.Mews and Views

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Dr. Max Nordau. who has latelyturned his attention to the consolida-tion of large companies of capitalists,is one of the most skillful and learnedrhyslcians of Europe. His very wide-spread fame is due. however, not to hisscientific ability, but rather to his bril-liance as an author. In 1SS3 he shockedand delighted two continents with hisfinely analytical book. 'ConventionalLies of Society." In 1SS6 he publishedhu "Paradoxes.." and in 1S93 the work!y which lu is tost known. "Degenera-tioj.- "

In tuis remarkably originallock Dr. Xcrd.i'i ..trtrrVs to show onpurely groundsthat all r.:o !rr:: tendencies are towardlegctieraiion. He fortifies his position

by exaciiuuJlous into art. literatureanl life, an ! claims that degeneraci-es seen in all menial and moral phe-

nomena. Dr. Nordau is descended froma Jev.teh family of Ruda- -

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MAX XOKDAl.pest. He began writing to the newspa-pers on many topics even while he wasa 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 crowdInto the room were present on Mon-

ti ay when the trial of a Presbyterianpreacher was begun lefore a conirr.it-t?- e

of the presbytery on charges whichinvolve his standing as a decent manas well as a minister. The surpriseis not occasioned by the fact that somany women were pieent. for therewi:l always be plenty cf peopleanxiotio to attend any hearing atwhich p urient or sensational testi-mony is expected. Hut as it is cer-tainly within the power of the inem-ler- s

of the committee to bar out ofthe courtroom women who have nodirect interest in the case one wouldtertaiiJy expect that they would bethe first to take su: h action. Nothingbut morbid and unhealthy curiosityin possibly lead women to flock to a

hearing cf the kind.

A 15 O Mile an Hour.society of mechanical engineer.

presenting the principal Europeanmachine shots, has recently been ed

abroad for the purpose of de-

veloping railroad engines cf pbenom?-i.a- lspeed. The accompanying illus-

tration shows a rai!r.;a'l electric motorlately built by Siemans and Halske. intonnection with the organization.

h:ch. by order of Emperor William

"tiffNEW SPEEDY ELECTRIC ENGINE,v.a tested preliminaiily a short timesince on the military railroad at

when, according to reports,it gave an exhibition that promisedremarkable results.

i Wireless Telegraphy.A report comes through Consul Gen-

eral Gunther of Frankfort to the effectthat the captain of a channel mailsteamer, whicn is provided with a'wireless telegraphy apparatus, statestnat on his last trip he received a mes-sage from the officer of the Frenchlightship, anchored about twenty-fiv- e

miles from Dunkirk, staling that hewould be unable to lieht up the nextnight unless help arrived from the.hore. The captain at once sent awireless message to La Panne, on theBelgian coas., from which point it wasforwarded to Dunkirk by the regulartelegram line, whence a boat was sentto the lightship and the necessary re-

pairs were made.

"Railroad Signal.Many a serious railroad acrcideat is

caused by the washing down on theroadbed of massesof earth or rocksfrom the hillsidesft above. While the

On railroad companiesrealize that thecuts are liable tobecome filled fromthis cause it ishardly to be ex-

pected that theywill keen Latrols

at every dangerous point, but theiiloptration chows an apparatus latelypatented by John K. Haddinott. ofBaltimore, Md., which will constantlyguard the cut or other section of trackvhich it parallels. It is simply a pairof contact rails so placed that a fallof rock or earth which Incloses them,and throw the rails together to com-plete a circuit and set the danger sig-nal- By placing a set of the apparatusclose to each rail it would be next toimpossible for any serious obstructionto occur without the danger beingpointed out by the signal.

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LoxJe and FiguresThat love will find a way through all

difficulties is illustrated by the recentexperiences of Philander Simon andBertha Karger, both of Paterson. N.J. Philander had been keeping company with Bertha about two year.s,

when for som un-

explained reasonhis love began tocool. Simultane-ously Bertha be-

gan- to fret andpine away. Therehad been no actualengagement be-

tween them. so1 'vy,v-- that a suit could7 ytf&lT

Zit nnt wrought forS breaking the mar- -(r riage promis?, but

Bcitha's mother. w::o Is not only awoman of expedients but a thriftysoul, decided upon a plan for punish-ing the faithless Philander. She fig-

ured that he had eaten sixty heartydinners at her house, upon the occa-moi- ls

of his Sunday wooinss. whichat Z cent3 each amounted to $13. Be-

sides this in a rash moment she hadlent him $10. She accordingly begansuit for $25.

Meanwhile. Philander, who is a'sothiifty ami a man of expedients, be-

gan to do a little figuring on his ownside, and promptly came in with atountci claim for $S1.80. which leftMrs. Karger $61. S3 in his debt, if theclaim were pressed. Bertha, as girlsgo. had not been expensive. In twoyears the had consumed but one boxof chocolates, twelve pounds of candy,thirty ice crearr..-- . and ICO sodas,amounting to $9.33. She had only been

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once to Coney Island, but had had100 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. whichshows that Philander had the advan-tage of $2.S0 in actual expenses overMrs. Karger. This margin Philanderintreased by putting in a claim for histime, charging 50 cents for each Sun--day evening's wooing for two years, orK I n r i A oaupl'A nt t ho nvonii'tinn jfor the suits Philander and Berthawere thrown much together, and encouraged by the artful lawyers on bothsides, as well as by thiifty Mrs. Kar-ger. who was appalled by the counter-claims, the flame broke out anew andwith greater ardor than before. An ac-

tual engagement was effected, a dayfor the ciarriage fixed, and both suitswe.e dropped, and Philander andBertha 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

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MRS. FLORENCE ROGERS,granted a divorce to Mrs. Florence E.Rogers from Edward F. Rogers, thusconfirming the report of th: referee.The jude allowed Mrs. Rogers $2,230in lieu of all alimony.

Mrs. Rogexs is the daughter of thelate Mrs. Kate Adams, and a distantcousin of Harry Cornish. Roland B.Molineux was round guilty of causingthe death of Mrs. Adams by poison,which he was accused of sending toCornish at the Knickerbocker A. C.New York city. Cornish had a roomin Sirs. Adams' apartments in West

th street. New York. Mrs. Rogerslived there, and was there on themorning 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. Whenshe brought her suit she applied foralimony. One of her lawyers stated,pathetically, that she had to "live ina New York hash house." while herhusbanu dwelt in luxury at the Iro-quoi- se

hotel. It was shown, however,that Mr. Rogers paid his wife moneyfor her support, although he livedapart from her.

"Plain TalK. to "Britishers.Mr. Barber, the president of the Dia-

mond Match company, talked withwholesome frankness to the dissentingstockholders of that English matchcompany the control of which has just

been secured byhis company. Hesaid to these Eng-lishmen, who hadspoken of "Yankeetrickery" and whohad boasted oftheir intention tofight to the detthto retain for Eng-lish capital thebusiness of making

matches for British use, that"I may as well talk frankly .z yuu

people. Unless 7ii come to terms wewill wlrtp you out of your boots. Weknow that we are able to beat theworld 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 thatAmerica discarded sixteen years ago?"

The salary of the young king of Spain"s 150,000 a year.

SAYINGS and DOINGS

Henry Clay Exfans.Henry Clay Evans went to the South

from Pennsylvania several years agoand grew quite popular in Tennessee,the state of his adoption. He has astring political following and hisfriends have always claimed that hewas elected when he ran for governor,but was counted out. Mr. Evans hasa good war record. He is about 57years old and one of the live, pushingmen of Dixie. So well was he thoughtof by nil classes of persons in Chatta-nooga that he was twice elected mayorof that town. In 1S90 when he ran forCongre.--s he had a strong Democratfor an opponent, but although it wasa close race Mr. Evans was elected bylS.fill votes to his oppenenfs lS..".5a.

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HENRY CLAY EVANS,office brought sharp criticism frompeople favoring a more liberal policy.

Matrimony and Urains.It would according to the

opinions of some educators, that thereought to be written over the gates ofmatrimony, or at least over the ' ladies' entrance' to that happy state, thewords: "Abandon brains all ye whoenter here!" for matrimony and brainsare incompatible. This subject is arather bare bone of contention, and itis one that does not admit of broadgeneralization. There are many wo-

men who seem to have reconciled hus-bands and higher education; there areill ncrw u ill Willi il l i 1 1111.1 1111 .1

n fQr niarimoaial uappine,s. a lackof brains, are still unable to make asuccess of that state; and there arev.omen who are successful in life with-

out either the husbands or the educa-tion.

A sociologist of some repute. LesterF. Ward, says that one who knowsanything of the laws of biology miktinsist upon the eq-ia- l development ofboth sexes. "Any theory of develop-ment." he says, "that recognizes thefact of the transmission of acquiredqualities must expect that where onlyone parent has acquired such qualitiesthe offspring will only inherit one-ha- lf

of them. If the full value of the en-

ergy expended in conferring usefulqualities is to be realized in the off-

spring, they must be conferred equallyupon both parents." Mr. Ward fur-ther says that, while the female minddiffers from the male in many impor-tant and fortunate respects, intelleitis one and the same everywhere, andthat the proper nourishment of intel-lect is truth. It seems rather late inthe day for these who claim to be edu-

cators to advance the theory that onlyby 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 thedays, weeks, months, years and evenleap years. The apparatus is wound upand work.- - like a clock. It consistsprincipally of a disc and five cog- -

THE CLOCK-WOR- K CALENDAR.wheels, which contain a sum total o'ninety-si- x teeth, three weights andnine levers. Of the weights, one Isa counterpoise, one is wound up everyfortnight and one every year. Theparts are all very accurately adjustedand are expected to last until they ac-

tually wear out. One of the wheels infact, is designed to last for 300 years.Every care has been taken in the con-

struction to prevent loss of efficiencyby friction.

"Replaces Hitching "Post.As a hitching post is not always

convenient and it is somewhat of abother to carryaround a heavyweight in the wag-on with which totether the horsewhen the driverwishes to leave theanimal for a time,it i3 likely that thehorseman will ap-preciate the hitch-ing felter hereshown. The In-

vention takes advantage of ths fact that a horse willrot rw.ve as long as he cannot bendhis legs, the fetter being stiff enoughto prevent this. The inventors statethat it is adapted to afford cavalry-men a perfect means of preventing thehorses from escaping without humanaid, the claim being made that whenan animal is tethered with one ofthesa devices he becomes tame, even iathe presence of danger.

Oklahoma has harvested a wheatcrop of 30,000,000 bushels.

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 25feet high, and 100 feet wide, by 200feet long, is surrounded by lessermounds, which extend for half a milenorthward and fade away in the rivertoward the south. Some of thesesmaller heaps have been explored byrr lie-seek- and an immense quan-tity of ancient pottery, stone tools, andcooking utensils has been taken fromthem, while in several instances skel-etons have bccii unearthed.

Evidently the walls in these ruinedhears were all of adobe, a buildingmaterial still extensively used, andthe decay and weathering of hundredsand perhaps thousands of years havepiled the debris around the lowerwalls, which are still intact. Thewalls where perfect, protected by thefaMen adobe, are from 12 to IS inchesin thickness, and the great piles ofdebris would indicate original build-ings of 30 to 75 feet in height, whilethe largest pile must have b8en ofmuch greater proportions. Authori-ties who have examined the ruins be-a- a

them to have been built by theAztecs, a people thought to have comeup from Peru, across the Isthmus ofPanama, and from whom the Zuniand Hopi Indians of northern Arizonaare thought to have descended. Theruins, rs they lie. help corroborate thetheory that the original buildings wereof a style of architecture still em-ployed by the Zunis and Hopis, greathouses built in terraces-- , which arereached by way of ladders. The ruinseast of Phoenix are by far the larg-est of any of the many traces of pre-historic settlements found in the SaltRiver valley, and it is believed thecity once reached further south, untila large part of it was washed awayby the floods from the mountains, orcovered by the dpposits from the floodsof ages past.

INFANTILE ACTIVITY.I

What One liabr 11I la the I'erlotl ofFire Mlnutrn.

Small Kathryne, aged 2. left aloneone day in her mamma's bedroom,said to herself: "Oh. won't I have agreat time?" And she certainly did.She began by taking her papa's necktie-

-box out of the bureau drawer anddisplaying the neckties on the bed,where she thought they would be seento much better advantage. The boxwasn't interesting, so she threw thatunder the bed. Next she tok a toylamp to pieces, but as that wasn'tquite exciting enough a? a lamp-stud- y

she followed it up with even greaterattention to the regular one, threw itswick out of the window, and pouredthe oil down the front of her dress.Then she picked off the wall about ahalf yard square of paper, and pow-

dered the bits on the floor with thecontents of a talcum powder box. Thepin tray on the bureau didn't suit her,s she broke that in two pieces, and

the pins and trinkets to thescraps of paper and talcum powder.Next she turned her attention to abottle of vaseline and rubbed it onher face and into her hair. She knewvaseline was made to rub on. so sheused it that way of course. The con-

tents of a box of cold cream were putinto the paper, powder and pin mix-ture on the floor. A small bank fullof pennies was going to go 'in next,but in getting it down from a shelf itstuck in a groove, so that had to beleft out. A shower of photographs layaround the room In a fashion thatwould have done credit to the ambi-dexterous skill of a Keller or Herrmann. This done. Kathryne wa? justabout to lay hold of her mother's shoeswhen that lady herself appeared. Thebaby tossed the pair of shoes over herhead backward and said. "See themgo." 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 treewhich has made remarkable growthsince it was planted more than 25 yearsago. Its trunk near the ground Is 2

feet 9 inches in circumference, whilethe main branches are not much small-er. In 1895 the tree produced over 21,-0- 00

blooms. There is a great productionof roses at Los Angeles and Pomona,and rose trees that bear between 10.000and 12,000 blooms at a time are aid tobe common in southern California. AtRoyton, in the Oldham district of Lan-cashire, there are three giant MarechalNlel rose trees at Stoekfield and Street-bridg- e

belonging to Mr. Mellor and L.Baron respectively, from which 30,000roses were cut. From Mr. Mellor's treeat Stoekfield, which was the largestof the three, 15.000 roses were cut andsold in one season. ,

Element In Corn Grain.The corn grain has, in addition to

its starch element, a tiny germ inwhich lies its life principle. This germwas formerly separated and thrownaside as waste. Lately it has beenfound that this germ is rich in oilwhich can be utilized. The germ isnow separated from the starch andcrushed. The oil gathered from itfinds a ready market, and within thelast few years millions of dollars'worth of this oil has been exVorted toEurope. After the oil is taken fromthe germ the gluten left In the cakeis used for varnish, and the residue isused for cattle food.

American Mine aa Good a Any.Many Americans learned at Paris

for the first time that we produce winesIn 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 UnitedStates for the quarter ending Sept. 30,1900.

Faith is the force Vyt makes mo- -tives.

FILTRATION EXPERIMENT STATION AT LAWRENCE ON THE MERRLMAC RIVER.Where the Massachusetts State Board of Health Carried On the rirst investigations 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 byartesian wells, has become within fif-

teen years a universal problem of thegreatest importance. Before that timemunicipal governments were con-

cerned mainly about securing a suf-ficient quantity of drinkable water,and cities that were able to drawtheir supply from rivers and runningstreams, ' were considered particularlyfortunate, until in Massachusetts analarm was raised by disastrous epi-

demics of typhoid fever which fol-

lowed the course of the MerrimacRiver. The disease was carried by thesewage 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 anexperiment station, the first of its kindin the world, for the purification ofsewage and water by filtrationthrough sand, was established in Law-rence by the Massachusetts StateBoard of Health, and the Lawrencefiltration beds became an object les-

son fo- - the instruction not only of theState, but of the world at large.

Good and Bad Microbes.The of the Stale and

the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy in the early years of the conductof these experiments at Lawrence atonce assured the success of the investigations. Professor William T. Sedg-wick of the institute, as bacteriologistof the State Board of Health, for eightyears directing the bacteriological ex-

periments on which the work of puri-fication depended. For, after all. it isheld to-da- y at the Institute of Tech-nology, as everywhere eise, that thepurification of water and sewage ed

water being considered by thebacteriologist merely as very dilutesewage is almost solely a matter ofcontrolling the microbes, the "good"microbes and the "bad" ones, so thatthe pathogenic or disease-breedin- g

germs shall be prevented from reach-ing the human system, while the"good" ones are encouraged to do theirnatural work of purification.

The dramatic story of the microbehas frequently been told since Pasteurestablished the germ theory of fer-mentation, but there is somethingunique in the accomplishment of suchbacteriologists as Professor Sedgwick,by which millions of micro-organis-

are herded together intelligently, withthe character of their work and theirhours of labor and rest definitely es-

tablished.To MaKe Hitler Water Safe.

. From experiments in Lawrence andin the biological laboratories of theInstitute of Technology it has beendemonstrated that any river waterpurified by means cf a five-fo- ot filteris safe and wholesome, and. further,that effluent water from proper filtra-tion of sewage would not be dangerousfor domestic use. The records alsohave shown that since Lawrence, en-

couraged by the example of the Stateexperiment station, has installed a mu-

nicipal filter, though it Is still usingthe water of the Merrimac River, al-

ways more or less contaminated by thedrainage of Ixwell the very circum-stanc- e,

that is, which caused the great

JVetv Game of

A good vnriation of the Americangame of baseball, and one which need3no particular preparation, is known asclub ball. This game may be played byany number of boys, from two to twen-

ty. All the outfit needed Is a rubberball, a club, which can be picked up

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epidemic of a few years ago typhoidhas practically been eradicated in thatcity, although, of course, it might stillbe introduced by other means badoysters as well as bad water bping aneasy vehicle for the disease.

The lesson whicdi Lawrence hasillustrated so graphically not only hasworked a revolution in the methods ofwater supply in Massachusetts citiesand towns, but is having its effect allover the world. A notable instance isthe city of Albany, which by a systemof filtration has been enabled to eb-tai- n

a Supply of pure water from theHudson River, previously a constantsource of disease. The gravity of theproblem in the case of large cities hasresulted in the expenditure of enor-mous sums for the maintenance of awholesome water .supply either by di-

rect purification or by the disposalof sewage so as to prevent contamina-tion of the source. The case of Chi- -

James Van Alerts Daughter

and Hotv to "Play It.

SARA VAN ALEN, WHO MAY SOON

Cupid is said to have caused a slightdisagreement in the family of JamesJ. Van Alen. who has been "com-

manded" by King Edward VII. to at-

tend at court for the purpose of beinginvested with the insignia of a Knightof Grace of the Order of St. John.

By her frjends it Is said that MissSara Van Alen sailed for the UnitedStates with the intention of marryingRobert 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

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somewhere about the playground, anda small stick, perhaps ten Inches long., on

With a penknife hollow out the endof the stick so that the ball will notroll off when placed on It. Now it Isobvious that if the ball and stick arearranged 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 theMississippi River, has revolutionizedthe city's water supply. In St. Louis,where th question of an adequatewater supply is being considered par-ticularly with reference to the great

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iouisiar.a Purchase Exhibition, theriver bears the c'rai'iase cjf Chicago.St. Paul. Minneapolis and scores ofother cities, and yet Pioi'es.-o- r Sedg-

wick states without be.-itati- on that bymeans of filtration St. Louis can ob-

tain it.s water supply from the Missis-sippi with absolute safety.

The rhinoceros is the thickestskinned quadruped, with a hide sotough as to resist the claws of a lionor tiger, the sword or the balls of an

ed musket. The skin of thewhale is from two inches to two feetthick.

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 whenhis three children are all married hewill be far from as well off as he isnow well-to-d- o. Miss Sara Van Alenis 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 isthe editor of Collier's Weekly. It lasaid Mr. Van Alen will oppose thematch 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 furtherthe ball travels the better for the manwho strikes it, because he must run

a base and return before the guardscan capture the ball and throw It tothe head, who stands Just by theclubman. The head never leaves hispost unless, the opportunity presentsitself cf catching the ball on the fly.Occasionally when the clubman makes

especially good stroke, he can runtwice to the base before the ball can

captured.If the ball 13 returned to the head

before the clubman has had time torun to his base and return, the club-man becomes last guard, the head be-

comes clubman and the first guard es

head. The boy who, at the endthe game, has run to base and back

the greatest number of times Is ac-

counted as the winner. A ball caughtthe fly causes the clubman to

change places with the bey whocaught It.

A six months' cruise will decreasthe speed of a ship 15 per cent.

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