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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26
The Johns Hopkins
University
BALTIMORE, MD.
Entrance Examinations
Engineering Scholarships

Applications for Scholarships in
the School Of Engineering, es-
tablished under provisions Of
the Laws of Maryland, Chapter
30, 1912, will now be received.
If there is more than one appli-
cant for a particular scholar
ship, competitive examinations
will be held September %, 1922,
beginning at 9 a. m.
Each Legislative District of
Baltimore City and each County
Of the State, with the exception
of Caroline, Cecil, Queen Anse,
Talbot and Worcester, will be
entitled to one or more engi-
neering scholarships for the
year l922-1923. in addition TO
those already assigned. In the
five counties mentioned, all
available scholarships have been
awarded.
Under the provisions of the Act
Of Assembly, the County and
City Scholarships in the School
Of Engineering are awarded
only to deserving students
whose financial circumstances
are such that they are unable
10 obtain an education in Engi-
neering unless free tuition be
granted them.
The Scholarships entitle the
holders to free tuition, free use
of text books, and exemption
from all regular fees. One of
the scholarships in each County
and in each Legislative District
of the City carries also the sum
of 5000. The expense Of atten-
dance for those who do not re-
ceive scholarships is not great
er than at other Maryland insti-
tutions.
Scholarships may be awarded to
graduates Of Loyola College, st.
Johns College, Washington Col
lege, Western Maryland College
University of Maryland Mary
land Agricultural College,, Mt.
81. Mary's College and Rock
Hill College
Applicants should address The
Registrar, The Johns Hopkins
University, for blank application
forms and for catalogues of in
formation regarding examina-
tions, award of scholarships,
and courses of instruction. The
next session begins Tuesday.
October 8.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26
STATE
CAPITAL.
Richie Acts Promptly.

Baltimore
Governor Richie appointed certified
public accountants to audit the books
Of Maurice NJ. Wolf. a Philadelphia
operator of a stock pool, with Offices
in this city
The appointment followed the chal-
lenge to operators Of blind pools by b.
Howell Griswold, Jr.. OF the banking
firm OF Alexander Brown g. Son. that
they open their books to recognized
public accountants that the public
might be informed Of the disposition
OF money invested with the operators.
Mr. Wolff accepted the challenge on
condition that Judge John c. Sc. Of
the United States District Court, or
Governor Richie appoint the account
ants. The Governors action followed
after he had been unable to reach
Judge Rose by telephone at his sum.
mer home at Blue Hills. Maine.
81 acted from a spirit of fair play
Mr. Griswold said. IF the integrity
and honesty of any OF these blind
pools are affected they readily can
seize this opportunity to clear them
selves. acted primarily because OF
the large number of fraudulent
schemes now being practiced in va
rious cities. Many have made claims
which are hard for the people to be-
lieve."
Mr.. Wolf laid down two conditions
in his letter of acceptance. He in
sisted that no names Of his investors
shall be given to the public nor to
newspapers. and that names Of brok-
ers with whom he is doing business be
treated as confidential.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26
Monumen, to Hog is Dedicated.

dwelling OF monument 10 a hog
~ Blue Ball. o.. was attended by hun
,lreds Of stock breeders from all over
the country. The monument was 10
Il hog owned by the late W G. Hnnkin-
ION. who wrote the first hog pedigree
and established the Poland China
strain The honored hog was the first
Of that line.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26
Men
OF The U. S. ARMY
Shocked Old Infantry School, but
Also Shocked Enemy.
REAL TWO-FISTED FIGHTERS

Often a Man Would Use a Pistol In
One Hand and a Rife In the Other,
Each With Equal Ease-No Pro
vision Whatever Was Made for the
Especial instruction Of Men Who
Were Naturally Left-Handed-Pro-
portion About One In Twenty.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26
Nest and Baby Robins on Freight Car

A nest containing two baby robins
was found on top OF a freight car In a
train nj Arkville. y. Y. The car had
been picked up by the train at West
Davenport, 81 miles away. The car
and birds were sent back there. where
the mother bird soon found her little
ones.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26
Opposite Views

His-Gad! What a short skirt that
girl is wearing.
Hers-Heavens. What long legs
she has.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-26

Destiny shapes our ends" quoted
the Wise Guy. But seems TO balk at
making ends meet" added the Simple
Mug.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
A Prophecy of 1870.

WTHEN Carleton was dying in
w 1870 he said there would be
nothing more about Irish literature
for twenty years, and his words
were fulfilled, for the land war had
filled Ireland with its bitterness;
but imagination had begun to stir
again; | had the same confidence
in the future that Lady Gregory
and l had eight or nine years later.
when we founded an Irish theater,
though there were neither, as it
seemed, plays nor players. There
were already a few known men to
start my popular series, and to keep
il popular until the men, whose
names l did not know, had learned
to express themselves. l had met
Dr. Douglas Hyde when / lived in
Dublin, and he was still an under
graduate. / had set him down as a
peasant, and wondered what
brought him to college, and to a
Protestant college, but somebody
explained that he belonged to some
branch of the Hydes of Castle
Hyde, and that he had a Protestant
rector for father. He had much
frequented the company of old
ccuntrymen, and had so acquired
the Irish language, and his taste for
snuff and for moderate quantities
of a detestable species of illegal
whisky distilled from the potato
by certain of his neighbors. He
had already-though intellectual
Dublin knew nothing of it-consid-
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

dred people who wish to read it
without forcing some of them to
wait long, long time--until. in
fact, the clergyman, or the study
club leader, or the lecturer have
begun to drop Mr.. Wells and to talk
about Mr.. Van Loon and his history.
There is no modern scheme of eff
cheney which will make ten copies
of "If Winter Comes" or of "Cythe-
rea" satisfy, the insistent demands
of hundreds, thousands, of appli-
cants who wish the book within a
few weeks of publication.
But" grandly says the critic,
buy more copies" 1t is at this
point that the librarian shows his
self-control by not sinking back in
his chair and allowing his whole
frame to be racked with sobs. Buy
more copiesl He wishes he had
money enough to buy any copies at
all of many books whose absence is
a reproach. He does not weep, how
ever; he merely indicates gently
that the library is hard up. What?
Not money enough?" says the critic.
why, l supposed you had all the
money you need-with all this."
And wave of the hand toward the
mural painting representing the dis
covery of printing, or the marble
columns in the reading room, or
the bronze statue of the founder of
the library illustrates his belief in
untold boards at the librarians dis
posal.-From "Whafs the Matter
With the PabHc Libraryw By Ed
mund Lester Pearson in the Inde-
pendent.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
The Arthurian Legends.

INHE project for poetical rendi-
L tion of the Arthurian legends
was entertained by the poet for
many years. 1t found its first ex-
preston in "The Lady of Shalott," :"
which appeared in the poems of
1888, and was followed in 1887 by
"St. Agnes" and in 1912 by three
more lyrics: "Sir Galahad," "Sir
Launcelot" and Queen Guinevere." 4"
The 1912 volumes also contain
"Morte d'Arthur," which later be-
came part of 'The Passing of
Arthur" The Arthurian scheme
was broadened in scope when fif-
teen years later Tennyson had his
printers produce trial copies in
folded sheets of two epics under the
title Enid and Nimue, or the True
and the False" These were sent to
critical friends with injunction to
return to the author. Only three of
these trial copies are now known
to have survived. One was pre-
sented to the British Museum by
Francis Turner Palgrave; one was
bequeathed with other books to
South Kensington Museum by John
Forster, and one, discovered among
the books of Sir John Simeon many
years after his decease, was sent by
Lady Simeon in 1904, with a few
other volumes from Sir Johns IL
brary, to be sold at auction.-Fronl
my TennySons." By William Har-
ris Arnold in Scribner'S Magazine.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Shakespeare's Songs.

DERHAPS only a primary inten-
= tion can be claimed for Sigh
nc more. ladies'" Benedick, hiding
III the arbor, was meant to hear the
song, although it was ostensibly
sung for Claudio, but at least some
thing more than an obvious effect
may be claimed for a ditty which.
chanting women's revolt against
love, thus partly gives the counter
part to Benedick's interrupted re-
fiections on the revolt of men. On
the borderline we find also at was
a lover and his lass" snatch of
the poetic idyllic calculated with
Freudian ingenuity to show Touch
stone, with Audrey at his side, what
bis unconscious" was thinking of
the practical idyllic, and that nice
food fer Jacques's spleen, Under
the greenwood tree" and Tell me
where is fancy bred" to which Bas-
sanio was not supposed to listen,
though, overhearing its words. he
must insensibly be turned away
from the outward shows. In
Twelfth Night" We come upon two
deliberate exercises of secondary
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Pope After Two Centuries.

WHAT remains of the great Lord
w Bolingbroke's London resi-
dence must be demolished to make
room for -four mill extension, and
the famous Cedar Room in which
Alexander Pope is said to have
written his Essay ON Man" will be
sold, says the London Times, and
brought to America. What will be
it's fate in this country is not re-
ported. But whether museum will
boast of it or it becomes the den"
of an American millionaire, it will
be far enough from the tastes and
thoughts that linked the rimes
and modulated the rhythms of the
Essay on Man." We feel that our
problems are not solved by antique
saws, however learnedly culled-no
more, in fact, were theirs. Even
more strongly, perhaps, our younger
people feel that the new wine of
our spirit cannot be neld IN Sucn
old bottles of rigid form. Never
theless the visitor to this shrine
may not improperly reflect that not
what Pope himself thought to be
very modern in his verse gives it
life to-day. We are further from its
eighteenth century modernism than
from its spirit of humanistic re-
straint; what he thought was mere
bottle-the carrying forward of the
great tradition of discipline and
form-was, in fact, its living wine;
what he thought was new wine
its eighteenth century thinking
has turned out to be mere bottle
From the Independent.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Hard Work and Experience.

THE fog of 'Bohemianism" which,
u until quite lately, surrounded
the doings of the journalist has
probably deluded good many people
as to how a journalist came into
successful being. His origin, his
experiences, his struggles, his
method of work were all obscure.
The public saw him only when he
arrived" and hence it was exeus-
able to believe that he had suddenly
and miraculously jumped into fame,
and that others might do the same.
Bu; the reality was widely different.
There is hardly a successful writer
or the past who had not worked
through a long and trying expert
ence of difficulty, discouragement
and doubt whilst he was gaining
what he lacked-technica knowl-
ecge. Every successful writer has
had to gain this knowledge one way
or the other. Barrie, Stevenson,
Gissing-pick the names haphazard
ii you will-all could tell of dismal
days and discouraging failures.
They learned this lesson in the hard
sohool-experience.-From John o.
Lond0n'S Weekly.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Tribute to r. M. Ballantyne.

1T was Stevenson, was it not, who
l. remarked that he would sacri-
flee something very valuable-per.
haps his entire list of writings-to
have written The Coral Island?
Personally, l would not have il in
exchange for Treasure Island;
but 'tis a brave tale, the magRRm
opus of Robert Michael Ballantyne
of the Hudson Bay Company. The
astonishing experiences of that de
lectable company of shipwrecked
adventures on a coral reef in the
Pacific are among the most moving
and memorable episodes in juvenile
letters. The wanderers themselves
liked it, for it will be remembered
that the irrepressible Peterkin
sought out his erstwhile compan-
ions of the coral strand and took
them upon adventures equally wild
in a sequel called THE Gorilla
Hunters" The first few paragraphs
Of this latter volume yield a clew
to the excellence of ,he Juvenile
literature of that day: they could
have been written only by Ballan-
tyne-or Dickensi That is the
secret. 1t was a day of honest
writing, and the writers for adult
readers had no monopoly of ideals
or invention. Ballantyne was, and
is, the Dickens of juvenile litera-
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Dickens and the Pirates.

HNE collector, as well as the bibli-
l. ographer, of Dickens's first
editions has a sufficiently wide field
for his energies without concerning
himself with publications which
would never have seen light but
for the enormous popularity of
Sketches by Boz" and other fiction
by Charles Dickens. Mr.. Eckers
photography" of Dickens's first
editions runs into 300 pages: and a
complete photography of Dicken-
siana, such as plays founded upon
his novels, pirated editions, imita-
tions and parodies, would probably
fill up almost as much space. The
limitations" form a very interest
ing phase in the byways of collect
ing, and the curious fact in connec-
tiontion with them is that they are
without exception far rarer than
their prototypes, and even more diff
ficult to obtain in collectors -
copies. They illustrate a bygone
phase of literary Grub street which
would be impossible to-day: and
their promoters would now receive
scant consideration from our magis-
trates. Prom the London Times.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
The Tennysons at Cambridge.


TT HE next year, 1928. both Alfred
l. and Charles matriculated at
Trinity, where they soon became
leaders of a literary group of aspir-
ing students. A relic of this period
now in my possession is a classical
atlas which belonged to Alfred and
has his name written on the white
lining Of the front cover. Also in
his delicate hand on the inside OF
the back cover is a list of class
mates, doubtless the sympathetic
intimates of the young poet. Here
among a score of names we find
Meriyale. who became dean of Ely
and the distinguished historian OF
Rome; Mines, later Lord Houghton.
the first biographer of Keats; Sci
win, afterward Anglican Bishop of
New Zealand; Butler, who gained
fame as a Liberal statesman, and
Hallam, brother poet, the best be
loved. The subject for the English
prize poem at the University OF
Cambridge for the year 1929 was
"Timbuctoo Tennyson was the
successful competitor. In accord
ance with custom the author would
have read the poem in the Senate
House, but then, as in later life. he
had an aversion to all publicities
and, by request, his friend Meri-
vale relieved him of the distaste-
full honor-From ny TennysonS."
By William Harris Arnold in Serb
ner's Magasine.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Why Did Lafcadio Hearn Leave
Cincinnati?

why D1o Lafcadio f1earn Leave
Cincinnati?
MANY stories are told about
1'4 Hearn's departure from Gin
cinnati. Miss Kinnaird, a relative,
in her biography, hints at love
affair which did far more credit to
his heart than to his head. There
is tradition of a long illness, when
he was nursed by a faithful negress.
and of an attempt to marry her by
way of expressing his gratitude:
which was frustrated by friends,
who furnished the means to get him
out of the city, on his way to New
Orleans. But a stronger motive
existed in the fascination which the
tropics always exerted upon his i'm
agination. The narrative published
ia the Birmingham Nelcs some
years ago by Rudolph Benson,
based upon statements made by Ed
win henderson, then city editor OF
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
and afterward city clerk in Cincin-
natl, seems to me to explain per-
fectly why New Orleans attracted
Hearn. Mr.. Henderson says that
Hearn had been on the Enquirer,
and had done work for that paper
which was considered very remark
able, notably the reporting of the
famous lanyard murders, but had
been dismissed by Mr.. Cockerill "be-
cause, it was alleged, of his deplor-
able personal habits" What these
"ceplorable habits" were we are not
informed.-From "Lafcadio Hearn
in NeU Orleans" By John S. Ken
dali in the Double Dealer.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Hearn's Appearance and Politics.

HEARN was a most unprepos-
IL sessing object at first sight
That odd, rolling eye CT his was the
only thing you could see at first
enormous, protruding. After you
got used to that eye you saw that
his other features were very good
and his face refined. But in addi-
tion, when he first presented him.
self here he was miserably dressed,
and even his hands were grimy and
his nails black. One reason why
Bigney hesitated about taking him
on was that we had heard that he
had to leave Memphis on account
of his violently republican ideas.
Perhaps l oughtn't to tell that even
now-but surely the war is over by
this time! In those days, however,
it was a serious thing in this part
of the world, and it worked against
Hearn.-From "Ldfcadio Hedrn in
NeiC Orleans" By John S. Kendall
in the Double Dealer.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

The Librarian and His Problem.
MOT the brightest and most eff
cient wonder worker of a
trained librarian can make three
copies of Mr.. Wells's Outline of
History go round among four hum
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

hO NuhtCu. EfVHt tbC LOHNOH
TIMES.
Disraelis Byronic Manner.
byron died in 1924. Disraeli
ID carried on" in 1926 by pub
fishing at 21 his first novel, "Vivian
Grey in which the hero, meditat-
ing career in Parliament, thinks
Don Juan" may serve as a model
for his style in the Commons,
Milton in the House of Lords. He
introduced Byron as Apollo in his
delectable skit "Ixion in Heaven"
and as Lord Cadurcis in "venetia."
Travelling through the East in imi-
tation of his predecessor, he con-
ceived his Revolutionary Epick,"
with it's apotheosis OF Napoleon, at
a Byronic moment, standing" as
he tells us, with full sense of the
romantic magnificenee of his pos
ture, upon Asia, and gazing upon
Europe, with the broad Hellespont
alone between us, and the shadow
of night descending on the noun
tains." He carried on by returning
to England smoking a chibouk in
token of his Oriental sojourn. He
wrote Oriental tales. He thought
himself a great poet afflicted with a
hopeless woe. He INDUCED in
gloomy vapors and in outbursts of
cynicism. He anticipated the sallies
of Whistler and Wilde by remark
ing to a host who had praised his
own wine at a dinner party and
boasted that he had wine twenty
times as good in the cellar: mo
doubt, no doubt, but my dear fellow.
this is quite good enough for such
cdnaiHe as you have got to-day"
He carried on the Byronic dandy
ism as a readily available means
of imposing upon the imagination
of his time-From "The Disrdelian
irony" By Stuart p. Sherman in
The Bookmdn.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

cradle popularity as Gaelic poet.
mowers and reapers singing his
songs from Donegal to Kerry. Years
afterward / was to stand at his side
ard listen to Galway mowers sing
ing his Gaelic words without know
ing whose words they sang.-From
More Memoirs" By Willid~.. Butler
Yeats in the Dial.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

W. tftt ITttHtoH-
The Famous Walking Match.
T HAD barely time yesterday, after
i the girls left, to dress and pre-
pare some flowers and some lunch
and make my way in a carriage
first to the Parker House at Mr..
Dickens's kind request to see if all
the table arrangements were perfect
for the dinner. l found he had
done everything he could think of
to make the feast go off well and
had really left nothing for me to
suggest, so turned about and drove
over the mill dam, following Messrs.
Dickens, Dolby, Osgood and Fields,
who had left just an hour before on
a walking match of six miles out
and six in. This agreement was
made and articles drawn up several
weeks ago, signed and sealed in
wi Al W Oh thC pal W NolAC OA
without regard to the weather. The
wind was blowing strong from the
northwest, very cold and the snow
blowing, too. They had turned and
were coming back when | came up
with them. 0sgood was far ahead
and, after saluting them all and
giving a cheer for America, discoy
ering too that they had refreshed
on the way, l drove back to Mr.. 0s-
good, keeping near. him and adj
ministering brandy all the way in
town. The walk was accomplished
in precisely two hours forty-eight
minutes.-From With Dickens issz
America" By II. A. de Wolfe
HotCe in Hdrper's Magdzine.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
American and English Juveniles.

American and English Juveniles.
THE difference between American
L and British Juvenile fiction is
the difference between the interim
nable Alger books and the (if you
hke) interminable Henty books.
Each is possibly the best known
man in his particular field in his
own country. Alger wrote his
moralistic tales with a rubber
stamp, then filled in the names:
Henty worked carefully and pro-
duced a creditable literature, in
Guiding number of juvenile mas
terpieces. While Mr.. Owen John
sons Lawrenceville stories are
thoroughly and wonderfully Ameri-
can, they were not written for
boys any more than were Stephen
Cranes "Whilomville Stories" or
Mr.. Tarkington's "Penrod" tales:
they were written for men and
women. Even Mr.. Aldrich's de-
lightfui STORY of Bad Boy
even, if you please, tom Sawyer"
and "Huckleberry Finn" - find
greater favor with grownups than
they ever have found or ever will
find with boys. The Lawrenceville
tales by Mr.. Johnson do not Offset
the school stories of Talbot Baines
Reed, the Englishman: the latter
were specifically written for boys
and are specifically read by boys.
There can be no comparison be-
tween these writer's; but if we COM
pare Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Barbour we
must give the Englishman the best
of it.-FroBt Books OF the Golden
Age" By Vincent Starrett in the
Freeman.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
The Drama League Sign Post.

ILLICIT love in the new plays of
L this season was more or less
present in half of the twenty-five
put out on its Sign Post by the
Drama League in eighteen of the
fifty-one l saw"and in forty of one
hundred Of those given. While the
Drama League Sign Post has from
eight to ten plays on its list each
week, it marks but from one to
three of them with a dagger as
suitable for young people" That
does not mean plays for children,
as was shown when the League of
Christmas and Easter made special
lists for young people and added
such plays as Bulldog Drummond,"
Captain Applejack, Thank You,"
six Cylinder Love-" ITO the La
dies" &C., which they had not con-
sidered of sufficient distinction to
go in the regular weekly Sign Post,
and it must be admitted that most
OF the sex plays chosen by the
league were written with more dis
tinction and ability than these sup
Elementary antiseptic pieces, for
the postwar depression that kept
Barrie off the stage this season and
brought Shaw in Back to Methu-
selah" to about his lowest level had
sapped our comedy writer's of real,
rich, joyful zest. Shaw's picture of
life "as far as thought can reach"
was certainly horrible and depress-
ing. He showed future mankind as
living fifteen years in the egg, feel
ing sex attraction for but two, and
then giving themselves up to con-
temptation for the rest of a long
y life.-Front Drama of Ser, Disds-
ter and Hope" By Roland Holt in
the Forum.