THE OREGON- SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY XIORNING. JANUARY 13, IZZ7.
The ILarth's Most Curious Lakes
WOttfl,
DWK):? -
THE sleepr little village of East
, Hampton. Long Island, is con
vulsed toy the recent plan to
- ' tear; down the old cottage Ira
. mortallsed by John Howard Payne In
. . bis world-famous song In order to add
to the building room of -the Episcopal
, ,' church, ; - . -, ;. i..-..; ....
The little, house has become Bar
rounded witn sentiment for the resl
. i dents of the village and tha summer
visitors, and the thought of demolishing
t so precious an old landmark. Is arousing
i, much discussion both In and out of' Kast
"" Hampton1 .;, r ..
' "Home, Sweet Home, the most popu-
- lsr sons; ever written, needs "o word of
comment here. But the Ufa of its
gifted author Is far too Wttle known-J
"T" Who -ean tH hev-chrtimstances under
-wtilch J'Homfc 8waet Home" was writ-
ten? And-how many persons are fa-
, mUlar with the .strange, brilliant- and
varied career of John Howard PayneT
X Poet author, playwright, cHtlc, actor,
,' diplomatist, scholar; a man with a gift
. for things military and things dramatic;
a wit, a student, a friend of alien races
'. as well as of alt the distinguished men
. .' of his day; a partisan of Indians, a
. . comrsda at neutral tirlnces; a rompan
Ion of great actors and writers of all
-.' lands: a traveler, a worker, a dreamer,
- and the tenderest, kindliest soul ' that
ever wss loved in life or mourned tn
death; there are few men cut on his
; pattern; the pattern of gay.' gentle,
'. handsome, gifted Howsrd Payne, says
.. tne new xora nerato.
U ... '
r The Juvenile Wonder. .... 71.
' On February 24, 180J. when he was 18,
he went on the stage, making his first
.' appearance as Toung Norval at the
, Park theatre. He played for some time
, In America, being known by a title he
had gained during his early critical
f, work. 'The American Juvenile Wonder,"
and -then went to . London, . where he
acted with Miss O'Neill and other well
known players ansdid soma brilliant
'. wort.
Ho not only had rare gift In this
Root
I LIHU ROOT, secretary of state.
at a banquet of the Pennsyl
vania society In New Torlcmsde
" a speech bearing on what laws
' .Ov foil rfuVrflMfN-'-Sg?.- ifj:
, . - 4 ' p r, H.m: rfn- i - j i j ? p-rj
v ought to be made at stats capitals snd
r ' what ones st Washington. This speech
has been interpreted by soms as mesn
, .- ing that the government at Washlng
. '- - ton .is . disposed to infringe- more snd
-jnore on "state rights," to. take over
more and mors matters snd make th
laws concerning them st Washington.
.. ssyS Collier's. Such a suspicion has
caused outspoken opposition from those
i- - persons especially old-time Democrats
who believe the Interests of the peo
ple are best served by giving them the
: greatest possible measure of local self-
government, and responsibility for mak-
.' Ing that government. good; who believe
thst . more and mora laws ought to b
.made at the state capitals and fewer
' and fewer laws at Washington. The
, Issue Of state rights and federal sover
eignty thus raised is aa old as ths
TTnlted States itself.
". When ths tt original colonies came
together to form a united government,
. they earns as more or less hostile units.
.' v MssSscbusetts hsted Virginia. New
- tork once tried to put a customs tax
," on goods brought serous tnr jtuasoH
river from New Jersey, smsll colonies
WrS" suspicious- of -larger ones,, slave
- holding colonies distrusted, free colonies.
. colonies of one prevailing religion were
blmted as-alnst colonies of other rell-
glons; some colonies had slmost come
" to arms over boundary -disputes,
Lawa Congress Can Make, r
' group of delegates t representing
'. such opposing" interests, such an (ago
: , nlstln prejudice, such hostile passions,
J iiulM manifestly be rMsoosed to COP-
V rede ss little ss possible to the general
(TOvernmpnt over sU. which they were
fathered together to form, and to re-
iln for the states they represented
V
J"T J" much aa possinie or tne scop
of lannaklng and governing-- On the
other hnnd there wss In the convention
a little rronp of farslshted' statesman
who realised that If the general gov
ernment was to' endur. If-It waa not.
In be hroken up the instsnt one colony
ehmild become angrv and conclude to
then It' must he made strong,
and tha Individual nates must give up
'; m !:
direction, but he had In his youth ex
traordinary beauty of a vivid mobile
character, and he possessed ss well the
personality and fire that go with the
genuine poetic temperament. ' Although
ha did brilliant work on the stage, it
was in his play-writing that his chief
distinction was gained -during his 20
years In London. . Some of his plays
reached fine dramatic heights, and a
few of them remain celebrated to this
day. Notable among them all Is his
"Brutus, or the Fall ' of Tarquln," In
which. Edmund Kean, Edwin Forrest and
many other eminent actors made great
successes. "Charles II, or the Merry
Monarch," was a ' great favorite- with
Charles Kemble. "Thereae," or -4he Or
phan of Geneva." had a long popularity,
and "Clair, the Maid of Milan" (orig
inally known aa "Anglolietta"). waa re-nown4-
for two reasonavfcotlr Tecftuse
Madame Tree mads a great hit In It
and because Payne Incorporate! ' In It
hla great song...'
Home. Sweet Honie.V
Wordi Were Spontaneoue,' , ' -
Tha words sprang into Payne's besd
spontaneously, but the melody was first
suggested to him by a Sicilian air which
Sir Henry Bishop, the emnpoeer Of all
tha- music of "Clair," ' mad use of.
Payne's own story ' finding - this
melody Is a follows: .
T first heard tha air In Italy. One
beautiful morning as I was strolling
alone 'mid some delightful scenery my
attention was arrested by the sweet
voice of a peasant irl who wa carry
ing a basket laden with flowers and
vegetables' This - plalnthra air- she
trilled out with an much sweetness and
Impllclty that the melody at once
caught my fancy. I accosted her, and
after a few moments' conversstion I
ssked for tha name of the song, which
she could not give me. But having a
slight knowledge of muslo myself, barely
enough for the purpose, X requested her
to repeat the air, which ahe did.' while
I dotted down the notes aa beat I could.
It was this air that; suggested the
words o( 'Home, Sweet Home.' both of
on the Wrongs of State
msny of their prerogatives. This letter
party, the Federalist, wss led by. Alex
ander Hamilton; ths State Rights party
was led by Jefferson, - Between thesu
factions the - debates continued for
months; and The Federalist, the record
of the constitutional convention of 1789,
Is filled with their arguments as to
whether ths making of the laWs on this
-subject or on thst should be retained
by the states or delegated to the' na-
govemment. Finally, they carefully ln
corporated Into the constitution which
they made a list of 17. subjects on
which the national government should
be permitted to make laws: aa to al
other subjects, by Implication, the laws
were to be made by each state ror it-
self. This list of 17 Is article I, section
VIII, of the constitution. The subject
named In It Include coining money, pun
ishing counterfeiters, managing the
postofflce. copyrights Vnd patents, de
claring war, bankruptcy, maintaining aa
army and navy, regulating commerce.
Scarcely- was the nstional government
formed upon this constitution under
way when It began to inch over the
boundaries of these strictly-limited l'i
subjects. That course, of encroachment
It has continued, up to1 today. At the
last session ,of .congress laws were
passed on subjects fsrther removed than
ever' before- from any relation to the
17 named In the -constitution. And the
president's recent ..message contained
recommendations, . thst congress pass
laws on subjects still farther removed
from tho scope of the origins! 17 sub
jects decided upon 'by Hamilton.- Jef
ferson snd their fellow delegates.
- During the .century of encroachment
on the pirt of the federal congress, the
state rights party hss resisted strenu
ously, but always more snd more feebly.
Today the advocates of stats rights' sre
probably fewer snd less powerful then
ever before.' Most of them srs In the
southern states, where much of the old
time spirit of Jeffersonlan democracy
still exists.- Msny of them are able and
distinguished men; but It Is a far cry
bark from the present to ths tlms when
a powerful psrty believed In etst
rights so fully Ihst It tried tosecede
from the Veiled States when the fed
eral government Infringed upon what
tt considered ths rights of the states.
The Webster-Havre debate of 1131. fol
lowed by -the nnsaccessful war of -ths
'..' ' . ', ' - ' , ', V
PAYA'S- $MB Jbe
'UK P9 I I 5 -. ". ' I J1 ''' ni ' "Vir
whlcV I" sent to Bishon at the time I
was preparing' the opera of dalr1.- for
Mr. Kemble.- Bishop happened to know
the air perfectly well and adapted the
munlc to "the words." '. '.
" The success of this song Is known In
every nation; It -has had more- univer
sal circulation (hen any other In tha
world. In .leas-than a year after It ap
peared the London publishers sold more
than 100,000 copies. Nevertheless It Is
a curious fact that Payne never was
given credit for It.' nor a royalty upon
it Hn ncver received a presentation
copy of tha song, , , ..-;
Conoul in Tunis. : . . ; T
l.'.Jn-IHIM, wm appolntejLLjconsui to
Tunis, and tha same year was made
I colonel on the staff, of Major-Oeneral
Aaron n am u inn luurm oiviaiun di
Infantry of the militia of the state of
New' York. '. In February of the fol-
- 1 lowing year he left far-Africa. '
; His career In Tunis was as unique
aa the rest Of his life. vHe became the
intlmato personal .. friend, of Ahmed
Pacha Bey, the King of Tunis, and was
adored by the natives of-rhs city.
In 1815. but returned
to Africa In And there In Tunis
he died, cared for by a Greek priest, two
French sisters of mercy, and soma na
tive Moors who loved him. Tunis wept
when ' his eyes elosed at last and tha
bey was inconsolable. .
He was buried in a plot of ground
overlooking the purple' water and the
splendid ruins 'of old Carthage. Our
government erected ehere a marble slab
bearing Chilton's lines: -"Sure
when thy gentle spirit fled
. To realms beyond the asiire dome.
With arms outstretched, 'Qod's angels
eald: r
"Welcome to heaven's "Home, Sweet
Home" " ' - - . -
Oabricl Harrison y0t -tha poot lo
connection with the Easthampton cot
tage, of which he often spoke: '
"One 'who tias studied the character
of John Howard Payne cannot fall to
rebellion, settled for all time ths rights
of a state to secede when it thought Its
rights wars Invaded by the national
government. , . ,
Whenever the national government
has wished to make laws on a subject,
and has failed to find that subject
named In ths prescribed 17,. It hna re
sorted .to some technicality. Occasion
ally It has taken the -ground that, al
though a certain subject waa not found
on the list, nevertheless the power to
make laws on that subject was Implied
.that If a government was s govern
ment st sll it must necessarily have,
without express grant, the right to
make laws on certain subjects. , Thst
Is what -happened, for example, when
we acquired Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. Having acquired, without very
much plan or forethought, . Insular de
pendencies. It was necessary for the
federal government at Washington, to
.make laws concerning them. Then It
was discovered that the constitution
contained nowhere any authority to
make laws concerning colonies. But
that discovery did not dlsmsy congress.
Says Power I UnpliedV .. ,
' It. was flrrued that If there Is a na
tion, that nation will have colonies.
Thereforo there must be an' Implied
powef In the pat tonal government to
make laws concerning those colonics.
And so the laws stsrs .made. Some of
the most Important powers how exer
cised by Che government at Washington
Srs the so-called "Impllsd". ones.
But the great gateway for technical
ity has been the "Interstate commerce"
clause. Among ths 17 subjects on which
the constitution says that ths federal
government maf legislate, the third
la this:',- ..".'.;
t. "To regulate commerce . , . among
tho several plates." -
On the ground of "regulating . com
merce, among the states," the national
government at Wsshlngton ha passed
laws thst the old debaters In ths con
stitutional convention of 1788 never
could have foreseen, and probably would
never have approved. Even Hamilton
would have frowned upon some of ihrm.
tt was under the plea of "regulating
Interstate commerce", that the pure food
bill wsa-passed Isst yesr. ftome sena
tors and . congressmen who 1 believed
discover In hla picture of tha old home
stead a deep, unsubsldlng love for the
old place, as if the spirit of his -boyhood
h'ad come back to' awaken memories of
a delightful pasU, Indeed,' if ha was
thinking of any one place on earth when
he wrote hla song of 'Home, Sweet
Home' It wag of the lowly cottage' at
Eaethampton.'r : ;J' , ,"' '
Home to Be Raxed.
"Well, the Powley cottage Ir shortly to
be no more -"Home, Sweet Home" Is
to be rased to tha ground. At least that
Is tha proposition made by the Episco
pal church board of the little village.
It. senrna to be a, battle royal;. At-any
rate,. It; has tha maklnss of one, the
tMreeent.;; eltttatiorrjrJ nrrlhen:auletrjtttl
country town. - On one aide are ranged
tha protestors, composed of tha greater
part of the resident villagers; on tha
other side stands the church board, con
sisting of tha Rev. Oscar Trader,- rector
of' St Luke's, and hla vestry..:.. .
, St. Luke's church standa on tha lot
adjoining that holdtnc ."Home, Sweet
Home." It la lha only Episcopal church
1 In tha, jlace. and ia.br no means large
enough to fill the needs of ths parish
especially in ths summer, when ths
place is packed, with visitors. As . In
most small towns, the rector Is obliged
to make several ends meet In a very
uncomfortable and Inconvenient manner.
His church too small for his needs, is
In ons place; his parish house, peculiar
ly Inadequate, is In another, and his
rectory is in a third. '
: "Home. Sweet. Home" Is ths property
of the- church. . ,
It wss bought from Samuel Mulford.
whose family has lived there for good
many years. The land is composed
of three acres, ths two back lots be
ing utterly valueless, and the price paid
was 1 (.069. - - " 7 r r---
The thought that this place should
be destroyed has aroused general lndlg
nation, and many plans havs been made
to preserve 1U ;
Rights
heartllv fn ' that law vntA .nl... i
because they thought It was a subject
wincn ine states snouid attend to, that
it was s gainst the letter and spirit of
me constitution ror congress to be mak
ing Jaws concerning such a subject
When the States Are Inactive. . .
The history of ths purs food Isw, In
deed, Is typical of tho way the whole
question comes up. - There ought to be
sucn s isw; tne states themselves failed
to make It, congress proposed to make
It the people wanted It and they took
ths quickest means of getting It Pub
lic opinion did not draw any fine con
stltutlonal distinctions; it wanted the
law and the federal congress furnlshej
ine mesns or getting It
Here. Indeed, In ths failure of tha
stares to make ths laws they ought to
mane, is ine mesl or secretary Root's
speech-and the chief buttress of his
arguments. Bald he:
"It Is useless-for the. advocates -of
states rights to inveigh against ths
extension of national author
ity In the . fields of . necessary control
where the states themselves fall In
the performance of their duty. Ths
Instinct for self-government among the
peopis of the United States Is too strong
to permit them long to respect any one's
right o exercise a power which ho
falls to exercise. The governmental
control which they deem Just Snd neces
sary they will have. It may ba thst
such control could better be exercised
in particular Instances by ths govern
ments of the states, but ths neonle will
nave the control they need either from
ine states or from the national govern,
men. and if ths ststes fall to furnish
It In due measure sooner or later con
structions of the constitution will be
found to vest the power where It will
ba exercised in . the nstional govern
ment" i j
The Child Labor Law. ,
The meat . Inspection law last year
was another extension of the federal
government under the power of regu
lating Interstate oommerce. Now come
two senators. Lodge and Beverldge,-both
lawyers, and presumably famUIsc wlti
tbs cnnatltutlonsl limitations on what,
can be done under the pretext Of "regu,.l
lating Interstate ' commerce,'; with a
HEN a stream In Its course
meets with 'a depression tn
the land Into ' which It
flows, and fllla It up to the
Up of Its lover exit, we hove a lake,
which, regardleas of Its slse, whether
It be 100. 000 square miles or feet, is
till properly a lake, says The Scrap
Book. . .
The Cssplan sea, therefore,' with all
Its eSo miles of length and Its area of
19,000 square mile. Is a salt lake, the
largest In tha world. Its sUe may be
tha better appreciated when It Is com
pared with Lake Superior, the largest
body of freah water In the world, which
has an area of more than 1 1.000 square
miles. The water level of the Caspian
sea 1 7 feet below tha ordinary sea
level. At . the - southern, and deeper,
part the water In about as salty aa the
ocean, - but to the north, where It la
shallower. It is so fresh at times that It
may be drunk. ' ...
'Lake Victoria Nynnsa, the -7 largest
lake r tn Africa; ranks second anions;
laice in Airica, ranxs second anions
tha fresh-water lakes of the world,
having an area of 10.000 square miles.
Situated at an elevation of 1.180 feet,
with the equator cutting across Its
northern portion. It presents, perhaps,
the moat' remarkably wild scene of any
lake in the world.- Its -shores vary
from precipitous cliffs to low and bril
liantly colored woodlands, and In It He
the remarkable Sesse archipelago, com
posed of more than 400 Islands. The
lske Is' also the source of the most re
mantlcally historical river in tha world.
"IheTOle. ' :
The Dead sea,.. which lies II miles
southeast of Jerusalem tn the ancient
"Vale of Siddlm." a, like ths Caspian
sea. below sea level, though the physical
peculiarity, of the latter fades into in
significance when It Is considered that
the Dead aea is no less than 1,111 feet
below ' the level of the Mediterranean.
It coven an area of 160 square miles.
and its waters contain nearly ti per
cent of aolld substance, largely salt,
giving It great specific gravity. It con
tain neither vegetable nor animal life.
The Dead sea is perhaps the oldest,
historically, of all lakss, mention being
made of It In .records tbousahda of
years old. From Its. Latin name, Lacus
Asphaltites, comeaur modern word as
phalt, so called because the produot
was found there in ancient times..-.
Tha Great 8ale lake, in Utah, though
4,100 feet above the ses, bears a close
resemblance to the Dead sea so faras
saltness Is concerned, tha proportion
of mineral matter being 14.1 per cent.
In addition to this Intense saltiness Its
most remarkable feature is Its un
explained fluctuation of srea. In 1S60
It covered 1,760 square miles; In J889
it had increased to 1,170. During the
period of 1880-1890 ths waters sub-1
Stories of
N A modern Tudor house In Ban Jose,
I
lives a cousin of Jsmes McNeil
Whistler. Don Palmer Is his name.
His mother. Kate McNeil, and ths
mother of Wnlstler, Amam McNeil, were
slaters. Whistler was older than his
California oousln," but they spent many
years together in tha old Palmer home
stead, at Stonlngton. Connecticut.
Whtstler'e mother died -when- he- was
yery young, snd the boy wss brough:
up III the family of hrs uncle, Mr.Talni
er, the father of Don, savs tha New
York Herald. . j
' he fine old house where Whistler and
Palmer romped and frolicked is in it
Belf Interesting, having sxtsted sines
revolutionary days. In ths war of illt,
when the British bombarded StonlngTOn.
It fared lit being riddled with shot and
shell. The dining room, which stands
today-Just s-4i did whan.-WhlaUer was
a boy. Is marred by a crack in onh tt
the doors. Ths shell that made It is
still embedded deep in ths w od below.
The pictures that hang on the walla
of this dining room ars interesting, be
cause they ars all family portftU's 4 ;ns
In oil. '.
Whistler's father wss a genius in hs
way, and. like his famous son. exo-ed.
Ingly eccentric. He was sn sngineer,
mho built the first railway lnt KussM.
In recognition of this work the tsar
knighted him. The elder Whlsiler re
mslned In Russia ttt-hls dea'h. '
The Center of Interest. '
Mr.- Partner-Weil" remambers ilia- -day
ths mortal remains of Whistler.' a fathrr
enclosed In a leather casket, arrived In
Stonlngton from Russia. Both Whlstlsr
and Palmer were too young It relise
just what had happened. . They only
Inordinate
DEATH frequently follows a sud
den fit of anger. Persons who
srs otherwise senslblo snd sven
philosophical Indulge at times
In ths suicidal and profitless pastime,
says the Chicago Tribune. The Em
peror Nerva died at the age of of
fever resulting from a, fit -of snger.
. . . . . . ik. mmI throne
fSUI in, wnv wwuiw - t - , .
from 134 to 1S49, and who was consid
ered one of the most Intelligent and
. . a.. s .ams A tskj2 tT fta
liberal S wcn.es 'i-. -
Sudden III "I siis"t "
Csrdlnsl Allcsandro Farnese. who had
proved false to nis rrienast "" """""-
0El. ' . !..( ImI, n while Sd.
dresslng a deputation of backsliding
. . i u-i utm ftnn-v emotions to
uirmaDB, -" -"
get tho upper hand of his common sense
and fell oeao ere n nn "'"
tng The celebrated English surgeon.
John Hunter. Indulged in sngry awp-
Wltn one oi ni -
George's hospital, and dropped dead at
... . .- M V. . . , V. a 1 II
theTnet-or mm wn im "
of the resentful snd bitter remarks.
Ths Russlsn surgeon Baddawoskl, being
angerea ai u.i
slstant during a surglcsl operation, gave
. . - . . . . m w, A -nl r1
free vent 10 a in oi " -----
without a moment's wsrnlng.
Ths milk Sjt-weu aa tne iren -
proposal to pass a national child labor
law. Hers again no ons doubts that
there should be a child labor law. the
people want one. the Individual ststes
persistently fall to pass one. - Nstu
,.iiw when ths federal con are as pro-
tn naas one. nubile opinion backs
It and draws no fins constitutional dis
tinctions.
Th states neslect their prerogatives,
snd swske to - consciousness of them
only when the federal government
usurps them. The ststes neglectt to
make laws which the people want! the
federal government offers to make
those law, and then the states snd
the advocstes of state rights raise
their voices in protest " ' " .
Not only do the ststes fall to make
ths laws. As te soma subjects, If the
ststes made their laws with the best
111 and ths greatest Intelligence, 1 th
sum totsl of it state lews would be far
less effective snd more confusing than
one law mad at Washington snd en
forced from there. . . v ." 1
Bldrd considerably, but in lata year'
they have been rlalnr Great Bait lake
is probably the shalloweat body of
water In the "woTIHor Us alia, having
an average depth of only 19 feet.
' dreen lake. In Colorado, has two
claims to fame. Ono Is that It Is the
highest body of water In the V'ntted
States, tts surface being 10,153 feet
above the level of the sea. In addition.
Its waters are said to have a petrifying
effect. - It 4a a faot that from- tbaaur
face one may look down through water
as clear as crystat and aee at the bot
tom s. very extensive ,petrllld forest.
Of daaillng whlteners. ... -
Crater or Sunken lake, situated In the
Cascade mountains of Oregon, 1 the
orater of an extinct volcano. It Is more
than f.,000 feet above the sea, and Is
walled about with volcanic cliffs or
tremendous height It Is SO miles In
circumference and its depth is unknown.
Lake Morat, In Swltierland. for cen
turies was regarded by the Swiss wtth
superstitious dread. It lies surrounded
-- : : .
i br the canton, of Frlhourg and Vaud
and every 10 years tt Is said to. turn
blood-red. - Even today many Ot the
peasants regard the change as sn omen
of evil. Scientists have discovered
however, that tha reddish color is given
to the water by minute plant, similar
to that which causes the red snow ef
fect Ik the Alps. The lake Is five and
a half miles long.
The Sal ton sea of -California Is
unique. Two years ago Its bed wss s
dry valley, the site of a town and ot
extensive saltKtffca-whara weraexcjul
vated (he vaat deposits of sslt left In
that region by the Gulf of California.
Tha - Colorado river In time - brought
down so much detritus that It built for
Itself a great dyke, on the top of which
It ran, hundreds of feet abovs the" level
of tha surrounding plains. When sn
Ingenious-company got - to work. In
1001, on a project to Irrigate the. Im
perial valley, tapping and bringing
water from the -Colorado through the
dry bed of an old river, the flood that
poured down soon got beyond all con
trol, and finding Its , level in Salton
sink, tha lowest part of the valley. It
began to fornVa lake. Today the aver
age depth is 10 feet. Ths sea, is mors
than 10 miles long.
The Blsck ses differs In a most re
markable manner from other lakes and
seas. ' A surface current flows continu
ally from it Into the Mediterranean, and
an undercurrent - from . ths Mediter
ranean Into the Black ses. The latter
current Is salt, and being heavier than
the fresh water abovs it, becomes stag
nant at the bottom. Being saturated
with aulfureted hydrogen, this water
will not maintain life, and so tha Black
sea contains no living thing below the
depth of 100 fathoms. Its area t Itts
the Excentric
knew that somehow their Tamil was
the center of interest, and fel so 1 3rd
Irgly.'. .,.. . ' -v ,
Whistler . was as queer a boy as he
was' an eccentrlo man. He never con
sidered it worth his while to be agree
able to any one, and always had a stand
off msnner. When he fought with oth
er hoys hs took his reveng by carica
turing ths other, fellow SaJlMemis. nnd
at tha Sams tlms so clever, were these
caricatures that ths .victim uau.Allr felt
hs would rather have- beea - thrarhed
than thus held up to publl j ridicule.
'Whistler, as is well known, mrs l
waya In debt.' One day a. rredi'or, who
had bean admiring ths woodstful dec
orative effects which Whistler called
"arrangements,' pithily remnrked that
tha only kind of arrangement Whistler
couldn't make wss ons In "duns. ' -
i One atorr Mr. Palmar-tails Jif .Whist-J
ler. bears directly on this same falllnr
In Englsnd bailiff was sent to his
house to remain until the artist Kliould
pay a certain debt. ' Whistler greeted
the bailiff cordially and hoped that ha
would find his stay pleasant. Hs then
proceeded peremptorily to order tho
awed man about, requiring of hlra the
services of .a servant. It is needless to
say that tho bailiff did not find It con
venient to remain. -
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Nature's Looking; Up.
Whistler's inordinate self conceit Is
illustrated by another story. Ons day
on a yachting trip up ths Thames one of
the- party remarked to Whistler that
some of the bits of scenery they were
passing reminded her of his etchings.
Yes." hs composedly replied, "nature is
looking up!"
. Oscar Wilde, who greatly admired
Anger Has Toxic Effect
mals that havs died while In a rags
hss been found, upon analysis, to con
tain elements of poison, and many an
Innocent babe has been msde dangerously
111 by nursing st the mother's breast
Imraedlstely nftsr that mother had in
dulged In . a fit of frensy or anger,
Neither tha chemist nor bacteriologist
has yet been able (0 demonstrats tho
partlculsr poison or germ thst renders
the milk toxlo tinder ths conditions, but
thst a poison, and a very active and
snergetlo one, exists Is unquestionable.
- Death during a fit of anger may be
produced by a tojflo product developed
by ths undue excitement aa much as to
the play of tha motions upon the nerve
centers of the heart Little children
should be taught In earliest infancy to
control their angry passions. ' 'A parent
smiling spprovngly - st - whst he Is
pleased to term "spunktness" of his
offspring, without making any effort
to reprove or to correct the outburst of
111 temper, is gunty or wanton neglect
and. Is storing up much unpleasantness
for both himself snd the child In fu
ture.
"Anger Is a stone east Into a wasp's
nest reads ths Malabar proverb, and
how often ths angry wore stirs up
strlfs and discord snd contentions that
keep up a continual unpleasant bussing
until, like wasps disturbed In their
nests, thsy slight upon ths disturber,
bringing a sting that wounds his own
nersonatftr. -
"Be slow to wrath," might be a cher
ished guide at any and every period of
life. But as yesrs run their course,
particularly 1f accompanied by a feeble
condition of body, a conscious tendency
to ftts Of snger should Indues habits of
strenuous self-control. - This control,
however, is not scqulred In a day.- The
Imprisoned firs of anger but walta for
the kindling breath of provocation, and
each time If Is confronted by the latter
a calm exterior, even though the spirit
be at white heat, will win a victory
without either party to tho strife being
a loser. '...- . .' .
Curing a Frenxied Babe.
A T)rfgttt I-year-old child . who wss
given to pasatonsts outbursts of resent
ful snger each tlms her wishes were
thwsrted was ons morning suddenly
lifted to ths mirror,-with ths mother's
admonition: "Look at yourself.") -
tO square miles, it is 740 miles long,
and its greatest width is 380 miles.
Lake Baikal is another extraordinary
body of water. - It covers sn area ot
k 1,600 miles, snd its volume of water l
Imoat as great as that of Laks 8u
parlor, which Is mors- than twice Ita,
slse. This is due to Baikal's greater
depth. From November till April each
yesr Lake Baikal Is frosen over with
so thick a covering of Ice that the Rus
sians are accustomed. to lay tracks and
run trains -across -it.'
Medical lake, so called on account of
the remedial virtues of Its' waters. Is
situated on the grest Columbia plateau
In southern Washington, at an altitude
of 3.300 feet above the levet of the Pa.
clflc. It is about a mile long, from
half to three quarters of a mile In'
width and with a maximum depth of
about 10 fot. The composition of Its
waters la almost identical with that of
the Dead aea, and, - like its oriental
counterpart, no plant has yet been
found growing on or near Its edges, '
Mono lake is one of the myateries'of
east central California.'1 It lies st sn
altitude .of J, 730 fet, and its srea la '
about 86 square miles. Soda, borax, and
other minerals abound In Its waters, -and
In windy weather cause a soapy -foam'
several feet K ick to form on Its
aurface. Flnh csnnot live In Its waters,
and eny vegetation touched by its spray
has the' appearance of having been af.
fected by fire. . ' f,r'
Asphalt lakes,' which ars . really ' dr- '
posits, rathsr than reservoirs, of mln-'
eral pitch, are widely dispersed through
tha-eutira-world, especially- -ia-tfe- tropin ,
oal regions. At present the -two most
profitable asphalt lakes are In Trinidad
and "Venesuels. from' which is obtained'
nfuch of the asphalt used In this coun
try. Jn appearance an asphalt lake Is
solid; the surface can ba. walked upon'
and. In fact, wagons and railroad trains
are driven over it; but, in reality, there
la a continual movement and flow.
Streams of asphalt creep down dedlvi-' '
ties, arid the excavations made by the
removal of the product are entirely
filled up In the course of a few "months.
There 1s still a 'famous productive as
phalt laks In Asia, called ths Fountains :
of Is, on a tributary of ths Euphrates,
where thousands of years ago the an
cient Babylonians got their supply.
Boiling lake is on the island of
Dominica, lying in -the mountains be
hind Roseau.- In the valleys surround
ing It are many solfataras, -or volcania
sulfur vents. . Ths temperature of the '
water on the margins of the lake ranges -from
180 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. lit -the
middle, directly ver the gas vents.
It is mors than 100 degrees. . Other
sheets of water with similar character
istics are v numerous throughout the
world, but- few ars of sufficient lm- '
porta nee to create much interest.
Whistler
Whistler, was ons night returning with
him from a reception. "I wish," said
Vvlldo, "I could say ths good things you
do." . ' v.- . ; .. . -.. '
"Tou will soon," responded Whistler.
Whistler, with other guests, was din
ing at tha house of Sir Henry Irving.
During dinner Whistler's eyes were
constantly turned toward a picture of-his-
own, ons he had given to Irving,
snd -after dinner-he went -over to -where
it was hung gssed up and dbwn, turned
bis head this way and that Still no
notice was taken of his singular con
duct. " ' W
- At last Whistler broke the, silence.
"By Jove, Sir Henry, hs said, "you hsvs
bung this picture of mine upside down."
; "WeH.-' drawled tha host, "if It took
you three hours to discover It, I hardly .
aee what you could expect of ma."-
CoupU "and tha Portrait. -
Another' anecdote bears directly on
this erratic genius. Through soma mis
take a few of tho pictures hung in ths
Louvre had become disarranged so that
their numbers did not correspond with
those in ths catalogue. - A young couple "
from the country came In. "Now, first
or ail. we must ses Whistlers fimct.t. I
portrait of his mother. -Number r ' I.
was, and 3 they hunted up.. With hor
ror they gased upon tho beautiful figure
of a young woman guiltless of clothes
or adornment save for a elngle rose. .
"Ths wretch I Ths monster!" they ex
claimed in Indignation, "to thus display
his mother to ths world!" i
They passed oiu jtlli mutterln ih!r
vexatlon and protests. They never so
much as glsaced st number f 4. the quiet,
mouselike. portrait of a little woman sU
in gray Whistler's famous master
piece, ths portrait of his mother,
Immediately tha child's resentful fsce
chtnged and, nestling to her mother,
who wisely refrained from saying an
other word regarding tha ebullition of
temper, shs with sn apologetic .. hug
softly sobbed awsy ths resentment.
Soms weeks sftsrwsrd, during which
time there was a marked change for
ths better lit ths temperament of the
child. the mother hod occasion to ro
prove the IltMe ons for an act of dis
obedience, using' perhaps unnecesssry
warmth of temper at ths time. Without
hesitation tha little one seised her by
ths hand and urged her toward ths mir
ror. , ''..-':.'
" 'Ook at 'oorself !" she exclaimed, her
childish volos ss severs as her strength
permitted, st tha same time' struggling
desoeratelv tt kn Ih. n--
fronr her own tiny face by puckering
ner jids into a rorm rrom h nk (.ni
a succession of soft, nonchalant oos.
Ths teson had been tsught learned
and retaught, and who shall ssy how
isr.reacning us innuenceT . if one can
only bs brought to understand the toxic,
effect of ansae unon tha ahni-
sorlal system of ths Individual, result
ing, as It frequently does, In sickness,
snd even death, each would be more at
peace with his neighbor, with ths com
munity and with the world at large. -
Oldest Rhlp Afloat? .
' From the New Tork Times,. .
ThS De Tvenda Rrodra la t... ma.
and If she Is not ah. ..., v. ...
oldest ship at present In commission on
the. four oceans. Only a few weeks ago
this old "tilling ship, whose keel was
laid at Marstttl, Prussia, In 17M, arrived
In Swedish waters, unit i itk..v r
next year she will celebrate her Ulst
Ojrtnoay.' - .
Not only Is the De Tvende Brodre In
class bv herself In nnint hut
she Is Just ss Interesting so far as the -
nisiory nr ner nsippers Is concerned.
curing an me yesrs she has been onv I
ths sees she has had hut s ..ni.i aj
and every one of these skippers - be
longed to the sams family. The first
sklDDer navlsated tha ui
years, ths second tt years, the third 20
years, me rourtn sz years and ths pres- -snt
skipper has been 17 yesrs in com
msnd. At tha nreaent t. iu -
Tvends Brodra la Uking on cargo in ths
harbor. of Nykoplng. Sweden. . .
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