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Mice and Mines.

The use OF white mice on board sub
marine boats TO give notice of escaping
and dangerous gases-which they do by
exhibiting uneasiness or by dying-haS
suggested the adoption OF a like expe-
dent in coal mines.
When an explosion occurs in a coal
mine the great danger to rescuers lies
in the possibility or likelihood that there
may be gas in the workings down below.
There may be no gas worth mentioning.
The rescuers. in any given case, are un-
able to tell. and men sent into the depths
with helmets and oxygen apparatus have,
of course no means of ascertaining.
The latest idea is for the helmet men
to carry with them little cages containing
two or three white mice. II the latter
show no signs of distress, the oxygen
pioneers telephone back to that effect,
and members of the life-saving corps
who are with out protective apparatus.
are enabled to rush in fearlessly. By
this means much precious time, when
minutes may mean lives, is saved.
This plan has already been tried with
success by a mining company in Penn
sylvania. One of it's incidental advan-
tages lies in the fact that the men do
not wear helmets, and are thereby re-
lieved of burden Of about forty pounds.
Undoubtedly they can work much more
effectively.
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WITH THE EPISCOPALIANS.

st. Peters congregation, Baltimore,
which since it sold its church for s91, 900
has been worshiping in Emmanuel
Church, Baltimore, has been anxiously
awaiting the result of an application to
be allowed to build a church in North
Baltimore, near the Johns Hopkins
HomewoOd grounds. Thursday last the
bishop and standing committee handed
out their decision, which was adverse to
the application on the ground that the
proposed church would be too near the
site of the new cathedral
So 1t comes about that there is the un-
usual spectacle of a congregation with
$4,000 wandering around looking for a
place to settle.
At St Johns Church. Sixteenth and H
streets, Rev. DR.. Roland Cotton Smith,
rector, there was held three days inter
state convention of the Y NJ c. A on
March 14-l6. The speakers included such
well-known men as Drs. a. R. Hall. c.
A. Barbour. +. a. Steiner, and Hon
Sheldon p. Spencer.
1t is definitely settled that Dr. Berry
man Green will continue in his present
position of professor OF the English Bible.
homiletics, Christian ethics. and sociol-
ogy at the Virginia Theological Semi
nary, it having been deemed u1"ise for
him to undertake the arduous duties
connected with the coadjutor bishOpric
OF Virginia.
rector of old st. Paurs. Baltimore, as
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UNIVERSALIST NE WS.

Rev Edward F. Etz, of Boston, de-
! livered an address at the residence of
F. o. knight, 1920 Twenty-second street,
| at the recent monthly meeting of the
Y. P. c. U. Of the Universalist Church.
Mr.. Etz. who is national secretary OF
the organization and editor of Onward. -
the official organ of the Young People of
the Universalist Church, has been max
ing a tour of the country as far south as
Tampa and as far west as the Missis-
sippi River, in the interest of the Young
Peoples work of the church. He spoke
of the advantages of organization in re-
ligious work and especially of organizing
the young people of the church.
Churches are crying about a lack of
ministers The only salvation of the
church is TO put up the bars and put up
higher standard of education in an
age that demands higher standards.
Higher standards in the laity demand
higher standards in the ministry.
The Universalist young people have
appointed a commission on church and
social service" A report of this COM
mission is TO be made in the near fu-
ture. and the young people of Wash
ington parish were urged TO cooperate
in securing the results of the inveStiga-
ton. They did not expect boys in the
teens to be able to solve economic and
sociological problems. There is a kind
of work. however. that young people may
do in social settlements in aiding the
aIneliorative agencies in social work. d.
The Church Of Our Father, Universal
ist, Thirteenth and l. streets northwest
of which Rev. John Van Schaick, jr.,
has been pastor for nearly twelve years,
IS in very prosperous condition fnan-
cially, and is taking a very active in
terest in the social service movement in
Washington. This church has adopted
the policy of cooperating with existing
institutions rather than starting social
service institutions of its own Many
o. its members act as volunteers in the
Associated Charities. The moderator of
the society, Mr. II. E. Williams. is treas
urer of the colored social settlement.
Other members OF the church serve on
the boards of white social settlements
This church strongly stands against
policy of duplicating existing social or
CanIZatiOns which are doing effective
service.
The Universalst denomination through
out the country is extending its work.
1t is a small denomination, having only
about 800 ministers The next general
convention Of the church will be held
in Springfield, Mass, October =, 1911.
and the next national convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Union of the
church will be held in Portland. Me
July l.. \ considerable number OF people
from Washington usually attend these
two conventions
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Splits Within Splits.


The wav things are going. it will soon
be difficult, il not impossible to describe
a mans political faith by anything less
than a triple-compound word. In the old
days there were two political parties.
Democratic and Republican. II a man
wasn't a Democrat. he usually was a
Republican. and It was all very simple
4 baby born in a Democratic district
grew up to be a Democratic voter and A
baby born in a Republican district grew
up and voted as his father did Area
dian simplicity. The nrst sign Of com
pound words came with the Radical Dem
OCraCy. Then. naturally we had a Con-
servative Democracy. A few years more.
and the Progressive Republicans appeared
those who last week formally organized
and their obvious oppOsites were the
ReaCtionary Republicans. If a man says
in these days that he is a Republican or
a Democrat. no one can tell by that what
he stands for or in what he believes. We
have got beyond that easy stage. Quite
possibly a Republican may be more OF
a Democrat than a Democrat, and fully
as likely a Democrat may be more OF a
Republican than a Republican. We are
Radicals and Conservatives, Progressives
and Reactionary, and inasmuch as some
Radicals are more conservative than
others. and some PrOgressiveS are more
reactionary than others, party divisions
will be divided again, splits within splits,
and there will be Radical Radical Dem
ocrats, and Conservative-Ra Radical Dem
ocrats, and Conservative-Conserv
Democrats, and Radical-COnservative
Democrats. And. OF course, there will be
Progressive Progressive Republicans. and
Reactionary Progressive Republicans, and
But enough! Doubtless the point is
clear. It's clumsy, but it's all right 1t
is part of the general awakening. Voters
are seeking names that will fit their poll
tical faiths, not taking for granted. as
formerly, certain faiths that went with
q
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CATHOLIC NEWS NOTES OF
WORLDWIDE INTEREST

Spanish newspapers report that the Sis
ters Of Charity have already been in
vited by the government to return to
Lisbon and resume their noble work in
the public hospital.
The courts Of Italy, have decided that
member of a religious order cannot
inherit property. From this il is but a
step to decide that religieuse cannot pos
sess property. and il is expected that
an era of confiscation of church property
will soon again be inaugurated by the
government
There is at Graymoor-on-the-Hu
n. Y, refuge for wayfarers known
as Brother Christopher's Inn. 1t was es-
tablished by that Graymoor community,
formerly Anglican, but now Catholic, OF
which Father Paul James Francis is the
head. The wanderers who come to the
inn are given whatever the place offords
free OF charge. Nor are they dubbed
"tramps' or ''hoboes'' by the community.
They are given the name OF Brother
Christophers."
The Franciscan nuns. in charge OF st.
Mary's Hospital, Hoboken. n. j., in
which Mayor Gaynor was cared for after
the attack made upon him last year. de-
vote themselves to the care OF suffering
humanity without any thought Of finan-
cial reward. They have never presented
a bill to Mayor Gaynor, and the only rec
ognition of his personal gratitude which
he could acceptably make was a check
he sent, marked Offering" at Christmas.
The St Vincent de Paul Society, of
Boston. has inaugurated a fund for the
purpose of erecting a summer home for
children and convalescent women, in
bingham, Mass, Miss Ellen Roche, of
that town, having presented the society
an estate Of ten acres in memory OF her
mother. The home will be known as the
Williams Farm. the late Archbishop Will
liams having founded the st. Vincent de
Paul Society in the archdiocese.
press dispatch from Rome says:
The Pope has accepted the resignation
Of Mgr Granite di Belmonte Pignatelli
as papal nunciO at Vienna From this
the inference is drawn that the holding
Of a COnsistOry cannot be near. as other
wise the nuncio, who is one of those
scheduled to be created a cardinal, would
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| the critics discovered her in the act of
| enrolling from her inner consciousness
one-half of poem which had been
! current in the United States some four
| teen years. there was a burst of right
eOus Indignation from various quarters.
One Jealous partisan wrote TO a Phila-
| delphia paper as follows: These verses
| OF l Should Die To-nightD were writ
| ten many years ago by MIR. R. V. vi
Wan Myers. OF Philadelphia. The poem
| is well-knOwn in England and this coun-
| try and, for many years. was one Of
the piece de resistance of Mr. S. X.
Murdoch. in his public readings" "
The old saying is that some are born,
I some achieve. while some have it thrust
upon them" To this latter class no
doubt belonged Mr.. Myers, the man Of
many initials.
Mrs. Haggard then rose to explain.
in behalf of her husband, saying that
| the poem. in manuscript. was sent to
Mr.. Haggard from South Africa in
a private letter about seven years ago.
and by a lady now dead" She always
supposed it to be her own composition
and never before published. That Mr.
Haggard's correspondent was now
dead and. consequently unable to OBJ
iect to the stealing of her thunder. did
not seem TO improve matters materially.
On May 10, 1887, The Christian Union
reprinted the poem as first contributed
TO its columns, June Is. 1879 and signed
'B. S" On December s. 1877. the same
journal announced that the "B. s." was
Miss Bella Smith. of Tabor College.
Iowa. A letter from this lady seems to
settle effectually. all questions as to
authorship. She writes:
THE verses about which you inquire
are mine. They were published in The
Christian Union of June is, 1873 Since
then have seen them many times. and
claimed by a number of different authors,
but / have made no claim for many
years. Last fall President Brooks. of
Tabor College. with the freedom of a
lifelong friend, claimed them for me
without my knowledge. My friends had
often commented on my carelessness re-
garding them, but do not care to enter
the list of disputed authors. so I leave
them to their fate. NJ. R. sILsBY.''
The popularity of this poem has called
out several rather interesting parodies,
the best in many respects, being the
following. by Ben King. which has been
almost as widely circulated as the orig
inal:
II should die tonight
And you should come to my cold corpse and say.
weering and heartsi& DER my lifeless clay
II / should die tonight
And say. Here's that ten dollars that l owe
/ might arise in my large white Gavat
And say. Whats that?''
And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel.
clasTing my bier to show the grief you feel
l say il I should die tonight
And you should come to me and there and then
just even hint Of paying me that ten,
] might rise the while;
But I'd drop dead again.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

of foreign missions" The class is led
by Mrs. H. S. Pinkham, and holds its
meetings at the. church Immediately be-
fore the midweeS prayer meeting.
A meeting will be held at Takoma
Park Presbyterian Church to-day at
2:45 to consider the organization of an
intermediate society.
Vermont Avenue Christian Society at
its business meeting held last Tuesday
received two new members.
The Endeavorers of the Fourth Pres
byterian Church had a jolly time Tues
day evening at a social held in the gym
nasium and dining-room of the church.
Anticipating st. Patrick's day little.
green was the predominating note of the
decorations, and the guests each wore
the local color in some way. A cobweb
hunt with shamrOcks as favors was a
feature much enjoyed
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not have resigned. The comforting of
the red hat would have meant his with
| drawal from Vienna
Rev. Father Maurice, of the Congrega-
ton of the Holy Ghost, doctor in science
and member OF the Pasteur Institute. in
Paris, has been recently sent on a spe-
cial mission to the Belgian Congo to
study on the ground the sleeping sickness.
The minister, of colonies supplied him
with a complete laboratory, which will
enable him to make the most thorough
scientific researches on this terrible Afri-
can plague.
The French Academy has quite recently
crowned a work of Mgr. Alexander LIE
Roy, superior general of the Congrega-
ton Of the Holy Ghost This volume,
! La Religion des Primitis'' CThe Re
ligion Of Primitive Races, comprises a
series Of lectures. with which the emf
nent prelate inaugurated at the Catholic
University of Paris the course of the
history of religions.
| Mgr. lie Roy is already known to the
world of savants by a series of ethno-
graphical studies, From Alden to Zan-
zibar," "On Land and Water Across
Zanzibar" The KiIma Marc" The
Pygmies," &c.
| Brother Joseph, in the world Ira r
Dutton, a fervent convert to the faith.
who long ago gave himself to the serv-
ice of the lepers of Molokai. being for a
good while associated with Father Dam
| len, has now given his pension to a
struggling Catholic industrial school in
Memphis, Tenn. He is a veteran OF the
course and being mustered out OF his
| regiment, the Thirteenth Wisconsin In
fantry, with the rank of captain. He has
never touched his pension money, so that
the accumulation must now represent a
considerable sum. Brother Joseph is
about siXty-eight year of age In 1891 he
began to study for the Anglican ministry,
but his researches led him instead into
the Catholic fold. After his reception
into the church he went to Molokai. and
has remained there ever since, happy in
SuCcOrinS the needieSt and most SORROW
ful of Christ's brethren.
A home for girls is to he established at
Aurora Ill, by the Sisters of Mercy. who
have been admitted to the Rockford Dio-
cese by Bishop Muldoon. The mother
house of the order is located at Council
Bluffs. Iowa. 1t is in charge Of Mother
! Vincent Mother Mary Magdalen has
been named as head of the sisters TO be
sent to Aurora The sisters will set
about TO establish a home in which work
ing girls can live. The matter has been
under consideration for several weeks.
Bishop MuldOon investigating the prOpos-
ed home before allowing the Sisters of
Mercy to gain a foothold in the Rock
ford Diocese.
Colombo. in far-off Ceylon. is one OF
the most fOurishinS missions in the
world. When the Obates Of Mary
fathers went there twenty-six years ago
there were then about IL on Catholics
with twenty-seven missionaries in that
region. To-day there are over 2eOGOO
Catholics. with los priests. Churches
have been built to the number of eighty
two; there are now 412 schools on tho
island and 36.3aS children are registered
for the Catholic faith.
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STORIES OF FAMOUS POEMS
IF | SHOULD DIE TONIGHT"
No. 20
ARABELLA E. SMITH.
III should die tonight

II | should die tonight
My friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid il in its resting place,
And that death had left it almost fair:
And, laying snow-white flowers against my hair
Would smooth il down with fearful tenderness.
And fold my hands with lingering
Poor hands, empty and cold tonight
II I should die tonight
Ny friends would call to mind, with loving thought
Some kindly deed the icy hands had wrought:
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said
Errands which the willing feet had sped
The memory of my seltshness and pride
My hasty words would all be put aside
And, l should be loved and mourned, to night.
If I should die to night.
Even hearts estranged would turn more to me.
Recalling other DAYS remOrsefully;
The that chill with averted glance
Would look upon Of yOre, perChancC,
And soften in the old familiar way:
For who could with dumb. unconscious clay?
So 1 might rest forgiven OF all. tonight.
Oh, friends, I pray tonight
Keep not your kisses for my dead. cold brow
The way is lonely, let feel them now.
Think gently OF me; travel worn:
My faltering feet pierced with many a thorn
Forgive oh. hearts estranged forgive. I plead
When dreamless rest is mine l shall not need
The tenderness for which long tonight
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wiIberforce Poor CIubman.

From the London Chronicle
very undesirable cluhman. II Abra-
Fam Hayward is to be trusted. was Bish-
op Samuel Wiberforce. Hayward once
wrote to Edmund Yates about the bishop
that the committee Of the Athenaeum
were frequently obliged to write him
about his selfish Irregularities He lodged
in Pail Mall and lived at the club. After
breakfast ii was his custom TO sit upon
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would be reduced from sixteen to four;
Chicago's from fourteen to six; while
Pittsburg with eight commissioners will
have larger power than any other pres
bytery. The whole movement has a
far-reaching interest and Importance to
the Presbyterian Church in the United
States
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19
Occupation and Exercise.

Dr. Woods Hutchinson. in Outing.
No matter what your occupation. how
many or how few muscles 1t involves,
you are exercising far larger number
of muscle-strands than you have any
idea OF, and. for the most part, in such a
way as to do you not good and them
HARM rather than good, unless the ex-
ercise be of nature TO allow of frequent
rhythmic, undulating changes of move
ment. position. and attitude of the entire
body or large parts of IL
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There has been on end of dispute as
| TO who wrote the poem, IF | Should Die
Tonight" 1t has been credited to vari-
Gus authors. but it has been fairly well
established that the lines were written
| by Miss Arabella +. Smith In the
| height of the controversy, on January
p 1889. William NJ. Brooks. the presi-
dent OF Tabor College, at Tabor. Iowa
wrote the following letter. claiming for
Miss Smith the authorship:
Mrs. NJ. y. RObinson-Dear Madam:
Yours of the 9TH is at hand. I first
met Miss Arabella f. Smith twenty
nine years ago. when she first came to
Tabor as a student writer, friend, and
, associate teacher. She wrote poetry and
prose exceptionally well in those early
years. Miss Smith is, and always has
been entirely trustworthy and an earnest
Christian. She wrote a great deal be-
fore she thought of publishing anything
Rev. j. X Nutting, a Congregational
minister, now of Freedom, Ohio, was in
Tabor on some occasion many years
ago. He heard of Miss Smith and her
literary attainments, and asked her to
let him send a poem to the Advance,
Chicago, for publication. The Advance
has since published several poems and
some prose pieces. Her articles have
appeared either without name or with
initials, sometimes b. s. sometimes "A
E S. and sometimes b. f. s. bella
Z. SMITH.
I'm the early years OF her writing the
Advance and Guardian, New York pub
lished a dozen or more of her poems,
and the Illustrated Christian Weekly.
and the Congregationalist have also pub
lished her pieces
THE poem, IF Should Die Tonight
was not written at a sitting,l like most
of her poems. but was an outgrowth of
an experience running over some years,
and gradually shaped itself in her mind
in the autumn of 1872, and was COM
mitted to writing early in the winter of
1872 and 1873. 1t was first sent to the
Illustrated Christian Weekly and refused
Only few friends saw it, among them
the wife of Rev. o. V Rice. now of
Columbus. Nebr., to whom nearly all
of Miss Smiths poems were sent in
manuscript.
Some months after It was refused by
the Christian Weekly it was sent to the
Christian Union, and published in that
paper June Is, 1873. This was the first
publication of the poem. The Christian
Union has also published other poems
of Miss Smiths writing. including The
Measure of Love- and Beside the Dead.
Those who know Miss Smith have not
the slightest shadow of a doubt as to
her authorship of the poem. IF Should
Die Tonight
Very respectfully yours.
WILLIAM NJ. BROOKS.
President Tabor COLLEGE"
When, early in 1887. Mr.. Rider Hag-
gard published his novel. Jess" there
was a great hue and cry of plagiarism
Among other evidences of insanity Jess
was given to relieving her overcharged
soul by dropping into poetry. and when
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

likely to become rector of Christ Church
Springfield. Mass, grew out of an IN
quiry as to whether DR.. Kinsolving were
open tn the call. He replied he was not
In this connection it Is noteworthy that
no rector of old St Paurs has ever re-
signed to accept a call elsewhere, and the
parish Is over 900 years old
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19
"Oh, Lyric Love-"

II l. H. in Womau's Home ConraniOu.
First Cat-HOw Sweetly you sing 7
never heard anything so enhancing q,
What was that last song
Second Cat (sentimentallyl-If | had
?oo0 lives to live, I'd live them all for
you.
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DIR. Woodrow to Preach.

At the Sunday morning service ir o..
First Congregational Church Or Woo
row announces as his subject The bless
ing Of sleep" In the evening service he
Will continue the series opened two
weeks ago, his subject being "PapaI
DOltcy'
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when He Was Slow.

From the Toledo Blade.
swift is the swiftest proposition l ever
saw"
rs he? Did he ever owe you any mon
ayr
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two newspapers while reading third. or
10 retire with 4 whole bundle" The type
still survives in less exalted quarters
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ItsptCII uIIy yours,
WILLIAM NJ. BROOKS.

When, early in 1887. Mr.. Rider Hag-
gard published his novel. Jess" there
was great hue and cry of plagiarism
Among other evidences of insanity Jess
was given TO relieving her overcharged
soul by dropping into poetry, and when
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

The c. Z. mission study class of I'M
manuel Baptist Society completed on
Thursday its study of 'The advance in
tho Antilles" and has arranged to take
up next Thursday. THE why and how
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

Mr.. c. w. Ashbaugh, a graduate of
the Karl Lehman School OF C. Z.
methods and a busy member of the
Knox Memorial United Presbyterian
Society. has moved from the city and viii
be missed by his Endeayor friends.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

The Washington chorus which is to
sing at the Atlantic City c. f. conven-
ton will meet for practice on Friday,
March 81, at o'clock. in the music room
of the Percy S. Foster Piano Company,
1S2O G. street.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

The talk about Rev Or. Kinsolving
rector of old St. Pauls, Baltimore, as
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

The flower committee of the Eastern
Presbyterian Society, under the direction
of the executive officers. recently visited
the Children's Hospital The children's
hearts were gladdened by gifts of toys
and flowers and the Endeavorers spent a
pleasant hour cutting paper dolls with
the tots.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-19

Brookland Baptist c. f. Society and
Brookland Methodist Epworth League
will hold a joint meeting tomorrow even
ing at $50 IN the Baptist church. The ser
vice will be in charge of Mr.. Charles
Springer, OF the Epworth League