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THE 8UXDAT OBEGONUK, PORTtAND, JA-CTAItY 37, lOT. 51 1 im --r . 4sa The Srfond ;neratt'n, by Tavid Graham I hilllps. Illu-trHi-d. JJ1.60. D. Appletoa Co., ,Xow York City. Mr. IMilltlpa is alreatiy favorably known In the wvrki of llcLion as a. writer of stirring, up-to-duto American novels, Miitlj as "The Deluge," "The Plum Tree," etc. Hi nrwost book "The Second Genera tion," Is as American as Bunker Hill, and Is Instinct with tho Phillips Indus- trial and social pictures stnd Action. Its ceatral 1 1. onto 1h tho proposition that ric h American fathers who brlns up their children in aristocratic idleness which is mistaken for ease, miutt be content when tlice children srow up to b unobs and fo.s or the Repuhllo. let. happy home life Bl3 seen in tfte eurroundlnpa or Arthur Hanger and his wile Madeline Ranger, M. !.. in the bent and moat alluring ulc- t lire ofTorptl. bcotiiso it Illustrates that hard work and honetit living biiia; tholr own reward. Mr. phUUpa is to be con- cratulalcd on striking euch. & ringlllff, optimiatlc note. He brlnsjs a real sllmpae or Munnlilno. The scene or tho story is St. Ohrlsto- phcr, ft Wcgiern city, tnq lucntuy ot whith Is concealed, and tlic factory llf -rlosrorlboo! la that In the flour mflln and o-iperafte shops of the Rangor-Whitney Company, employing- about looo men. At llrst, the central and most iirrolo !n the industrial scenes Is that of Hiram linger, over SO years old. tho manufac turing p&xtner and controlling owner of the mills. His Idle eon Arthur, a liar- vara student who has failed to paai Ills examination!: his daughter. Adelaide, a tyoe or an arlHtoeratlc rollegt &irl. and hl.j wife Bllen these people carry on most Of the action. The new rich and Idlers who won't work for their living because they don't need to do so, are c-rlt.ois.-a. Side by side with Industrial pictures, are presented the sociolo-Ioa.l problems of TecumsetU Agricultural mi Classical L'nlverslty.. Here Is a concrete lilt, timm In v Inherited wealth la the curse of this world. Have you ivw loOltfd ftbOUt '0U In tills town and thought of Its steady decay, moral :id phyalcRl 7 Ood proaprred the hard -work ins wn who foundad it But Inatead or appreclatlDK nln blesnlnK. they reinrdri) the WWU) ht gavQ them ttKlr own, na they left It to their chlldr5n. And now th-lr Mtn la brln vlitlted upon the third uiirl fourth ncnfTHtlon! Industry has bea lowly puralyzln. ThO young people -whope wealth yave them ih Vwt orpoHunltloi tret Iddlni ldl( lives, ifl full of vanity of class and caste: are mpPtl In tho alna thai tnvr follow In the w ik- or ldlensM the sins or selflxhneM snd Indulgence. Jntttesd of being; workers, lead- inc in the march upward, mmtid ot wi the position for which their superior oppor tunities should have fitted them, they set tan (.taniplf or Idleness snd Indolenct, They dnsplsp their anct utry or tol 1 which should Ve their prWt, Thy pnu themseivea upoa thft paraaltUm which Is their fihftm. Th Ikw or Inheritance has been mblet to do Ha "1'vii'B work upon the beet element In every tinman aoriety. upon thme who had the WOS, tfflLtcnt and exemplary parents. No wonder progros. Is slow, uhn lilt lfadetrs of each arennration have to be de veloped from the bottom all over attain, and. tvhen tho Ideal of useful work la obscured. by Hi? false. Ideal of living without work. Waiting for dead men's shoes! Dead men'l shoes. Instead of shoe, of one's own. Hiram Ranger believed so firmly in the truths Just mentioned, that he made a will bequeathing to hla wife tils house and furniture and 7000 yearly: to his daughter, S2M0 yearly; to his son, $5000 in cauli: and the remainder of his estate, after several minor legacies are deducted, to be converted Into a trust and the pro ceeds administered for the benefit of Tecumseth University. A proviso was attached by which Arthur Ralmer could in a number of years buy back his father's share in the mills. Just them, tlio elder Ranger died, and t first the directions of his will wero cliaeappointlna: to hla family. But condi tions slowly unfolded themselves and uUlmately Arthur Ranger dropped his dudo airs and began as an ordinary workman to lo&rn tho details of his late father's bualneaa. Of couraa he aua- ceeded, and in addition took part in a pretty love story and gained 4 wife who w.s a real helpmate. The ways of Idla srlxtoorats and the worthless socle t v loarers of the district sjene rally are en- icrialnlnjly dcscrtW, and the reader can't repress a chuckle as he reads about drones meeting with drones fates. A Strange 1w, by Henry S. Wilcox. Th&mpson 4 Thomai. Chicago, X'o doubt about It. Mr. Wilcox, who 1 a member of the Chicago bar, writes with courtga but not with the practiced skill o( a writer ct stories- wunm tne com pass of 20 paires he trys to show th Je-lou paths of st land steal by which a ruthless railroad corporation schemes to rob the people. But the literary work- manshlp Is amateurish and leans toward the arotesque. The book Is not on the vamo grade with Mr. Wilcox's previous success. "F-oIblea of the Bench." Gen erally (speaking, there are too many flaws In "A Stranje.Flw." Henirs of East Mtr. West, bv Walter Ms lone. John S. Morton afc Co.. x.outsvIile. Ky. It Is a5j' to pick out tier ana there from the pages of this book of poetry Mr. Malone's wsrm. sentimental South ern sentimentality, and It is not surpris ing to afterward read that he be I on ft-s tg Tennessee. His mooa, thcug'u larjeiy Southern. Is alyo Cosmopolitan, and his lines have disrnlty and musical charm. lflfflrtii imNMt ttift rffitnf a. S From vast antipbooes n. la Beyond me grave 10 ine cory lamp, mose pictures on tne vfoLL 4 urn 1 i. i i e II'.s sympathy Is hearty and deep, and when he touches on domestic themes his treatment of thetn reminds one of the viaTOr of Walt Whitman. Ills finest senti ment Is met with in "Omar In Heaven." while his sterner self is revealed In "The Captured Battleship." He tells how' this ship was captured by the enemy in battle and was afterward compelled to sail un der an alien flat;. Her Bbostly crew that vent down to death rather than face sur render are eonntantly cryins for ven- RSAnco to the captured battleship, and the poem ends: Sometimes it duali I hear my sailors call, And see their handa a-beckoning from the deep: "Ota come." they tell me. '-Show -shem stter all Tour faith, your honor you will die to keep,'' God grant some night an awful storm shall rise. Ant!i"l'V f chance for Tenaeance on How I shall ' float to hear their craven cr!(s, Am I should pitch .to take them all below. Xhen I should shout above tholr last wild "I brlna; them, atons, a aaerl nr to you!" Tnry )led who said I did not love you well. 0, dulln. lallor boys, my soul Is true." TVae Asrlvaut iAwyer. by John R. ro Pm sos. I 71. The Ban Us Latw FubUahlntT Company, Ifew TorK City. Written and adapted (or thft lay m- munlty as well aa students In or out of oollea-e and lawyers youriB and old. this book of 18S ja.gem by john'R. Dew Passos, a W9UaKnown 'ew YorH lawyer, Is, worthy of careful perusal. Its work is original and complete. Home of the subjects discussed are: The grenealogy of the lawyer; a parallel between tlio past and present lawyers oj the United States; the newspapem, etage, literature and the bar since the Civil "War; education of the lawyer and the conditions under which he Is authorized to practice and tils oath: nature or tne lawyer's vocation; the lawyer's political employment aa a legislator and In other capacities; the duties of a legislator; ob- llgation- of ft lawyer; duties or a lawyer, ani causes and remedies. "The lawyers of today are ease andT coda lawyers." says our author. "The search for principle is subordinate to an lOYetnitjatJon lor a precedent. The right or Justice or the merits of controversies disappear under a mass of Irreconcilable decisions and forms. The modern code lawyer is bright enough, and hLs witas Jike tne quills on a trotlul porcupinc-ara aK waya In full play. He knows little of ele.' mentary law. but he carries, as aa. nei.lkr would a knartaack, a memory filled wlti eectlona of codes and adjudicated cases. A legal comlat now consists of hurling provisions of tho code and 'flat prece dents at each other. 2-To modern lawyer Is apparently satisfied with bimselt un- less He can stiput ana m pantonine or furious gestures." i "an laaJl.r N'eiea Almane aaael Tear Seek, 1907, compiled by James Uinsland, SI. T!,e Dally' Km Company, Chicago Amonar the round of njmanacs for' 1907 this convenient' and tnteres-ttng: volume; being the 13d year or the Cpicapo Dally Newa Almanac and Year BAokoccupies a deservedly high place in usefulness. It is most systematically arranged, well edit ed, and the printed matter is placed where It can be examined at a glance. The type is distinct and the arrange ment of each eagre very credltablo to the publishers. The latter state that their newspaper speaks to 1,000,000 people every evening. j. m. q. IX LIBRARY AXD AVORKSHOa Pdllnr Down the TVlIlamUe" is the title of a well wrlttan. racv aketch In the current number of the Sunset Magazine The S!Jans'taiT " '5V'"",-m. ' The OretTO- Mrs, Lew "Wallace, devoted to the memory of her distinguished husband, has kept everything In the library where he wrote In exactly the condition Ira which he left It Kven the booat which h was last reading lies open it the page aa ho aia it dpwn. John QelawoHhy'B novel "The Ttlan of injudicious un now cimi Mr, Galiworthy "the modern Thaekeray." Ji . Bot a mofl era Thackeray, but he Is a clever- writer and he Is solns to be a successful one. German Protestants are preparing to eel- urate on March 12 the- 300th anniversary deine Weae. He was born in Grarenhatnl chen. In the present province of Saxony where a memorial houee Is under erectlQli for charitable worlt. A flu edition of his Si' TSpf"niI. Uued for the nominal sum air Henry Mortinter Durand, the late BrltiA Ambassador, hai written a. new Snown 'Jj vi.'.n1. eharaoter are. si a?.SeyV .to,."- T.7T Personal friend, of J SI?' J? . " - Published; e already has a novel of Enallan lie. "Marleo Preverln," to bis credit. Jt 1 his purpose following Ula retirement from pub- iulti" to devot hl" tira to literary pur Hamilton Aids, whose rscent death In Iromlon has called attention to a pique literary flaur. had entered his 82d var, al. thouah he made a areat mystery about his aare that led many to underestimate it very aertutiely. A reluctance to confess the pass age of years might, however, be easily for- Clvtn to one who reolstea bq gallantly tne trseea of their Inroad, says Edmund Oofise la tto Dally Mall. Mr. Alda. tbouc. tan Pfif til of oy and paia a a. . tnese oia dooks ag&ui. Alfred Noyes. kS4 mother wan an EngllKh. woman of frood fam ily, had an Armenin-Greck for his- lather, qnd in his intellectual character there was much Southern versatility. h v.rs ex tremely accom pushed. Not only did he wrlta. with a measure" of succe--. tctJuntlrKa novels, vernea and CKeaye, but he was the tomposr of popular music, the author of some highly appreciated dramatic trifles and a pleasing; fainter ot landscapes. - a Vere tloldth wnlte, one nf the most intcr- rtlnff personallUd ot th Boston bar, has had a romantic career. Ho is tho son of a well-known Hon to ii BhvHclan and for mber wars t ra. v c I d 'V.- i 1 11 a wild West shOv ITor -a time he waa nc of the best-known cowfaoys cf .Colurado. He at tracted considerable , attention recently by publishing ;v book on. the late Colonel In- corscll. jJV t , At the ,tlme - Thatt Mrs. 'Caroline Abbot Ftanlcy's story ot "A (Modern JWadonna" whh written and puhlishod. it Han supposed by author. iutllrtHi-s anil critic tliat tho law u ixrj whlr-h t tiorv'turiied- crnp'itvrlns a man to will away liis unborn ohiltl wuh no longer Jn existence. Ko.w it has como to light that timtlar statuios arc In forod today In over :tO Htates; snrl In " ome of these st h. tern ttie booR Is beini; used to arouse a a-intlment aat In-t tii. lnw and its warklnga 'hit;lj may help to bring about a repeul. I Curtin Guild, who liaa Jutt reeiirned the jirrsCdenoy of the BtiHttmlan Society, lias r e-stcli t-(t his 8flt It blrthdiij- in prrfrct nllv s- lcaj uiid mental tioalth. lie foundrd -tlio- Huston Commercial -Bulletin in i8ovrfana under father aiid on.-that weekly. Journal has maintained a htfili standard In -the nt-161 E hunlnpus newspaper-. Mr. Gulltl- has.iuib. 1 i nln?ti three books sf Edropenn travel tlia: are of unusual interest and value. The pna which Curtis Guild, Sr: takes in the public "William Schuyler.- author of "T'nder Pon ttas Fllatc," Is assistant principal ot mc Kinely High School at Pt. Iuis. and In addition he has composed over lOO "ongs, a mallatr tj rr lier of ili ri c i 1 .--n. arid a few tor violin i 1 1 tl 'relln with piano jt- rri - Janlments. Amoiija; his musical compositions 5 a ".Song Cycla From Stppben Crane's Black ttlders.V fretjuontly buiie at concerts and rcclLauln ty ra Id 23iphan. Bcforo wrltinp :Ti.r I'ontlus Pilate" Mr. echuj ler ; was . a contributor to iJcrlodlcalR, and alBO wrote a yfe of Ills father. Mont- jromrpy . ficliujUr. (loan of Christ Church Cathedral. St. ,loufa. Olid, Urpcnr'9 novel, "Captain .9111- .tesy." Several rltts contend that the old prfst therein dplirtej is much too kindly and Kcntlf! and ullot! Uior too hiRh in Ideals to rrprea-nt Justlvj the old Kpuiilnh fatlicra. "Word comes from a resident of Southern (Mlfurnla, liowcv (o tlio offeot that thft priest Is truthfulfy portrayed and ho well i raw a that ho 1m almost ldt-nticitl In char- ator with it dear old padre whom sho Knew and loved in her girlhood days. fciho - buws Mr. Carpenter that his padre Is not a whit too s-oo A to be true to life. "HItory will do me justlco" Jay Cooke used to say - when lie was urged to write Ills memoirs and explain tiic part lie fmu taken in savlngr the Union. Because of a marked eonstltutlona.1 dislike to ertttcisins; even thoae whom hn f.-lt faad wronged hi in. he preferred that nothing official should ho Gone In tho direction of a biography until his death. This occurred in February, and the papers were then made over to Dr. 11118 P. Oberholtser who, with the aid of the heirs, has prepared an Important work. which will be published soon. A "Life" of this neglected figure, upon whom the Treas ury Department leaned po heavily during the Civil War, will correct many false im pressions and present a new historical view of the period in which Jay Cooke was the dominating financial genius of America. Countess Jean, de Castellane is preparing a book which ia bound to create a sensation In the political world upon its publication, which will shortly take place. The volume Is a compilation of the memoirs of the Countess' grandmother, the Dtichpps de Dino, who, notwithstanding that she was only 20 years of age, was the advisor of her .uncle. Prince .de Talleyrand, at the congress of Vienna. The younpr Princess, who was the daughter of the Grand Duke -de Courlandee, was exceptionally beautiful and, moreover, posKesued of an enormous fortune, and after Erfurt waa the prize acrordrd by the Czar Alexander I for the services rendered by Prince dn Benevent. The Czar had given her In marriage to h.s nephew, and, magnifi cently beautiful, she presided ovtr the tri umphal celebrations friven by her uncle to the Kings and diplomats of Europe. John lladdocK, of Minneapolis, haq enlist ed poesy in the service of what he conceives to be ths cause of science versus relits-ion and Issues a remark ah le littTe le.ttlet Tho VV"fT ' ?' Science." Hero is m. sample 'or Mr. .Uaadock a curious verse: There was a world, a world of sin Where evil reiirned with pomp and din- Wh -r millions were, as Chrlstiuns say fcxposfd to wrath, death and. decay By reason or tho sin or two That were not to their function true. These millions dwelt upon this earth. In placen where each had his birth Thousands or miles apart lived they. Travel was arduous at that dav The Christian Ood saw this sad slight So we are told; to set things right, He sent his son to die for man In Paiestine. this was his plan; A local remedy he fcave. " JkixA undertook the work to save. Rev. Oliver Dyer, who died In Boston late- ly. nearly 83 years old, was an interesting man. He waa born In Porter. V. . and when 20 years old went to r-Iew York TIty to further a system of phonography which he had devised. Soon arter he met Stephen Pearl Andrews, who Introduced ' Pitman's system In this country, and Mr. Dyer learned that method of stenography and be came a teacher of It. He is raid to have organised the first class for the study of Bliorthand in Boston, fle waa for a time reporter to the United States Senate, and was then cngagrd hy Robert Bonner as a wrltur on the few Yorlc Iedner. lie studied law and became Air. Bonner r. letral adviser. It waa upon Air. Oyer's advice that 'Fanny Fern," the brilliant sister ot Nathaniel r, Willis, was paid $100 aa article for her tiU'lbutlon to the Ledger, which In that t " ' - f - - was -a creat sum. Mr. Pyor -was aa editor on the Ledirer for ronny yijan and re tired in 18H2. He knew, Charles A. Dana. very veil anad coiuntiwfl &wis ih New York Pun. lie became a convert tf SivAdenborpianliim in 1 NtiH and was ordained - a panlor in 1S7. and later was actively interested in missionary work in the wicked Klvc Point h district ot New York. It was JW. Mr hw who wrote "Till! WICMCSt Man In Now York," a paper that was widely printed throuihout the l'nited States. He " wrot "Orcat iS- no tor-M or the t:nlt-d States Forty Years Ago," "The l-lfe of An- drew JacKson" and "me Lire or ncnry w. Grady." ihe Beaver State. Or. icon Ij Ifatereeted In heevcre. Ira art erilclc appcorlna recently In a popular magazine attention was drawn to tho rapidity wltli which that bllSl. little animal, the beaver. Is disappearing from all sfctloim of the country formerly inhab ited by hint ir'o much is he KOUtcht by t ntp pers for his line coat of fur that he- and his family seem in danger of beinj entirely destroyed, and it is urged that fiomfr legis lative action t- taken to pr.'rve these lit tle worlcrrs. How much th heaver has helped fix making our valleys and meadows ucn rlciv farmins lands few of us know, nor flq wf tcallze the stupendous amount or tiork.'ths,t ho has performed. Apropos of the fr one mlxht mention a beoic Wthor. Clnrentc Hawkes "ShaKgy- r' ' 1 . tne Eloirraphy of a Reaver." . While lqtendetf primarily for ch lid re n. so tympa- tletlcajiy is the story, told that u will prove jnterestinar reading for either young Or oldr and will be a revelation, to many. It appears from the editorial columns of tlie ?fcw York Evening fosttiiat the '"(time novel. ' while practically extinct In America. is now ravaging Oermany. Mot tier man bo.ve- are said to prefer an Indian story to a n- other booK. Their hearts heat fast as th-ey read the adventures of trappers and set- tlofs, Raze wltii awe Into wigwams, and har tlie howls of ' wolves. This interest BPrcars to have had Its Incentive as far baric, as IHQli. with the publication of "Tlie Spy," followed soon Uy 'oopers other sto ne. Iater. the" adapters began to con- struct their own plots and incidents, out- Cooperinff their model In his most adven turous moods. The results, says the Evc ninj Post's (ierman authority, are terrible to contemplate. There are in Ccrmanv about 000 "GroE?o . firms, with 3000 travelers, to sell such books. An edition' of 700.000 ia n.t an unusual thing. Tliry are adorned with glaring 11 lust rat ions, and one may buy such a volume of perhaps 2-0 pages fo"r less than a dime. An Interesting ceremony recently took place at T-lawarden, England. St. lOeiniol's Llbrary. founded by Mr.' Gladstone "in the cause of divine learning.", being formally opened. In one handsome block of stone a library of 37,000 .volumes is housed, and therein al.ro may be found accommodation for 17 guests, warden, assistant, etc. The Aoau-niy aayrt:-'Hcro the bookishly inclined, who before t'axton'a day must forsake the world for a monastery" -if he would indulge h; taste, may now retire for a season with i.it taking- any vows. In this bustling there Is Homethlng" restful in tho mere tlioutrht of nueh a halt in (5 place." About y.loO.ouO han been devoted -to the scheme, S200.000 Tof which was given by -Mr. Glad stone $.10,000 by his children and tho ra mairder by the nation. Although the foun der hoped that the library "would not be ufcA for pnrposen hostile to the Church of England," jie stipulated in the trimt deed that it should he open to thinkers of every clam, even for those "beyond the pate of the Anglican Church or even of the. Christian religion." '-,,'" If the presfnt writer 'vera asked on the impulse of tho moment' to. na mo a favor ite fCngtish novel that . lias stood the test Of timo, ho would select Mlsa BraJUon'n "Phantom Fortune." an? Braddon, who in private life is Mrs. Matfwell, i just enter ins her 70th year. Her first published novel wan tlie result of a commission frtm a printer nt Beverley, who hud noticed many of her efse8 and sketches in provincial ja- pm-s. !To a&lced her'co write a story for lilm which "should combine the humor of Dickenn with the plot construction of . . "W.. M. HeynolUs," He ofTered H poundH NterltriR for the manuscript, which was written in a farmhouse at Beverley- and appeared In li"W as "Three Times Dead; or. The Secret of the met M. Wadtllnfiton In Knglanrl. and they were married in 12,74. lie died in 1HD1. & f t r . a remarkable public career, during 10 jws o;iiiicii jipjsi.,'!11?1. of French AmUtisaJur to Great Britain. - H e wu.8 relieved pf that xmat some monthtj - before- tila deathH not withstand ing tola- undoubted great services to the Pwneh "republic. 'Tjccausc he was so English. " There wn more truth than fancy In that. Waddington was intensely loyal to Ills own country, mit he vw . blood on. both sidcH. and hia Christian names William Henry as well as his family riamc, were Knfrlltih. IIJ Brand father w3 a NottinBhamahire man who established himself in France as a cotton manufacturer more than a hundred years aKo. HIS "Wife was EiiKlish and his son, father or William Henrynwmea.an Kn5- lish woman named PefldreU, perhaps a descendant of the Pendrell - who save shelter to Charles II. William Henry was educated at the efreiM, English public school at Rugby and at Cambridge Uni- versity, where ho was a famous athlete, an well as a student of distinction. Thui both by blood and education he was Hp .nnkp tho laniriiare' like an Enfflishman and it was as much used the French But in spite of -all this, the Wadding- tons wre thoroughly French in sentiment and this made him an unusually valuable representative at the Xtrlttsh court, for lie was naturally perfectly familiar -with tne Engiisn point or new, me mncn understood this, and. notwithstanding the wliitioer-oel reason slven for li 1 final re tirement, bo w Jt m retained Ira tlie post for ten years, an unusually long time for a French Ambassador to remain at any one post. Although M. tVeddtnsrton had been mar ried before he took his American .wife, it was aftPr this union with her that he en tered upon his conspicuous public career. Before accepting his ambassadorial post he served in the national legislature both as Deputy and Senator, and had twice been Minister of Education, Foreign Minister Plenipotentiary of France at the Berlin Congresd and Prime Minister. He was also France's representative at the coronation of Czar Alexander III in 1S81. He was a much greater figure as Am bassador than he had been as Premier, however, for then Gambetta was domi nant in France .and had more real power than cither Waddington or Thiers, the President of the republic. Hurinsr all the time of Waddington's greatest prominence his American wife was of great assistance to him, most markedly during the 10 years from 1SS3 to 1S03 that he was in England. She was his companion at the St. Petersburg: corona tion and durinar their brief stay there made an excellent Impression upon tne present downger Czarina, who was then crowned with her husband. When Mme. Waddington went to Erg. land as im&a5saresg si.e found that her reuptatlon gained in St. Petersburg:, had preceded her; the Czarina's sister. Alex andra, now Queen but then Princess of Wales; Queen Victoria herself, the Duch- ess of Cambridge. Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Gladstone, .ady Spencer and many other women of rnK and position made her welcome, and she was also hishly r- gardecl because of tier cleverness bv the most' prominent men of the country. Glad stone. James Bryce. recently made Am bassador to WnHlilngton ; Froude, I-pcky and Alma Tadwna, the painter beins among those whom she came to Know well. She was not less popular among the Americans In London than among the EJna:llh. James Russell Lowell. Ameri can Minister to England, and the Wad- dmgtons were close friends. When the Ambassador retired Mrs. John W. Mackay. Mrs. W. W. Astor. Mrs. Ron alds and Jrfrs. Henry "White united with Lady Saliobury, iUady Spencer and Mrs. Gladstone In printing hU American wife with a gem-incruBted (cold pendant as a souvenir of their friendship for her. Mme. WadtliiiRton has written entertain ingly of her acquaintance with all these people and sometimes she talks most interestingly about them. She saw the licit n . 1 n is novel was arterwaro. Known I 1 -.--n t I air hnm- a n-en t leman a I u m tf tlie world uhdt-r the vlunlly stimuli ti iijt ;i Bcntlpman'n gubjec t. Big Men Helped ky Tkeit4 Wives Continued From Page I'orty-Two. . title of "The Trail of the Serpent." Lord l.ytton took a (trrot deal or interest In her earlier worK. In those days of the thre-voi- UmC novel. HC advised her to write the third volume immediately flflf-r fipst, 83 tli at the finish might be fresh. Occasion ally Mins Braddon availed herselC or this plnn, as In tho ease or "Loirlon I'rldc.1' Sorn a Lontloner, the daughter of a solicitor win lived in Soiio square, it is iwni to note that this versatile novelist is of Corniah deaceHt. Much . - C her youth, was pent at .' Tlrfwlok and Harnfs. and today she owns Ilchflold House. Richmond, which -was once the palace of the. bishops of Lichfield. in addition to Anna-ley IlflUle, In the NCT Foroet. Her tastes are varied, ran ring" from chlna-cQllat-tins and music to arardenlng and travel. Herielf one of the uiowt productive novelists of a n v period.. Bliss Braddon de- c lines to rend fiction. avowe w history. - Tn a lrtt J uil Issued - to the newnpapers. Edmund '"larence Stcdman explains the present StatUS Ot Vnc K.ats-Siiellcy fund for the purchase of the liOUSft In Vhlch thi author of "Hyperion" died In Rome: "When the first -committee was' formed, at the suggestion of an American women, to take the matter in hand it was believed that the house could be bought outright tor the sum of so.ooo lire $ 1(1.000) : but complications' arose. Including changes of ownership. Meanwhile the project was submitted to M r. Carnegie, who -uhscrlbcd 1WiO. avail able -when the first STOOO should have been obtained elsewhere, ana an additional - soription of Slow, payable whrtl $1,1,000 111 all aliould have been received. His flrst sub scrijUlon was duly paid last Bummer, and as the fund has since been augmented to tlie gross amount or $10,000 his second subscription li row payable, Aside from Mr, Carnegie's f:iOfo the subscriptions have come in relatively small amounts, but often In sums I nrge In proport Ion to th e means of the English and American writers and lovers of literature who have in great numbers and with sincere enthusiasm ex erted themselves In behalf of the fund. The option upon the Keats house was lately called and the title transferred to the In corporators Of the Keats-SnelUiy Memorial Association. The total pum required tor the purchase rtnally proved to be 110.000 lire $22.O00, of which 70,000 lire was paid in rash by our corporation and 40,000 by Messrs. Plowden, of Kom woo kindly have taken a mortgage for their advances. Above the funds still In hand and in order to cancel the mortftage and pay the other ex penses (t is proposed to raise $0OO or $7000 more without delay. To this end an authors reading, under the best auspices, la shortly to come off in Ixmdon and plana are now under way for two authors' readings to be given early in March in. New York. This paragraph from Warper a Weekly will be read with especial interest by Harvard-men who came under Professor Nor ton's tutelage when his courses in the fine arts were tlie most largely attended of any In the .entire curriculum.. Jt is obviously written by one of them: "Charles Eliot Nor ton, who is about to read a puper in Cam bridge at the hundredth-year celebration of Ionr fellow, lives in hip paternal mansion among the trees in Cambridge. The place is called on note paper fcihady Hill: by the populace of Cambridge, like Charles W. KUot. William James and other neia-hbora of that kind, it is called Norton's Woods. Mr. Norton used to be with Longfellow, tlie leader and Insptrer- of th Dante Club, or class, of Cambridge and his prose trans lation of the Dlvina Commodla vies with .Longfellow' poetical . translation, which even an unscholarly undergraduate can read with pleasure. Mr. Norton may be culled old. for he is Just over the 7V-year lino, hut he does not look it, and he la very far from taking: the part. 1e sits in his larpe library, the books Jn whh-h are to so to Harvard University after his death, and discourse moat entertain Inrty on hie own subjects, on books, on pictures, on his old friends, among whom tho chief were Lowell. Longfellow and Curtis, and upon the poli tics of today, Including the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, who does not teem to like the old professor aa he deserves to be liked. In his blue coat, humanly smok ing, and smiling persuasively, the only evl- deilCti Of his B9 to nla own InMatence upon it, for he tells you that he ia too old to read modern literature. He was onca pro finHor of the history of .art at Harvard, and tie used to say that any man who toolc Ills course was worthy of a mark of eo- for that slnslc rfawn, and why not? for even hose who .took the course for a "snap accompany I npr humor of every splendid situation- with true American eyes, and says the thins which impressed her mont at the Cssar 'fl coronation was the almost comic ' sight of soldiers with drawn swords apparently guarding the prreat oui tureen at the coronation banquet. She went abroad in 1865. and made no Visit, tO lier Dative country tor nearly 40 years, when. In 1904. alio returned with her son, Francis Waddington. who came on a business visit. There had been vast changes in the United states during her absence,' and slio nanny rccopiuca m York, the city of her birth, as the steamer passed up the North River to Its pier, although the shore of I.ohk Island and Staten Island hd seemed natural, home- like and charming to her wUcn tlie vessel reached the Narrows. She is a woman of marlcet neirnonalltv and her gray hair adds distinction to her appearance, A President's Helpful Wife. Clement Armand ITallieres. who haa now served as .President of franco a little flwp a year, undoubtedly owes more di- reetly to his wife,- who was Mile. Jeanne Kesson or Nerac when he tell In love with lier, than does tho constituted head oC any other nation. They met In l&J or M. He thert llad an- indifferent reputation as a student and was geneially believed to be both too gay and too lazy ever to amount to anything. His father In particular was convinced that-the son's case was hopeless, and after paying liis way at several schools. In cluding one at Angouleme, where ho bare ly managed to take the degree of bache lor of letters, peremptorily ordered him homo from Paris, . where he purposed studying law. Now, the boy had fallen in love with Mile. Besson. She was the granddaughter of an attorney, whose family, though not of tlie nobility, had lonar been In the law. and was therefore held In great respect by all classes. Mile. Besson was as much in love as young: Fallieres. It was clearly impossible, however, that she should marry a young man so lazy, so dissolute, or both, that he could not pass his ex aminations. So, when his father ofTered to let him try Paris once more, on condi tion that he should study, Clement Ar mand turned over a new leaf and put forth his very best efforts, working early and late at his books. As a result he passed the dreadful examinations In re cord time, after which he speedily settled 'down to such further study aa the law required before he could be admitted to practice. In his selection of a preceptor he showed what was probably tlie last exlii bitlon of his old liKht-mindedness. Instead of making the chpiee carefully, he spread before him a list of attorneys, shut his eyes and Jabbed the paper with a pen filled witn inlc. taking; for preceptor the attorney whose name he had thus marked at random. This man was evidently a good attor ney, since after a few months in hia of fice young Fallierea waa able to pass his final legal examination ana open a law office of his own. He decided to do this in Nerac. the home of his .sweetheart, now tn the department of Lot et Ga ronric, not far from Mezin, lus native plkce. His devotion to "la holla Mile. Season." as she was widely known, was thought little Jess than scandalous, since the reputation he had gained by his triv lal conduct waa weil-Known In Nerac. h, set vigorously at work to Hve.lt down and at the same time to build up a prac Me succeeded in both, and in due time led the blushing' Jeanne to the church, rather asralnst the desires of her grand father and other members of the Season family. They thougbt thamselves of su perior clay to the Fallieres family, since Fallieres pere was only a magistrate's clerk and his father grandfather of him who is now President was only a black smith, and Clement Armand was born In a shanty attached to his shop. Besides, the youn? man was understood to be a crack-brained revolutionist " in politics the Third Empire was still In axlstence and that of itself was enough, the Bes- 60119 thought, to disqualify him as Mile. Jeanne's bridegroom. K a 1 lie res has advanced. yearly ever HumanDrainrrofoundMystcry More Known Of tl.5 R51T15t.5t 5rs Than tis Seat of All Knowledge and Reason A. R Eond In New York Herald. 1 Most baffling of all subject that human brains have ever attempted to study Is the human brain itself. - We know far more of things about, us and even vf heavenly bodies millions of miles beyond our reach than of the myaterlous organ ism within us which, is the seat, of ail our knowledge. Investigations of this subject seem only to reveal new complexities, but so unique and remarkable have been the results of experiments In. this field that the study In a most fascinating one. To be sure, practical experiments, par ticularly those which Involve some Injury to the brain, must be confined to animals. Put when we. have fathomed the . brain actions of the lower animals we will have taken a lonar step forward in the study of the bisrhly org-anised human brain. The motor centers which govern muscular movement! are most readily studied in this manner. A recent number of the French, Journal. I-a Science au XX me Ste ele, describes a series of experiments on tlie, effects of brain wounds, as well as external influences oa the locomotion of animals and insects. The lowest orders of animal life are Jelly-like masees, incapable of locomotion In any definite direction, although by ex- pandlng and contracting they can move In an uncertain direction, which usually fol lows the line of least resistance. 9uch animals are usually circular in form, ex. tending symmetrically in all direction'. from a common center. On the other hand, animals which swim, creep, walk or fly, no matter to what order they belong. have this much In common, that they are all mado with a right and a left side. Even the brain is made in two distinct parte, and, curiously enough, the right half controls tho left half, of the body, while the left half .of tho brain governs the right half of the body. When a bi lateral animal moves the two sides act pymmctrlcally, causlnf progress to take place In a straight line. There are some exceptions to this rule, namely, that cer tain kinds of gnats, which progress by (lying in circles, and of crabs, which, since tho two sides do not move alike, are caused to travel sideways. It. has been found that if an animal sustains an Injury to a certain part of the brain or nervous system it will be im pelled to travel rapidly about In a circle". Jf other parts are Injured the subject will roll over and over, or, like the spokes of a revolving wheel, it may run around with the fore part of the body while the rear part remains stationary. Experi ment of this sort have beon tried with rabbita. When ono of the nerve cords running; from the es-e to the cerebellum, or the lower brain, was cut, the animal would roll, but when a nerve cord run- nlna; to the cerebrum, or upper brain, waa severed the subject ran around in cir cles. A. cricket similarly treated was un- able to remain beside the piece of bread which it was eatlntr, but kept moving off to one side until it waa out of reach of the food, and then could not return of its own accord. When the Insect waa dis turbed by touching it with the finger it attempted to run away, but could not break from the circular path which, mut-li against Its will, brought It back ass-lit to tlio meddling nngcr. Some physiologists believe that these peculiar movements are caused by the unbalancing of the two halves of the brain which control opposite sides of the body, in Just the same way a boat will travel In a straight line as loner as an equal number of oars with equal stroke are used on opposite sides, but. should tlie BtroKO Of One Pf tne oar weaxen or should an oar be broken, the cripple J Hide will not move as rapidly as the oppo site side, and the boat will travel in a circle. However, this simple explana- Hon hardly accounts for the fact that the animal is unable to remain at rest if it so desires, but must continue on its cir cular course. Another explanation Is that In tnq brain since his marriage, save for a brief space after his removal from the Mayoralty of Nerac lor political reons. m brought him a considerable "dot." and in time her grandfather's law practice was added to her husband's. She had friends aplenty among titled font whew ww- ship was not changed by her marriage. While ho was Mayor of Nerac, at some political function or other a priest du Clttreu, no uQUDt without much serious twill. M ha Mioved the Mayor would some day be lresident of the re public. Ime. Fallieres took tne prophecy serl- OUSlJi llOWtver, anil ipaucea her nuoana to do likewise. From that time she worked constantly to make the priest's words come true: not only by electioneer ing for him, as Lady Randolph Churchill used to tor Lord Randolph: nor by cut tins a big swath In society, as his Ameri can wife used to that Lord Curson might get on ; nor by writing his .speeches for him, B3 Mrs. Lojan is underBtooa to have done for her husband. The plan of Mme. Fslllerea waas simple. 'she didn't strive to appear especially clever, even, and she didn't talk politics. She Just made up her mind to be friendly with everybody, no matter of what political or religious faith, and under no circumstances to al lOW the slightest breach of taste In ber home. No doubt she was partially Impelled to help her husband's advance as much aa possible, they say in Paris, In order to justify herself for having married .one whom many thought beneath her. At all events, she has always been most clrcum. spect. and even while they lived at Nerac. her watchfulness over her husband's list of friends has always been most vigil ant Those whom she hab thought unde sirable she has always managed to shut off. but so unobtrusively as to be unsus pected; those of whom slie approved she has managed to grip to him aa with hooks of steel. When Loubct was made President of France and Fallieres President of the Senate, she established a true political salon on old-fashioned lines, except that she never talked politics herself. When he was made President of Francs he had been a Minister oftener . than any Other llvipf frenchman, and Deputies of such widely varying- political opinions as Boni do Castellane. the Catholic and Royalist, and Jaures, the Socialist, voted tor him. Undoubtedly It Is largely due to her In fluence that President fallieres haa main tained his republican simplicity to the present time. Both are apparently unaf- fected hy their rise ( in lire, Neither is ashamed that his grandfather worked at a forge for a living; when the old stone shop had to be removed Fallleres had It taken down stone by stone and. set up again,1 just as it had been in the old blackssnlth's days. Ime. FaJlieres frugality is the delight of all Paris. She was slender, daik- eyed. and (lark-haired aa a youny woman. Today she Is stout and gray-haired, but her eyes are still bright. Her face Is that of a woman who Is satisfied with her place in life and at peace with the world. Her daughter Anne, not yet married, who resembles Chatran'g portrait of Alice Roosevel-t Long-worth, ia aylphllke and younger than her 22 years would Indi cate. She la also very religious, though President Fallieres Is an agnostic and in sympathy with France's attitude toward the Roman Catholic Church. Andre fal lieres, the son. a year younger than his sister. Is a lawyer of ability, but ia now acting: as liis father's secretary. Copyright, 1907, by Dexter Marshall. are a series of owns which wrt opjw- site influences upon the members of the body. For Instance. one organ may govern forward motion, and this is coun terbalanced by another which governs backward motion: another opposed imlr may control movements to the right and left, and so on. Normally these organs are balanced so that no motion results unless one oryan is voluntarily stimulat ed or strengthened above the other. When one of the organs is artificially in jured the animal is unable to restore the balance voluntarily and fm hence compelled to move In response to the uncrippled organ. - v Disturbed Equilibrium. Jt is found that thus apparent equilibri um of the organs can be disturbed by other means than that of cutting tht nerve cords or injuring the brain, proper. Certain peculiar movement- are caused by injuries to the Inner ear, which ll in- catsed in one of the bones of the skull. This organ ls composed, of three tube:.. called the seml-clrcular canals. One ot these cai.als Is horizontal and If this be cut the head ot tlie animal will mow from eide to side. Another canal la ver tical, and if this be cut the animal's ncavcE will move up and down. In In.ccts the equilibrium of tlie motor organs can be destroyed by a more re mote influence. Flies, bees and similar insects will turn away from the blinded side as It' trying to avoid an object on that side, while moth's and similar noc turnal inasects turn toward the blinded side, aa if seeking shelter in the appar.nl darkness in that direction. However, this direction of flight is not a choice of reason, but apparently one of In stinct, the motor organs on one elde be ing stimulated or weakened more than those of the opposite side. Often an insect will be caused to move in a. circle if one of tta att'enae is cut off. A swell if placed between two objects, one white and the other black, will crawl la a curve leading toward the dark object. Certain worms If blinded In one eye will twist about into a 'ling Just as If the blinded side of the body were partially paralyzed. Kven without crippling an lnaect it is possible to cause circular progression. If a pellet of wax bs fastened to one ride ot the wing cover of a cockroach the Insect will nut be able to walk In a straight line; but under the unbalanced exertion of suppc-rUni? a weight at one Hide It will be stimulated to take longer strides aC that Fide and thus be Impelled to moa In a circle. At times the cockroach may endeavor to utralRhten Us course, but th struggle Is In vain, and In the end IfU always obliged to yield to the mysterious impelling force within it. Traveling in a circle. A. phenomenon which Is somewhat sim ilar to this and may possibly be account ed for by the theory ot opposed motor or gans is that of a man who travels in a circle when loet in a blinding emowstorm. Under such circumstances no landmark!? are In ,sif ht to aid the eye in its choice of direction and tlift walking MOB 1)8- comes purely mechanical. Relieved of any mental control the counterbalanced, motor organs act In proportion to their StrCn&tll Or Stimulation, One oryanmay be naturally stronger than the Other, 01'. as in the case of the cockroach, it may be stimulated by supporting a greater welghc Oil one side of the body than tlie other. In which case lonjor atrwea t by the le which thltp organ, control- thai! are taken by the other leg. making tlie man, pursue an endless circular path. It must be admitted that th theory or opred or counterbalanced organs doc.-J not completely account for all erratic mo tions of animals. Many phy slologiets are disinclined to accept it. a 1 though unablt. to Offer a better explanation. At an, rate. it is but one o! mMy COtTlDltXltlCn showing that the brain is by no means the simple organism it was thought to be a quarter of a century ago. DEHORNING A RHINOCEROS VnlJU0 ytJ 9t Gainllap ConlWenee 'or 11 ugo Animal for Operation. (Xouth's Companion.) There la an old story about 1 MM who had to have his arm amputated and began by cutting off his fingers and then his band in order to get used tO It Ucfore lindertaxinfif tne ir8er Job. It does not sound historically ac curate and may havo grown up from a talo narrated by Richard Sell about a. rhinoceros which was "broken in" to Inave Its hdM 61U'c(l Off. This animal, which lived in the Lon don soo, was troubled by its born, which grew down in front of ix mouth so mat only wuu fliwcwr couid K eat or drink. To aave It life the keep er decided on amputation. The horn of a rhinoceros Is not a. horn at all but an accumulation of hair and skin which hi UfM alld be- come cemented together by some gummy substance. The owner of this one had a very touchy temper and was not easily approached. Its keeper, how- ever, decided to try what he could do. For some days it required all htg skill to persuade the beast to como to the front of the cage and put Its horn through. Then for some days he strok ed the horn much to the animal's dis gust at first, although later tt seemed to like It. When tt found he meant no harm it let him lake the horn in his left hand and then with the right imitate the motion of - saw across tt. When this had been done some time and the rhinoceros no longer minded It a piece of wood was held in the riant hand, and at last when even this no longer -worried the animal a real saw was brought in j the horn cut off without the slightest remonstrance from the owner of It. Protection for Europe n Bison. London Globe. The preservation of the Wild bison of Europe, which finds its ' last plaace of refuse In Russia,, la now attracting atten- tlOn JI) that country, "vt'lld bison are now to be found only In the lmpArl.l forftlt of 81lowJesha (in Polish Bialowlosa), In the. Govern ment of Grodno, in Rusalan Po- and, and In the Valley of the Kuban, in the Western Ctucasui. In neither domain can they be said to exist in a state of freedom, for in the one case they are carefully pr&erve4 by tlQ C&ar an In the other placed under the protection of the Princes of tl6 Em pire. It is true, however, that in the Caucasian region the bison still roams at will as a wild animal, though the greai nobles on whose estates It U found claim it as their property. Vue for si Powerful Voice. Tit-Blti. At the close of a grand ball a celebrated. actor of the Court Theater, In Berlin, stands in the passage waiting for men an. A beautiful and faamonably aresaed lady approaches him and fiavs: (,Rar pardon, have I the honor to see before me our famous Herr Donnentlmmt. whose powerful and sonorous voles I had the pleasure or admirlnr last night In 'Macbeth'? Might I aak you to do me a little favor?" "'I ana quite at your service, madam." "Then, will you be good enough to call out in tne street in your loudest tones for the carrlaae of Baroness Swartx?"