minds disturb.
No organ grinders ever call,
No hucksters mar our peace;
For traffic shuns our neighborhood
And leaves us to our ease.

But now it lives and brightens,
Assumes a livelier hue;
The pavements wide,
On either side,
Would seem to feel it too.
You might not note the difference,
The change from grave to gay,
But I can tell, and know full well,
Priscilla walks our way."

Shortly after his return to college Richard celebrated his nineteenth
birthday, and received these letters from his father and mother:

April 17th, 1883.

MY DEAR BOY:

When I was thinking what I could give to you to-morrow, I remembered
the story of Herder, who when he was old and weak and they brought him
food and wine asked for "a great thought to quicken him."

So I have written some old sayings for you that have helped me. Maybe,
this year, or some other year, when I am not with you, they may give
you, sometimes, comfort and strength.

God bless you my son--

YOUR OLD MOTHER

who loves you dearly--dearly.

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
PHILADELPHIA, April 17th, 1883.

MY DEAR BOY:

You are to be nineteen years old on Wednesday. After two years more
you will be a man. You are so manly and good a boy that I could not
wish you to change in any serious or great thing. You have made us
very happy through being what you have been, what you are. You fill us
with hope of your future virtue and usefulness.

To be good is the best thing of all; it counts for more than anything
else in the world. We are very grateful that you have even in youth
been wise enough to choose the right road. You will find it not easy
to keep upon it always, but remember if you do get off struggle back to
it. I do not know but I think God loves the effort to do as well as
the act done.

I congratulate you my dear son, on your new birthday. I wish you
health, happiness and God's loving care. May he bless you my son
forever. I enclose a trifle for your pleasure. My love to you always,
but God bless you dear Dick.

DAD.

In the fall of 1885, Richard decided to leave Lehigh and go to John
Hopkins University, where he took a special course in such studies as
would best benefit him in the career which he had now carefully
planned. Dur