and have graduated. A few have entered universities for the hearing after graduating from Gallaudet. A talented architect residing in St. Louis is a graduate of Gallaudet School for the Deaf, St. Louis; of Gallaudet College for the Deaf, Washington; and of Washington University, St. Louis. I do not believe there is a college or university in existence where one who is a "deaf-mute," "deafand-dumb," or "deaf" will be denied a degree provided he is otherwise qualified. Gallaudet College does not confine its degrees to the deaf. Persons not deaf, among them graduates of various State universities, of Yale, Harvard, Amherst, Trinity and many others, who have made notable contributions to the department of education of the deaf have been the recipients of degrees from Gallaudet-among them the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. R JAMES H. CLOUD. A "FAKE" REVIVED ECENTLY in an impassioned speech upon the floor of Congress reference Iwas made to "the burning of witches" in Salem, and within a few months something of the same sort has repeatedly appeared in magazines of supposed intelligence and of such high grade as the late "Unpopular Review"-still later the "Unpartisan Review." People with any familiarity with New England history know that the victims of the lamentable witchcraft delusion, nineteen in number, were put to death in the usual official manner of the time-that is, by hanging-though one was under English law pressed to death with heavy weights, not because he was accused of practicing the black art but because he refused to plead, his motive perhaps being that his family would thus save his property from forfeiture. It is reasonable to believe that in England the same fate would have befallen him under the same conditions. The persistence with which this idea prevails that the Salem victims suffered at the stake suggests the ease with which historic myths get started and the difficulty of uprooting them-especially when they are damaging to the good name of the Puritan clergy of New England. The foregoing considerations are submitted because another New England myth seems in a fair way of general acceptance, in spite of its absurdity. Last year the Houghton Mifflin Company published a book by Mary Rogers Bangs entitled "Old Cape Cod: The Land; the Men; the Sea," on pages 78-9 of which occurs the following statement in apparently the best of faith: Quakers held parsons in light esteem, yet not one of the Cape clergy could have conceived such a plan as Cotton Mather, in 1682, spread before Higginson of Salem. "There be now at sea a skipper," wrote he, "which has aboard a hundred or more of ye heretics and malignants called Qua kers, with William Penn, who is ye scamp at ye head of them." Mather went on to recount that secret orders had gone out to waylay the ship "as near ye coast of Codde as may be and make captives of ye Penn and his ungodly crew, so that ye Lord may be glorified, and not mocked on ye soil of this new country with ye heathen worship of these people." Then the astounding proposition: "Much spoil can be made by selling ye whole lot to Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rumme and sugar. We shall not only do ye Lord great service by punishing the Wicked, but shall make gayne for his ministers and people." The precious scheme somehow miscarried, the threatened engagement off "Codde" did not take place, and Philadelphia was founded. Now the very archaisms of this preposterous letter, so laboriously wrought, would arouse suspicion, the effort to imitate a seventeenth-century style of English being fairly apparent. Moreover, if such a letter really existed, the almost universal disposition to deride the Puritan clergy would have long since made its phrases almost household words among the present generation, and it would not have been left to be drawn from its obscurity by a rather negligible book in 1920. From the point of view of the modern unregenerate, the "letter" with its delicious suggestions of "rumme and sugar" and "gayne" for the clergy is altogether "too good to be true." Furthermore, it is a fair supposition that if Cotton Mather had heard that a ship-load of Quakers was on its way to such a distant point as what was to be Philadelphia, he would have thanked God that such ill-disposed persons were not headed for Boston-to insist on being hanged. At any rate, he certainly would not have suggested the selling into slavery of so influential a person as William Penn, the personal friend of the Duke of York, brother to King Charles and heir apparent to the throne itself. As a matter of fact the "letter" went the rounds of the American newspaper press in 1891, and, strange to say, actually imposed upon persons of intelligence. The Rev. Dr. Heber Newton read it from his pulpit as genuine, and the editor of the Albany "Evening Times," T. C. Callicot, could not make up his mind to reject it as a forgery. But the New York "Sun," which justly described it "as the work of a humorist rather than of a deliberate and mercenary impostor," in its issue of June 19, 1891, in a half-column editorial, gave the history of this engaging fraud on the evidence of an unnamed Easton, Pennsylvania, correspondent. It first appeared in the Easton "Argus" of April 28, 1870, and was the concoction of its editor, James F. Shunk, son of a one-time Governor of Pennsylvania and son-in-law of Judge Jeremiah S. Black. It was introduced as having been discovered by "Mr. Judkins, librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society," among the papers "of the late Robert Greenleaf, of Malden," neither of which persons ever existed, as was speedily discovered by Massachusetts investigators-or perhaps it would be more exact to say that the Massachusetts Historical Society never had a librarian named Judkins, and no Robert Greenleaf had ever been heard of in Malden. But the full humor of the "letter" can be best exhibited by a transcription of Mr. Shunk's effort as originally printed, premising that the text that went the rounds in 1891 was slightly abridged, a few lines of the 1870 version being omitted: September ye 15th, 1682. To ye aged and beloved Mr. John Higginson: There be now at sea a shippe (for our friend Mr. Esaias Holcroft of London did advise me by the last packet that it wolde sail some time in August) called ye Welcome, R. Greenaway, master, which has aboard an hundred or more of ye heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penne, who is ye Chief Scampe at ye hedde of them. Ye General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Huxett of ye brig Porposse to waylaye ye said Welcome slylie as near ye coast of Codde as may be and make captive ye said Penne and his ungodlie crewe so that ye Lord may be glorified and not mocked on ye soil of this new countrie with ye heathen worshippe of these people. Much spoyle can be made by selling ye whole lotte to Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rumme and sugar, and we shall not only do ye Lord great service by punishing ye wicked, but we shall make great gayne for his ministers and people. Master Huxett feels hopefull and will set down the newes he brings when his shippe comes back. Yours in ye bowells of Christ, COTTON MATHER. And to think that this sort of thing should be treated as history! FREDERICK J. SHEPARD. Buffalo, New York. 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He has been prominent in various local and National Civil Service Commissions, a member of the New York Board of Education, and Vice-President of the American Bar Association. He is the author of "Daniel Webster, Expounder of the Constitution," "Sixty Years of American Life," "A Lawyer's Study of the Bible," etc. T HOMAS MASSON is one of the best known of American critics and essayists. He has been literary and man. aging editor of "Life" since 1893, and is the author of several volumes, includ ing "A Bachelor's Baby, and Some Grown-ups," "A Corner in Women," and "The Best Stories in the World." has edited many collections, such as "Humorous Masterpieces of American Literature," "Humor of Love in Verse," and "Best Short Stories." His home is in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He JOHN BALLARPitar and a native of wis magazine writer and a native of Wisconsin. He did newspaper work in that State for several years and was later a correspondent in the Northwest for New York and Chicago papers. 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AMERICAN DISTRICT STEAM COMPANY ADSCO HEATING The Taste of Summer lingers in our JAMS JELLIES FRESH FRUITS The Outlook NOVEMBER 1, 1922 LYMAN ABBOTT, FOR FORTY-SIX YEARS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THIS JOURNAL, DIED IN NEW YORK CITY ON OCTOBER 22, IN THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE He to twith he E looked forward to this day without dread; he even looked for it with curiosity; for he thought of it as the beginning of a great adventure, as a time of falling asleep and waking to find himself at home, as a passage across the threshold to another room. He had fought a good fight-he was willing to trust his comrades to continue the battle. He had finished his course he was willing to trust his message to those who would carry it on. He had kept the faith-and he was willing to trust that the. faith would still be guarded. Many have faith like his in God; but not many have such faith as his in men. In no respect did he show this faith more clearly than in the conduct of this journal. The trust that he reposed in his associates remains to-day their greatest heritage from him. Because he trusted his associates, he laid upon their shoulders during the latter years of his life a steadily increasing responsibility for editorial decisions. He did this, not because he sought relief from labor, but because he saw that only in this way could that labor be made enduring. He did this freely and happily because he knew that his associates shared his convictions concerning the fundamental principles of life. These principles he found supremely expressed in Jesus of Nazareth. Every problem of conduct, whether involving individual action or National policy, he referred to those principles for solution. He became and remained, as he said, the student of one Book and the follower of one Man. Life he saw as a struggle, and the end of that struggle was life. Conflict he neither sought nor avoided, but when he found himself in the midst of battle he fought for the peace of victory. This is the peace which he sought in his own life, in the life of his own land, and in the development of humankind. Believing in the peace of victory, he found natural comrades in those who, like himself, were doers as well as preachers of the Word. So in his earlier years he fought side by side with Beecher; so in his later years he gave his trust and support to Roosevelt. He was indifferent to partisan and factional labels. If consistency meant stubborn adherence to what he found to be false, he was willing to be inconsistent. He kept his mind always open to new evidence and was unafraid in the search for truth. He could change his opinions without fear because he knew his convictions were unchangeable. The power which Lyman Abbott exercised through this journal lay not chiefly in what he wrote, though the simplicity of his style was the most fitting medium for the clarity of his thought. Nor did his power lie chiefly in the counsel he gave, though that was invariably wise. His power lay chiefly in his life. He not only preached justice, mercy, and loyalty to the eternal; he was just, merciful, and loyal in all that he did and all that he was. That power is a living force to-day. Many times before this he has gone, as now again he has gone into another room. We are not reconciled to the loss of the sound of his voice; we cannot so soon accustom ourselves to the thought that we shall not see him again; but we shall not be deprived of the power that he imparted, for that is the power of his life. |