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HEN you tako in tho city of Wash
ington what tho unrcgencrato call
a "rubboMinck wnBon" your courso
Is bound to lead by tho Cosmos
club. Until tho Metropolitan club
built ltn now qunrtorB, Ub build-
Ins wB Bltuatod Jioar that which
houses tho Cosmos tncmborB. It
wbb tho groat dollght of tho In
formation giver on tho Blghtsco
lng nutoraobllo to dcclaro to tho
passengers that tho Metropolitan
club, "which you boo on your right,
Is tho homo of tho r.obs, and
tho CosmoH club, which you bco on
your left, Ib tho houio of tho cranks."
Presumably flclontlntfl lmvo become accus
tomed to being dubbod cranks by tho unthinking.
It hns been a long, hard strugglu at tlmoH for
Bomo BClfntlHlB to got recognition from tho world.
Tho CooinoB club ban a membership which In-
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HI was tho groat dollght of tho In- W W WUM MXmW W4 1
cludon Bomo of tho greatest scientists of tho
Unltod States, and, In Its non-rouldont mombor
ship, some of tho grontnat BclcnttKts of tho world.
Thcro nro botnnlsts. uBtronomorB, ornltholo
glata, and, In fact, BclontlBts of all kinds and do
BcriptlonH, to bo found nightly In tbo great,
Bweoplng parlors of tho club'a quarters, Tjicro 1b
just as much hospitality tuul Jollity In tho club
aii aro to be found In the rooms of any soclnl
organization In tho world and learning bosldoB
there, also. In order o bo n mombor of tho Cos
mos club you must hnvo Bomothlng bonldes
money and social standing. It 1b probablu that
there nro many members of othor organizations
In Washington, who would bo willing to throw
their memberships Into tho doop sea, It the act
Would buy for them ndinlttnnco Into tho club
of thoBO scientists,
Tho headquarters of tho Cosmos club nro In
tho old "Dolly Madison" residence. It was there
that tho widow of President MadlBon lived and
hold Boclal sway for years after tho death of her
husband. During tho Civil. war, for time, Admi
ral Wilkes lived In tho MudlHon house. It was
Wilkes who took Mason and Blldoll from tho Brit
ish atoainor "Trent" and thoroby nearly brought
on war between tho United States and Great
Ilrltatn nt n tlmu when Ruch a war might have
Insured ultlmnto victory to tho Confederate arms.
Tho biological survey of tho Unltod States
government has lost tho Horvlcoa of Dr. C. Hart
Morrlam, who for yourB was tbo survoy'B chief,
and who In tho onrly days worked so hard to
intake thoaervlro.wbat ho uuecoeded In malting It,
o'nb ot tho most useful departmontB of govern
ment. Dr. Morrlam lms accepted tho direction ot
tbo Harrlmuu Foundation for Zoological Ro
'search. Mm. Hnrrlman, tho widow of E. II. Hnr
rlman, tho great financier and railroad man, has
carried put tho wishes ot nor husband, and has
jjtfrt aside a largo num of money to bo usod for
Imposes of zoological Btudy. Acting unquestion
ably In Jlno with her husband's wlshos, Mrs.UInr
rlman requested Dr, Morrlam to tako chargo ot
tho work.
u It b probablo that tho formor chlof of the bio
logical survey Is tho foremost authority In tho
'United States In innttorB pertaining to certain
Urtos of natural history work. It was Dr. Mor
rlam, more than any othor man, to whom Thoo
dgrauooBc'volt wont for ndvlco about tho scopo
fsj his expected work In Afrlcu. Tho doctor and
the colonel have boon friends slnco boyhood:
when In Now York Btato both wore pursuing bird
studies nnd exchanging letters on general Bub
JoctB qf natural history.
Thorio words about Dr. Morrlnm and tho Har
rltnau Zopfogical Foundation lead one to toll a
Blory about tbo lato tluanclor, which perhaps
will throw sotno light on a sldo of his life con
corning which moBt people probably ltnow little.
Ono yoar ago laBt winter I went south from
Washington, bound for Augusta, On,, with n
friend. E. H Ilarrlman'fl private car was at
tached to tho train at ono of tho Btatlona on tho
way. It happened that my friend was a oloao per
nonal acquaintance of Mr. Harrlman, and ho wad
Invited to dlrio wjth tho llnauclor on his prlvnto
car, and wua told to bring his friend with him,
provided tho friend would Hko to como.
There were sovoral men of largo affulrB at
that little dinner pnrty, ono ot tho guostB being
tbo president of ono ot tho greatest railroad
systems .In tho world. Tho conversation, nntu-
rally, wb about big affairs pt tho financial world,
concerning which I lttiow very llttlo, and I am
free to 'confess, cared much loss. Attor hearing
u good deal about certain things concornlng
which tho discussion was more or less unlntollb
glblQ to mo, I ventured to break Into tho couver.
satloii and to toll Mr. Hnrrlman that I had such
of tho journals of tho "Hnrrlman Alnska Kxpodt
tlon" rs already had boon published, and moro
oven H)t I had rood them.
For tho next two bourn I hnd nmplo evidence
that K, H- Harrlman cwl for something besides
Uallroade, Ton or twolvo yearn before bo hqjl
PMmYLVAWA AVfJYUr -LOOKING FAST fftOM TfiA6UfiY
taken a company of uaturallsta to Alaska with
him as his guests. Ho had bad a dolight'ful tlmo
with tho HClcntists nnd tboy had profited mch
In a knowledge wny by tho trip to comparatively
now flolilB. I found that Mr. Harrlman was keen
ly IntereHted In birds, trees, Bhells, llowora,
Btoncti and. mnpimalsi and that ho knpw and. ap
preciated naturu In all Its forms. That wbb tho
only tlmo I over saw 13. H. Harrlman, but from
what ho said during the two hours nnd a half
Bpcnt In his car that winter night I was not at
'vnll surprised when I found out that ho had pro- f
vldod n fund for zoological research.
Across Lafayetto squaro, duo west from tho
Cobuiob club, in tho vacant Docatur mansion.
This house was built by Commodoro Stephen Do
catur In' the year 1819, and It was from Its por
tals that ho went forth ono year later to meet his
death at tho band ot Jnmon Barron, also a naval
officer, who had challenged Docatur to a duel. It
Is American history and tho circumstances are
known to till, but It might bo paid that It was
liarron who was In command of tbo United
StatcB ship Chcsnpoako at tho tlmo it was over
hauled by tho British ship Leopard and searched
for alleged deserters from tho British navy.
Hooks have been written about Lafayette
squnro, but tbo Btorlos that aro told about tho
men whose stntuen aro In tho squaro, and nbout
the men who lived In tho houses surrounding It,
nro endloHB, and not all of them, perhaps, havo
found their way Into print, Tho stntuo ot Lafay
etto was erected at ono corner ot the squaro not
long after tho statuo ot ndrew Jackson had
been put In place lit the conter of tho squaro,
provided a squaro can be said to hnvo a con(or.
Lntnyotto visited America In 1825, nnd oven to
day ono hears occasionally of Bomo living person
who remembers his visit.
Not long ngo thcro died In Chicago, at hor
homo on Kim street, tho aged Mrs. Davidson.
Bho was born In Charleston, S. C. Her maiden
namo was Ancrum; Bho was a granddaughter of
Co). WllHnnt Washington, n flrat coubIii of George
Washington. It waa Wllltum Washington who
nt tho battle of tho Cowpons fought a hnnd-to-hund
fight w.ltb Colonol Tnrloton of tho British
forces. Colonel Washington succeeded In cutting
off tho thumb of Tnrloton'a sword hand, and
then thcro was Intorferonco which Bcparntod tho
combatants.
Lafayetto was a strong porsonnl Mend of WII-
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COWBOY MAYOR LOOKS HIGHER
James C. Dahlman, tho cowboy mayor pi. j
Omaha, flushed by his Buccess In securing thfl ,
nomination for governor, has widened his flold o
ambition and It Is said may become a candldntf
for Unltod States senator.
Dahlman was born in 18GC In tho village of
Yorktown, n placo that wan then right In the (
rango country. As a boy ho received an educa
tion Buch as tho town whoro ho lived -afforded, -but
whon hardly out of abort panta ho straddled a
horse nnd became a cowboy. All over tho slate,
until 1890, ho rodo tho rango. In 1890 and when
the sottlora commenced to encroach upon tho big
stockmen of Texas, tho drlvo to thd north com
menced. Dahlman wnB among thoso who moved,
and during that year followed a big bunch of
cattle across the country to Nebraska, driving to
Dawes county, well boyond tho outposta of clvlllzntlon In tho extreme north
west oruor of tho state Here ho rodo tho rango for several years, serving
a portion of tiro tlmo .ib inspector of brands for tho cattlemen of Nebraska
nnd Wyoming.
With tho building of tho northwestern railroad townrd tho Black Hills
thcro wbb a rttBh of settlers nnd tho town of Chadron was established. It
was a typical frontier city, a lnrge portion of Its Inhabitants being gamblers,
suro thing men and thugs, who terrorized tho roputablo Inhabitants. Ono
day whon Dahlman was In town n commlttoo of citizens called upon him arid
offered him tho position of mayor. Ho laughed at the. Iden.
Dahlman rodo back to camp, whore ho lay awake all night and thought.
Whon morning broke ho nroso nnd nto breakfast na usual, but ho did not
go out with tho boys. Instead, ho bado thorn good-by. romnrklng that ho
had quit tho range.
Saddling hlB cow pony, Dalilninn rode Into Chadron, where ho called upon
tho city council nnd told them ho was ready to accept tho position of mayor.
Ho was Immediately elected and that day took chargo ot public nffalrs. Ho
organized a pollco force and soon Chadron wnB ns quiet and orderly a town ns
ttiero waB In tho stato.
Dahlman hold tho office of mayor of Chadron fou,r years, during tho tlmo
being olectcd sheriff of Dawes county, an office which he hold, bIx years. In
1898 ho removed to Omaha nnd engaged In the livo stock commission busi
ness. Ho is now serving his Bocond term ns mayor of Omaha.
M'CLUNG FOR THE TREASURY
No longer young himself, Franklin MncVcagh
of tho United States treasury is tho patron ot
youth. Ho brought tho north wind with him to
the flat banks of tho yellow Potomac, n Washing
ton correspondent asserts. ..
So Bhort coals, fancy vcst3 and stick pins to
match Bhlrts and cravats tho visible symbolB of
a now class -have displaced boot3 and rusty plujt
hats In tho somber offices of tho nation's treasury.
Loo McClung, tho now treasurer of tho Unite
States, is a bachelor of forty, but a boy when h
is compared with his antediluvian forerunners.
McClung's blood, Confederate, though -whlgglsh,
points to his politics with a pretty certain guess.
However, ho makes no flourish of his views, and
in his speech, now ncconted by the east, ho de
clined to mention John Mnrshall, tho chief Justice,
or Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shlloh, or John Morgan, tho cavalry
leader nnd raider all of whom were of his family in tho past unless Jn
niiBWor to a question.
At Vnin ATnPlnncr still ununrn. muscular and henvv brcaatcd. slim at tho
waist, and thowed In tho logB like ft racer was captain of tho football tenm
and famous as a plunger and runner. Socially ho wnB a leader. In all respects
ho was conspicuous and popular. Houwent Into traffic ns a profession ob
taining freight for a rallroad-rand then, he bocamo treasurer of .hlsunlverslty,
watching $10,500,000 of endowments and receiving $1,250,000 annually in
rents, Interest and tuition.
Some of thd McClungo Scotch Presbyterians, back In tho Highlands,
fierce men in lovo, in war, and as musicians brought their tomporamental
eccentricities to America and handed them down to their generations. A
notable heir, notorious heir, Indeed, to such an Inheritance, waa Alexander
Keith McClung, tho Mississippi duollst, who should havo maintained a grave
yard of his own nnd employed an undertaker In his rotlnue.
THINK CHANLER WAS DUPED
Hani Washington, and whon ho visited Charleston
In tho yoar 1825 he was a guest at tho Ancrum
residence, Mrs. Ancrum, tho mother of Mrs. Da
vidson, bolng a daughter of'Colonol Washington.
Mrs. Davidson, then a child six or eight years
old, remembered tho visit perfectly nnd kopt
until sho died a present which Lafnyotto had
given to her, tho grandchild of his old frlond nnd
comrade In arms.
Thcro Is no statuo ot Washincton in Lafayetto
square, though ono day there may be, for It Vj j
Bald to be posslblo that Androw Jackson may bo
put elsewhere and Goprgo Washington may tako
his place. Tho nonrost physical approach, so to
upeak, that ono gets to tho first president, lu La
fnyotto Bquaro, Is In thq. White Houao, which
fronts it. It may not bo gonorally known that tho
Whlto Houbo was completed boforo Washington
died, It wbb only n fow days before his death,
ns Washington tradition hns It, that Georgo and
Martha Washington walked through tbo recontly
completed Whlto House, -to give their npproval
or disapproval, nB it may bo, of tho nrrnnponjont
ot tho rooms. ; It Is .poaalblo that that visit to
the capital w'aa the last ono which tho Father
of his Country made, for It was only a abort tlmo
attorwnrd that ho died at his country Boat, Mount
Vernon.
Reference to Mount Vernon brlnga to mind
the fact that thoro Ib llvlug In Washington today
an nged man numcd John Lone, who is the only
living person who ever Baw George Washington.
Now, Inasmuch nB tho Father ot his country died
111 years ago, thlB may 'scorn to boy somothlng
pretty cIobq to n false statement on its face, but
It is tho truth nevertheless. v
When John Lane was a small boy tlo driver
of a stago that ran between Washington and
Mount Vernon asked tho lad It ho wanted a ride,
and tho nnswer waa a hasty climbing up to the
Bent of honor by tho driver. The boy mado tho
trip all tho way to Mount Vernon nnd arrived
there Just as they woro removing tho body of
Washington from tho old tomb to tho, now ono.
In order to mako certain that tho remains had
not beon tampered with by ghouls who not long
before had broken Into tbo o)d tomb, tho coffin
was opened nnd John Inuo, ngod ten, was lifted
up to look on tho taco ot tho Fathor of his Coun
try. Mr, Lanu today is thu only person who
BnrvlvoB ot tho llttlo company which was prcaont
nt tho transfer of tho body,
Mr. and Mrs, Robert WInthrop Chanler havo
contly been tho topic for gossip In two conti
nents, It being alleged that Mrs. Chanler tricked
her hucbnnd into turning ovor to her his property,
leaving him penniless. Thoy wero married in
Paris June 18 last. Mr. Chanler, whoso portrait
is hero shown, is connected with tho Astors of
New York and 1b well known In society in that
city. Ho Inherited a largo fortune and becamo
an artist early In life. His first wife, who was
Miss Julia R. Chamberlain, obtained n dlvorco
from him in Franco In 1908. Mr. Chanler for
merly was sheriff of DutchCBs county, Now York.
Ho Ib a brother of Stuyvesant Chanler, ox-lioutcn-nnt
governor of the Empiro stato. Mrs. Chanler,
bettor known na Llna Cavaliorl, is celebrated for
her great beauty aB woll as for her fine voice. Sho
In tho daughter of an Italian worklngman,, and In parly life sold flowers on tho
street Then sho bocamo a cafo singer, and through the aid ot a Russian
count studied for tho oporatic stnge. Mine. CavaliorTB demit hi Madrid was
a fnlluro, but Bho porsovorcd, and finally won great bucccbb in Europe as well
as In tho United States.
Although neither Cavallerl nor tho lawyers who drew tho contract havo
divulged Its terms, It is said that It contained n provision that Cavallert was
lp recelvo $30,000 yearly, and a stipulation was made that this sum was to
bo"7atd whether thoy lived togothor or were separated or divorced.
Chanler waB anxious to give tho Binger all ho possessed. There is a
clatiBo in tho qontrnct, which was principally drawn by Cavallerl's French
notary, that is believed to have compromised tho trust fund ot $250,000 belong
ing to Chanter's two young daughtera as well as tho alimony allowed by tho
courts to tho .first wlfo.
f BRITISH NURSE IN AMERICA
Tho experience of a competent nurso In tho
first stops of her humano though arduoiiB mlsslor.
la a llttlo history of Itaolf. This Ib exemplified In
tho career of Mlaa Ellznheth Murray, who recently
camo to tho United States to study up tho moth
oda ot our groat hospitals. Her tour of Inspec
tion Is later to take In tho Philippine islands nnd
China, and sho will return to England to go on
duty at tho military hospital in Dovonshiro.
Tbo llfo of an uctlvo English army nurse Is one
of great self-sacrifice and toll. Thcro have been
instancos In tho career of such where short ra
tions meant an onion a day for food. MIbs Mur
ray, was brought up to un Ideal country life, excel
ling In athletics, and first attending the Btavnns
- hospital In Dublin. After her graduation sho took
a six months' courso lu fever cases In London, nmi
later still received her diploma from Bollnda hospital, Dublin.
When sho finally entered tho British army reserve corps sho was wel
comed Into tho organization by PrincosB Christian, n daughter of Queen Vic
toria. That association bna very rigid rulos. Tho applicant Tor admission
muat bo of good family, porfect health and curoful professional training A
high grade of Infolllgenco also la roqulrod. There Is a certain Boclal llfo 'too
tor tha army nuroo. for sho must necessarily assoclato with tho wlvo3 ot
offloera at military posts.
AB "Sister Murray" this noble woman, who has devoted her life to tho
welfaro of others, Is a true typo of tho modern nurso whose skilled mlnistra
tlons are a vital element In army life.
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