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ENTERTAINMENT FUND.
Subscription for 6. 4. II. Encamp
meut Nearly $4,000.

1t is confidently expected by the Bust
ness Mems Association that by tomorrow
night the fund for the entertainment or
the Grand Army OF the Republic at its an
nual encampment will reach an amount
@ ,ceeding SO. eco.
The sum is now well up in the thirty
thousands. and the contributors are still
rapidly coming in. The detailed list Of the
subscribers to the fund has not yet been
made public and viii not be until Non
day or Tuesday.
There is no longer the slightest doubt
that when the executive committee or the
Grand Army meets in this city on the l3tn
Of February the coramittee Will be amply
able by figures 70 zhcw the members and
the Commissioners Of the District OF Co
lunbia that the business men or TINS CITY
are capable o. taking care Of the veterans
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GAS STOVES

Cor Cooking aud Heatiag)
GAS APPLIANCE EXCHANGE.
l4zA New An-k Avenue.
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ONLY TWO NIGHTS MORE.
EIIss Carnival To CssEllcs 20 SaceezSfuI
Close TOmorroyv.

Ellss Carnival To asrlIcs 10 Successful
Close Tomorrovv.
The great EIks CatnNa. which has so
charmed Washingtohians and visitors
from other cities. is rapidly drawing TO a
close. But two more nights and a matt
nee tomorrow remain. The Elks are
confident that when their accounts are
Strengthened up at the close Of the doors
on Saturday night they WI nave realized
a greater amount from the enterprise than
has any other organization in this city
from a similar affair.
And with its waning life the Carnival
grows in popularity. The crowds in at
tendance last night were by far the Iarg-
est that have yet sought admission to the
great hall It is estimated that fully
10000 people entered the various shows on
the midway. Men and woroen laid aside
their dignity for the occasion and gave
themselves up to a genuinely enjoyable
time
From the opening % the doors at s
O'Clock until their final closing at nearly
midnight. the hall rang with the laugh
ter Of the best people on earth. mingled
with the roar and crash Of the bands. the
believing of the animals. and the shouts
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SECRETARY WILSON TO SPEAK.
VIII Lecture Before the NntionMI
Geographic Society.

This evening Hcns James Wilson. Secre-
tary Of Agriculture. viii lecture before
the National Geographic Society upon the
proposed Appalachian Forest Reserve.
He viii be assisted By Prof Joseph A.
Holmes. State GeOlogist Of North Caro-
lima
Mr.. Wilson viii describe the economic
and commercial advantages and purposes
OF the park and Mr. Holmes W.. n.
OF the scientific Importance OF fOrmiI
this great reserve. The lecture viii De
given IN the National Rifles ATmOry 80
g Street northwest at p. m.
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a clerk in the old Census Office. Prior to
his army l'fe he spent his time in Cali
fOrnia in I'D mining and fruit raising.
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MARY EVANS HoNoRFD.
AIumnae Of Lake Erie College Gave
Tea 10 It's President.

The week has been notable one in con-
nection with college women.
Yesterday the AIumnae Association OF
Lake Erie College. gainesville. gave a
tea IN honor OF its visiting president,
Mary Evans Pm. D.. at the home OF Mrs
Walter S Chance. Leila s. Mckee. Phi.
D.. president OF Western College. Oxford
was presentand the psrlors were thronged
with women from Lake Erie. Western and
Mount HolyOke, the three colleges most
closely allied ia methods and tradition
Mrs. Samuel Mccullough and Mrs. Al
Ifed Bushnell pre- ed at the tea table
Among those present we're Mrs Badfsh
Mrs. John B. Wright. Mrs. John Eaton
Mrs. Eugene E. Stevens. Mrs J. p E.
Cumler, Mrs. F. A. Reeves. Mrs. Byron An
dreWs, Misses Robinson, Mrs Walter
Reeves. Mrs. Frank Wilkins, Mrs Marcus
Baker, Mrs. MartindeIi Mrs Frederick c
Bryan. Mrs Dorsey. Mrs. Ashley. Miss
Hayt. Misses Brewer. Miss GiIlett. Misses
Warn and Miss Haskell
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OF the "barkers." Every attraction in
The place was in sull blast
The night was made a special occasion,
being set aside as "Elks nighC" Crowds
% persons from b. r. o. z Lodges in va
r Gus cities and to Nns throughout Mary
land and Virginia were present and joined
in the fun.
Tonight Col. Dick Plunkett. Of OKLA
bona. viii conduct a band Of reds kin
braves through the Carnival
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Mr. f. p. Seabey. a native OF Maine, is
the member % the watch who asks all
persons visiting the State War and Navy
Department Building after ? o'clock in
the afternoon what their business is. and
informs all y-ho have no important mis-
sion to perform that the building Is closed
10 callers he was appointed &c the de-
partment seven years ago. since which
time he has become acquainted with an
inuumerable number OF persOnages, most
Of whom are prominent men from yari-
Gus parts Of the United States He is
a veteran Of the war Of the rebellion,
having enlisted IN the Sixteenth Maine
Infantry Regiment ia 1863, and carried
the musket In the defence OF old Glory
until the surrender OF General Lee at
AppcmattOT Courthouse. During his ser
vice for his country he participated in
the 5attle Of Five Forks. South Side Road
Boydtop Plank Road. Hatcher's IN. and
Gravellys Run. besides a large number OF
minor skirnishes- He entered as a pri-
vate. but by strict attention 10 duty he
was advanced 20 the rank Of sergeant IN
which grade he was mustered out Be
sides being al a number Of national events
with his company, he was in line when
the grand review Of the Union troops
was held In this city in 1855 Between
the time he was mustered out OF the
army until he received his appointment
20 the department. he taught school in
his native town. and for a long time was
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12
AN EMPIRE BUILDERS DREAM.

The late Cecil Rhodes was man
of fertile imagination and boundless
ambition. His fondest anticipation
was to see the entire African CONT
mont under British control. An old
nutchman tlwartcd his scheme. The
.Iamison raid was fiasco and brought
on the Anglo Boer war, which is vet
raging through the length and breadth
of South Africa. Since the siege Of
Kimberley, Cecil Rhodes influence
was on the wane. So, also. was his
health. and now his name is but 4
memory.
One of the greatest schemes that
found Judgment in the busy brain Of
Cecil Rhodes was an Anglo-American
alliance. In common with many 9th
or Englishmen and Americans of Eng
fish descent, he devoutly believed that
the Anglo-Saxons should possess the
earth and enjoy all the wealth thereof.
With philosophic eye he saw that
England was too weak to wage war
against all mankind, and that it was
necessary for her to have strong
ally. The giant nation on this side of
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the very beginning of the South Afri-
can war. The compulsory resignation
of Consul Macrum and the appoint
ment Of Adelbert Hay as British con-
sui at Pretoria will be remembered by
our readers. All that the Boer dele
gates have ever asked John Hay is to
observe strict neutrality between the
belligerents. Everyone knows that
Hay is intensely pro-British and that
he has made everything smooth and
easy for the mother country. Had
England and Russia or France and
Germany been at war, John Hay
would not dare to allow the shipment
Of contraband supplies from Ameri-
can ports for any Of the belligerents.
If German, Russian or French mill
tary men had come to America during
an international war between England
and either of the three European
powers, as Gen. Campbell Stewart has
done, what a cry would go forth from
the Anglo-American press. Attorney
General Knox says that Gen. Grant,
on complaint Of Germany, stopped the
sale Of arms in New York to France,
during the war Of 1870. Mules are as
necessary as arms to the British in
South Africa. Let Col. Roosevelt imi-
tate Grant and order the shipment of
mules from New Orleans to cease at
once. The neutrality laws are being
flagrantly violated.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12
Have You Ever Thought of This :?

Have you ever thought how difficult
it was to find an unbrollen family?
Most of us are fragments of families
here and there struggling the best we
may. We think of father mother and
relatives now scattered like the mists
of the morning. There is something
in this that makes us forget each 9th
er's welfare when we become separa,
ed. How often do we write to brother
or sister? We dare say if You sit
down to count the days. it has been
months, and perhaps years. Once in IL
while letter passes telling Of the Oil
love and asking to be forgiven fer not
writing sooner and then a long silence.
y telegram is handed you: your fingers
tremble as you tear open the envelope.
you read mother or sister died OIL such
day. You go away by yourself and
shed a few scaldinS tears and rcgler
thousand times your negligence To
the dear ones. 1t is now too late IN
do better by that mother O. sister i'll
the days to come. This :>sst broad
world gets too far apart. The duties
of life so thoroughly absorb ON. time
that we forget things we should re-
member.
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Pledge to Uphold the Faith.

That the faith transplanted four hun
bred years ago from the sacred soil of
Spain is not seriously endangered by
the fervent Bible House crusaders,
with one eye on heaven and one on
the main chance, now swooping down
upon us will be seen from character
istic incident which am about to de-
scribe, writes the Manila correspond
dent of the Catholic Standard and
Times. There seems to be some fear
in the United States and in other parts
Of the world lest the Filipinos are to
be robbed not only of their lands and
freedom, but also of the priceless gift
of their faith, besides which all other
things are as dross indeed. If the
benevolent assimilation" of the Ia
mented Mckinley were to include the
souls of the Filipinos there would be
reason for fear, for no one who under
stands the genius of this people car
contemplate without horror the posi-
Bile protestantization of these islands
Fortunately the roots of faith lie too
deep to be torn up in day.
Recently the inhabitants of Sar
Juan del Monte made public profes
sion of Catholicism. A junta was or
agnized pledging active and enthusias
tic support to the Filipino Catholic
center and promising to use all posi-
BILE efforts to uphold the Catholic faitl
and to resist assaults upon it. The
movement is the answer of the Fill
pinos to the infamous projects of Amer
lean spiritual carpet-baggers who hope
to subvert the peoples faith by an ap
peal to natural interests.
The president of the junta is Dol
Placido Ibanezy Pascual, chief and sec
rotary of the municipality. Among til,
foremost spirits in the movement arr
Don Andres Alfaras and Don Segundt
Pascual Y Cruz.
The solemn oath administered to al
the members of the iunta follows:
We solemnly promise, through
the love of our Lord God. of Jesus
Christ His only Son. our Saviour,
of the Holy Ghost, and of our
Lady the Most Holy Virgin. to
persevere in the religion Of our
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Saw a Real Live Monk.

In the secular monthly magazine.
known as the "Outlook." there ap-
peared last April an article written by
the wel-known New York philan-
thropist and author. Mr. Jacob A.
Riis. 1t was entitled THE Making of
an American" and recounts his strug-
giles with poverty after landing as an
emigrant upon the shores of America.
In his narrative he pays the following
tribute to a Catholic institutions: "Af-
ter being repulsed from many door
in my search for food and work.
wandered on with my gripsack.
straight ahead into the country. until
toward noon reached Fortlham Col
lege. famished and footsore. had
eaten nothing since the previous day.
The gates to the college grounds were
open. and I strolled YEARLY in with
out aim or purpose. An old father
whose noble face sometimes recall in
my dreams, came over and asked kind
ly If was hungry. I was. in all co,l-
science. fearfully hungry. and I said
so, although I did not mean to- had
never seen a real live monk before.
and my Lutheran training did not OK
actly incline me in their favor. l ate
of the food set before me. not without
qualms of conscience and with a So
cret suspicion that l would next hr
asked to ahiurc my faith or at least
do homage to the Virgin Mary, which
1 firmly resolved not to do. But when
the meal finished. l was sent on my
way with enough to do me for supper.
without the least suggestion that T
should perform such an act, felt
heartily ashamed of myself. l am
just as COED Protestant as | ever
was. hut I have no quarrel with the
excellent charities of the Roman
Church, or with their noble spirit and
management. / learned that lesson at
Fordham. thirty years ago."
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Victor Hugo Called for a Priest.

In the midst of the voluminous
prose, and even poetry, to which the
regloritication of Victor Hugo has CIV
EN- rise, there is striking account of
his death in the periodical called the
Etudes, directed by the Jesuits. This
sets forth that ut the awful moment
of his passing, the adversary of the
Papacy, the turncoat who was Royal
list, Republican, Catholic and Free
thinker, as it suited him, called de-
spairingly for priest. The story was
told by an actor, now dead, and whose
daughter lives at present in Paris.
This actor was allowed by Victor HUI
COS valet to see the poet in less than
an hour after his death. The player
was overwhelmed by the appearance
of unutterable anguish, horror and
despair on the face of the dead man.
and expressed his establishment and
terror to the valet. The latter said:
"Ah, Monsieur! as he was passing
away, Victor Hugo raised himself
from his bed by Il desperate bound,
his fingers crisped and crooked, and
he twice cried out, "A priest, priest!'
but no priest came" The actor went
away horror-stricken, and OH reaching
home said to his daughter: 81 should
not like to die like that; if 1 fall i'll,
you must call in Father Ionsabret at
once;;" and he added, Il shall tell no.
body of what saw and heard, but all
the same it is AWFUL
Victor Hugo was not the only anti
clerical Republican who called out for
a priest when dying. Others were in
the same predicament before him, and
went to their account with all their
imperfections on their heads. like
Hamlet's father. Cardinal Guibert Of
fered his services when Victor Hugo
was dying. but the poets family de-
clined them. In the same way NJ
Floquet's friends and hangers-on re-
jected the offer Of Cardinal Richard
to attend the dying politician in his
last moments. Again, in the case of
President Felix Faure. the services of
the late Vicar of the Madeleine We're
dispensed with, and soon after he left
the presidential palace servants We're
running everywhere for priest. Near
ly every one Of the politicians of the
Third Republic who have been identi-
fled with opposition to the Church
have been brought UP as Catholics.
Even Victor Hugo was in his youth
regarded by Lammenais as coming
Prudentius who would serve the cause
of religion by his poetry. Hugo had
been we'll brought up by his mother.
and one Of his earliest friends was
that Due de Rohan who became II
priest of st. Sulpice after his betrothed
had been burned to death. II has Of
ten been said that if I.ammenais. who
was deeply interested in Hugo. had
not left the Church, the man who was
glorified the other day in that now
pagan temple, the Pantheon, would
have remained Catholic.
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The Days of Peter.

In letter to the Dublin Freeman.
Journal, clerical correspondent says:
In connection with the recent re-
joicings of the Christian world that
our present Holy Father has entered
upon the twcnty-ffth year of his won
1erful reign. paragraphs have been go
ing the round of the press. some ex-
pressly. and some by implication or
assumption. circulating an historical
error. 1t is asserted. or assumed, that
the fact of Plus the Ninth. of blessed
memory, having reigned more than
twenty-five Gin fact. nearly thirty-two',
years, falsified the traditional saying.
supposed to be addressed to every pope
on his election-"Non videbis amos
Petri' ('"Fhou shalt not see the years
Of Peter'). Now, this is mistake.
st. Peter was head Of the church for
81 years. two months and some days.
True. his time in Rome was but TWEEN
ty-fivc years. But his chair had been
for seven years at Antioch. and it was
five years after the death of our Lord
when His vicar temporarily made this
his seat. st. Peter was crucified on
the Goth of June, in the year A. D. &C
of our chronology. But this chronOl-
ogy is wrong by four years. 1t should
be 20. as can be easily shown if any
one should question the statement AS
our Lord was 33 years and three or
four months when He died, simple
sum in subtraction will give st. Peters
reign as thirty-scven years. write
this for the sake of historic truth.
and also through reverence for
an old traditional belief, which, al
though unsanctioned by authority as Il
binding prophecy. vet deserves respect.
The poetry of piety should not be
lightly scoffed at. When one sees Il
fair plant intertwined with the queen
flower of his garden he ought to he
certain that it is noxious weed ere
he proceeds to pluck it out: else he
may hurt the root and fibre of his IA
vorite.
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filth as it was. Nor was this all.
Both bread and pork were extremely
bad. Some of the bread was made of
bran that they brought over to feed
their light horse, and the rest was so
mouldy, and the pork was so dam
aged by bilge water in transportation
from Europe it was not fit to be eaten
by human creatures. Such food as
they would not pretend to give their
own men they gave to our poor, sick,
dying prisoners. The water was mas
ty and brackish.'
The writer says that the British
soldiers told the Continental prisoners
that if they would enlist in their ar
my they should have victuals and
clothes; that the British officers cursed
the liberty-loving prisoners frequently
threatening to hang them, and even
threatened to take them to the West
Indies and sell them into slavery. Fiji
teen hundred of the prisoners died in
New York. The writer says it would
have been mercy if the British had
hung them at once, and thus have
saved them months of misery to fall
at last victims of the diseases brought
on by their privations and hardships
at the hands of the British.
Continuing, "NIiserecors'' says:
"Where We're savagcs ever found in
the wilds of America more cruel, more
murlerous, more blood-thirsty, more
brutal, more destitute of every virtue;
where, in history more horrid treat
ment Of prisoners? Even the famous
instance of Calcutta is not to be COM
pared to this"
The Anglomaniacs may doubt the
authenticity of the foregoing extracts.
Our Duluth contemporary says the
old paper is yellow with age, but can
be seen in good state of preservation
in frame suspended from a wall in
one of the offices in the Palladio
building in the Zenith City. 1t was
published by Timothy Green, in New
London, Conn.
Though 124 years have elapsed since
the date Of it's publication, the Eng
fish of today retain their cruel char
acteristics, as the leopard retains it's
spots. They are extending .''civiliza-
ton" in the same way today as they
did then. How long will civilized ma
lions permit them to do so?
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fathers in which we We're born,
and at the same time we promise
never to prove false to the sacred
teaching of the Vicar of our Re
deemer Jesus, His Holiness Pope
Leo XIII. We also promise to de-
fend our creed with the courage
and resolution worthy of the glory
of God and Of our Holy Roman
Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Since the entrance of Professionalism
into our country hardly day goes by
without bringing to our notice striking
signs of the progress that is taking
place. Here are some of the headlines
printed i'll Eel Noticiro," paper of the
capital: can Incendiary Fire" "a
President Arrested" ga Capture in
Samar,' Horrible Crime,'' ''The War
in the Provinces" '"rhe Halter Tri-
umphs." "To the scaffold," "Execu-
ton of Filipinos.'
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12

During the recent armistice between
the British and the Beers, Kitchener
played an English trick on Delarey.
Thinking the captor of Methuen would
be off his guard, the butcher of ON
durham" sent out flying squadron,
which Travelled so miles in "a hours
to take him by surprise. Delarey was
wide awake and gave the British
troops hot reception.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12
In a lecture before the Irish Liter

In lecture before the Irish Liter
airy Society of London, Gen. Sir Will
liam Butler summed up the character
of Oliver, Cromwell as that of man
who was "blasphemo,ls to an extra
ordinary extent, false to God, his king,
his country, who left no record of
good, and of whom no history has one
word Of praise until within the last
fifty years, when some people chose to
raise him to a hero" He declared that
Cromwell waged the war in Ireland
in 1910, not by fair fighting, but by
the biggest record of duplicity, breacl,
of faith and massacre.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12

The Blue Laws Of Connecticut are
no longer in operation. Last Monday
Ignatius a. Sullivan was elected may
or Of Hartford by the working men Of
the city. He defeated Major Wight
member of an aristocratic family, by
over 500 votes. At last years election
the city went Republican by 5000.
Sullivan is a clerk in a clothing store.
THE working men celebrated the vic
tory by big parade with bands play
ing "The Wearing of the Green"
Hartford is said to be the wealthiest
city in the United States.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12

Says the Boston Pilot: Mr.. Richard
]. Barry, formerly of the Irish Bril-
gade in the Transvaal, denounces as
a British spy Captain Louis De Viii
liers," who has been representing him
self as Cape Colony patriot, late Of
General Krtzenger's command. 1t is
alleged by Clan-na-Gael leaders that
the captain" was Canadian scout
in South Africa. Anyhow, it is good
idea to demand the credentials Of ev-
cry alleged Boer agent. Don't trust
verbal or written introductions.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12

Commandant Kritzenger has been
acquitted by court-martial of the
charge of having committed four MUIR
ders, in addition to train wrecking and
cruelty to prisoners. So says Lord
Kitchener in dispatch from Pretoria.
Instead of being exchanged for Lord
MIethuen, the brave Boer leader is kept
as an ordinary prisoner of war. He
was captured on Dec. II last, by Gen.
French, after being wounded.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12

Rev. John Talbot Smith, Catholic
priest Of New York, has written his
torical drama, entitled "a Baltimore
Marriage" 1t deals with the career
of Miss Elizabeth Patterson, who mar
ried Jerome Bonaparte, brother of
ing characters in the play is Pope Plus
IN, who refused to grant n divorce
to Napoleons brother ut the urgent
request of the emperor. Father Smiths
play is attracting much attention in
dramatic and literary circles.
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12

The Freemans Journal, of Dublin
says Of Lord Methuen, the captured
English general: eve cannot forget
that he behaved like a gentleman over
the death Of Villebois- Mareuil, whom
some other British generals were libel
ing as a mercenary adventurer The
man who wrote the letter to the
French colonel's brother and raised a
memorial over his fallen foe is enti-
tied to consideration"
The Irish standard., 1902-04-12
The Duluth Herald has attained the

The Duluth Herald has attained the
age of twenty years. 1t is one of the
most progressive daily papers in Amer
lea and the Zenith City has cause to
be proud of it. We congratulate the
Hon. A. G. Weiss on navigating the
Herald safely through the ''rocks and
shoals that heset it when he assumed
control of the helm decade of years
ago. The Duluthians owe him deep
debt of gratitude.