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chilly wind The 6sth Regiment led IN.
line. On their light blue overcoats and bun
Ieegings the men made a sight 90 please
any girl
Behind them came the Ancient Ors.r -
flibernians. marshalled by big men on
horseback and played % by innum.rsoi.
bands. only one accident was registered
Just after the srh had passed the CAtns-
,traI a young man with a bugie and a whit.
horse tore down the asphalt and charged
straight into the line Of marshsls. which
was pacing soberly IN salute before the
Archbishop. The line broke. the horse vent
through and posted up the street for two
blocks
In the rear of the 69th marched the hos
pital cOrns. For the time the hospital men
turned into an active rear zuard. Two 81
them hurled a stretcher &c the horse. and
the animal whirled around and charged
back tie spilled four musicians IN the
nand be1ind and landed on thc sidewsl>.
where "a policeman caught his bride ana
Told the YOUNG nau u,e ,o uJid His rsius
while another poiceman arld she uorse
head
TIE marsh Is review q t.e p-ra.e az l2sta
street and Second avenue and the msschers
finished the any and evening IN harlem
River Park with song and danCe.
u wasn't a nne top q tine morliu " for
ihe Irfshmeu Of Brooklyn yesis' dag. bat
with the sunshine oil the afternoon ;nsf uas
forgotten. There vas the usual parade. with
that fine big broth % bye" james Ma
guiro. a. grand marshal Thousands %
men, sporting the green IN one way or an
other we're in line. and a. many uiors
thousands. among whom were many maids
or Erin. watched the parade from all the
points % vantage. AZ the Borough Hall
thsre was a great crowd. which eas kept
behind the lines BY police. mounted ana
afoot. In BOerum Place the parsd-rs we're
reviewed by the county officers ~ the An
cient order OF Hibernians
The chief % the many dinners and enter
tainments were the annual banquet % IN.
United sons Of Erin. in Prospect Hxll. ant
the dinner Of the Celtic club. IN the Aoad-
envy Of Music. At this dinner sharlroc<s
from the Irish estate os Richard Crok.r
were distributed.
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SAYS PROFESSOR LIES.
Harsh Criticism in Sermon Following
Mass at Cathedral.

11bb a. kabAcuAd
Archbishop Farley celebrated a pontifcal
high mass yesterday morning in -. Pat
ricks Cathedral The Irish Volunteers
were met al the main entrance by the
Archbishop. who lea the way up the centre
aisle 20 the altar During the professional
.IIiberniss Champion Saint, All Eail.
was played. Several thousand persons
we're present and the cathedral was
crowded.
The Rev Patrick DAILY. dean Of Duchess
County and formerly assistant priest at
the cathedral. preached the sermon. He
talked about the life and work OF ST Pat
rick and deplOred the fact that many per-
sons aid not know that Ireland had had a
Golden axe. Tie was particularly severe IN
his condemnation Of certain historians and
universitiss
The men who built Trinity College ma
Dublin, stole our churches and are now
preaching 10 empty benches. For that a.
least. Ne may thank Coo. s,nd Father
Bslv. one scholar there. Tyrrsl by name.
has seen al 90 use his knowledge az the
classics IN criticiEine our Church. He has
v.ritten a high sounding poem. in which he
Avs that the steeples Of our churches
stretch up With lies. That Is what the
classical scholars OF the universities say.
and there is NO more ntting time than On
81 Patrick's Day 90 SAP that they lie.
llrofeesor r rrel lies
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FOR WEARING OF THE GREEN. -
Youth Punished for Sticking 20 His
Colors on ST. Patriek's Day.

Boston. March E.-Thomas Hansbury
sixteen years old. Of East Milton. was sent
away from the East Milton High School
by the head master Edgar n Varney. be-
caUse the hoy persisted i'm the wearing Of
the green" Several other pupils Of the
high school. a girl included. who came to
the school to-day wearing green crsvats or
green ribbons. were made tn remove the
colors before they were allowed to take
their places in their classes
Each pupil did as requested. except Hans
bury. He went out. took of his tie placed
enc Of another color at his neck and pinned
the green tie on the lapel of his coat. Miss
Terbush. his teacher. asked him 70 remove
IL He refused. she SAYS. She took him 10
Head Master Varney who ordered the tie
70 he taken from the coat Tie says the
boy refused. and he was sent home
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NEW iRIsH ORGANIZATION.

Justice Fitzgerald signed YESTERDAY a Ger
4 sc,te 81 incorporation for the IRISH Ma
t,onsi Fellowship Association. ia, new as
-oeiation has as its objects the perpetuation
~ the indi,idualistie traits Of the Irish peo-
rle advancement ~ their welfare the pro
n,o,ion OF good fellow ship and serial ad-
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rUSDOMERS are easily pleased
u in the electrically lighted
store.
Electric light best meets the re-
qulTements Of the stOre-kseper.
Shows the goods best tindis-
penSable where color is il question:
where cOlOTs have 70 be matched,
Does nos soil or damage the stock;
Permits the use Of upper shelves
snd dust-tight, Illuminated show
cases:
Does not exhaust the oxygen An
ne ar; The puTeT the air, the
hVeiieE the salsspeople.
A tue economy,
And The hest advertisement pos
Sihle Of . stores mOdernness.
Edison Service makes a business
husie..
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vantages. and the cultivation of the educa-
tIOnal and literary talents Of the Irish peo-
pie by discussions and debates.
Some OF the cOTpOTatOrs are John NJ.
Tierney. Eugene Shaughnessey. William
TieFney, William J. O'Brien and Daniel
Reddy.
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NEW REPUBLICAN cLUe FORMED.

Justice Fitzgerald signed yesterday
certificate Of Incorporation 81 the knicker-
hooker Republican Club Its objects will
- % advance the principles az the Repuh-
lican party and encourage attendance al
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the primaries and an active part BIZ cttt-
zens generally In public affairs.
Some Of the cJrpOTators were Leonard
Adsir. No. 336 West 145th street: Theo-
dOre A. Neale. No 211 West 1920 street:
street: James n. KillOran. No. 1919 Eighth
avenue. and John n Forbes. No AS West
14bth street
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None - this enters into the equation. -
remarked Senator Bracket. IN an icy tone.
~ me defence holds that these inks are
cirereni and a test VIII show whether they
are fhe same p test Is permissible
senator Davis was about 20 order roll
ram or The question when the point was
Faised that no quorum was present many
NJ no, Senators being absent 10 celebrate
81 Psircks Day Senator Bracket point
ed ON in fashion which was q very
broad f'ut fhst n q lawyer withdrew q Wit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18
A Long Chase.

r WO war correspondents who helped
Russia ard Japan settle their late
unpleasantness met each other for the
first time in the rooms of the National
Press Club the other evening One cor
respondent took his meeting with the
other as matter of course. He said he
had heard Of him and was ad of the
opportunity Of shaking hands. The other
showed signs of that commodity known
as extreme agitation"
Il am certainly glad to catch up with
you at last" lie exclaimed, looking his
man over from head to foot. DO you
know L got wind of your proposed sneak
into Port Arthur from Chefoo and started
out from Yokohama 10 catch you. | was
just twelve hours behind You all the way
to Chefoo and that is the Closest / ever
got to you until this minute Shake, old
man. 1t has taken ME six long years to
overtake you"
The long chase called for an extended
s. ason of war "reminiscences, and when the
two correspondents parted at an early
hour in the morning there wasn't much
of the Manchurian difficulty left unrs-
viewed
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officials clerks and other trusted en-
pioyes. who would all be superfluous were
Just Kris kringle and nothing more elm
ina ed from our Christmas customs and
traditions.
This corps of workers for which ST.
Nicholas is responsible is the force en-
ployed in the dead letter office at Wash
ington. and what makes them essential
to good government is not the mere
Christmas rush in the post offices, but
childhood's worship of Santa Claus, that
fat. jolly old elf who drags his plethoric
pack down our chimneys on the night
before the holiday of holidays James
Rankin Young. the veteran journalist
and former representative, who directs
The dead letter office, may thank st.
Nick when he draws his salary every
half month as cordially as may the little
army of letter resuScitators who Work
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never attempt the impossible; secondly.
the majority of Americans climbing al
ways start completely prepared and with
the best guides, for when Americans risk
their lives thev do not think of &c n my
Americans have been known to elm ,
with four guides, SO that in case of
fatigue they coud be carried back, two
guides taking turns about. American
Alp!nists, however. do not lack the
sporting instinct. but. on the contrary,
they figure often in the first ascen.s Of
the season Of such difficult peaks the
Grepon, or the Alguille Verte. But among
American climbers the percentage of
neck breakers" as the guides call too
daring climbers, Is very small
in sc ne of the English magazines this
summer were accounts of Al..inis who
'hroke away from the tyranny Of
guides" as if that were something Of
which to be proud. There Is nothing
more dangerous than dispensing with
guides, as the statistics show, for fifty
six OF the deaths occurred TO climbers
without guides The accident with g,,ides,
which cost the lives OF seven per:Cn=.
took place July s. near the Bcrgli Hat.
on the way to the JunGf"au. Two G r
mans, who had been waiting several DAYS
for coed weather, decided to risk the
close. With Alexander Burgennr lead
ing, his nephew and three Grind wall
guides. the Germans beran the ascent of
steep snow Sine. Tha trouble was
that the freshly fallen Snow had not lad
time to freeze to tie Old snow u~dar-
meath, and the weight # tie ca avian
started an avalanche which slid like
rug a polished floor, hurting al seven
into eternity. The Climb should never
have been attempted with tie sno." III
such bad condition.
Without guides one never knows what
is going to happen, Guides ahand n
NCnt anc in apparently beautiful
weather because there is Il thin cob
overlooking veil Of mist clnging to
Mont Maudit-a danger signal visible
only To old guides. who know their noun
tain. In less than half an four foul
weather NAV come in the Alps and no
human being can brave the fury Of an
Alpine blizzard.
When he was at ChamOniX last sea-
son one Of the guides near the foot of
the Glacier DIES Blossoms picked up
baton with the name of j. Bean of
Baltimore, Md, carved on the handle
Some readers may recall this terrible
tragedy. 1t was back in 1870 that a
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brated work of totemporary Irish
authoresS- Although the Postmaster Gen
erals have not de med 1t naughty enough
to b. excluded from the ma Is. il has been
deemed too naughty to De indiScriminate
ly offered for sal, at the annual dead
Letter auctions.)
This coming week tens of thousands of
children will be spared diSapoont rnent-
Uncle Sam tells me-if evey s ndfr OF
Christmas mai, matter will use ink in
stead OF pencil in address ne | OF day
letters and Christmas pack ges; will place
his own name and address in the upper
left-hand corner OF all matter not up
PCS ed to come direct from Sa@ta Claus.
will not place Red Cross o" any o:her
unofficial stamps n the add sed SIDE
CT packages or letters; will stick on a
tWo-cent stamp for every ounce of sealed
matter, Cne-cent stamp fer every ounce
Of unseal"d merchandise. and ne" ~
stamp FOR each two ounces of unsealed
books or photographs. and will respect
the law that no written matter must be
in eed IN urSe1'sd rac az = Y y D.
single card bearing the written name of
the sender and such inscriptions as
Merry Christmas Happy Y w al.
VIII Best Wishes ctn'' mot er -
which senders of Christmas presents will
be wise in carefully respecting is that
providing a fine for such smuggling as
the sending of Christmas presents rolled
in newspapers and magazines at the
cheap rates provided for those publica-
lions. In many a family Christmas has
been transformed from a happy holiday
to a day of gloom by the apprehension
and disgrace of some member taking such
risks as these to save a few pennies.
y
Red Cross and other charity stamps
have given the postal authorities no end
OF trouble during the past few Christmas
holidays, because of many peoples per-
sistence in sticking them to the address
side Of enve opes and letters, whore the.
are mistaken for foreign stamps. And
now other charity organizations and some
large department stores have gotten out
Christmas stamps which are even more
confusing, and which are often mistaken
fer United States stamps.
Christmas presents or letters bearing
any Christmas or charity stamps what
soever will be refused this year by the
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c0ANTA CLAuSr.bU BUREAU

the dead letter office. along with COM
munications showing evidences of having
come f-om comfortable. pro peroIs
homes. And finally a pail was pu, UPON
the whole affair by the suc de--during an
attack of insanity-of one of the mCst
active workers in the charity-a cultured
young woman known the country over as
1.-The Santa Claus Girl
Now a very odd fact brought TO light
each Christmas while these letters are
being handled is that there are in our
cities several real Kris Kringes or Crisis
Kingles to whom, und the law. letters
addressed to these names must be refer
red before they can be properly emba m
cd and finally laid to rest in Mr.. Young $
epis DIARY potters field. In what era ks
and crannies of our several states these
gentlemen dwell the postal officials re-
fuse to divulge, because they regard them
as already possessed of sufficient trials.
troubles and tribulations.
But Uncle Sam talked to me not only
about these Santa Claus letters. He
walked me through the corridors Of his
Santa Claus bureau and pointed out to
me case after case of toys and valuable
articles lost in the mails largely as a re-
suit of Christmas carelessness. And If
this coll elton represents thousands OF
Christmas disappointments. millions If
them are to be found recorded in a file
of catalogues of the annual sales of such
articles lost in the mails.
Thirteen million undelvers parcels.
letters Christmas cards and other post
cards now coming into the Santa Claus
bureau per year measure the degree of
this careless spirit of the patrons of our
mails. One quarter of these probably
reprc sent the annual stock of Christmas
disappontments.
Property-largely Christmas gifts-is
found in 10000 letters and parcels. and
this is held for a year, after which il is
sorted out into salable and unstable
matter. the former being at once sold at
held. three years longer and then mu-
tilated and burned in the same incn r.
ator-in the basement of the Post Office
Department-as is used for the burning
of naughty articles found in the mails
(Among these naughty things, by the
way. have been many volumes of cele-
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Legal Twists.

A TTORNEY GENERAL WICKER
\ SHAM was talking al the Lawyers
Club. in New York. about some OF the
absurd defenses that are set up in cases
where rich men are involved.
Such defenses seem to Indicate lie
said. that some lawyers deem the public
as ignorant OF common law and common
sense as Calhoun White was.
Calhoun White was a southern lawyer.
and once in d case in a South Carolina
court he made frequent references to
de eX-facto- posthole' law.
THE judge. with a quiet smile, at last
set him right.
You mean. Mr.. White he said. the
eX-post-facto law.
but Calhoun White drew himself up
with dignity.
All begs pawdon OBJ de cot he said.
i'm plying voice. but yo honah sar-
tinly am lame on dat ar term. Why.
gents, hit am dat law wot perhibits
man from diggin' de hole arter de post
am set q"
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postal officials of Portugal. Uruguay and
Guatemala, while thirty-thre countries.
including Great Britain, Germany and
Austria will refuse all mail matter SO
stamped upon the addressed side.
An odd thing happei.er la the Santa
Claus bulsau while | WAS in there yestel-
day. A man who was stroll ing along
among the cases of lost Christmas gifts
happened upon an old daguer:eotyl of
his mother-a very beautiful young wo-
man in tie dress of two generations ago.
He was told TO file wth the department
a formal apnl cation for the picture. stat
ing when. where and to whom il was
probably mailed II his answers to these
que tons agree reasonably we'll with the
departments books, the picture will be
returned to him.
I asked the curator of this interesting
collection whether many fraudulent At
tempts Were not made to identify items
of va ue stored away in his cases. Lead
. ng me to a case containing many val
liable pieces of jewelrY and articles of
virtu. ne pointed to a little copper plaque
containing elaborate de -igns painted in
miniature. That he said. had been "'iden-
titled oftener than any other article
saved from the annual auction; but no
ident fir had been even warm in guess
ing the date and place of the article s
mailing The most valuable specimen in
his entire collection, the curator tod me,
Is lttle gold com stamped with the
head of Caesar. He would not estimate
its value beyond saying that it was up IN
the hundreds
When i asked hin, if he had anything
very new-anythirg that had been listed
in his museum within the past few weeks
he showed me curious thing-a postal
card on whose back had been pasted
craZy-qui!t vie corners of one twenty
dol ar three ten-dollar and two tive-doI-
lar notes. Post office inspectors detailed
to trace the sender have discovered that
she was a girl who, after having been
board bill, had thus RENTED in minced
greenbacks. useless TO her irate creditor,
but very useful to the minons of the law
shou d they ever wish to prosecute her
for that serious offense against federal
law and differentiation of the cur
rency.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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only English men and women on the
slopes OF the snow-clad mountains, but
now the English have disappeared. or
rather have been absorbed in the crowd
of Americans and Germans who are
swarminc over the playground of Europe.
The Alpine season fCr this year has
just closed. and the Swiss experts are now
taking stock of its toll of accidents and
trying TO draw conclusions which will
prevent or minimize such disasters i'll flu
tule. But 50 far the only conclusion that
they have come 10 is the old one-that
fools should not climb mountains. EN-
cessive care is needed in mountain climb
ing, but IL man woman is physically
fit is careful IL climb only with compe-
tent guides and properly equipped, there
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all right with city shoes. which were cut
all to pieces in the moraines.
The last time the writer was on Mont
& anc. where he met seven caravans,
most of the climbers never having been
before in the mountains. judging from
the way they handled the rope and their
ice axes. These climbers are continually
falling into unseen, snow-covered Gre
vasseS, and disaster is prevented only by
the fact that they are roped TO the guides.
who pull them out again. Later on the
Mer de Glace French count, to an ad-
m;ring throng, cut steps with his ice ak
into a serac pinnacle Of ice and
climbed TO the summit. 1t IS much easier
going up an ice slope than coming down.
and wien the count arrived on top lie
found himself stuck there. After several
attempts and failures 10 get down again
he at last became despel ate. and in
sitting posture slid down the steep incline.
AS ice cuts like a knife, THE count did
not sit down again for some days. Had
he climbed in the same way an ice Slope
1.000 feet high he might have been up
there yet.
Fatal Alpine accidents. therefore. will
education is undertaken seriously. The
DANCE: OF coins; without guides and in
dangerous places should be impressed on
amateurs. for when Alpinists become eX-
perts they will not be content simply with
guides, but will want the best.
1t is noteworthy that many women are
gaining laurelS now mountain climb
ers. Two of the most famous. Miss An
nie Peck and Mrs Bullock Workman, are
both Americans Mrs. Workman holds
the worlds record for women by climb
ing 23.3G0 feet in. the range of the Nun
Kun IN the Himalayas, and Miss Peck's
wonderful climb of Mount Huascaran, in
Peru, is still being talked about.
Another woman climber who recently
has attracted attention on the continent
is Nine. Leontine Richard of Paris. who
crossed the Junction of the Glaciers
des Blossoms and De TaconnaZ. one of
the difficult passages UP Mont Blanc.
Nine. Richard is a great believer in out
And for women physically fit to
climb says she, there is no sport more
healthy and exhilarating than mountain
climbing Women too long have been
satisfied to rock the cradle. Mountain
climbing. with proper precautions. is no
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V. De Graw, the fourth assistant post
master general
So the dead letter Office at Washington
might with some good reason, be Dubbed
santa claus bureau and these two
kindly officials his useful lieutenants.
SANTA CLAUS, HEAVEN, n. "
Their annual grist of Santa Claus let
tiers reveals childhood's varied ~ Aons as
to the abiding pace of the pauncned dis
penser o toys and candies Snow Hill,
one yOungster scratches it: "Snowland,
another: and others write it Ice Town"
Iceland "Greenland," and many-God
bless them.-put it Heaven Some di-
rect their missives to the North Pole. 4"
but this fashion has been waning since
Peary and Cook failed to report the ne
collation." at the "boreal center of
Santa Claus castle walls.
The New Yorker characteristic loyalty
to his home heath is reflected in this en-
velope:
Dear Old Santa Claus
Up in Heaven.
New York"
Sweet is the innocence of youth.
This young one had been to Luna Park
the one who addressed the following:
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P.VDR GRAW
ONE OF SANTA Claus
LlEUTE.NANTS
HAkRio- Ew,rG PhoTo

periods the dead letter Office was instruct
ed to turn the letters over to ANY reg
ularly organized charitable society in the
city or town of the addressed" But
such bitter jealousies over the handling
of the let ers arose among charitab. e
organizations in certain cities that he
whole scheme had to be abandoned. Even
if this f lotion had not been incurred. the
greed of the unworthy would have ended
the enterprise in another year. TO as
soon as the plan got nOsed about thou
sands of crude forgeries purp>rting to
come from children, but unskilful!y
scrawled by adults, began to descend upon