The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-22

selection OF 6Archbishop Ryan 4 to oft,ciatc
4 at his ordination was made before NJ
/, entered the order OF Jesus by his mother,
whit was close friend ofithe Archblstop
when he was acting as Bishop Coadjuto o.
to Archbishop Kenrick, OF ST.: Louis,
$ Mrs. Sherman 8 efforts for the advance
nent OF the Roman Church, in the United
were 50, noteworthy q to ORA ray y
especial & commend dalton from Pope Leo
XIII. & who conferred aS decoration 81 Of
i great significance upon her. II Il 55S s8
/ n, AZ fifty two Fa ther Tom Sherman sug-
gests his fighting father in figure, In
gesture and In facial express on II e
has no parish and holds no property
latter is true OF all Jesuit 8priests--and
devotes a good deal OF his time Ito hold
ing special services IN various cities. In
March OF the A present year, y only a few
weeks before he began to retrace his
fathers footsteps over the route OF the
such Y a. series OF etings held In Il St.
Patrick's Cathedral, NeWs York. By
5ssS The sermons in that series were re- re-
markable addresses full Of spiritual pow
er. as The first one was an app cal Tor be-
lief in the Deity;8its quail ty was almost
purely intellectual, and II so S3 completely
without tinge Of the creed Of his own
church that, 81 as one audi tor said, a It
could have been listened to with approval
by Baptists. Methodists. Presb yterian ms or
the members Of any Of the Protestant
denominations. NJ Is u. ;;sH
81 HIS voice is a high aritone, and though,
frana ina size and chara cteristics OF that
structure stfle cathedral Is difficult
place $to speak in, he filled II complete
ly every evening during his stay. HIS
auditors VI include " many 5ss non Ca holes
nightly and the size OF his audiences in-
creased to the last. though little mention
OF the meetings was made In |; the public
press. 3s9 # w
b General sherman's son, p. Tecumseh. Il
lawyer Of standing in New Yorlk
Sons Of Writing Men.
81 Few sons OF famous literary men have
sol ght 4 Is follow in their fathers foot
steps an dssstill fewer have Strod the path
that leads to success In letters. y he son
OF William Cullen Bry ant the poet, bear
Ing the same name as his tillustrious fatn-
er, Is a successful newspa per mar, but
entirely without literary aspira tons rho
son OF Oliver Wendell Holmes has shown
that blood will tell by winning place
ion the bench OF the United States su-
}preme Court, and his legal opinions are
said to indicate unusual literary skill as
we'll las legal acumen. but he has never
offered either prose Or poetr 70 the rte ga.
Ing phi bile. ia t.9tt
s Just Ice Holmes was a fig citing man ,:in'
the Civil War, and was wounde ed three
times. pretty good evidence that he y not
lacking In physical courage. fter his
third hurt the father went South from
Boston to take the young ger man homo.
The latter recovered sufficiently to travel
before the father could reach him, and
the pursuit OF the. younger by the elder
Holmes extended over hundreds OF miles
OF railroad and ied in and out OF half g
dozen cities- ~ Nj $!y
when a the poet finally overlook the The
soldier at Harrisburg their meeting was lls;
simple. Il and their greeting &c common!
place is AZ nothing out Of o. ordinary mar
had happened. IA 5. !, W..
are you, boy asked the father,
reaching out his hand for q shake. Y rs
5.S stIoW are you, dad?''sreturned the SON.
Later, the elder Holmes turned q COM
fcrtable penny BY writing an n article rte.
which was published In the = Al tlantlc
Monthly. sg3 Il ;gT W. .S a g9 81