.Mews and Views
fiordau Assails Trusts-
Dr. Max Nordau. who has -lately
turned his attention to the consolida
tion of large companies of capitalists,
is one of the most skillful and learned
rhyslcians of Europe. His very wide
spread fame is due. however, not to his
scientific ability, but rather to his bril
liance as an author. In 1SS3 he shocked
and delighted two continents with his
finely analytical book. 'Conventional
Lies of Society." In 1SS6 he published
hu "Paradoxes.." and in 1S93 the work
!y which lu is tost known. "Degenera
tioj." In tuis remarkably original
lock Dr. Xcrd.i'i ..trtrrVs to show on
purely r-'O'cko-pliy.-l.dogic'.il grounds
that all r.:o !rr:: tendencies are toward
legctieraiion. He fortifies his position
by exaciiuuJlous into art. literature
anl life, an ! claims that degeneraci
es seen in all menial and moral phe
nomena. Dr. Nordau is descended from
a vk-cil-known Jev.teh family of Ruda-
A
MAX XOKDAl.
pest. He began writing to the newspa
pers on many topics even while he was
a lad at school. He is 52 years old.
Women Should Be Barred.
One reads with a shock of surprise
that as many women as could crowd
Into the room were present on Mon
ti ay when the trial of a Presbyterian
preacher was begun lefore a conirr.it
t?e of the presbytery on charges which
involve his standing as a decent man
as well as a minister. The surprise
is not occasioned by the fact that so
many women were pieent. for there
wi:l always be plenty cf people
anxiotio to attend any hearing at
which p -urient or sensational testi
mony is expected. Hut as it is cer
tainly within the power of the inem
lers of the committee to bar out of
the courtroom women who have no
direct interest in the case one would
tertaiiJy expect that they would be
the first to take su: h action. Nothing
but morbid and unhealthy curiosity
in possibly lead women to flock to a
hearing cf the kind.
A 15 O Mile an Hour.
society of mechanical engineer.
presenting the principal European
machine shots, has recently been or
ganized abroad for the purpose of de
veloping railroad engines cf pbenom?
i.al speed. The accompanying illus
tration shows a rai!r.;a'l electric motor
lately built by Siemans and Halske. in
tonnection with the organization.
h:ch. by order of Emperor William
NEW SPEEDY ELECTRIC ENGINE,
v.a tested preliminaiily a short time
since on the military railroad at Rer-l;n-Zossen.
when, according to reports,
it gave an exhibition that promised
remarkable results.
i Wireless Telegraphy.
A report comes through Consul Gen
eral Gunther of Frankfort to the effect
that the captain of a channel mail
steamer, whicn is provided with a'
wireless telegraphy apparatus, states
tnat on his last trip he received a mes
sage from the officer of the French
lightship, anchored about twenty-five
miles from Dunkirk, staling that he
would be unable to lieht up the next
night unless help arrived from the
.hore. The captain at once sent a
wireless message to La Panne, on the
Belgian coas., from which point it was
forwarded to Dunkirk by the regular
telegram line, whence a boat was sent
to the lightship and the necessary re
pairs were made.
"Railroad Signal.
Many a serious railroad acrcideat is
caused by the washing down on the
roadbed of masses
of earth or rocks
from the hillsides
above. While the
railroad companies
realize that the
cuts are liable to
become filled from
this cause it is
hardly to be ex
pected that they
will keen Latrols
at every dangerous point, but the
iiloptration chows an apparatus lately
patented by John K. Haddinott. of
Baltimore, Md., which will constantly
guard the cut or other section of track
-vhich it parallels. It is simply a pair
of contact rails so placed that a fall
of rock or earth which Incloses them,
and throw the rails together to com
plete a circuit and set the danger signal-
By placing a set of the apparatus
close to each rail it would be next to
impossible for any serious obstruction
to occur without the danger being
pointed out by the signal.
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LoxJe and Figures
That love will find a way through all
difficulties is illustrated by the recent
experiences of Philander Simon and
Bertha Karger, both of Paterson. N.
J. Philander had been keeping com
pany with Bertha
about two year.s,
when for som un
explained reason
his love began to
cool. Simultane
ously Bertha began-
to fret and
pine away. There
had been no actual
engagement be
tween them. so
that a suit could
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7 ytf&lT
Zit nnt wrought for
S breaking the mar-
(r riage promis?, but
Bcitha's mother.
w::o Is not only a
woman of expedients but a thrifty
soul, decided upon a plan for punish
ing the faithless Philander. She fig
ured that he had eaten sixty hearty
dinners at her house, upon the occa
moils of his Sunday wooinss. which
at Z cent3 each amounted to $13. Be
sides this in a rash moment she had
lent him $10. She accordingly began
suit for $25.
Meanwhile. Philander, who is a'so
thiifty ami a man of expedients, be
gan to do a little figuring on his own
side, and promptly came in with a
tountci claim for $S1.80. which left
Mrs. Karger $61. S3 in his debt, if the
claim were pressed. Bertha, as girls
go. had not been expensive. In two
years the had consumed but one box
of chocolates, twelve pounds of candy,
thirty ice crearr..-. and ICO sodas,
amounting to $9.33. She had only been
once to Coney Island, but had had
100 trolley rides, transportation foot
ing up J12.G0. Bouquets for two birth
days ca-t $3 and two books 63 cents,
a total investment of $27.S0. which
shows that Philander had the advan
tage of $2.S0 in actual expenses over
Mrs. Karger. This margin Philander
intreased by putting in a claim for his
time, charging 50 cents for each Sun- I
day evening's wooing for two years, or
K I n r i A oaupl'A nt t ho nvonii'tinn j 1
for the suits Philander and Bertha
were thrown much together, and en
couraged by the artful lawyers on both I
sides, as well as by thiifty Mrs. Kar
ger. who was appalled by the counter
claims, the flame broke out anew and
with greater ardor than before. An ac
tual engagement was effected, a day
for the ciarriage fixed, and both suits
we.e dropped, and Philander and
Bertha are happy, all owing to Thilan
der's skii in figuring.
figured in Molmcujc Case.
Justice White of the New York Su
preme court at Buffalo last week
MRS. FLORENCE ROGERS,
granted a divorce to Mrs. Florence E.
Rogers from Edward F. Rogers, thus
confirming the report of th: referee.
The jude allowed Mrs. Rogers $2,230
in lieu of all alimony.
Mrs. Rogexs is the daughter of the
late Mrs. Kate Adams, and a distant
cousin of Harry Cornish. Roland B.
Molineux was round guilty of causing
the death of Mrs. Adams by poison,
which he was accused of sending to
Cornish at the Knickerbocker A. C.
New York city. Cornish had a room
in Sirs. Adams' apartments in West
th street. New York. Mrs. Rogers
lived there, and was there on the
morning her mother died, after finding i
the do.-e of cyanide of mercury.
Mrs. Rogers and her husband have
been separated for ome time, she liv
ing in New York, he in Buffalo. When
she brought her suit she applied for
alimony. One of her lawyers stated,
pathetically, that she had to "live in
a New York hash house." while her
husbanu dwelt in luxury at the Iro
quoise hotel. It was shown, however,
that Mr. Rogers paid his wife money
for her support, although he lived
apart from her.
"Plain TalK. to "Britishers.
Mr. Barber, the president of the Dia
mond Match company, talked with
wholesome frankness to the dissenting
stockholders of that English match
company the control of which has just
been secured by
his company. He
said to these Eng
lishmen, who had
spoken of "Yankee
trickery" and who
had boasted of
their intention to
fight to the detth
to retain for Eng
lish capital the
business of making
matches for British use, that
"I may as well talk frankly .z yuu
people. Unless 7ii come to terms we
will wlrtp you out of your boots. We
know that we are able to beat the
world in the manufacture of matches,
and we intend to keep our advantage.
How long do you think you can com
pete with U3 with machinery that
America discarded sixteen years ago?"
The salary of the young king of Spain
"s 150,000 a year.
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SAYINGS and DOINGS
Henry Clay Exfans.
Henry Clay Evans went to the South
from Pennsylvania several years ago
and grew quite popular in Tennessee,
the state of his adoption. He has a
string political following and his
friends have always claimed that he
was elected when he ran for governor,
but was counted out. Mr. Evans has
a good war record. He is about 57
years old and one of the live, pushing
men of Dixie. So well was he thought
of by nil classes of persons in Chatta
nooga that he was twice elected mayor
of that town. In 1S90 when he ran for
Congre.-s he had a strong Democrat
for an opponent, but although it was
a close race Mr. Evans was elected by
lS.fill votes to his oppenenfs lS..".5a.
His administration cf the pension
HENRY CLAY EVANS,
office brought sharp criticism from
people favoring a more liberal policy.
Matrimony and Urains.
It would i-ceiii, according to the
opinions of some educators, that there
ought to be written over the gates of
i matrimony, or at least over the ' la
dies' entrance' to that happy state, the
words: "Abandon brains all ye who
enter here!" for matrimony and brains
are incompatible. This subject is a
rather bare bone of contention, and it
is one that does not admit of broad
generalization. There are many wo
men who seem to have reconciled hus
bands and higher education; there are
i ill ncrw u ill Willi il l i 1 1 1 1 1111.1 1111 .1
n fQr niarimoaial uappine,s. a lack
of brains, are still unable to make a
success of that state; and there are
v.omen who are successful in life with
out either the husbands or the educa
tion. A sociologist of some repute. Lester
F. Ward, says that one who knows
anything of the laws of biology mikt
insist upon the eq-ial development of
both sexes. "Any theory of develop
ment." he says, "that recognizes the
fact of the transmission of acquired
qualities must expect that where only
one parent has acquired such qualities
the offspring will only inherit one-half
of them. If the full value of the en
ergy expended in conferring useful
qualities is to be realized in the off
spring, they must be conferred equally
upon both parents." Mr. Ward fur
ther says that, while the female mind
differs from the male in many impor
tant and fortunate respects, intelleit
is one and the same everywhere, and
that the proper nourishment of intel
lect is truth. It seems rather late in
the day for these who claim to be edu
cators to advance the theory that only
by starving the mind i. woman fit
for the high rtate of matrimony.
Mechanical Calendar.
An amateur artist by the name of
M. Albeit Jagat bus invented a me
chanical calendar, which indicates the
days, weeks, months, years and even
leap years. The apparatus is wound up
and work.- like a clock. It consists
principally of a disc and five cog-
THE
CLOCK-WORK CALENDAR.
wheels, which contain a sum total o'
ninety-six teeth, three weights and
nine levers. Of the weights, one Is
a counterpoise, one is wound up every
fortnight and one every year. The
parts are all very accurately adjusted
and are expected to last until they ac
tually wear out. One of the wheels in
fact, is designed to last for 300 years.
Every care has been taken in the con
struction to prevent loss of efficiency
by friction.
"Replaces Hitching "Post.
As a hitching post is not always
convenient and it is somewhat of a
bother to carry
around a heavy
weight in the wag
on with which to
tether the horse
when the driver
wishes to leave the
animal for a time,
it i3 likely that the
horseman will ap
preciate the hitch
ing felter here
shown. The In
vention takes ad
vantage of ths fact that a horse will
rot rw.ve as long as he cannot bend
his legs, the fetter being stiff enough
to prevent this. The inventors state
that it is adapted to afford cavalry
men a perfect means of preventing the
horses from escaping without human
aid, the claim being made that when
an animal is tethered with one of
thesa devices he becomes tame, even ia
the presence of danger.
Oklahoma has harvested a wheat
crop of 30,000,000 bushels.
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EXPLORING! ARIZONA RUINS.
inTestlgatliij; I'rehUtorlo Eettlements foi
Records of American Anllqnlty.
Work has been begun upon what,
from an archaeological point of view,
is one ihe most important and in
teresting undertakings of late years.
Situated four miles east of Phoenix.
Ariz., are the ruins of what was once,
doubtless, a great prehistoric settle
ment. One Immense pile, about 25
feet high, and 100 feet wide, by 200
feet long, is surrounded by lesser
mounds, which extend for half a mile
northward and fade away in the river
toward the south. Some of these
smaller heaps have been explored by
rr lie-seekers and an immense quan
tity of ancient pottery, stone tools, and
cooking utensils has been taken from
them, while in several instances skel
etons have bccii unearthed.
Evidently the walls in these ruined
hears were all of adobe, a building
material still extensively used, and
the decay and weathering of hundreds
and perhaps thousands of years have
piled the debris around the lower
walls, which are still intact. The
walls where perfect, protected by the
faMen adobe, are from 12 to IS inches
in thickness, and the great piles of
debris would indicate original build
ings of 30 to 75 feet in height, while
the largest pile must have b8en of
much greater proportions. Authori
ties who have examined the ruins be
aa them to have been built by the
Aztecs, a people thought to have come
up from Peru, across the Isthmus of
Panama, and from whom the Zuni
and Hopi Indians of northern Arizona
are thought to have descended. The
ruins, rs they lie. help corroborate the
theory that the original buildings were
of a style of architecture still em
ployed by the Zunis and Hopis, great
houses built in terraces-, which are
reached by way of ladders. The ruins
east of Phoenix are by far the larg
est of any of the many traces of pre
historic settlements found in the Salt
River valley, and it is believed the
city once reached further south, until
a large part of it was washed away
by the floods from the mountains, or
covered by the dpposits from the floods
of ages past.
INFANTILE
ACTIVITY.
I
What One
liabr 11I la the
I'erlotl
of
Fire Mlnutrn.
Small Kathryne, aged 2. left alone
one day in her mamma's bedroom,
said to herself: "Oh. won't I have a
great time?" And she certainly did.
She began by taking her papa's necktie-box
out of the bureau drawer and
displaying a-11 the neckties on the bed,
where she thought they would be seen
to much better advantage. The box
wasn't interesting, so she threw that
under the bed. Next she tok a toy
lamp to pieces, but as that wasn't
quite exciting enough a? a lamp-study
she followed it up with even greater
attention to the regular one, threw its
wick out of the window, and poured
the oil down the front of her dress.
Then she picked off the wall about a
half yard square of paper, and pow
dered the bits on the floor with the
contents of a talcum powder box. The
pin tray on the bureau didn't suit her,
s she broke that in two pieces, and
a-.ded the pins and trinkets to the
scraps of paper and talcum powder.
Next she turned her attention to a
bottle of vaseline and rubbed it on
her face and into her hair. She knew
vaseline was made to rub on. so she
used it that way of course. The con
tents of a box of cold cream were put
into the paper, powder and pin mix
ture on the floor. A small bank full
of pennies was going to go 'in next,
but in getting it down from a shelf it
stuck in a groove, so that had to be
left out. A shower of photographs lay
around the room In a fashion that
would have done credit to the ambi
dexterous skill of a Keller or Herr
mann. This done. Kathryne wa? just
about to lay hold of her mother's shoes
when that lady herself appeared. The
baby tossed the pair of shoes over her
head backward and said. "See them
go." There was plenty of "go." in
deed, and all in five minutes time,
too. This is a true story. Philadel
phia Times.
Rm Tree's Oreat Grewth.
In a Ventura garden in California
there is a great Iamarque rose tree
which has made remarkable growth
since it was planted more than 25 years
ago. Its trunk near the ground Is 2
feet 9 inches in circumference, while
the main branches are not much small
er. In 1895 the tree produced over 21,
000 blooms. There is a great production
of roses at Los Angeles and Pomona,
and rose trees that bear between 10.000
and 12,000 blooms at a time are aid to
be common in southern California. At
Royton, in the Oldham district of Lan
cashire, there are three giant Marechal
Nlel rose trees at Stoekfield and Street
bridge belonging to Mr. Mellor and L.
Baron respectively, from which 30,000
roses were cut. From Mr. Mellor's tree
at Stoekfield, which was the largest
of the three, 15.000 roses were cut and
sold in one season. ,
Element In Corn Grain.
The corn grain has, in addition to
its starch element, a tiny germ in
which lies its life principle. This germ
was formerly separated and thrown
aside as waste. Lately it has been
found that this germ is rich in oil
which can be utilized. The germ is
now separated from the starch and
crushed. The oil gathered from it
finds a ready market, and within the
last few years millions of dollars'
worth of this oil has been exVorted to
Europe. After the oil is taken from
the germ the gluten left In the cake
is used for varnish, and the residue is
used for cattle food.
American Mine aa Good a Any.
Many Americans learned at Paris
for the first time that we produce wines
In some grades equal to the best im
ported varieties.
Iron Import from Spain.
Iron ore to the value of $44,226 was
Imported from Spain by the United
States for the quarter ending Sept. 30,
1900.
Faith
tives.
is the force Vyt makes mo-
FILTRATION EXPERIMENT STATION AT LAWRENCE ON THE MERRLMAC RIVER.
Where the Massachusetts State Board of Health Carried On the rirst investigations l-iooking to the Purification of
Water by Sand Filtration, Showing the Filtration Tanks and Working laboratories.
(Boston Correspondence.)
The water supply of cities ana towns,
whether drawn from a river or lake,
and whether or not supplemented by
artesian wells, has become within fif
teen years a universal problem of the
greatest importance. Before that time
municipal governments were con
cerned mainly about securing a suf
ficient quantity of drinkable water,
and cities that were able to draw
their supply from rivers and running
streams, ' were considered particularly
fortunate, until in Massachusetts an
alarm was raised by disastrous epi
demics of typhoid fever which fol
lowed the course of the Merrimac
River. The disease was carried by the
sewage with which the river was con
taminated from town to town, wher
ever the stream was used as a water
-supply, down to the city of Iawren-e,
which suffered worst of all. In 1S87 an
experiment station, the first of its kind
in the world, for the purification of
sewage and water by filtration
through sand, was established in Law
rence by the Massachusetts State
Board of Health, and the Lawrence
filtration beds became an object les
son fo- the instruction not only of the
State, but of the world at large.
Good and Bad Microbes.
The co-operation of the Stale and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy in the early years of the conduct
of these experiments at Lawrence at
once assured the success of the inves
tigations. Professor William T. Sedg
wick of the institute, as bacteriologist
of the State Board of Health, for eight
years directing the bacteriological ex
periments on which the work of puri
fication depended. For, after all. it is
held to-day at the Institute of Tech
nology, as everywhere eise, that the
purification of water and sewage un
purified water being considered by the
bacteriologist merely as very dilute
sewage is almost solely a matter of
controlling the microbes, the "good"
microbes and the "bad" ones, so that
the pathogenic or disease-breeding
germs shall be prevented from reach
ing the human system, while the
"good" ones are encouraged to do their
natural work of purification.
The dramatic story of the microbe
has frequently been told since Pasteur
established the germ theory of fer
mentation, but there is something
unique in the accomplishment of such
bacteriologists as Professor Sedgwick,
by which millions of micro-organisms
are herded together intelligently, with
the character of their work and their
hours of labor and rest definitely es
tablished. To MaKe Hitler Water Safe.
. From experiments in Lawrence and
in the biological laboratories of the
Institute of Technology it has been
demonstrated that any river water
purified by means cf a five-foot filter
is safe and wholesome, and. further,
that effluent water from proper filtra
tion of sewage would not be dangerous
for domestic use. The records also
have shown that since Lawrence, en
couraged by the example of the State
experiment station, has installed a mu
nicipal filter, though it Is still using
the water of the Merrimac River, al
ways more or less contaminated by the
drainage of Ixwell the very circum
stance, that is, which caused the great
JVetv Game of
and Hotv to "Play It.
A good vnriation of the American
game of baseball, and one which need3
no particular preparation, is known as
club ball. This game may be played by
any number of boys, from two to twen
ty. All the outfit needed Is a rubber
ball, a club, which can be picked up
' " siisillii
epidemic of a few years ago typhoid
has practically been eradicated in that
city, although, of course, it might still
be introduced by other means bad
oysters as well as bad water bping an
easy vehicle for the disease.
The lesson whicdi Lawrence has
illustrated so graphically not only has
worked a revolution in the methods of
water supply in Massachusetts cities
and towns, but is having its effect all
over the world. A notable instance is
the city of Albany, which by a system
of filtration has been enabled to eb
tain a Supply of pure water from the
Hudson River, previously a constant
source of disease. The gravity of the
problem in the case of large cities has
resulted in the expenditure of enor
mous sums for the maintenance of a
wholesome water .supply either by di
rect purification or by the disposal
of sewage so as to prevent contamina
tion of the source. The case of Chi-
James J. Van Alerts Daughter
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SARA VAN ALEN, WHO MAY SOON
Cupid is said to have caused a slight
disagreement in the family of James
J. Van Alen. who has been "com
manded" by King Edward VII. to at
tend at court for the purpose of being
invested with the insignia of a Knight
of Grace of the Order of St. John.
By her frjends it Is said that Miss
Sara Van Alen sailed for the United
States with the intention of marrying
Robert Collier immediately on her ar
rival. Mr. Van Alen is said to op
pose the match. Unfortunately Mr.
Van Alen's commands in the matter
'Ball
somewhere about the playground, and
a small stick, perhaps ten Inches long.,
With a penknife hollow out the end
of the stick so that the ball will not
roll off when placed on It. Now it Is
obvious that if the ball and stick are
arranged as shown in the Illustration
cago is well kiu wn, where $30,000,001)
has been spent on a drainage canal,
which, by carrying the sewage into the
Mississippi River, has revolutionized
the city's water supply. In St. Louis,
where th question of an adequate
water supply is being considered par
ticularly with reference to the great
i iouisiar.a Purchase Exhibition, the
river bears the c'rai'iase cjf Chicago.
St. Paul. Minneapolis and scores of
other cities, and yet Pioi'es.-or Sedg
wick states without be.-itation that by
means of filtration St. Louis can ob
tain it.s water supply from the Missis
sippi with absolute safety.
The rhinoceros is the thickest
skinned quadruped, with a hide so
tough as to resist the claws of a lion
or tiger, the sword or the balls of an
old-fashioned musket. The skin of the
whale is from two inches to two feet
thick.
BECOME MRS. ROBERT COLLIER.
will carry little weight, as his chil
dren are independent of him in for
tune. In fact it is stated that when
his three children are all married he
will be far from as well off as he is
now well-to-do. Miss Sara Van Alen
is a pretty, attractive and clever girl,
while Mr. Collier is a very quiet. In
tellectual and pleasant young gentle
man. He is an adept at polo and is
the editor of Collier's Weekly. It la
said Mr. Van Alen will oppose the
match and for this reason has de
layed his departure for England.
and the stick Is hit on the raised end.
the ball will travel a considerable dis
tance before alighting. The further
the ball travels the better for the man
who strikes it, because he must run
to a base and return before the guards
can capture the ball and throw It to
the head, who stands Just by the
clubman. The head never leaves his
post unless, the opportunity presents
itself cf catching the ball on the fly.
Occasionally when the clubman makes
an especially good stroke, he can run
twice to the base before the ball can
be captured.
If the ball 13 returned to the head
before the clubman has had time to
run to his base and return, the club
man becomes last guard, the head be
comes clubman and the first guard be
comes head. The boy who, at the end
of the game, has run to base and back
the greatest number of times Is ac
counted as the winner. A ball caught
on the fly causes the clubman to
change places with the bey who
caught It.
A six months' cruise will decreas
the speed of a ship 15 per cent.
