
boulders at AIphin. whose home was on
the neighboring height Of Greenfield.
There. also, one may find one of the
most interesting DruidIcal remains in
the whole country. fine stone altar.
with massive shaped boulders lying
around. which, in prehistoric times.
probably formed the walls OF a Druid
temple. For years past it has been mat
ter of regret that this hill. with its in
teresting remains has not been open 20
| the public It has been dedicated 20
the sacred goddess. Grouse, and except
in the shooting season its coarse turf
has felt only the step Of the gamekeeper.
Only the whirr Of wings as the moorIand
bird rose from the scrub5y heather has
disturbed the stiffness. There is every
prospect now, however. that the public
will soon have access to POTS and
Pans" for Mr. Brooks, the man who
owns 1t. together with a large tract OF
surrounding grouse moor, has offered TO
throw it open to the people of Saddle
worth on payment of a nominal rent.
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a convenient place. The next night he
found half dozen of the light fingered
folk asleep in his orchard.
While liquor Of this potency may not
always be attainable. it might be prac-
teable TO dose some sort OF drink with
q sleeping potion as a trap for thieves
This plan would not be open to the OBJ
jections of poison. and it would be supe-
rior to the shotgun, in that 1t would
work without human agency and leave
no harmful effects behind. II would
simply catch the thief and hold him
until such time as he could be Sc
cured and taken into custody.
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Where is the glory of the sword and
shieId2
The bright spears rust:
Fond lovers stray where once the Iegions
wheeled;
The stolid ploNman turns the battle
field.
The olive tree,
Green badge OF peace NAV from =
Caesars dust
Spring tranquility
Oh, you who would immortalize your
name,
Ne'er soulless cast
Your brothers blood upon the pyre Of
shame
And call the dread black smoke immor-
tai fane'
Though reared unseen.
The sodded mound white marble VIII
outlast
And still be green
Lowell O. Reese IN San Francisco
Bulletin
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Head IS Best Protected.

An Australian officer. who saw the
greater part of the war In South Africa,
says the London Pail Mall Gazette. -
has been telling a Melbourne inter
viewer that from his experience he
thinks the head is the safest part in
which to receive a bullet, THE head is
the most protected part of the body.
Out Of scores Of cases of wounds in the
head that came under my notice only
one was fatal IN many of them the bull
lets glanced of the skull, merea- in
dicting scalp Wounds
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
GOODNESS AND CLEANLINESS.

The Bishop of Fano, in North Italy,
provides for the association OF clean
illness with godIiness in his instruction
TO pastors. II all churches after feast
days the floors are to be cleansed with
a sublimate solution. At least once q
week pews and confessional benches
must be wiped with damp cloth and
the grating Of the confessionaIs washed
with lye.-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-23
PHILosoPHIc MAUNDERINGs.

It is the privilege Of every man 20
doubt his neighbor; it IS his fate TO be
doubted
%
1t takes an interview with 4 Missouri
mule to convince some men that they
are not infalIibIe
It may be heroic to lead your men into
battle. but the chap that stays with the
eommissary gets more filling.
20
One way to invite destruction is to tell
the cook that you don't like soap in the
prongs OF your fork
20
You don't have TO begin 10 suspect the
hen just because the egg won't stand
poaehing.
If cleanliness is akin 10 godliness,
modern politics is away beyond the foF-
ty-seventh cousinship.
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THE ROSE AND THE FACE
By RALPH RUNYAN, in Philadelphia Ledger"

In grassy plot IN the burying ground
Where Ty joy lay hid meath tiny mound,
planted rose-in the very place
Where the roots could draw from the dear dead lace
The delicate tint Of the cheeks so fair,
The graceful po!se and the syumete1y rare
waited; the days seemed long as years;
Oft did I moisten the rise with tears;
It grew to the height o. him who lay
In the little mound meath the sod and clay;
And single bud, on the topmost limb,
Promised to perfectly picture him.
One morn, the bush in the breezes swayed
I bowed by the little mound and prayed;
The bud burst forth in a rose SO fair,
And the face Of him was mirrored therel
It SPOKEN the voice Of my precious dead
It spoke-and these are the words it said:
Flower Of Paradise-Heaven-born
Kissed by the sun of eternal morn!
Reared and nurtured by Infinite hand,
Tint from the cheeks of seraphim band;
Woven from tresses of angels fair
Breath Of the neutrality-suspicious. rarei
Flower Of Paradise-dead to thee
Risen to bloom in eternity"
gazed on the it dropped its head
And it faded white as the face Of my dead!
The petals fell, and the bush decayed
But the perfume sweet on the breezes strayed
And it fingers still, though the 1ner1'ry's din
Of the rose and the BUSH and the face Of him
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THE BLENHEIM MADONNA

The cosest picture in the world in possession
OF the Duke and Duchess Of Marlborough.
the Blenhem Madonna. painted By Raphael 1907,
is a S35O.0c0
The picture is heirloom OF the Duke Of Marbor-
oughs whose large very collection Of paint
ngs has down to him from his great ancestor Of
BIenheim fame
has been proposed to the British government to pur-
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chase this celebrated Madonna, which was originally
painted for the Church OF the Servt at Perugia.
The picture is eight feet high, representing
donna and child seated upon throne with figure OF
St John the Baptist the left St Nicolas Of
Bari on the right the last being nearly or quite life
size.
It's high valuation arises the fact Of its being one
It the best preserved specimens Raphaes painting e
tant
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Evening and Sunday. one year. s.; six
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DECAY IN THE POPULATION OF IRELAND

q thank the Almighty that I born in Ire
land, poor Ireland, suffering ireland. holy Ireland Il
venerate the footsteps of Ireands early saints, her
ruined sanctuaries, her wayside graves"
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Temptations.

St Louis StaT-A million dollar poor
house and million dollar jail VIII be
tempting refugees TO three-room fatters
whose rent is raised monthly.
Morris tribune., 1902-03-01
RAPID MoNoRAIL ROAD.

Trains. Exceeding Hundred Miles an
Hour Planned For Scottish Line.
Renewed interest in the monorail
system of transit has been awakened
by the proposition to construct q line
between Edinburgh and Glasgow,
plans for which have been submitted to
the government board of trade for ap-
prevail says a special cable dispatch
from London to the New York Evening
Journal. The speed to be attained on
the proposed line is lit miles an hour,
which means that the journey of forty
miles will be covered in twenty-five
minutes. ...
This system has attracted a great
deal Of" attention since the plan to con-
struct a monorail line from Liverpool
to Manchester was submitted to the
railway committee Of the house Of
commons and favorably reported on
less than year ago. Considerable op-
position has been encountered, but the
extraordinary speed possible to these
trains and their safety have been irre-
sistfble factors in recommending them
to the progressive.
The features of the system are:
1t requires only single rail at the
apex of an A shaped structure. It
needs comparatively small locomotives.
It finds power for locomotion at every
point along its entire rail, and there is
scarcely any limit to the speed possible
to be attained. Ingenious drawbridges
are arranged for crossings, and every
appliance necessary to insure safety
has been devised.
The Behr system of the monoran is
the one that has found most favor in
England, although several other sys-
TENS are in course Of construction in
various parts Of the continent. 1t is. ex-
pected that Vienna. and Budapest, Ber-
lin and Zosses and Brussels and Ant
werp will be connected with each other
by these systems before very long.