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IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS
FOUR ARE KILLED.
Friday, February 0.
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liniiinyiuil, 'CI. V . - A I IIIOMl UlO
ntin k- Hioti of I lut si nut n today was
livoiil to I hit ronsldernt ion of tlni 11 r-
gcnl tie llclciicy ii, whirl) wn iiiihnkiI
jracllcnlly an It was re, ortcd from I he
committee, mi appropriating. Tim
only iliHcUMioti wan over an iimcnd
ini'lil suggested y Patterson to strike
out tin' provision relieving alien wink.
limn on tint canal (nun the opera! ion of
.the elght-hnur day law. Patterson
contended I hat to require men to lulior
morn than l iuht hotirn a day in the.
tropics wan Inliuman, and Brgud that
tint requirement would ili InjiiHtli'i) to
American lulior. Several senators on
liotli sides n't tlin chamber controverted
i nit position, i mi niiiemimcul wbh
voted d wii w ithout resort to n roll
rail. Tin' M'liati) adjourned until Mon
day. Washington, Feb. 11. Tim house to
ly ground out its usual mini-monthly
grist of private, pensions, pushing in 72
minutes 42!) hills for the benefit of vit
erims w ho are harri'il for one reason or
Hii'ther from coming In under the gen
oral statute, and IhiiH made n new
peed record for such bills. Seventy
live per cent of tho beneficiaries are
either hiind or I km I ridden. Thin or
lr, w itli a n ii in I m r of minor I i 1 1 h and
tin' piiMxugo of two amendments to the
I'll 1 1 i lliri tariff art of lll(), cnnsti
tuUd tint t ransni-tiolis of tho day. Tho
tariff HiitctK I mt'ii t m piece Aiiicrieui rot
ton goods on an equality, so far uh the
'onl of product ion is concerned, with
European goods. Iiw grades of shoes
were admitted at a lower tariff. Tho
house adjourned until Monday.
Thursday, February 8.
Hshingto'i, l-eb. H. J lift enough
morning hiibincsn wan allowed in the
lionets preceding tho vote on thn Hepburn
railroad rat lull today to permit 'de
layed members to reach their seats be
foie thn rollcnll ordered the nigi.t Ikj
fori' began. Threw hundred and forty,
nix ineiiiherH voted for the dill. Seven,
all Kepuhlii aiB, voted HfiviiiHt it, Ap
pUilHe greeted the announcement of
thn reHiilt by the speaker to tho lioilMe,
wliicli had given its undivided atten
tion to tho question of government
rate-making for seven clays.
Thorn voting against tho hill were;
Little Held, of Maine; McCall and
Weeks, of Massachusetts ; PcrkiliB,
Suit hw irk and Vreeland, of New
York ; and Sibley, of Pennsylvania.
Sullivan, of Massachusetts, voted
"'present," and waH not paired. There
wore i!H members paired, lint these
pairs were generally political ones.
None of them wax made upon tho hill,
ttnd coiiHeijuently did not indicate op-
pOSitill.
Washingtoon, Feh. H There was a
general expectation that today would
witms- a revival of yesterday's exciting
occurences in the senate over Putter
hoii's la iciiH resolut ions, hut it was not
realized and the largo crowd attracted
to the galleries was compelled to leave
in disappointment when at 3 p. m. the
eiiato, went into executive ciHsion,
lter a day devoted largely to ordinary
liilln on the calendar.
Wednesday, February 7.
WaHhington, Kel). 7. Hy continuing
its aoHsion practically to 7 o'clock the
Iiouihi conrludid all preliminary B'epe to
the passage of tho railroad rate hill,
ordered a rU call on the inetiHure and
put off the final action until tomorrow.
Tho time for a mend men t came at 4
o'clock, and for three hours following
one amendment after another came up,
was rend, debated in some iiiHtances
and wont down to tie feat. So fierce
was the struggle to amend that often
when a paragraph of the hill was con
cluded in the reading, n dor.en members
waved their amendment mid shouted
for recognition. Not one of these was
adopted. Tlu'J' contained all innnner of
proportions, eiicli an regulating prefer
ential, the long and short haul, free
passes, court procedure, whole rate bills
and parts of bill, hut all "went by the
board."
Washington, Feb. 7. Today for the
first, time in many yiars the fetiate was
made the scone of an effort to administ
er party discipline to a member of that
body, and the occurrence was one of so
many dramatic details that the many
witnesses will not soon foigot it. Pat
terson was the subject of theetTort, and
Uailey, to whom, in theahionce of Gor
man, the Democratic leadership is con
ceded, was the instrument of hia party
in the incident.
Tuosd.iy, February 0.
Washington, l eb. (i The senate did
not have an opportunity today to hear
inn (liMeiiHHion of I at tersnii s resolution
on the action of the iMmorratic caucus,
which was partially promised, but
gave t he out ire day to a review of the
prerogatives of the senate in the mutter
of framing treaties. The iiioHtiori was
raised by Haeon in a speech on his
resolution requesting information con
cerning tho Algeciras conference.
Lodge gave notice of a speech Mon
day on the railroad rate bill.
Washington, Fob. . Having fixed
the end of tho general debate on the
rate bill at 4 :30 o'clock tomorrow, the
recognition of tho cha'r was passed
around at a lively rate in the bouse
today. Seventeen speeches were made.
all of them for the measure. The rail
roads came in for an unusual amount
of criticism.
Monday, February 5.
Wash ington, Feb f). The senate was
treated to a sensation today by ratter-
son, I'em.. (old., who fo lowed un his
retirement of last Sturday from the
Peniocratic caucus by introducing a
resolution in effect declaring the action
of thn ca''cns to have been contrary to
the constitution of the United States.
(iallinger succeeded during the day
in securing thn fixing of a date for vot
ing on tho shipping bill, the hour
named being Wednesday at 3 p. m.
Several bills were passed during the
day and Teller made a speech in oppo
sition to the shipping hill.
Fornker announced that, lie bad no
intention of attempting to delay action
on the statehood bill, w hich be op
Wanhington, Feb. 5. Considerable
fault was found with the railroad rate
bill in tho house today, considering the
fail that it is a measure of both parties.
l.ittli-lleld, of Maine, and (.rosvenor,
of Ohio, both spoke against the bill.
Ten other speeches were made, all of
them by members who will vote for the
bill, but some of whom would like rn
opportunity to amend it. (iaines, of
Tennessee, has an anti-pass amendment
which be will bring forward at the
proper time.
At the conclusion of tho day Hep
burn, in charge of the measure, said it
looked now us though debate would
conclude at 3 o clock eiJnesdav. Hie
reading of the bill will begin at once,
and he thinks it can bu concluded, all
proposed amendments disposed of and
the bill passed that day before adjourn
ment.
Wants Land Sold.
Washington, Fb. 12. Senator Ful
ton is prepaiing to vigorously oppose
the bill soon to be reported by tho pub
lic lands committee providing for the
repeal of the timber and stone ai, un
less he can secure an amendment stip
mating mat za per cent ol the money
derived from the sale of public timber
shall be tinned over to the county in
whijh the timber is situated. The bill
in contemplation absolutely repeals the
pre.-ent law and proposes that the gov
ernment shall retain title to all timber
land, selling only mature timber at
public auction or otherwise at not lees
than the appraised value.
This in effect places nil public timber
land in permanent reservations. Under
this proposed law, public timber land
will never become subject to taxation,
ana in consequence ttie counties in
which this hind is located will be for
ever deprived of the benefit of the
taxes which would eventually accrue,
were this land taken up under the tim
ber an stone act.
Disastrous
R. & N. at
New Naturalization Bill.
Washington, Feb. 0. The bouse
committee on immigration and natural
ization practically Bgreed today on the
Howeil naturalization bill in a slightly
amended form.
As the bill stands now, it requires
applicants to file their Application for
final citizenship papers CO days before
the hearing; provides that the court
order shall not issue until 30 days after
the hearing and allows appeals from
court oiders.
Germany Hopes for Agreement.
Herlin. Feb. 7. It was reported in
commercial circles today that a tariff
arrangement between Germany and the
United (states, to last one year, had
been agreed upon, but inquiry at the
American embassy and at the foreign
office established the fald y of the re
port. The foreign office, however, ap
parently is more hopeful now.
Wallace Before Committee.
Washington, Feb. . John F. Wal
lace was before the senate inter-oceanic
canal committed today and made a
statement regarding the severance ot
his relations with the Canal commis
nion. In it he spoke of the violent at
tack of Secretary Taft and Mr. Crom
well, the only basis of which was, he
raid, a difference of opinion between
himself and Taft and Cromwell as to
his right, to decide when he thought
the welfare of the enterprise and bis
own justified his resignation. lie was
liable iO be dismissal at any time.
Jones Wants Experimental Farms.
Washington, F"eb. 6. Representa
tive Jones introduced a bill appropri
ating $120,000 to establish and main
tain experimental farms in Washington
to determine the kind of crops best
adapted to various parts of the state.
Mr, Jonea also secured an order from
the Agricultural department for the
drainage of 30,000 acres of swamp land
in Stevens county. The land, when
drained, will be valuable agriculturally.
Call on Venezuela to Pay.
Washington, Feb. 5. W.J. Calhoun,
the president's special commissioner in
the asphalt controversy with Venezuela,
has arrived in Washington, and today
called at the State department to con
sult with Secretary Hoot in relation to
the presentation of facta in hia official
report. The decision of the president
again to demand of the Venezuelan
government a settlement of at least a
part of the asphalt company's claims,
it is said, marks the refusal of the
State department to accept the Veue
zutlan contention.
Wreck on O
Rrid;il Veil.
Portland, Feb. 7. In the most, dis
astrous wreck in the history of the Ore
gon Kailrosd Ai Navigation company
and tho only one in which the life of a
passenger on that road has been lost,
('hicag')-Portland Impress No. 6 ran In
to Hie rear end of the Spokane F'lyor,
No. U, at Pridal Veil yesterday morn
ing at 7:50, telescoping the Pullman
car Galatea, killing four persons and
injuring a score of others. ICngirie 193,
in charge of Engineer William Swain,
became unmanageable and dashed into
train No. 3, which was standing on the
track at ISridul Veil. Had it not been
for the presence of mind of SMbb Smith,
brakeman on the Chi ago-I'ortland Kx
press, who pulled the emergency cord
when he realized the train was beyond
control of the engineer and was running
away, thus setting the brakes, the col
lision would have been one of the worst
in the history of Western railroading.
Train No. 3 had stopped at Pridal
Veil station, and was delayed there by
iti engine, which was out of order.
When about four miles east of Ilridal
Veil the locomotive hauling the Chi
cago-Portland Express got out of order
and became unmanageable.
The injector pipe had broken inside
the cab, Jetting out a flood of steam
and driving the engineer and fireman
out of the cab. FIngirieer Swain reach
ed for the throttle to stop the engine,
hut could not reach it. In a moment
he heard torpedoes on the track and re
alized that the Spokane Flyer was ahead
on the main track, and rushed back
into the cloud of burning steam that
filled the cab in an effort to stop the
flying train. He groped about for the
leve rs he could not see, fearing even to
breathe in the deadly atmosphere, suf
fering tortures to his scorched hands
and face, and, finally baftled, was com
pelled to retreat to tho engine tender.
15 ilh he and the fireman then leaped to
the connections between the tender and
the mail car and tried to reach the air
hose and break the connection, thus ap
plying the brakes, but Engineer
Swain s hands were so terribly burned
they were useless, and he could not did
connect the hose.
Meanwhile Silas Smith, living at
Second and Grant streets, Portland
who was brakeman on No. 5, realized
the engine was beyond the control of
the ergineer and pulled the emergency
cord, setting the brakes. This slowed
the train, and the locomotive was de
tached from the train and shot ahead
crashing into the Pullman. In a mo
ment the rest of the train, coming at a
slower speed, struck the engine, am'
again hurled it against the wrecked
Pullman. Those in the wreck felt two
distinct shocks, and by his prompt ac
tion in bringing the Chicago-Portland
hxpre.ss almost to a stop Brakeman
Smith prevented a much heavier lose of
life.
DIG IT BV CONTRACT
TRUMPET CALLS.
Wallace Would Save Canal Trom
Needless Red Tape.
ALSO GIVES CROMWELL A SHOT
Counts Him Among Bosses Over the
Work Stevens Earns His Sal
ary, He Says.
IXmm'a Horn nnnda
fo the
n Wnrnlnar Xot
Inrrilrcmpil,
HE run Jest y of
II any rniii Is In M.-i
manhood.
No Tn niMy ever
yet felt like
framing Its liquor
bills.
Patriotism 1 s
often a polite
nl Ins for lust of
power.
You enniint get
and not ucpilre Its
HEYBURN GROWS WORSE.
Peritonitis Aggravates Illness ot Sen
ator from Idaho.
Washington, Feb. 5. Considerable
au.xiety ia felt over Senator Heyburn
tonight. He slept little last night,
and today unfavorable svsptoms devel
oped which indicate that peritonitis
has set in. The pain and inflamation
heretofore confined to the region of the
appendix had spread and hia etomacb
is now affected.
up to mis morning ttie senator was
hopeful of early recovery : in fact, ex
peeled to get up tomorrow. Tonight
lie ia decidedly depressed, and seems to
realize tho seriousness of bis condition
If he does not show marked improve
ment, by morning, another consultation
will be held.
line it is announced at his apart
ments that there is believed to be no
immediate danger, nevertheless every
thing indicates that he is in a critical
condition, the presence of peritonitis
and kidney trouble, in addition to ap
pendicitis, being moBt serious compli
cations. ;
Townsites on Irrigated Land.
Washington, Feb. 6. The Benate ir
rigation committee today ordered a
favorable report on Senator lleyburn'a
bill providing for the segregation of 160
acre townsites on government irrigation
tracts and requiring the secretary of the
interior to sell water rights in such
towns for municipal and domestio pur
poses, such water rights . to be bought
and controlled by the towns. The bill
also authorises the sale of water in
towns for power pubpoaea.
Italy Will Ruin Padrones.
New York, Feb. 7. The Italian gov
ernment has just contributed a subsidy
of $20,000 a year for an Italian labor
exchange in New York. ThiH is part of
an organired attempt by Italian citi
r.ens of the United States, combined
with the Italian authorities at home, to
beat the "paxlroue" system and to keep
the Italians from piling un in New
York. The exchange will be Incorpo
rated under the lawa. of New York by
Italian citizens, and probably will be
in working order by next summer,
for the great crush of immigrants.
Meteor Falls in Nevada.
Reno. Nev., Feb. 7. Wnrd has been
received in Reno to the effect that an
immense meteor fell a few miles north
of the town of Rhyolite this week. W.
K. Turner, well known in this city, to
gether with others, witnessed the de
scent of the meteor. It fell at an anale
of 45 degrees and left a trail of fire 800
yards long in its wake. The heavenly
visitor waa seen and heard to strike
the ground, but every effort to find its
location baa been without success
Two-Cent Fares for Ohio.
Columbus. O., Feb. 7. The hour
today by a vote of 104 to 1 paased the
Freiner 2-cent-fare bill, which waa sub
stituted for the Rath bun bill, passed
by the house. The senate, it ia aaid by
leaders of that body, will accept the
Freiner bill, which will go into effect
30 days after it ia signed by the governor.
Washington, Feb. 8. John F. Wal
lace, ex-chief engineer of the Isthmian
Canal commission, today concluded his
testimony before the senate c.nal com
mittee, except in relation to the type of
canal, which will be taken up after the
reports of the board of consulting en
gineers have been made public. He
said the red tape necessary to the sys
tem Involved in governmental work
compelled hinr to favor the contract
plan of building te canal in order to ex
pedite its completion. He thought the
man in charge of the work on the isth
mus should he the undisputed head,
with the governor of the zone second
and the man who has charge of the
procuring of supplies and men third in
authority.
The present arrangements, he said,
amounted to a chain ol masters with
the chairman of the corrmiesion an ex
ecutive commissioner, Mr. Cromwell,
Secretary Taft and the president, grad
ing down to Mr. Stevens, or the man in
actual charge of operations on the isth
mus. He said Mr. Cromwell had been
included as one of the masters, for the
reason that he seemed to have certain
undisputed influence which entitled
him to be classed in the chain.
Headquarters of the commission
should he on the isthmus, Mr. Wallace
said, and the harder the communica
tion with Washington the less the work
would he retarded. He thought the
engineer in charge was not paid an ex
cefisive salary.
Senator Morgan suggested Mr. Stev
ens was receiving as much as all of the
senators on the committee, and Mr.
Wa'lace replied : "Yes; I presume he
earns it."
Discussing rates on the Panama rail
mad, he thought there should be no
classification of- freight in the schedules,
but that a charge of $2 a ton should be
made. Continuing he skid:
"If t!is government cannotdeal with
the rates on that little railroad in a!iun
satisfactory manner, it had better leave and
the railroad systems of the United
States alone."
th graft of sin
craft.
There are no pro-determined death
bed repentancea.
The aide door of a saloon is the
front door to hell.
Getting Into debt Is an easy way of
going to the devil.
The biggest clocks do not always
keep the best time.
You can keep thoughts out but you
ennnot keep them In.
A man cannot bo undignified when
he Is truly In earnest
Many people think that the church
Is a "Don't Work" club.
We seldom do heartily the things
we learn to do by heart.
h,vcn giit-oiigcd securities cannot
unrig in uio golden age,
There Is a communion that does not
depend on communication.
batnn is always a conservative
when sin is on the throne.
lo forget God In the least may be
to forfeit our greatest good.
Iruth will draw the crowd where
error has to drum them up.
in me modern world what Is every
rnnu s loss Is one man's gain.
It is folly to pray "Our Father,
and then to frt like orphans.
While a man Is grubbing up one sin
two are growing behind his back
'J he light of love will lead where
the light of learning would fall
hen the church seeks inon It will
have no trouble lu finding money.
ir ttie lxrd had loved us les he
would have let us live without labor.
Preaching hell in the spirit of hell
will only drive men In thut direction.
FIRST COSSACKS IN AMERICA.
MAKE IT THOROUGH.
President's Orders for Inquiry About
Wreck of Valencia. .
Washington, Feb. 8. Formal direc
tions were issued today by President
Roosevelt for an investigation of the
Valencia disaster, which occurred re-ci-ntly
upon the North Pacific coast.
The instructions are containpd in a let
ter to Secretary Metcalf, of the depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. Preoi-
dent Roosevelt's letter follows :
"You are hereby directed to instruct
Lawrence O. Murray,' assistant secre
tary of commerce and labor, and Her
bert Knox Smith, deputy commissioner
of corporations, as well as Captain
William T. Rurwell, United States
navy, who will be detailed for service
in jour department, to proceed to Seat
tle, Wash., and there make thorough
and complete investigation of all the
circmstances attending the wreck of the
steamer Valencia and the case or cases
thereof, and any misconduct, negli
gence or dereliction of duty upon the
part of anyone related thereto and hav
ing any bearing upon the loss of lifo oc
casioned by said disaster; and also, as
you may direct, to investigate such oth
er matters bearing upon the safety of
traffic in navigable waters of the Unit
ed States in that vicinity and the effect
iveness and sufhciency of the present
aids to navigation along said waters;
and to make full report thereon, w ith
recommendations for such departmental
or legislative action as may be indicat
ed by said report and findings."
Steamer Portland Floated.
Seattle, Feb. 8. The steamer Port
land, which went ashore on Spire is
land last December and wsa abandoned
by her crew, will be able to come from
Ketchikan by her own steam. After
the Seattle Commercial company had
abandoned the Portland the underwrit
ers sent Captain Gibbs north with the
steamer Samson and wrecking apparat
us to float her. lie managed to get the
boat off the rocks and tow her into
Ketchikan. Temporary repairs were
made and the steamer is now able to
start south under convoy of tho Samson
Burlington Denies Charges.
Chicago, Feb. 8. Pleas of not guilty
to charges of granting illegal rebates
were entered today before Judge Bethea
by representatives of the Chicago, Burl
ington & Q'lincy railroad company.
The indictment was based upon the
charge of ganting illegal rebate to the
United States Steel Products Importing
comptny, one or the subsidiary com
panies of the United Statea Steel cor
poration. Judge Bethea accepted the
pleas.
Agree on Customs Duties.
Algeciras, Feb. 8. The delegates to
the Moroccan conference today discussed
the customs duties of Morocco and set
tled a number of details referring to
varioua articles, but postponed deciding
the questiong of increasing the general
rate to 124 P6' "ent valorem. Mo
rocco's request to make tobacco a state
monopoly waa approved.
I) n ring; VoraKrm In Kotchea A r runs
the Berlntr Sea.
Long before Peter the Great had sent
Vitus Bering to America, In 1741, Kus-
voyagers had launched out east
north with a daredevil reckless
ness that would have done honor to
prehistoric man. That part of their
idventures Is a record that exceeds
the wildest darings of fiction, says a
(vrlter In Ilar-per's Magazine. Their
5oats were called kotches. They were
lome sixty feet long, flat-bottomed,
planked with green timoer. Not a nail
vas used. Where were nails to come
from 0,000 miles across the frozen
tundras? Indeed, Iron was so scarce
that at a later day, when ships with
nails ventured on these seas, natives
were detected diving liejow to pull the
nails from the timbers with their
teeth. Instead of nails the Cossacks
used reindeer thongs to bind the plank
ing together. Instead of tar, moss and
clay and the tallow of sea nnlmals
calked the seams. Needless to say,
there was neither canvas nor rope.
Reindeer thongs supplied the cordage,
reindeer hides the sails. On sucu rick
ety craft, "with the help of God and
a little powder," the Russian voyagers
hoisted sail and -put to sea. On just
such vessels did Desnneflf and Stadu
chln attempt to round Asia from the
Arctic Into Bering sea (1047-S0). i
To tie sure, the first hang of the Ice
fines against the prow of the rickety
boats knocked them , Into kindling
wood. Two-thirds of the Cossack voy
agers were lost every year ; and often
all news that eanie of tue crew was a
most-pole washed In by the tide with
a dead man lashed to the cross-trees.
Small store of fresh warer could be
carried. Pine needles were the only
rfntldote for scurvy; and many a time
tho boat came tumbling back In the
homo port, not a man well enough to
stand before the mast
Made Sure He Warn Dead.
A story Is told of the Soudan rail
way which shows patient Uterulness.
To an olllclal there came the telegram
from an outlying station: "Station
master has died. Shall I bury hlniV"
The reply was sent : "Yes, bury station
master, but please make sure he is real
ly dead before you do so." lu due time
back came the message: "Have burled
station-master. Made sure he was dead
by hitting him twice on the head with
a fishplate." There was perfect assur
ance there had been no premature
burial.
S uitttextlou,
Mrs. Naggs Last night when wo
were quarreling mother was listening
at the door.
Naggs Well, what of It?
Mrs. Naggs Nothing. Only I wish
you would alter the key of your voice
lifter this when we quarrel so It wou't
fit the keyhole.
The critics keep telling us this Is not
a literary age; hut Just take n glimpse
of thn literature the publishers give us
In tho holiday season 1 Millions In It
for somebody. And now authors are
coming to the front every day In the
week.
True poetry Is something awful, mys
terious, as beautiful and terrible as thn
lightning's leap In the col I led heaven,
(harming the eye with dread and rous
ing the soul to a quick sense of the
Power liehlnd the mechanism of nature.
Michael Monuhan In Papyrus Magazine.
Felix Adler soys that It would be
much better If the people who have
reached the top notch of society would
set the fashions In literature Instead of
In clothes. He limits the possibilities,
however, hy Insisting that It would
have to lie done intelligently. Balti
more American.
Colonel Samuel Adams Drake, the
well known author and historian, has
recently died at Koiinobunkiort, Me.
He was the autlnr of twenty -three
lKxiks, mostly relating to historic events
in New England and the middle west,
and was considered an authority on
United States history.
Louise Collier Wllloox, furnishing a
comment on Mrs. Edith Wharton's lit
erary achievements to the Outlook an
nual book number, gives more of a
biographical sketch than has often ap
peared lu print. Mrs. Willcox says:
"Born In New York In 1S02, Mrs. Whar
ton waa the granddaughter of Gen.
Ebenezer Stevens, of Revolutionary
fame, and, coming of distinguished par
entage in affluent circumstances, all
that careful instruction, travel, and
cultivated surroundings could add to
her genius were ready to hand. As
one may easily surmise from the
stories, much ef her life has been
spent In Italy, and the bloom of an
easy famillurlty with great painting
and architecture is everywhere dis
cernible upon the work. Like so many
Ieople who attain to Individual excel
lence, she was snared the leveling dto-
cess of regular schooling, and waa
taught by private tutors here and
abroad. A very early familiarity with
French, German, and Italian gave her
the basis for wide reading, and when
she came upon Goethe she was more
prepared than the average to take to
heart his counsels and perfection and
reach after a high and effective culture.
At any rate. It Is to Goethe above all
other literary Influences that Mrs.
Wharton feels Indebted. She has teen
at all times a diligent reader of stand
ard fiction, and her taste includes
George Eliot, the ethical teacher, no
less than Flaubert, the craftsman's
master. Balzac, Thackeray, Dickens
and Meredith she has re-read so fre
quently that she contentedly falls in .ar
rears as far as current fiction goes.
Her interest In biology is .great, and
In whatever touches uion the history of
human thought In 1SS5 she married
Edward Wharton, of Boston, and four
years later began contributing, In the
first Instance verse, and later stories to
Scribner's Magazine. With the publlca-'
tlon of 'The Greater Inclination,' she
became a' force to be reckoned with."
Of "The House of Mirth," Mrs. Will
cox remarks that tho environment Is
one Mrs. Wharton was particularly
suited to draw.
CANE-SEAT CHAIRS CONDEMNED.
l'rurrel ve Ave.
"The dlmo novel of our boyhood
days seems to be a thing of the past,"
remarked the mau with the missing
hair.
"Not necessarily," rejolued his com
panion who had also passed the chlor
oform age. "It has a cloth cover now
and sells for $1.50."
Smooth-Snrface "Tourist" Chairs
Now Declared Mont Unhealthy.
The tourist sleeping car used on the
railroad lines beyond Chicago and St.
Louis have been spoken of frequently
as more sanitary than the upholstered
Pullmans, and, therefore, In addition
to their cheapness, a desirable point to
most of the sick travelers, they were
supposed to be cleaner, for the seats
are covered with cane and have no
nooks to harbor dust and germs. Phy
sicians have strongly denounced the up
holstered cars as promoters of the
spread of tuberculosis. Tho railroad
people have had some tests made to off
set that denunciation with statistics.
Dr. Charles B. Dudley, the chief chem
ist of the Pennsylvania Itallroud, haa
made an Investigation of the contents
of car upholstery, and has reported to
the American Public Health Associa
tion. Dr. Dudley shows that prolonged
exposure to tuberculosis In the air is
necessary If travelers are to take the
disease from this source of Infection.
He says that two days of strong light
and five days of diffused light will
sterilize the germs. This argument
does not seem to show that passengers
bound to the West in tourist sleepers
with tuberculosis patients may not run
the risk of Infection, especially if they
are In delicate health, and prepared to
contract the disease. No germs were
found from the examinations made ot
tho contents of tho cars known to have
been occupied hy passengers suffering
from, tuberculosis. In ninety-six exam
inations of the ii 1 r found In such cars
! only one test showed the presence of
I the bacillus. To Inform himself as to
tho relative danger of textile fabrics
and smooth surfaces, Dr. Dudley made
, experiments with several kinds in each
' class, and his results go to show that
.danger from Infection from upholstered
furniture is mucii less man rrom the
Everyone has about the same ex- "uk,a' Bmooth -urfuitss. ltrooklya
peilence: Ever notice how many peo
ple have the same sized feet when tho
nauer hiats at something?
Fish make excellent bruin food ; evea
Junius stimulates the Imugluutlou,
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