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t in grave danger.
, oK the senate said to
1 P ° -T ITS DEFEAT.
■ r Fear It Will Have to
Hire It Can Ho Hnti
-8,1 n,elare Intention Not to
(i,■copy PUltlpplnea.
ivrin" 1 " _ oii Should Declare Its
A<!l " " ir. MK aitoas Cost Annexa
pollO' 1
„ \VoiHd Entail.
"" Jun. 18.— (Special).—A se
. , , scna'e shows that the
P* l ;>l i Be ratified during the
peace trr ‘ ' of congress unless it is
present set.
,nl V mop. i- made upon the author-
Thif . |h ,. shrewdest and most cau
of the opposition, who is
tiOUP ,'',l t'i the delicate task of round
elltrl' lt ,i , (.is to the expansion poi
ire U|| the i'i'i"
, , he administration, so far as the
, -j uitH are concerned.
Phil4'P :nc 11,1
" ,he informttlion is reliable is dem
.~, ,i„ ialden change of tactics
;..i:i of the friends of the treaty
o When the poll referred
in the fn “
Shown til. 11l they at once proceed-.
~,iii n but upon further reflec
’ , of their cleverest work
lion lhe> ” 1
sio work for a verification. An investu
fl mined the alleged poll, and
gallon tuii>
, 011 ,| . the two-thirds necessary
, ~ , fy tie treaty, could not be depended
It iva ni“ : 1 111,1 information that the
!d'.l to appoint a commission
to visit the I 1 iiippines and make a care
n siudy of i i* situation and condilions
pire for ih.- i rpose of advising him as
io the hr* . ..'iire- to follow in dealing with
that troubl. one- problem.
Committee Not So Confident.
The mem <’>' t! 'e committee on for
j,n r ,.i.,i : - .. iio favor the treaty as
originally drawn, are not as confident to
ijV is f. war. ten days ago that the
train will 1“ I. .titled within two weeks
or possibly m, days. They tell me now
that other business, equally pressing in its
i iiuri, derma is the time of the Senate,
a id for the present it is not expedient to
force the n ■ -i I- ration of the treaty in the
faceofg.ner.il appropriation bills and
other measures of national importance.
AH the .-ani", ihe anti-expansionists are
openly boasting that they have the treaty
bound hand and foot, and it cannot get
throueh the Senate unless It is amended
so ilia! it states specifically that It does
not provide for the permanent retention
of the Philippines by the United States
government, as contemplated by the lan
guage of the pending treaty.
The work of holding up the treaty has
been thus far managed with consumate
skill and remarkable statecraft. Two
weeks -i it .-*emed as though Ihe anti
expansionists would not be able to muster
one-four in of the Senate to their support
on a roll call. Now they assert boldly
and "an give names, they say, showing
that more thin one-third of the Senate
eiands ready to vote to reject the treaty
unless it is amended in the nature sug
gested.
Sentiment Against It.
Public seniirn. nt is apparently cutting
in mnortant figure in the manipulations
now in progress, for every day the idea
grows strong, r i hat we do not want ab
solute and permanent control of Ihe Phil
ippines. The Pri sident is said to have
so in'imaied to more than one senator.
Memfers of the cabinet have so expressed
themselves. Distinguished army officers,
who have seen service in those islands,
also tel their friends confidentially that
c ir. not desirable possessions
for Americans. :is ii is impossible for our
People io thrive in that terrible climate
and amid such surroundings.
Mur-., these statements are contro
verted iiy ■. friends of the treaty, who
tel. you that all the reports from the Phil
ipp.n.s are favorable to American occupa
tion, ar.d in the next breath they tell you
■ Pres id-nt has not decided upon
any fated line of policy and will not at
'" do so until the pending treaty
is ratified.
Should Declare Itself.
The leaders of the opposition, in sup
' >• ir iiosition, say that if the ad
i and ii s friends are sincere in
sen ion. that we do not desire to
orcupy the p : iiippines permanently, it
conn out boldly and say so. Let it
, nomina '“1 in the bond. If the treaty
n or -c ratified as it is now worded, they
t wih !■ committed to the perma
-ntoocupa'n,n of those islands. Expcri
■h- has taught how difficult it is to
"•.fy which involves a great
va-stion of ina rnational or national pol
" ratiii,.l the treaty can only be
fl l,y 111 act of Congress, with, the
pproval of the President.
‘ an n nicmlK-red; says the oppo
* ll "’ ‘Trsident holds the veto
. a w u h i , ma> . exorcise to protect
Pu'ish ' l,t " l "' l, " y he may ' vi " h to cs "
i'isw? f —° Slr " M ' rst an<l mosl Practical
u . i by the opposition to win
!r; ,, l: " proposed amendment to the
lax-ra ' ,Mrln °us ex|tense to Ihe
1--. W f ' " un-lcrtake to occupy those
haw- '' ' . ' 'l* rmanentiy. Those who
>=.d ii w <m the subject say
State, in " " M I P®ople of the United
a V , 'inherit. about stoo,<)i.oi'o
Insure ' ;" n lln anny sufficient to
it, ' ke l*’ ac ® and good order
,:t Enel, Soldier.
lllat 11 will cost on an
maintain'* 1 !'* ni , JI.SCO to *>,ooo a year io
i, v Jo soidier •( semi to the Phil
tm, coiinir '' A ‘' have to send from
oti, it'.,' " '" nl " European iiorts, most
tr. 1 ' Ui ! cu|tp.ies tube used by our
of nh.n!j'‘he enormous cost
in tb # , ' ~ 11 I:, rge fleet of warships
tuv '’ “■ wile re we are obliged to
oft*.-',,' 11 1" r ton for coal. Some
Ui i,. | ' w :-;"ps cost the government
•i. o,ino per day, when, in
thir.'l ,f “ sh °w that at least one
n 'n.an troojw sent to the
...ntinually in the hosplt
r. •. , ~ . vlimate. The Caucasian
. there any length of
i- h .. wry few Americans
' >* sides the troops. The
*Tts> i,. *' u -io have business inter
td "'Haiti half Of the year.
, , ‘'" a permanent residence
' rtlf, V spend half of the
• u' ope or at some of the
l- rts of China and Ja-
TH. fi .
J’ i; V : ' " ng received in hHters
.i Is '*■ t'o are now doing
lir ~, ; tor off 'and. They are
,i * ‘ilends In Congress to
' ' ' '* so they may return
and l a Stre P gth ’ llCttUh . tr'ni
-VA, a “d development to every
’ At !- !! nn nt the tiody. Effects
1 ih' ???*. overwork, worry,
the follies of yotuh and ex
•“ of manhood quickly
j M f'.fed. Appliance and rein
/V sent on trial. ,Vo
et . ; *''{/ ia adc-.nct. Scnlisi
va _ l artlculars free. Corre
" - £ lenience confidential.
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to their American homes with as little
delay as possible. The testimony of ihe
soldiers is unquestionably having consid
erable effect upon She sentiment of the
members of the Senate.
Serious Situation In Senate.
It will not do to attempt to discount
the seriousness of the situation in the Sen
ate. At the present writing the indica
tions are that the treaty will have to be
amended or it will not be ratified during
the present session. Then President Mc-
Kinley may make it a party measure and
endeavor to force it through the Senate at
an extra session, when the Republican
majority will be materially increased.
ii is said that only five senators on the
Democratic side of the chamber can be
counted upon to vote for the treaty as it
now stands. These are Senators Gray of
Delaware, Morgan and his colleague from
Alabama, Lindsay of Kentucky and
Faulkner of West Virginia.
The South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
senators are in favor of amending the
treaiy so that the Philippines will be
placed in the same category as Cuba. If
the administration will consent to such a
mollification, the treaty will be ratified
with little or no opposition.
THEE FILE OF SLEEPING COONS.
V Lucky Find by Frank Brown
When Fresh Alent Wns Getting
Scarce in Camp.
Front the New York Sun.
DeOham, Mass., Jan. 9.-Since the war
dens began to enforce the game laws pro
hibiting the shooting of deer after Dec.
31, fresh meat has been a rarity in Frank
Brown's lumber camp on the shores of
Big pond. This week, however. Brown
has struck a streak of good luck which
promises to keep his crew to fresh and
tender raccoon meat for a month to come.
Good, plump raccoons have always been
hard to kill. The autumn hunters, who
go out by moonlight and skulk a tout,
cornfields and orchards where sweet corn
and sweet apples abound, never capture
coons of any size, seldom getting any
thing larger than yearlings, with an oc
casional tough and toothless old settler
that had grown desperate from hunger.
As soon as the dogs were put on the trail
of a fat coon the wily animal led them
through the woods to some boggy marsh
lands that were inundated, and swimming
out for half a mile or so among the ooae
and lily pads, climbed the stub of some old
pine that- had been drowned out by the
water, and hid itself away in the hollow
cavity at the heart of the tree. As the
water could not hold the scent for the
dogs to follow, the coon coiled up and
went to sleep until the barking subsided,
when it tole out after nightfall to visit
new fields.
Every year dry wood grows more scarce
in the Maine forests, the hunters and
woodsmen using it up for kindling faster
than it is produced from natural causes.
Two days ago as Brown was cruising in
the woods in quest of dry fuel, he saw
a giant pine stub on a knoll in the middle
of an icy marsh and cut it down, intend
ing to lead it onto his sled and carry it
to camp. As Brown was splitting the
butt cuts so he could load them on his
sled, his ax broke brough the shell and
entered something that felt like clay or
putty, and on removing the ax he saw
the blade was smeared with fresh blood.
Thinking he had found a bear he proceed
ed cautiously, using wooden wedges in
stead of his ax, and when the trunk fell
apart he looked in the cavity and saw
eight fat coons housed away for the win
ter. The cut above contained two more
coons, while the stump held a fifty-pound
er, the biggest one of the lot.
He secured two cords of nice, dry- wood
and more than 200 pounds of fat coon
meat from the tree, since which time he
has neglected the wood chopping and turn
ed ooon hunter. 'He walks through the
woods a few- days after a damp snow
storm, and if he sees thawed spots along
the trunk of a hollow tree, he knows
they are the tell-tale signs w-hlch indicate
that an animal is inside, and has melted
the snow with its breath. Then he cuts
down the tree and pulls out the sleeping
raccoon.
SIOUX MEDICINE WOMAN.
An Actress Snltl to Possess Some
Valuable Indian Secrets.
From the Omaha Bee.
Henrietta Crossman, the actress, is a
full-fledged medicine woman of the Sioux
tribe of Indians, among whom she is held
in high esteem. It is not to be inferred
from this that Miss Crossman has Indian
blood in her veins. The story of how she
obtained the secrets she is alleged to pos
sess illustrates the mortal hatred which
one tribe of Indians may feel toward an
other, w hile at the same time showing the
gratitude and appreciation of kindness that
sometimes crop out from beneath the
calm and reserve of the redskin race.
When Miss Crossman was a baby h. r
father. Maj. Crossman, a well known In
dian fighter of the regular army, was sta
tioned in Minnesota. At that time the
Chippewas were almost continually turbu
lent. During a brief period of peace one
of the Chippewa braves took to wife a
Sioux maiden. This was a serious breach
of Chippewa etiquette, and the new squaw
had to face the bitter jealousy and hatred
of several other wives. While peace lasted
she was comparatively safe, but as soon
as hostilities broke out again and her hus
band was called away to fight her life
was made miserable.
About this time Mrs. Crossman was
deeply concerned about her baby girl, who
was suffering from pneumonia and lay
hovering between life and death. One
evening the mother was sitting beside Ihe
cot of her suffering little one when a
young squaw dashed into the house and
sought protection. It was the Sioux
girl who had been driven from her hus
band’s tepee by the other wives. One of
them had attempted to slab her, but the
young Siqux siezed Ihe knife and thus
saved her life, at the cost of a terribly
wounded hand. Mrs. Crossman gave the
poor creature such aid as -was possible,
while the wounded squaw told her story.
Then the dusky visitor asked to look at
the sick baby, and on learning the cause
of sickness declared h r abllliy to relieve
the little ore. adding that her father was
ihe gr.at medicine man of the Sioux, and
that from him she had learned many
secrets, Mrs. Cros.-m.m feeling that the
Indian girl would at least not harm ihe
chili, gave permission for an experiment
Io be made. The squaw at once departed
and in an hour returned with some herbs
THE MORMNG NEWS: THUKSD4Y, JANUARY 19,1809.
w hich she combined into a medicine which
actually seemed to afford tiie child speedy
relief. A few days later the baby was
as well as ever. Then the Sioux girl dis
appeared and succeeded in reaching her
own people.
When Miss Crossman was old enough
she told the slory. In after years she
met the Sioux woman and at the latter's
request was formally chosen a medicine
woman. A number of Indian secrets were
confided to her, and now her fame is
gnat among the Sioux. Thus it happens
that whenever, with her company, she
chances to be piaying near an Indian
settlement she is sure to be overwhelmed
with dusky visitors, bringing all sorts of
offerings. She has a smattering of the
Sioux language, and it seems strange io
see tiie hig chiefs and warriors bow down
to this dainty'little w oman.
IIE DETESTS Hill BLACK SKIN.
Negro Ik Willing to Make Any Sacri
fice If He Could Be White.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 15.—“ X would stand
perfectly still and let you skin me alive,
never speaking a word nor uttering a
whisper, if it would turn mo white."
The speaker was a negro about 40 years
of age, who was waiting in the Ujlion de
pot for a train to carry .him to his back
woods home in Northern Michigan. He
was a black Apollo, six feet tall, mag
nificently proportioned, with handsomely
formed features.
Charles Lawson was born on a farm
In the province of Ontario. He was one
of the most industrious and Intelligent
farmers in the province, and fortune
smiled upon him, for when he was yet 30
years of age he had a fortune of more than
SIOO,OOO. With his wealth came an ungov
ernable desire to be white, and this desire
ruined his life. He grew to hate himself
and his race so much that ten years ago
he withdrew from the community in
which he was respected and influential and
sneaked off to the backwoods of losco
county, where he has since lived alone,
desolate, forlorn, neglected by even him
self.
He moved to a hut <?n a small lake ten
miles from Tawas City to he out of the
way of the painful reminders brought to
him when he saw a white face beaming
with happiness. He occasionally meets
passing “lumber-jacks,” buftheir appear
ance does not annoy him so very much,
for he realizes that they, too, are a forlorn
people. Meanwhile he waits for death with
a welcome ready. In the next world he
believes that all men will be as one race,
and there will be no two colors.
He has seldom seen the reflection of his
own face in the last ten years. He cares
for no happiness that money can purchase
and says he would give his weath with
his hated skin if he could thereby purchase
the miracle for which he has so ardently
prayed.
He says hd w r ould sooner die than marry
a woman whose skin is dark. He would,
however, marry a white woman and put
up with the constant reminder, and pain
ful contrast in color, if he could have one
of his own chooeirfg, without being oblig
ed to mingle with others to discover her.
He would not propose to a woman, being
reasonably certain of a refusal in advance
and feeling that he would not soon recover
from the wound refusal would Inflict on
his over-sensitive nature.
GIRLS’. DUEL MAY GO ON.
Fair Fighters Fose Before a New
York Jmlge anti Are Free.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, Jan. 16.—The case against
May Wheeler and Jeanette Perie, who
were arrested a week ago charged with
violating public decency in the costumes
they wore in “An Affair of Honor” at Ros
ier & Bial’s music hall, came up to-day
before Magistrate Wentworth. The women
were on hand, with their maids, who were
loaded down with satchels containing the
costumes used in the performance. Be
sides these, Lawyer Friend had nearly
forty witnesses with him, and the police
were on hand with their quota.
Inspector Thompson told how he had
been twice to the performance" and each
time had his sensibilities shocked. “The
first time it was bad enough,” he said;
“the second time it was worse, and I or
dered Cnpt. Price to arrest the two wo
men. The costumes they wore were such
as to make their appearance on a stage
an insult to ail decent persons in the hall.”
The women, with Magistrate Went
worth's permission, stepped into an ante
room, and put on, over ihPir street gowns,
the costume® worn on the stage. These
were of filmy lace and blue ribbon, but so
doubled in places as to be as opaque as a
piece of heavy cloth.
Garbed thus, the women slooel before
the magistrate with their foils in their
hands, and poised for him as they had
done on the stage in the duel scene.
Magistrate Wentworth surveyed them
critically. As they bent forward to lunge
with their fencing foils, he studied the .os
tumes und the effect. Then he delivered
his decision.
"There is no ground for arresting those
women.” he said. ‘‘These costumes, which
are admittedly the ones worn on the stage,
are no more Indecent than I have seen
worn by society women who sat in the
boxea at fashionable entertainments."
With this victory for his clients. Lawyer
Friend headed a triumphal march out of
the court rootij, the maids bringing up tiie
rear with tiie costumes.
—"Mr. Posselwizzie,” says the Provi
dence Journal, “is in love with a young
woman who also loves him. But she ob
jects strongly to becoming Mis. Possel
wizzie. She thinks that the name is in
harmonious and absurd. The unhappy
man points out the fact that ‘the Possel
ivlzz’.es have always been a respectable
and respected family,' and (hat he cannot
endure the thought of abandoning his
father's and grandfather's name. This is
certainly proper pride on his part, and if
the lady really loves him, as he thinks she
does, she wifi respect him for it a nd yield
her prejudices. Asa matter of fact, we
see nothing objectionable in Posselwizzie.
It Is unfamiliar, io he sure, but there is
on advantage in that. There are other
names which might Just as readily raise
a smile on the lips of the thoughtless if
they were leas comnxJn. We advise Mr.
Posselwizzie to stick to his guns.”
CHILDREN PRODIGIES. {
lIIEY NEVER AMOUNT TO ANY
THING IN LATER LIFE.
Tales of Some Remarkable Youths.
Mere Bnbien N\ ho Have Been Great !
Mathematician!! anil I,ingriitt.
The Y\ underfill N\ ork of y.erah Col
burn. a Yankee Boy, Who made
Learned Professors Stand Open-
Eyed YVfth \\ ointer nt ills Mntiie
ntfitienl t'alculntlon* —fuse of Alns
ter Butty and the Pathetic Story
of the Infant Prodigy Heiiieklu,
From the Baltimore American.
Moritz Frank!, mathematical prodigy
and "show child” of Vienna, recently at
tempted suicide by leaping from a bridge
into the Danutie. Why? It is hardly nec
essary to ask. His phenomenal powers
were faiitn 4 hint. Asa show he had lost
his value; ne didn't know what to do with
himself or how to live. So, he decided
that it wasn't worth while trying to live.
Doubtlews, too, he was morbid in tem
perament. Y’ou can’t be a prodigy, In
fant or other, without being more or less
abnormal. You must pay the price;, and
the price is much too high—a bad bargain.
It is a fine thing to be a liitle above
average in some way; but not too much.
Somebody has said that to be one foot
above or below the average stature of man
means lifelong misery; for to be a mon
ster, whether dwarf or giant, is a wretch
ed Lite. It is quite as bad to be abnormal
in mind; as even genius can testify. If
you are just an average, wholesome, hap
py human Iteinr. you may well (hank
heaven. It is not such as you who leap
from Danube bridges, seeking oblivion.
But even among abnormal creatures the
lot of the infant prodigy is peculiarly
hard. Quick to ripen, quick to rot—that
seems to be the law of nature. Esiteclal
ly if one has been a “show child." accus
tomed io the wonder and applause of
crowds, the change, which must come,
from the hothouse atmosphere of the thea
ter to the cold, dry air of everyday fife
is a cruel ordeal.
What becomes of them? We rarely hear
of them after the nine-day craze is over.
Genius, Indeed, is often notably precocious;
but the true infant prodigy rarely redeems
his promise. Many die even without the
aid of the Vienna boy’s water cure.
Others after a brief meteor flight, col
lapse and sink Into obscurity—a dismal
sequel. The story of these gifted unfor
tunates Is in many cases extremely inter
esting.
Mathematical Prodigies.
Since Frankl passed as a mathematical
prodigy, it is most natural to begin with
performers of that class. Here the typi
cal wonder worker is Zerali Colburn, says
a writer in the Washington Star. The men
tal arithmetic of this otherwise common
place youngster makes us gasp with as
tonishment, but his feasts are well at
tested.
He began his dispin? at the age of six.
Born in a Vermont hamlet not qdite a hun
dred years ago, there was nothing in his
antecedents to lead one to expect mathe
matical miracles; yet they came and grew
and amazed the neighborhood. "Have you
heard about that littlo Zerah Colburn?”
was on everybody’s lips.
The elder Colburn was a ready reckon
er, too, as it would seem; but after quite
another fashion. At the first hint of possi
ble dollars he took the road, making his
son an itinerant Show, himself the show
man. Thus they traveled all over New
England.
The father, seemingly, was a Yankee of
the wooden-nutmeg type; but there was no
humbug about the boy. He was repeatedly
examined in the most thorough manner by
college professors and other experts. The
genuineness of his gift is beyond question.
At Boston, perched amid a circle of in
credulous investigators, the little fellow
was tried with all sorts of unexpected
questions.
"How many days and hours in 1,811
years?”
They hold their breath for the answer—
literally, for it came in twenty seconds.
“Six hundred and sixty-one thousand
and fifteen days. 18,864,360 hours.”
Take your pencil and put down on paper
the figures that must have raced through
the child's brain in that twenty seconds.
See how lopg it takes you.
"How many seconds in eleven years?”
But that was an easy one. The answer
came in lour 5ec0nd5—346,896,000.
Like a Trick Animal.
The president of Dartmouth College
thereupon offered to educate the lad at his
own expense. For several years little Ze
rah was paraded about the United Slates
and exhibited like a trick animal. Then
he was taken to Euro;>e.
The child was now 9 years old, and his
faculty had reached its highest point. In
Paris he made p sensation. The savants
there tossed him such bagatelles as this:
"What is Ihe square of 999,999? Multiply
this square by 49 twice and by 25 once.”
As the answer only runs into quadril
lions (seventeen figures), a few seconds’
time was quite enough for Zerali. Ho
solved the problem in scarcely more than
the time needed to grasp the full import
of the words.
How did he do it? The thing savotY of
magic. Yet in after years Colburn de
clared that his processes were much the
same as those of ordinary mortals. Doubt
less he had-in an extraordinary degree
that same picturing power which enabled
Morphy and other chess players to play
blindfolded a dozen games at a time. Just
as they saw each board and all Its shift
ing pieces in imagination, so baby Zerah
saw his swiftly evolving figures in a sort
of kinetoscopic vision, as plainly as if he
had written them with chalk.
Haile No Mistakes.
But this will not explain all. His French
inquisitors once asked liini for the factors
of 4,294,967,297. He named them almost in
stantly—o,7oo,4l7 multlpled by 641. This,
though absolutely correct, was news to
questioners, who supposed that they had
given him a prime number; it was so set
down in their tables. He made no mis
takes. When numbers really prime were
offered he detected the fact Just as
promptly.
How could he see these things? It Is a
faculty hard to understand. It seems like
divination. Perhaps, however, it had some
thing in commdn with ihe power some pi r
sons possess of determining large num
bers at a glance, without regard to gross
ing and without counting. Anyone c-in do
this up to three or four; many up to seven
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tomatic process up to thirty without error.
Dase, for example, could instinctively give
the number of a heard of cattle within
that limit. Yet, reason as we may, Col
burn's marvelous powers remain a mys
tery.
His latter I.tfe.
It did not last. At 20 he was no longer
remarkable. Hitt youthful gift had passed
from him as strangely as it came. Then,
at his father’s suggestion, he tried the
stage, but failed. letter he was more suc
cessful as a teacher, but he taught lan
guages, not mathematics. Ultimately the
itinerant prodigy became an itinerant
minister, devout and humble. He died in
his 35th year.
It is not so easy to identify this grown
up Zerali with the phenomenal child who
startled two continents. We rub our eyes
in bewilderment and think of the old tales
about changelings. But he tore his disap
pointment well, bitter as it must have
been. There is something that appears to
us strongly in the meek after-life of '.his
dismantled genius.
Somewhat similar, though less extraor
dinary, is the story of Bidder, He too,
was exhibited by his father in childhood,
and he seems to have had the same gif
Of "visualizing'' his mental processes, Be
was more lucky, however, in soon escap
ing from the menagerie and getting a thor
ough education. He was less abnormal,
his powers persisted, and he became an
engineer of distinction. This suggests that
the collapse of infant proaiK.es miry to
largely due to injudicious handling. Jt it,
certainly eo in some cases.
The Young Rowciun.
In theatricals the typical Instance
Master Batty. "The Young
stage-struck baby, who was L
the age of 11. He starred all through
England and Scotland, playing before tu
multuous and enthusiastic houses. At
fovent Garden the crush was so great
ta la were Injur..), and a troop <*
so“lk™ was called out to preserve order
Tiie youngster was declared to have
"eclipsed John Kemble," and he certaln
lv drew bigger crowds and higher p. y.
An Edinburgh man was actual * ‘ r "
nut of town for dissenting from the pop
ul-ir verdict. The toy’s biography was
circulated like that of a president ml can
diitotc. Even In the part of Hamlet an
audacious venture—ho was loud.y ap-
Pl A U mtie later he left the stage to go to
school— -which was wisdom. But soon
” ra of education being -deemed
mule for a young Hoscius) ho again
tempted fate behind the *o“tllKhts-whic h
was a mistake. But lor that-the world
would still be mourning its loss. A. it is,
we laugh at the mention of his name.
He was now 21. IBs youthful charm
whatever It was. had vanished. He whs
fl , W |th a flat, “Muffin face, and un
graceful action. One night broke the I
fusion. The audience had great fun with
him. but did not care for a repetition, and
he was permanently retired.
Thus what is too often a tragedy was
turned to burlesque. There is no occa
sion for tears. His bank account, at
least, was above criticism, and the rest
of his life was as happy as mortified am
bition would permit.
Hum Out Quickly.
Tragedies therf- are, however, In abund
ance. Remorselessly over-slltrtiilated by
,h e folly of those about them 111 many
an instance these little victims burn out
their lives like rockets. They grow old so
fast that months count as years, and
while the applause Is still sounding at th •
heartless show, they slip away from their
tormentors to rest their Jaded souls in
the grave. And here belongs the pathetic
siory of Baby Heim ken.
it is told, with grim unconsciousness,
by the man who crucified the child, th
tutor, who is not ashamed lo record that
he began operations on an intani source.y
a year old, still in the arms or Its nurse,
ißut he was a pedant, and he had a theory
of education.
This intellectual vivlsectionist had found
a subject rarely endowed. At the age of
18 months. Master Helncken knew a con
siderable part of the O.d Testament by
heart. By the middle of the third year
he w-as well versed in ancient history and
geography, and had committed to mem
ory 8,000 Batin words. Then study was
Interrupted by a fit of sickness.
The cruel werk. however, was roon re
sumed. The little martyr was now laid on
the rack of "dogmatic theology and ec
clesiastical history." with more Batin. For
diversion, French was presently added.
All this seems as incredible as it 1s out
rageous; hut memory, doubtless, was the
faculty mainly called upon.
Of course, the fame of the prodigy went
abroad, and many came to see and hear,
The learned infant entertained them with
Batin quotations. These must have been
learned by rote, hut they were aptly ap
plied. Ho also composed little stories In
French, though his fingers were still too
weak to be exercised in writing.
A Pitiful Story.
Then came another illness, and It was
decided that ho needed a change of air!
What it should to he settled for himself.
"I will go to Cojienhagen, and present my
colored maps to the King," he declared
“and then I shall to well again." Childish
logic —but his whiin was granted. The
proud tutor was only too glad to comply.
So they wont, nurse and all. The sea
voyage was hard on the little fellow, but
he had a quotation for every emergency.
He jested about the ship's milk, calling it
"lee galllnaceum," and during a storm tie
encouraged the sailors with passages from
scripture.
At last, he was, indeed, brought before
the King, whom ho amused with a strange
mixture of pedantic, learning and infant
humors. For example, he suddenly inter
rupted a Batin discourse to ask (still in
Batin) for a broomstick. It was given
him, and, bestriding it, he trotted about
the hail. Then he resumed his lecture.
Half an hour later, announcing (this time
111 French) that ho was "awfully tired,"
he proceeded to tuko a nap in the royal
presence.
If. after all the abuse of nature he had
endured, to could .still enjoy playing horse
with a broomstick, he might have been
saved. Hut his tutor did not spare him.
He was exhibited from palace to palace.
The end came quickly after their return
to his Buheek home. Ho saw its approach
with his childish eyes wide open, and met
It with the steadiness of a veteran. “Death
is common to every age,” he said, with his
usual quaint pedantry, and, of course, In
Batin. Ho kept up his studies to the last,
lie was only 4 years and 2 months old
when he diet!, tot us hope that he found
no tutors, but many broomsticks in
heaven.
I cannot hoar to comment upon this
atrocity further; and it needs no comment
Y’et Are things similar never done to-day?
Master Helncken, I fear, is not the only
victim of the misguided zeal of peda
gogues.
Tiie atove eases arc extreme, but typical.
Many more might easily to told, hut it
lias been sufficiently shown what becomes
of cho Infant prodigy,
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