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Newspaper Page Text4 TIIE SUXDAT 0KEG05IAX, POKTLAyP, OTTEMEEB 81, "1909. j "FEW'THINGS ARE flARDEH !ftfl 'l! S to put up wrm, than uq i "Z.- THE ANNOYANCE OF A GOOD EXAMPlK' I MAEK TWAIN. ' t) " saMs)IMssaisjsaaMsassssaaMsBsssas i 'r '', ' f ft If V i V : - ,f, Vp'TV I Ml i -r 'if j 1 S,t 1 i ' i i f V' ', Hi - - -- , ' B-oIlHaa. r '"hlnitton Gladden. I U I. 'i Houghton, Mifflin ft Co., Boston. Mm., and Th J. K. Gill Co.. Portiud. When a. man (u reached his TSd yar and has led a well-ordered life of distinc tion as preacher, author and publicist, aa has Dr. Washington Gladden, hla biog raphy ha more than ordinary Importance and Interests the country at larg. Janu ary. 1910. will see the 50th year of Dr. Oladden's Christian ministry. What a host of events hla book, which extends to 445 pares, recalls. It Is a most Interesting, friendly record of men and events. In which anecdotes and criticism play prominent parts, and where the cour a?e of speaking one's mind has full play. It Is a pleasant revelation to know Dr. Gladden s theology he has been called, before now. an infidel and In this connec tion ho. says: I am fain to believe that the time is drawing nr whrn the Christian Church will be able to discern and declare the almple truth that rellston la nothing but frlendahip: friendship with ?d and with men. Friendship first with the great com panion of whom Jeana told ua, who Is always nearer to ua than we are to ourselves, and whnae Inspiration and help Is the greatest fact of human experience. ... To be frienda with everybody; to All every human relation with the spirit of friendship. Is there anything more than this that the widest and best of men can hope to do? . . . If It was ever worth while to live. It is worth while to live today. No better day than this has ever dawned upon this continent. Brave and noble words these they give Inspiration. Dr. Washington Gladden was born February 11. 136, In Pottsgrove, Pa., and one of his ancestors fought In the Army of Oie Revolution. The boy lived a simple country life at a time when books were read by the light of pine knots, and as for religion he records with sorrow that sectarian Jealousies were fierce and that the ministers of the dif ferent churches at and near bis home were hardly on speaking terms with each other. Young Gladden dreamed of being a law yer, but Instead be became an apprentice printer with the editor and publisher of the Owego Gazette, and from this he drifted into politics and mingled with the Abolitionists. Joining the Congregational Church, he determined to study for the ministry and says that his happiest days were when he was a student. Williams College furnished him his education, and he speaks of these college mates: Presi dent Garfield. Henry M. Alden. of Har per's Weekly; Horace K, Scudder. of the Atlantic and others. Becoming a college correspondent for the Springfield. Mass., Republican newspaper. Gladden formed a friendship with Its distinguished editor, Samuel Bowles, which lasted until the latter's death. Licensed to preach in the Congregational Church, the young minis ter found his lot cast in Brooklyn. N. T.. where he came under the spell and won the friendship of Henry Ward Beecher. The Civil War period Is graphically de scribed, and the book passes on to pas torates at Morrisania on the Harlem River, and North Adams, Mass. In the year 1863 Dr. Gladden began authorship, and entered Into journalistic life as religious editor of the Independent at a time when that magazine helped to expose and smash the Tweed ring. But Dr. Gladden had firm notions of news paper ethics, and mainly because he and his chiefs on the Independent could not agree on what was news and an adver tisement, be again entered on his minis terial duties, filling pastorates at Spring field. Mass., and Columbus, O. What Dr. Gladden has to say about the relations of capital and labor, swollen fortunes, and Mr. Roosevelt, reads well. He admirers Mr. Roosevelt but "not his present pastimes In Africa," and thinks that Mr. Roosevelt is yet going to, do great work in the world, as peacemaker. The Rockefeller episode, where the Stand ard Oil chief offered money to the Con gregational Church, is referred to, and Ir. Gladden takes delight in telling of his opposition to the acceptance of what he calls "tainted, monpy." . The last two chapters, which tell of a long life, well spent, in service and use fulness, breathe a peaceful serenity that Is significant of the man as a thinker and teacher. Home lettera of General Sherman, edited hv M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Charlea Scrlbnei-a Sons New York City and The .t. K. Gill Co.. Portland. Historians alive to the history-making of our country prise the "Memoirs" of General William Tecumseh Sherman, is sued in 1875. the revised version of that book, which appeared about ten years later, and the correspondence between the General and his equally celebrated brother, Hon. John Sherman, published in 1W4. These were accepted as possessing as much historical value as those older epistles which In their day shed lasting renown on the long wars and triumphs of statesmanship of the Roman Republic Now we have a more Intimate picture of General Sherman, a picture shown by the presentation of letters written by the General to his wife, Mrs. Ellen Boyle Ewlng Sherman. These letters begin at West Point. N. T., August SO. 1837. where Sherman was a cadet, and continue through California during the gold rush of ls43, and continue throughout the Civil War. 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And the horse I am writing about was one that, once you knew him, held your love always. He was a horse born to be great, and he was great to-the end, for now he is dead. He was robbed of the wild life on the desert, to an America: the desert ever burned in him. And now he is dead. .Around him were skilled veterinarieS and grooms and other friends he had made, and closer still was a black boy weeping with grief beyond our comprehension. This black boy was once a slave in a wild tribe of warriors, the most powerful of Anezeh Arabs. This black, heart-broken Nubian had been the slave of Hoshlra Bey, the supreme sheik of the Aneich, ever since he couldTe member, and four years ago he saw the sheik call a council of the various tribes of Anezeh to decide on what present they should give to Nazim Pasha, the Governor of Syria and Aleppo, in recog nition of his reduction of the camel tax. At that council it was decided to present to the Pasha the Maneghl Sbeyel stal lion, their greatest horse. To some of t, taken from a pasha's stable icrlcan box stall, but the 'fire of the sheiks It apeared too great a gift, as after all Nazim Pasha was a Turk. But the ruler of the Anezeh explained thsft the horse was not lost to them, that as they went north each year and camped near the Euphrates River, near the salt lake of 'jaboul, the Wall would let the stallion be brought to them. This brown horse had been bred by the Gomussa tribe of the Sebba Anezeh. His mother was the last of the distinguished Maneghi Sheyel mares, tracing back more than 500 years, and his sire was a stallion of the family of Sueyman Sebba, of the southern desert. Seventy years ago there had been a brown horse with out white markings in the same distin guished line of ancestry that had brought them successful war horses. Thus they took this horse as another present from Allah that would bring them fortune in war. So they called him the "Pride of the Desert." When I called on Nazim Pasha in Aleppo on the 8tii day of August, 16, he preaented the horse to me. This was largely because an trade had been given to me by Abdul Hamid. then Sultan of Turkey (a rare distinction), and the fact that I carried with me letters from Pres ident Roosevelt. His gift was possibly done in a moment where deliberation should have been used. At any rate, when later I took the horse back to the tribes that had bred him they showed the keenest disappointment. They were sad and sullen, and those, that had ob jected when the horse was first given to Nazim Pasha were loud In their denunci ation of that official, and said it was what might be expected from a Turk. But with me was a man, an old Bedou in, who was their diplomat. He told them that they had the sons of the horse, many of them, and that the horse would be appreciated and cared for In a land where grass was not a luxury, and so thev were somewhat appeased. While we were with the Fedoan. the largest tribe of the Anffieh, I learned what the real worship of the Arab for his horse is, and that writers and poets have never overdrawn the love that ex ists between the Arab and his steed. I was more than thankful that I was so constructed that I could fully realize their sorrow at the loss of their favorite horse. As I saw them praying around him as he stood majestically on the des ert the day before we left them, I at the same time vowed that some day I would surprise them by bringing him back and giving him over to the Gomussa of the Sebbaa Anezeh. They never tired ot telling me of his greatness, his prowess and his endurance. My interpreter, who needed rest, said that it rested him to translate their stories of his mother's fame. The horse himself was dignity In Its full meaning. , He embodied everything that Antar wrote of the Arab horse. You could never attract his attention; his eyes were always far away, scanning the desert horizon. At Intervals during the hot day he would whinny, and no such challenge was ever heard from a horse. It roared with a wild power that made you shud der, and once In the night I must have been asleep in the saddle when he gave it, and I jumped nearly out of the saddle with fear. He was unlike any horse I ever saw before. He was only 14.2 hands high, and weighed only 9(30 pounds, but he was so powerfully made that at a distance or when you were on him he seemed a giant. His "jibba" or full forehead was a little different from that of most Arab horses. One day I was measuring him as he stood dreaming on the desert, and some old distinguished-looking Arabs sat near in the shade of my tent. One of them spoke and told me that I would find him as perfect as Allah ever made a horse, that his top lines would be found the shortest and his bottom lines the longest, and that if he ever tired under the saddle when he got to his distant home to let tliem know some way.- I saw that he was more than a horse to them, as he soon wan to me. Small children went over on their fingers his distinguished ancestry for many hundred years. I found when I was tired and worn out In the hot desert that a change to his back rested me. I found when days were rainy and long in America that te sit in his stall and watch his eyes that were still dreaming was. inspiring. I shall never forget how the last Anezeh man that guided us on our way to the coast said good-bye to him. The look that the old warrior gave him will al ways haunt me. and this horse has taught me many lessons and, as the Arabs be lieve, he brought me many dear friends. He taught me that horsemen are the same tlie world over. In America this horse, of all the 27 that I brought, was the one most admired by real horsemen. In Vermont, tho home of the Morgan, he won the Justins Morgan cup over the Morgans, and I will never cease being grateful for the introduction he gave me to the best people of Vermont. And now he is dead. The end dame yesterday at Hingham. Mass. He was 8 years old. I had named him "Haleb," after the city where I first saw him. I am deprived of tho great pleasure of taking him home to the country and the people that inspired his big. soft, dark eyes to dream, and though the black Arab boy pleads with me to notify the far-distant Anezeh, I find even this Im possible, and after all It would only cause them to mourn. Ine of Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland, the Margaret Anglln edition of a novel a -ready reviewed In this paper, $1.50; Curi osities of the Sky. by Garret P. Servls. 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Report from the select com mittee on representation reform. March 2, 1869. i Cook No Closer Than 564 Miles Thus Declares Rear-Admiral Chester, an Astronomical Authority. FLAT-FOOTED statement concern j Explorer Cook, following a recent press dispatch of Rear-Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. a N., retired, is fur nished in a Washington special to the New York Sun as follows: Scientists here today were discussing an informal speech made last night by Rear-Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. N., retired, at the University Club, in which he characterized Dr. Frederick A. Cook as a faker and declared that Dr. Cook not only did not reach the North Pole but did not approach nearer than a distance of about 664 miles from the Pole. The Importance of Admiral Ches ter's accusation lies not only In .the fact that he is an eminent astronomical authority and was formerly superin tendent of the United States Naval Ob servatory, but In that he was one of the special committee of three ap pointed by the National Geographic Society to examine the records of Com mander Peary and report on his claim to Polar discovery. The sub-commitrte declared that Peary had reached the Pole. Professor Willis L. Moore, president and O. P. Austin, secretary of the so ciety, declined to discuss Admiral Ches ter's speech. They took the ground that It would be improper for them to talk about It because" both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook were members of the society. "My speech last night," Admiral Chester said, "was Informal and extem poraneous. I had been in New York for about a week and was called up on the long-distance telephone and asked if I would speak on the Polar question before the club. I agreed and arrived In Washington from New York only a few hours before I made the speech. . "It is true that I referred to Dr. Cook as a faker. I used as the basis of my research the data used by Dr. Cook in his copyrighted stories of his Polar expedition printed In a New York newspaper and carefully studied these observations. I base my argument that Dr. Cook did not reach the North Pole on the disagreement between his obser vations and the known declination of the sun on the dates referred to in his narrative as shown by the Nautical Almanac. "Where Dr. Cook states that on April 7 he first saw the midnight sun at 86 degrees 28 minutes, a distance of 225 miles from the Pole, in reality on that date, according to the Nautical Almanac, the midnight sun would have been visible as far south as 82 degrees, a distance of 564 miles from the Pole. "In his narrative Dr. Cook, after as suming that on April 7 he was as far north as 86 degrees 28 minutes, based his claim or reaching the Pole on an average journey of 14 miles a day for 14 days. As a matter of fact he wpuld have to travel 40 miles a day to cover the distance from his real location, ac cording to the Nautical Almanac, to .the Pole. "Following Dr. Cook's first state ment concerning his journey. Professor J. M. Stockwell, of Cleveland, showed that If his supposed latitude was cor rect Dr. Cook ought to have seen the midnight sun above the horizon on April 1. Dr. Cook's own account fixed this date at April 7. In trying to ac count for this discrepancy Dr. Cook stated that he did not-say that the sun was on the horizon at the time speci fied and that there were many days in which the sun was obscured by clouds. "The inference drawn from the denial was that on any of the preceding seven days the midnight sun might have been seen above the horizon If the weather had been clear. But in his later and fuller narrative Dr. Cook spe cifically stated that on April 3 the barometer remained steady and the thermometer sank, the weather became settled and clear. At noon now there was a dazzling 'light, while the sun at midnight sank but for a few moments, leaving the frosted blue bathed in noonday splendor. "Of the weather between these two dates he wrote: 'There was at no time a perfectly clear horizon, but the weather wag good enough to make fre quent nautical observations.' If fre- .quent nautical observations could be made between April 3 and April 7 it Is pretty certain that the sun was not al together obscured In the middle of the nights, and It Is certain that It was slowly rising from total obscuration on the early date to clear daylight on April 7." Not only did Admiral Chester main- tain that on April 3 Dr. Cook was far south of the position he gives him self in his narrative but that bn four subsequent days, and presumably on all subsequent days. Dr. Cook was headed south, away from the Pole, which, ac cording to his own accounts, was at least 225 miles away. Admiral Ches ter based this deduction, he said, on Dr. Cook's statement that on April S the sun sank just below the horizon, and that four days later, on April 7, the sun showed a short distance above the horizon. According to Admiral Chester, If Dr. Cook had been traveling north ward during those four days his change in location combined with the steadily Increasing declination of the . sun, would In four days have caused a far greater change In the sun's position relative to the horizon than that re ported by Dr. Cook. "If It really took, as Dr. Cook said, four days for the sun to change Its midnight position from just below the horizon to just above it," Admiral Ches ter continued, "the only explanation possible is that Dr. Cook's movements were taking him away from the mid night sun: in other words, to the south. The point I wish to make .is that the sun during these four days was getting above the horizon at an appreciable, rate each day. If Dr. Cook were going to the north this rate would have In creased still further. But such an in crease would require far less than four days for the change mentioned. "I therefore state," Admiral Chester said in conclusion, "that Dr. Cook never got beyond 82 degrees, just beyond Cape Thomas Hubbard, and that he then started back south. My conclu sion is that Dr. Cook never got closer than 564 miles to the North Pole." PAJAMAS BREAK HIS FALL Sleepwalker, Suspended in Midair, Awakened by Policeman. NEW YORK. Nov. 18. John Savmsky, a cooper, 57 years old. of Williamsburg, climbed out of a front -third-story win dow while walking In his sleep. He wore pajamas of stout material, and when ho fell he was caught by a projection and remained suspended in midair for some time while he continued to slumber. Patrolman Thrall, of the Greenpolnt avenue station, saw the figure was that of a man, but was unable to make out what had happened. Thinking he might be a thief, the patrolman drew his re volver and shouted. Then Savinsky woke up. As he did so the cloth which held him suspended parted and the cooper dropped to the sidewalk. Thall tried to break the man's fall and In doing so wrenched his arms. Savinsky fractured both legs. In the 40 years, IftflR to l&og. Japan's yearly foreign trade increased from JU.OOO, 000 to (407,000,000,