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:U THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, ' DECEMBER 27, 1908.
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Significant Parts of Presi
dent Rposevelt Message
WILL THE WEST GROW DEAD LIKE CHINA?
Furnisned by a Man WHo Has - Studied tne Effects Deforestation in tne Far East Great Mongolian Desert Was Once a Fertile Farming Country' Warning to United States
IT HAS come to pans that an intrepid , ' . r I v . . " , " ' ,
.but obscure explorer of the depart- menmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmat- , ) .-ur.M,, ' m-. tT
ment of agriculture tn far off Chlaa ID1, ,; , "J.. .
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but obscure explorer of the depart
"ment of sericulture in far of f Chlua
has written a, goodly block of the
president's message to congress, and
has further been the inspiration which
has placed that document on the list of
those illustrated by actual photographs.
Frank N. Meyer has tramped for three
years over the so called "Flowery King-,
dom," penetrating to sections nevef be
fore seen by white man, suffering hard
ships and dangers that would read like
' chapters from the alluring literature
that In yellow backs so appeals to ad
venturous youthj and finally producing
the facts and proof of one of the great
est object Wessons In the world in gov
ernmental mismanagement. He has
caught and ohrystalised the harrowing
results of deforestation.
Destroy Trees. -' ' -
The1 people of Chlnafor many hun
dreds' of years have followed the same
system of disregard for final conse
quences of ruthlessly.cuttlng down trees
that is today being observed in America,
and as a result barren, ; uninhabitable
wastes extend over a great portion of
the empire which was once the scene of
Srosperous homes for millions. Presl
ent Roosevelt grasped the power or
this object lesson and Incorporated parts
of Meyer's report and many of his, pho
tographs Into his message to the ,Iast
congress to which he will send recom
mendations. Says the president:
"The lesson of deforestation in China .
is a lesson which mankind should have
learned many times already from what
has occurred in other places. Denuda
tion leaves naked soli; then gullying
cuts down to the bare rock; end mean
while the rock waste buries the bottom
lands. When the soil is gone, men must
go, and the process does not tske long.
This ruthless destruction of the for
ests in northern China has brought about
or has aided in bringing about desolation.
Just as the destruction of the forests m
central Aala aided in bringing ruin to
the once rich central Aslsn cities; Just
as the destruction of the forests in
northern Africa helped towards the
ruin of a region that was a fertile gran
ary in Roman days. Short sighted man,
whether barbaric, seml-clvilised, or what
he mlstakably regards as fully civilized,
when he has destroyed the forests, has
rendered certain the ultimate destruc
tion of the land itself. Not only have
the forests been destroyed, but because
of their destruction the soil his been
washed off the naked rock. The terri
ble consequence Is that it is impossible
now to undo the damage that has been FRANK
do no. Many centuries will have to pass
before soil will a sain collect, or could '
he made to collect in sufficient quantity
once more to support ths old time forest often having to tramp many miles from
growth. In consequence the Mongol their homes to get even this poor fuel
desert Is practically extending eastward and laboriously carry it back again on
over northern China. The climate has their backs. -
changed. And is still changing. It has "This very same process on a grester
changed e'en within the lest half cen- scale has been the system to which
tury, as the work or tree destruction inina nanbeen aerorestea. l ne peopie
nave always gone rreeiy into tne wooas
and cut ar
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THE EX-
has' been consummated.'
Mr. Meyer's Travels.
rains fell they rushed in torrents into
?iV. a.A.u J'ZL hi: tLin the treams, end in a few days the rocky
the future, and all the timber has been hm w d . b)fore havlna- noth-
aestroyea. Many years ago tney leii ,ng t0 ho,d the moisture. The slreams
Mr. Meyer, who is now In Washington, upon the old stumps and roots, and these wre torrents today and dry sand
brings the conditions very directly bn f IubAe2 Lf?I Lf , LIou,nh. stretches tomorrow.
home by hl. first hand oe.cr.ption. of UolX
conditions. In speaking of the barren- out.' stretches and the cool air rises from
nrns of the populous empire, he said: , ' . them encounters moisture laden cur-
Whereever one turns his eyes In "Wert the Kesult rents above. It causes them to precipl-
. . , . . . . . . .. . , . . . . , . . tate that moisture. But when hot air
C hina in search of forests he meets With the beginning of . this tree de- riBeB fr0m hare rocks the moisture is
nothing but disappointment, for general- struction what is now the Manchurian dissipated and no rain falls. .
V'."Pn8H.C? hvTh.ntinS li'ni Jert was a thickly inhabited body of All conditions came to pass in
Yet In days gone by that glorious land, . . Manchuria as they will come to pass
with climate and soils remarkably slm- land, well watered, covered with timber, anywhere else when the same plan of
liar to our own. was covered With tlm- mnuntalnnuM and Inhabited tv cennle nneratlnn la fnllnwari nut Th muinln
ber and with woods, of which It Is hard who lived largely by agriculture. The were driven gradually out of the lands
nowadays to form any adequate compre- demand for wood became great as the In which they had formerly lived In
henslon. But the remnants are there population increased, and the hillsides plenty and consumed more timber
yet, and these last survivals serve us, were denuded. The demand continued, stretches as they went, and the ' desert th
like rudimentary organs Of animals, to and thev were strlnned to the soli, and followed them. Tndnv it has utroti-hod Sn
draw tin the whole map as it once must with the passing of the vegetation began half way across the empire, and is still know
liave been. the erosion and all Its accompanying marching on. today
. iu r-iivf wnsi inn virnie m w m nisaavancages. cm me siepp nuisiacs
which the destruction of the forests there wss nothing to hold back the Marco Polo's Troubles
Oiave driven the people one has only to water when it rained, and no roots to v
go to the immediate neighborhood of carry it into the ground. It ran off Much of this destruction Is sufflclent-
any or tne cities or villages una ooserve rapidly and carried the exposed soli
how every blade of grass and every stick with It. In the course of time nothing
Is cut by the knife. Every leaf even remained on the mountain sides but the
is gathered and carried away to be used bare exposed rocks.
ruei. ana men. ooys ana women ton The soil has been wasned onto the
THREE 8CENES
CHINA SHOWING : EFFECTS OF DEFORESTATION.
change in ; climatic conditions due to Chefu and to have observed the manner
the stripping bare of mother earth. . - in which workmen hud caused the dvntlt
i, . 'h ; s 4 of a nuge oak near the tomb of the grtMt
Bandits Protect Trees. ' - Ph"O80ph?r- aw om of th mm
strip a piece of bark off the tree,; He
There are two Interesting conditions examined it and found that such striiv
In China that have saved a little patch "'d,e"uJ' I,nhl.r'?tv?ri":
. M . . . . . . lor montna In this method a . strip
of forest here and there. In the high around the tree three ft wide was
mountains where only rocky crags meet being made with the evident Intent of .
'the eye where one turns and- no sprig killing the tree. The object was almost ,
of vegetation . breaks the ever present accompllshd at the time.,- ; .
monotony, there Is an occasional oasis,
a patch of primeval forest hidden' away Riling the Pines. -
in some mountain recess untouched. .
This clump of trees Indicates that here A little later at the eastern tombs
Is the rendesvous of a band of heredl- where the mausoleum In which tsts
tary bandits. They have lived here for ,, ' - , . .:.
centuries defying authority and on the ttle remains of the late emepress
whole have been little disturbed. When dowager Mr. Meyer found that great
the populace from the outside have pieces had been cut out of trees in suc ,'
sought to intrude upou their solitudes a way that they would die. He even
and appropriate anv of their timber, the found some men and boys uprooting a
intruders have been dealt with sum- small tree and when he asked them for
marily and their gibbeted corpses have their permits they took -to their heels
given an object lesson to all who came and ran, - not even, stopping for their
that way afterward. The lesson was coats.
soon learned and well learned, and as a The scarcity of timber and the hard
result of it the occasional patch of tlm- ships suffered for the lack of It is r
ber Is left over as a remnant of the sponsible for this disregard for evert
once magnificent forest of the Chinese religion in procuring a few sticks of it, .'
empire- - The industries of China are sadiy held
Another occasional remnant Is to be back because of a lack of timber, ' 1 he
found in the burying groundR, for it is mines cannot be worked because then
a metter of religious belief that the cut- Is no material with which to construct, v
ting of timber other than that which Is Railroads cannot be built as there is
dead will call down upon the person no wood to be had for ties. Every stlrlc -
guilty the vengeance of all the gods he of timber that is used must be im-
swears by. Throughout the ompire ported from the outside and while a few
there are monasteries surrounded by western companies Hre profiting largely
burying places and on most of them the natives are suffering.
there are trees. There, are the two Matters as thev exist in China ara
sacred mountains, the Tai-shan in Shan- an absolute condition. There is nothing1 -
tung and the Wu-tal-shan in Shansi. On of theory or speculation as to what the
these the trees are also held sacred. results of a policy of forest destruction
Yet in the face of the great religious are in this instance. -Once fertile areas,
fear there Is the greatest difficulty on wooded, densely Inhabited and product-
the part of the old priests having them lve-are now desert wastes and for no
In charKe In preventing the destruction other reason than that the timber has '
been removed. The conditions wer
similar in China a few nundreds year
ago to those here in America today ami
the latitudes, vegetation and soils wer
the same. The case is cited aa absolute
proof of what conditions may be ex
pected here if the forests are not taken
care of. It is held that the men from.)
"Missouri" who refuse to acknowledge
the necessity for prompt action in forest'
Srotection have been shown. The presl-'
ent further says in hts message:
Time for Action. 1
"If there la any one Suty which more
than anotherjwe owe it to our children
and our children's children to perform
at once. It Is to save the forests of this,
country, for they constitute the first and
most important element In the conser
vation of the natural resources of th
country.
"Short sighted persons, or persons
blinded to the future by the desire to
make money in every way out of th
present, sometimes speak as If no great
damage would be done by the reckless
destruction of our forests. It is difficult
to have patience with the arguments of
these persons. Thanks to our own reck
lessness In the use of our splendid for-
ests we have already crossed the verge
of a timber famine in this country, and
no measures that we now take can, at
ieast for many years, undo the mischief
that has already been done. But we
can prevent further mischief being done;
and it will be ,in the highest degree rep
rehensible to let any consideration of
temporary convenience or temporary
cost Interfere with such action, es
pecially aa regards the national forests
which the nation can now, at this very
moment, control.
"All serious students of the question
are aware of the great damage that has
been done In the Mediterranean- coun
tries of Europe, Asia and Africa by de
forestation. The similar !amage that
has been done in eastern Asia is less
r.ll known. .. What has thus haDrened
In northern Cttlna, what has happened in
central Asia. In Palistine. in north
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sin i 'itm
at are now entirely dried up. The The people are all the time being con- of and carrying away of the trees. The Africa, in parts of th? Mediterranean
n.nri H.r in Mo unhurt is now ......... . tree mhhati In these sections: have be- countries 01 Murope, win surriy nnnptii
n to be drving uB and men alive - " V" , come notorious.- The manner of these, n our countrytf wj do not rci-e
. lauua Biiti BitinK inn roisifl mill nuiii- i u . . . a mm a inn - w I up loreinoui ( nun 11 wvuiu '
ran always full of crystal water. On pers that wore before . overpowering cause them to die and then there i the one or hnMlrt
irecome' go great mat lamine is a excuse ror cutting mera oown, inu m io.,,.... '-" ' .v. -. . . V ii,-
ly modern as to be recorded by men
from' the western nations who; have
traveled in China. When Marco Polo
visited China in mediaeval times he
patiently to collect the smallest twigs, farms below and destroyed them. When wrote of journeys In boats on streams dustry Is becoming appalling.
ine inp neiween retting aim jcm"i iu"-, "v" "ciyiun on kichi. "wi niniiiic i t uvum lur nuuini mem .. v.m... ,-- -,. , Ai n,
Is every evidence of the fact that the thing that can with difficulty be superstition does not apply to deal be permitted to stand in the way of ti e
forests have but renently passed and avoided. The death from starvation of trees. Throughout these sacred forests preservation of the forest . and i 1 1 tn
conversation with the natives brings many thousands of people within ; the there is evidence of deliberate damage criminal -to Pfnlt .,"a7'ua.1? t" ' F.VlT
out the-fact that but- 30 or 40 years last two years has been entirely due being constantly 'done trees in order chase-a little gain ror t, nem"'vf"
ago there wf re waving forests on these to outrages on the forests. The once that they will die and may be then cut through the liwtructwii ot ior".
htllHldp.. The conditions of many of productive lands have become deserts down. , when this destruction is fatal to tne
the streams that once teemed with in- and on these lands still farmed the rain- Mr. Meyer reports having visited the well being of the wnoie country in tne
fall is uncertain . because of an entire graveyard of the family of Confucius at future."
CLOSER BONDS BETWEEN THE NORTH AND
SOUTH, TAFT'S AIM
POUTICAL conditions In the south,
with particular reference to the
negro' position, formed a feature
of the address of President-elect
William II. Tart delivered before
the North Carolina society at New
York city.. In his remarks he said:
"What is it that sets the south apart
and take from the southern people the
responsibilities which the members of
a republic ought to share in the nationa"
government?
"Why is It that what is done at
Washington seems to be the work of
th north and the west, and not of
the south? Should this state of affairs
continue?
"Tht-se are the questions that force
themselves on those of us concerned
with the government, and who are most
anxious to have a solid, united country,
"We can answer these questions ss
the historian would, and we 'can ex
plain the situation as it is; but I don't
think we can justify or excuse a con
tinuance of it.
"IxMklng back into the past, of
course, the explanation of the differ
ence between the south and the other
two sections was in tho institution cf
slavery.
"It Is of no purpose to point out that
' earlv in the history of tne country the
north was aa responsible for bringing
slaves here as the south, because we
are not concerned with whose fault H
was that slavery existed.
"I am not going to rehearse the pain
ful history of the war or what followed
it. I come at once to the present con
dition of things.
"It is that in all southern states it Is
possible by" election laws prescribing
proper qualifications for the shf frag.
which square with the fifteenth amend
ment, and which shall be equally admin.
Istered between the black and whits
races, to prevent entirely the possi
bility of a domination of southern state.
county or municipal governments by an
ignorant Wectorate, white or black.
"It Is further true that the sooner
such laws are applied with. exact equal
ity and Justice to the two races the
better for the moral tone of the state
and community concerned.
"Negroes snould be given an oppor
unity, equally with whites, by education
and thrift, to meet the requirements of
eligibility which the state legislatures
in their wisdom shall lay down. In
order to bring the safe exercise of the
electoral franchise.
"The negro should ask nothing other
than an equal chance to qualify himself
for the franchise.
"The proposal to repeal the fifteenth
amendment Is utterly Impracticable and
should be regulated to the limbo of for
gotten issues. What we are considering
is something practical, something that
means attainable progress.
"It seems to me that there is. or
ought to be a common ground upon
which we can all stand in respect to
the race question In the south, and its
political bearing, that takes away any
Justification for maintaining the con
tinued solidity of Ihe south to pre
vent the so-called negro domination.
"The fear that In some way or other
a social equality between the races shall
be enforced by law 6r brought about by
rolitical measures really has no founda
lon except in the Imagination of those
who fear such a result. The federal
government has nothing to do with so
cial equality. The war amendments do
not declare in favor of it.
"With the elimination of the race
question can we say that there are re
moved all the r.easons why the people of
the south are reluctant to give up thf lr
political solidarity and divide them
selves on party lines in accordance with
their economic and political Tlew?
"No, there are other reasons, perhaps
Only reasons of sentiment, but with
the southern people, high strung and
sensitive, considerations of sentiment
are frequently strong.1
"In the firt place. It is now nearly
40 years since the south acquired its
political solidarity and the intensity of
feelina; by which it was maintained,
and tne ostracism and social proscrip
tion imposed on those white southern
ers who did not sympathise with the
necessity for such solidarity could not
but make lasting impression and create
a permanent bias that would naturally
outlast the reason for Its original exis
tence. "I believe that the movement away
from political solidity has started and
ought to be encouraged. I think one
way to encourage it is to have the south
understand that the attitude of the
north and the Republican party toward
It Is not one of criticism, political or
otherwise: that they believe In the
maintenance of the fifteenth amend
ment, but that, as already explained,
they do not deem that amendment to be
Inconsistent with the south's obtaining
and maintaining what It regards as its
fiolltlcal safety from domination of any
gnorant electorate, and that the north
yearns for closer association with the
south.
"The recent election has made It prob
able that 1 shall become more or less
responsible for the policy of the next
presidential administration, and I im-
Firove this opportunity to say that noth
ng will give me greflter pride because
nothing would give me more claim to
the gratitude of mv fellow citlsens. If I
ecAild so direct that policy In respect to
the southern states as to convince Its
intelligent citlsens of the desire of the
administration to aid them in working
out satisfactorily the serious problems
before them, and of bringing them and
their northern fellow citlsens closer in
sympathy and point of view.
" "During the last decade. In common
with all lovers of our country. I have
watched with delight and thanksgiving
the bond of union between the two sec
tions grow firmer. I pray that It may
be given to me to strengthen this movement"
t urea are represented by magnificent
volumes, often In binding by masters.
'To describe the contents of the treas
ure room with any semblance of order,
any pretense to enumerate them accord
ing to their importance, would be im
possible. Everything is precious. The
Golden Gospels' is a fascinating vol
ume. It was given to Henry VIII by
Leo X about the time the title 'De
fender of the Faith' was conferred on
the king and the superb binding is sup-
Eosed to have been designed by Hol
ein. "There are four volumes of Burns'
manuscripts, mostly letters, but the let
tors contain the first copies of many of
WHAT IT COSTS TO MAINTAIN AN ARMY
By Prof. Frederic Bastiat
man, and attempts to Justify the maintenance labor, always on the supposition that
v tt of 100.000 soldiers on alleged econonfic a part of the army could "be disband-
r IS with a nation as with a
" When a nation wishes to allow
self a satisfaction. It must consid
er whether the satisfaction
worth what it costs. If, to acqui
it. It is necessary to organise 100.000
...Ammtnmm i. th considers- ed without risk to national security.
tinna that 1 h'ava tn refute. ' Now. let us consider the proposed
Is a i,ndrd thousand soldiers and sll disbanding. Tou point to an increase
re tl, iwkl-Tnd1 ukdesmenwho of, 100.000 '-borer Increased compe-
wantn are .supports ny " -IT" Z aLkIZa
mr.l.. !lAU
men ana to spend I00.0U0.00il francs, "jvTj irv th. taxDavera This is what 100,000 soldiers Mi not to ' annihllata
'l " enjoyment purchased at the ""'f, by the ;axpa era. This is wnat . frBn;(J but to r-.tore them
price of a sacrifice. nS? the 100 000 000 francs, being to the taxpayers, and by thus throwing;
, A member.. of congress, proposes to But the .'n2 , D'" joo.000 labofers on the market you
these taxpayers and Ahose who sup- throw by tha- very m. t act into th
wants. iiane tne calculation, " V","3 ' Vi .
It! bSt."2Wn XV&t l"d,n the taxpayers to the extent "ot o'ooo,- P"thes
In.. 1 r.t V,..l.ln' ! m 17111 Knirn' lllimoa' .J."?"' .1.. l'm,rmm mr .ll ma ha tO D1V Ulflr labor. SO COnSSq Ueutl
,mCmtmmtT- i t-. ' VAiA' ...'If. '"P"'. TfW.:. "These v J" VK" ""f, '. whole, the same measure which increases tha
On my bide. I will tell you whera the supply of labor also -increases the de
loss is. and for simplicity's sake, In- mand for it. whenca follows that your
rnree Musiteteers. ivtton s inran innnnn mm. 1 nb nnA ia
and iJist Days of Pompeii and Zo a s ,re indispensable to our national secur
Nana,' Thackeray s -Vanity Fair is im- lty;it a sacrifice, hut without this sao
perfect, but is all that exi-ts of the riflce the country would be torn by fac
scrlpt. The manuscript of Brontes . tlons, or invaded by a foreign enemv."
The Professor Is In the collection, as! xo this argument I have nothing to op
well as that of Reade's Hard Cash. pose. It may be true or false, in fact.
One of the most .precious things is but It involves no heresy in economic
Scott's diary, in two large volumes, theory. The heresy begins with the at
How this was ever allowed to leave the tempt to represent the sacrifice as an
t'nitea Kingdom is incomprenensioie. aa vantage, because It benefits someone,
Another treasure Is the volume contain
ing Thackeray's Brookfleld letters, and
still another manuscript of Pope's 'Es
say on Man.' There are many letters
of Charles I.amb. there are the Du
Maurier manuscripts and drawings,
there , is the book on . mathematics Na
poleon used as a schoolboy, besides that
letter to his uncle .written in 1784,
which is his earliest known letter. He-
sides tnese, such things as Martha
Washington' will and Nell Gwynn s flcV.u t?" ?r? tJl !Yur?bJr,lt Mvlih,00J.
title deed to her house In Pall Mall i 1t "ot ffIrtunat2 !at th Mat kJvwi
sem commonplace. The original draw- hundred thousand men? Con
Intra fftp D4i-ilrttrfrir' lnrliirla tho inn.
"ft" t tn .. . i. wvs ; rt
wfttiaAi4 T3asi nlato Th mth t a. '
There are man v Shel- """J . "na
.1.. r.t .naoktna- of i on 000 men and fall of wares Is an ' Illusion, tierore.
100,000,000 francs, let us reason on one ss-after the disbanding, there are In
man and 1000 francs. the country T 00.000,000 francs corres-
Iiet us take a single village. The re- ponding to 100.00Q. men. Bnt before
cruiting sergeants make their round and the disbanding the 'country gave tha
carry off a man. The tax collectors 100,000,000 francs to the 100,000 men,'
make their rounds also and carry off a for doing nothing; after, it gives tha
thousand francs. The men and the same amount of money to th; sama
monev are transported to Chalous and men for doing something. '
the rhonev keeos the man for a year I repeat that whether . a taxpayer,
in barracks. If you look only at Chal- gives his money to a soldier In ex-
mm von will see an advantage, but if rhuct for nothrns or to a laborer In
Will' it be by labor? 'ou ca"t 'our back t0 tne v,!laKe exchange for something, all the ulter-
, VMi will lllllin. K w i or, iui ,. . i . v .-, nr JUI14IVUVII1.ttb mm . " v.i.in,...,",
you are blind you will see that this of the money are the same, only. In
village has lost a laborer and has lost the second case, the taxpayer receives'
the thousand francs which he would nomethlnc. in the first he receives no
have earned by his labor, and has lost thing. Therefore, if the soldiers ara
At a time when It Is dlf- 'he activity which, by the outlay of,not required for national security their
tnese tnousano. irancs, ne- wuuiu nvD maintenance is pure iu vim nauun.
crested around him. Let those who think otherwise, an-
At the first rlance it would seem Bwer this n lien t ton. If you can add
aider besides that the army consumes that the two cases exactly balance and to the wealth of the nation by main-
thus ere- that what Derore passea in me vmage tatnlng soldiers wny not eniist ins
Yet the moment such a nrooosltlon is
made someone will exclaim: "Disband
100,000 men! Are you In earnest? What
will become of them? How will they
make a living?
But don't you know that labor every
where is crying for employment that
every trade, every profession is crowd
ed? Would you throw them into the
market to Increase competition and de
press wages:
tnllina armm that i
.,.,ii e 'rQ miti-A t i. aieu m-nviiy in tne womsnops. in tne jii v ,,, n"" it""
in ll collection.. i nerw ru niiany ouei- ,.i , - .... . i - man H
rJI'-.o ? ?In faSr S?.d vold who 'live bv ' supplying" Its 'wants. Vo borer at
r.m. "m,,1.0,, li't.".. ? nrI?2rt V" " shudder at the thought of an- drills y
m.$!h., ff Jfe nihlh-Uing this Immense Industrial soldier.
It is. In a
There are. of course, many auto-
But the loss is in this. In the village
man dug and worked; lie was a ia- Ttw 4ann
rer; at Chalous he goes through his xne ",s9n-
drills eyes right, eyes left he Is a A switch maKes jonnny to Denave
soldier. The money and its circulation fjieven monina ui an mo
are the same in the two cases, but in But for the other so aays
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SOME TREASURES OF MORGAN'S LIBRARY
PIERPONT MORGAN'S library is ."Endymlon, Shelley's r notebook: ' the dently ancient and appear to be of tha
the subject of a thres column manuscripts .; and drawings . of Trilby' best Greek period.
article In the London Times and "Peter Ibbetson'; Cornwallls' Terms
"Mention any class of rare and deslr-
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1 from its New York correspond- of Surrender; letters of St Francis de able volume in which you are Interested.
S nt. ' who comnares Morgan to Bains and other saints: the oriarlnals Aldlnes? There are 21 shelves of them
Lorenzo de Medici in the magnificent of many of Burns' poems; manuscripts the finest collection In existence. Are
,7. v.- t . ' tnl Dr. Johnson; the manuscript of 'A you old-fashioned enough to care for
catholicity of his taats. In an editorial Chrt8tma. CaroV and . o volumes of Elsevlrs? Seven , shelves, containing
the Times goes even further, saying: Dickens' letters; manuscripts of Swift; practically every rara Elsevir known.
"The description furnished by our ths earliest letter of Napoleon f in ex- ail 'tall' and in perfect condition. , One
correspondent is that of ths most won- istence; Scott's diary and manuscripts could Imagine Charles Nodler, or even
derful collector of ' our time, perhaps of njn, 0f h novels, including 'Ivan- Plxerecourt seeing this collection aiV(J
of any time. ' The making of such a 11- noev. manuscripts of masterpieces of selling their own books in disgust
brary has nerver been possible till the pumas, Charlotte Bronte,-George Sand, "is It the Bibles that attract you?
present time. It is an outcome or ths Read Lytton and Zola; the manuscript There are 80 shelves of them 'two Gu-
age,f millionaires. . " ' of 'Vanity Fair'; many letters of Lamb: ten bergs (NasadlnsV. one on paper, ths
"These gentlemen of . vast means Mary jjtuarfs letter to the Due ds other On vellum; the Hebrew Bible of
abound in America, nd there are a few Ouise and Martha Washington's will, 1482; all the English Bibles from the
of them In Europe. One out of ten has Ana tnl l8 not -V,B sn outline. I have Coverdale onward; - Bibles owned by
taste, one out of a hundred has genius. ,impiy enumerated, haphazard, a- few celebrated personages, such as Colbert's
Frick and Wldener come under the for- ot tn0 thinaj, that happen to remain, in (in S2 volumes, with the statesman's
mer category, but ths man or genius is my memory. Ths first apartment I en- arms on the eovers: Mme. de Malnte-
Morcan.' . ' . , . ' tared was the great east room.-With non's; Sir Walter Scott's; - Bibles In
Portions of the letter, which is repro- thm exception of the Jeweled volumes In Icelandic and other strange tongues; a
duoed In full In the New. York Times, the glass case, the room is devoted en- set of the Gospels. In 10 volumes, ex
are as follows: V tlrely to , Mr. Morgan's incunabula, lit- qulsltely bound . by Pasdeloup. Turn
. : J " " Nurglcal collections and first editions of from the Bibles and the Elxevir Pas-
"The collections include the Ashburn- ISnglish books. The Ashburnham Gos- tlssier -Francois and . the . Aldlne . Hyp
ham Gospels and others of the most re-pels, of course, needs no description: it nerotonachla Pollphill to the other side
nowned bindings relics of the days. 'of Is one. of the world's treasurea But of the room. . Are .you Interested In
yore,-when books were few and fine' there Is - another binding In the same Caxtons and Wynkyrt dp Wordes? ' Here
in existence; ths Golden Gospels' of case which is not so well known and are two score of them. Including several
.Henry VIII, the 'Naples-offices' of Glu- seems to be quite as interesting. - It Is that are unique. Are you attracted by
Jlo Clovio, and many other celebrated a Flemish Liber Decretallum in vellum, Elliabethan and Jacobean first editions?
Illuminated manuscripts; Caxtons and and the cover is of filigree work set Practically everything; is here Shake
other incunabula that not even the Brit- with amethysts, garnets, crystal and spears folios and quartos, Milton, Sid
ish Museum can match; an amaslng coi- ancient intaglios. In the center is an ney,, , Spencer, Johnson," Drayton, 81r
lection-of volumes once owned by fa- ivory-of the thirteenth century repre- -Thomas Browne, MarrelV'Wailer, Bur
mous persons;- almost the only manu- sentlng the - Vtrgi reclining.. This ts ton, hundreds of others. And the quaint
script of Byron known to exist) Blake's surrounded with panels of cloisonne, things, 'things dear that do rot die,' are
original drawings for the 'Book of Job'; The richness of 'this binding I Is lnde here, too, from the Kllsabethan curlosl
the originals of Horace Walpole's let-' scrlbable, and the employment of in- ties to the book of the Duchess beloved
' ters, the original drawings for 1 the taglios for such a purpose Is, so far ss bv'Lamb, that fluentand rare mixture
Pickwick Papers,' ths manusrciut c .ijjaw,, jmiqu v , H5JS'aES tXlSS JaienirJi'lt'' AH the famous pic-
Tlila on-t.mane I 111 m A-ti U..A. nn. O mm t hiaPa a PA 3 ftft flllVI flf DMpful
eluding all the siyners of the DecUra- on orie Blde the nkcessity of the'aervlce labor. In the other 300 days of useless
l tun ui lliururuuciiuv. i iici, i Tf act.kcin -
of kings and queens and of other
notable persons, any one of them be
yond the possibilities, if not beyond the
desires and dreams, of tha ordinary col
lector. The manuscript of Poe's 'The
Bells" is here, while of unique Interest
is the 'complete manuscript of O'Meara's
diary, containing the portions of this
remarkable Napoleonic document that
were not printed."
A tree performs the lob with cheers
New York Sun,
WILHELMINA'S MAN OF MYSTERY Romance
of an Oregon Town
T
HE ECHO of the pistol shots which, playing the violin exquisitely. In con-
a few weeks mn. ended the life vernation ne coma, wnen n rmw,
. , t t .. a most charming in manner, tnougn mere .,
of a court clerk In Berlin an.l ,- nenriv iva touch of arroe- Germany to obtain what he claimed, sntt
wounded the Judge and several ance and hauteur, In hts bearing that to push this suit, he disposed of hi
spectator, present in the court- $W not tend to make him liked by his pMPWin uregon ana returned to ...
Pride Rebuked room, has revived tn the little town of Grosser demanded absolute and Im- The case dragged through the courts
. . fc,. Wllhelmlna. Or., the almost forgotten pllclt obedience from his family and for a long time, but at length a verdict
The auto looked up at the sunny blue ,ntere8t ,n ,hc ..m(,n of mvsterv," whose those in his emplo and even from was rendered, some weeks ago, against
Krvti." mm ..Mni.ii. ,.,.,, peculiar habits and msnner of life were persons over whom he had no authority, the contestant .
While watching an aeroplane trying or ,everal vears a pi,. to the people and whenever his will wss crossed he W..en thts verclct was . snnotmced.
. tlf'-n yim mmt.A -im th. iba t . com'mu nt t y. For William Gros- flew Into a violent fit of rage. It Is Grosser flew into one of ins customary
"You re twisting he cried. In the era- er the m(ln who' flred the murderous related of him that on one occasion fits ot violent rage and drawing rr-
. "?, lif'mw t r.,n n shots, and Wllhelmlna s "man of mys- when a fine dog he owned failed to do yolver, began to ' ""L'fi .
Why don t you watch me as I run on tery" are one and the same. lust as he had commanded. Grosser killed the clerk of the court, anotocr
. A J". aat"- , t v.,, For about 12 years, up to some five beat the animal nearly to death. His hadly wounded tne juage. sna uier
iTui- years ago. wuiiam urosser 1
b.'.nrr- , .w. Oregon and maintained himself
wane you .r .,Vu... -mo8t ftudal graudet In the little coun-
BlUIIII Si VA n tuu. i.v . Wl
when a ' town 01 iixittmins. nnfn n nau
T wiiv bit: noo iitiuuuj atn tr (
he was a
some myx-
H paused and he laughed
raiiMti th tremulous alrshln to veer though It mas rumored that
..wi ? w? airsnip to veer German nODlenisji, who for
But er tie
he was
ime five beat the animal nearly to death. His naaiy wounaeu uw jmi'. "
lived In employes were alwava leaving him or wounded several of the spectators. .
f In al- being discharged because he demanded Tne account of this tragi.: occurrence
them the servtle obedience that ne nas served to revive in v '
evidently been accustomed to In his Interest in the ."man of mystery who
i land, but which Americans would a few years ago lived there but it Iihs
or
had
not render. not soivea in raysiwrj "'
The "man of mystery always seemea mm.
have plenty of money and spent u
. ,u V. ' . . , . , tArlona ivRjinn. was eviled from hts nn- to have nl
s-aast tlve country. His arrogant and haughty like water.. Whatever he wanted he : An Old Story
ne Was.ai , mannA. V. vL,lAnl t.mnap ..K rf..A K,, V., .1 x,nm vllltno. to MV 1 hm full
Tb m-htd iVimdown flat " vS the rwliyrt tfc twiZ ortcV for. and he always 'wanted the From the Chicago Tribune,
masheoj;im down rial. , hl8 nelghbor8i ,,, though there best Where his money came from - Miss-O'Connor told this ons:
, Cleveland -iam jjeaier. , WFre many conjectures as to his iden- one was able to find out, and this added ' "A refined elubwoman got on a enr
. . . tltT and origin, nobody succeeded in to the romance with which, in the eyes and sat down in the only vacant so.f.
Present-day Necessity. eliciting any definite information from of his neighbors, he was surrounded, beside a rough looking mnn ho w.t
Stationer "TToewriter ribbons' Yes him. However, it now appears, that Grosser s chewing tobacco and spitting. Him , !
oner yPew"ter ""n";, nm,. onH . lar farm nine f,th.r waa verv wealthy and that be- him in treat scorn. He- took out i .
brand do Tyou wish? " " miles fronf Sheridan, jipon which he . fore coming to America, probablv on pipe and lighted It, and she ).k i
A
Pr.VKtA HikrrafBrV for iruil mfttniTA HHI viwito nuunr cub " imvo. nwvuui. va a""v M'J' .s-.s ' ""
"'Htva vou anv that er when you palatial In furnishing, and here he lived ser had demanded and received of hua twemed-to w unno nur mna. Vxr
ZIfVB UU. ia:TL au- WrirK his. In hU'hihld Via m hf. sKara a tht lnhtrltnnOA look II OnlOH from til dlfinrr In . (
will "f adi ' twiy entlrily Ina f ew dyi? almost . recluse, rarely going away Some yeara ago the elder Grosser dledj ate it. and then he took out a s, .
Wlil iaae away enureiy mm. iew ujai Ka-.a irrt i ?.r h in a.rm.nv tvilllam . dmmmr thm. - and look a drink of w t lkr . i
- ...Aa t.l'aiti .TJMstUnJ . ssAAmlH 4v V HA.UK.Ltlfrisr ho - ka V. a A fivial ttsarl; h t rttl1l l rl tt nfl Iflni'l f. Hi
- 1 I. ' 'lg. , ' afraid that something might happen to share of the estate In advance and had him;
' From the Indianapolis News. f him if he got to the city. - , ..-..,.) agreed to expect nothing 1 more at the "'If I wers your wtfn I wo..
' 1 Another thing for you to do now is Grosser was a well educated man and time of his father's death, put In a claim you poison.
to dig out those gifts received . last his bouse was full of books and works for a share of the estate, as If he had tjle turned. looVe I h. r ft.
Christmas which 'you are going to nn- of srt, obtained no one knew whene. - not already received all that wss . due 1 toe with di''t f"rt.u;,t a.i
load On somebody else this year. He was slso an accomplished musician, hlnv He brought suit In the courts of 1 " "Well, r.rditd, I (j i- i-. i it