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THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1908
The Macon Telegraph
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O. R. Pendleton, President.
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GERMANY’S BLOODLESS REVO
LUTION.
.Without prellmJoorlro or promnnl-
tlort. oppMrntly. tbo Carman empire
bo I suddenly undertone o revolution
front nbJolotltra to eonstltutloiMl for-
. rnmentt from on autocracy wboao
forelsa pollor woo dlototod and per-
' i Ti-rr oondoetod by tba Bmporor, to
o limited monarchy, like Eiiftond,
whoca tf tutor rular la raduoad taodf-
ur.be id. wbfla tba mlntatara r.iponel-
M, to tbo pooplo ore Inreeted with the
power and dlaoration of aboplnc and
cnun. attnf tho pollelaa of tbo Oov-
aitnaat.
It oil como obnut In o audden and
unoxpnetod monner, but It la evident
that tbo otatoo of tbo empire worn
jrtpo fop tbo revolution and that It
aouat Iimvo moon davaloRad In any
event. It woo (raclpttated by the
woaknaaa which tba German Emperor
r heree In common with tho I’reildent
of tbo United Statea for maklnf o
pereonat dlaptay of l\1ms.lf and hta
oplolona ta tba conduct of publlo af-
felru. On Ootobar if the lemdon
I>aliy Telegraph printed on evidently
ootbortoad Interview with tho Era*
paror In whlrb b# proclaimed bla
friendship for Great ’Britain, but In
each monner tbot hlo remark! ware
calculated to five ofTenao fo other
nations, portleularly Prance and Ja
pan. It woo an tatravagant bid for
rettond’a food will buL Inataad of
arilevlnf Ita object. It provoked ad
vene comment In London and o ver
itable whirlwind of oenaure In Oar-
many. Tba Interview began as fol
lows:
■•you English ore mad. mad, mad oa
March Imres." and wont on to relate,
ae a proof of friendship, that during
the Doer war tba ICalaar hod furnished
Quran Victoria with o plan of cam-
paljtn, oubaoiuentty adopted by Lord
Roberta. In passing tbo Kaiser
elapped at Prooe* In relation to the
recent Moroccan controversy and. In
concilia ton. It was declared tbit tba
<i*rr- m war Seat, regirded by the
Rngtleh oa a tnanaco, was In reality
Intended for eervtre la tba Pacific,
where a demand for It was occasioned
by Japan’s audden Isap lo supremacy
and China's awakening.
Germany waa swept by an angry
etonn of papular feeling by the pub
lication of tbta Interview and Cham
coiler von Ituelow found himself under
[the nereeatty of obtaining A promts#
from tba Emperor not to again per-
oonaUy proclaim tba p<\)lclei of tha
Government or of rwlgnlng bla office.
Tba chance tier bad an Interview with
the Emperor Tuesday and apoke to him
aa plainly perhaps aa a minister over
spoke to his aovenlgn. i!a la reported
to have said to tho Emperor
that bis (tha chancellor*!) gen
eral position waa contained In tho
msnttrrto of tho Conservative par
ty. which represents tha moat
1 local section of tha German peo.
pie. taeued on November t. This
declaration npressed eeclous con
cern "that not Infrequently tba
utterance, of hie taiajaaty bring
out tcrvlta polllles Into a difficult
situation,” and added: 'In order
that tho Emperor's reputation
rosy he preecrvvd from criticism
and dlsoueelon. and tbo Os mi an
empire and people from oompllca-
Got.a and barm, wa express the
rvi erenilal wish that treater ro-
earvo be display'd In future la
n.rMng oucb uttorancoa*
The chancellor than eald ba bora
thr mandate or tha rulers of Ba-
i.ria Wurtemborg, Raxony and
Ei-'en. the four moat powvrful
slates In tha empire autslda or
Piussit. fo oommuntoatu to bla
majaxty their collective bops that
Era ba would b« more reticent tn the
i mire, and be submitted authort-
■ It Ion from tha whole rruastaa
oeblnet to exprasa tbetf agreement
with him as mtalater-prvstdent tn
Me council, Ha raaraaanted also
that icrvihan of tn# Itelcbatax.
wlthcut ontlnctton of rarty. bava.
their dtacusaton ta tba
dnmbtr. received an Immense
haaatltr of carreapandenca. from
thMr Indlni lupportMt t* the
b. provinces tn approval of the bar-
11, : .nt'e petition and raaalutfoaa
cp to numerous orxantaattoDi tn
,voir ccmt It sender couched tn
Similar terms. Tho footing Of the
country, h. said, appeared well
nigh unanimous.
The Emperor beard tbo chancellor
mroueh wlthom exploding and mods a
formed promise that ba would not m
the future not except through
die, ir and bla aeaoctato mloletira.
The text of tbo Bill pa roe's promts
puhlis i.rd tn tba atllclal gaxetta
n* tort*'*’* |UiW> r, ‘ frant•
“.ft
ss\
< ire man .
the ft*tk*l -
Tekgftrapha Ha tU^apialliad
• rrf.itJon h« had taken during
course of Ihg di-bat** and Inter-
venations on thl* Subjcrt In th^ifj
HrlchtUg. His majesty the Em- ^
v*ror rscototfl tb» MMatTrent* anfl■.?
< xplaaation* with grn:«t <arncit-
nsa*. and then exi>r*-«*«'d hi* will
at follows:
'"Heedless of tha exaggerations
of public erltlclam. which art re
garded by him aa Incorrect, hit
wnjoaty perceive* that hl» princi
pal Imperial tank la to Inaure the
atnMffty of t he policies of the
empire, under tha guurdlnnshlp of
ronatltutlonal rraponalbllitles. In
conformity therewith hla majesty
the Emperor approve* the chan-
r*-lloF* utterance* In the Rdch-
*tag uni auxurra Prince von Hue-
low of hla continued confidence.*”
An the chancellor's course would
have been to resign *nd leave the Em-
p-rnr face to faco with hla angry sub
jects If ho had not promised com
pliant r.rid nanured the chancellor
or “hla continued confidence* It may
1»- ween that William did not have
much choice. The concession wrung
from the Kaiser, however, la hailed tfcy
the Oermana aa a great victory for
parliamentary government-and mark-
new era for their country. *f
DISTINCTLY DISAPPOINTING.
A few days after the election a
•wnji.iper dlapritch from Lincoln
stated that Mr. Itryan did not expect
r a candidate a fourth Utn9» Thl*»
seemed to ba preliminary to a personal
announcement from the distinguished
Nebraskan to the mu no effect, but on
November 1? he Mid In a public td-
dreaa at flan Antonio, ivxas:
*1 Would much prefer to raUrt
to prlvata Ufa, and 1 hop# that
four year* hence clrcumatancea
will not ba auch aa to force m*
Into the campaign* Hut If clr-
cumatancoa should demand mo to
battle, battle I will. . . . I do
not dealra aver to be a candidate
for office again, but It la a difficult
matter to make a rule for tha fu
ture.”
Thia fa distinctly disappointing, far
It aeema to moan no lass than that
tha thrice-defeated will again toe a
candidate If he can aecura the nomi
nation. And yet It should by this
time be dear to all reflecting men.
among Mr. IJryan'a moat ardent
supporters, that hla fourth candidacy
would be a great tnlafortuna to tha
Domooratlo parly. If he could not
win In 1101 whan there were so many
condition* favoring Democratic suc
cess, he can never win.
The Telegraph apeak* a* a loyal
Democratic newspaper, which lap-
ported Mr. Bryan unreservedly In tha
recent camplgn, when li *ey* #»at he
should now step aside for the aaka ot
hla party's good. In split of hid pa
triotic desire to baneflt the whole peo
ple, It la clear that he can hot live
down the widespread distrust caused
by hts silver record and by hta advo
cacy of the socialistic policy of Gov
ernment ownership of rallroala.
We commend to Mr. Bryan'* se
rious attention the following from the
Charlotte. N. C.. Observer:
"It would be folly to predict
what four years will bring forth,
but It Is to be aeen by a blind man
that a serious breach has been
made In the Democratic fortress
In North Carolina, heretofore sup-
po.iod to be Impregnable. . B the
ratio of decline in the Democratic
majority which tho past eight
yosre have witnessed la main
tained. It calls for no argument
to show that another eight years
will see the majority disappear.”
Except the complimentary vote of
hla own State, the solid South wa*
Mr. Bryan's eole eupport, and even
the Southern flutes were carried by
startlingly r*duc#4 pluralities com
pared with the vote far Parker, who
woe not even a strong candidate. Mr.
fDryan and hit more determined fol*
In were ehould not persist until even
the solid South Is broken end the
Democratic party !> Irretrievably
ruined.
*’ CLAtlSftfNE A*"8POUTER."
. A * ' *
The iyi|graph, ho* called attention
<4 In/ estimate of oratory
Edmund Burke*! claim
lack of personal magnetism. But now
we have a writer in Blackwood’e Magt-
alne denying Gladstone's Utle to ora
tory because the secret of hie sue-
cesg ae a speaker lay In his presence
and delivery, and his supposedly groat
speeches died with him for lack of
substance in them to warrant them
being read and kept alive. From the
standpoint of this writer **aitdstono
wasn't a statesman, he was a polltl
dan; he wasn't even a politician, he
was a popular orator: he wasn't even
nn orator, ha waa a spooler.” Con
tlnulng he says:
The secret of hi* oratory died
with him. It resided chiefly, no
doubt, In a vibrant voice and a
falcon's eye. .Jf|« once famoua
Speeches long ago passed, with hla
occasional writings. Into the limbo
of forgotten, things. Tbev were
nope of them touched with the /
distinction Which confers Immor
tality. And even had h* possess
ed -the rare gift of distinction,
his speeches would by this time
have lost their savor. He could
not park hla words with thought.
As Lord Morlcy says, he was not
a "prophet, seer, po# t, founder of
a system or great horn man of let
ters." Even of tho subject*
which he claimed for his own &iJ*
mastery was Incomplete. Nobody
today pretends that he had the
smallnst warrant for the Invrctlvo
which he was pleased to pour out
upon the Turk. 80 rapid were hi*
changes of view that r>© word*
of today contradicted the words of
yesterday, tmt hla appearance of
moral earnestness never changed:
the deelre to prove himself and his
opinions Immutable wee constant.
If he deceived others, he had a
perfect faculty of deceiving him
self. and with the passage of thl
years he believed himself both In
fallible And consistent. However,
ho had little to say that was au
thentic, and by a strange irony
hardly n phrase remains to u*
coined by tho most verbose man
that over opened hi* mouth. In
speech.
To those who can remember whmt
* wide swath England’s "Great Com
moner” cut In hi* day—what a ro-
rnnrkahle student and authority he
wa* proclaimed to be In many Adds
It doe* appear eomcwhnt etrango that
he ehould have dropped so completely
out of publlo view since his death.
TO CHECK FOREST FIRES.
With a view to prevent the spread ot
forest fires a law has been suggested
compelling lumbermen who cut trees
for the saw-mill, ae well oa those who
out them ft>r\rallo, A rewood or other
purpoaeo, totremot# ell the brueh end
debris from the tree tope. Instead cf
leaving this where the tree falls at I*
the universal custom. On this sub
ject a writer in the Toronto Globe
•aye:
When fire gets In a foreat where
these brush beads are old enough
to be llervely inflammable nothing
can atop it. The draught caused
by the best carries the live foals
tn the air. Rivers, swamps and
even broad lakes fall to stop tha
progress of the flames, the flying
cinders soon carrying destruction
to the other aide. A fire starting
In a mixed evergreen end decidu
ous forest, where there arc no
brush heaps, will do but little
damage. H will run among the
small twigs and leave* on th*.
around, hut there will not be
enough heat engendered to do the
trees any material hnrm. Even
In a solid forest of pln« the sys
tematic burning of the brueh
would prevent millions of dollars
of loee. ^
The cost of clearing up and burning
the pine tope and ‘'stash” would
considerable In the way of ttme and
labor, but this would ba far more thaa
effort by the gain, especially In *
glons where the character of the for
est ta such as to Invite the spread of
fire over great areas.
What too many men suffer from
worthless sens-ta-taw la forcibly j
grated by the will of Oeorge D Wolf,
of Buaunerdal*. pa, which, when ad
mttted to probatW Wad’found to pro
vide that iffy l* paid to mi
A CLA83I0AL INSTANCE.
A correspondent of the New York
flun., In order to “utter a word of
warning to Mr. Taft,” quote* a* fol
lows front Plutarch's commentary on
a ruler who lived B. C. 118-78:
Lucius Cornelius flylla waa da-
scamlod of a pptrlclnn of noble
family, . Tho time In
which he lived waa no longer an
age of pure and upright manners,
but had already declined, and
yielded to the appetite for rlchea
nnil luxury; yet still In the general*
opinion they who dessrtod lh« he
reditary poverty of thslr family
were aa much blnmert M those
who had run out a fair patrimo
nial estate . . . when supreme
master of ell, he waa often wont
to muster together tha moat Im-
pudonl playcm and stage follow
er* cf the town and to drink and
hnndy J**ta with them without re
gard to hi* age or thd dignity ot
hie place, and to the prejudice of
Important affair* that required Hta
attention.
In general he would deem to
have been of a very Irregular
character, full of tnoonataton-
else with himself; much given
to raplim. to prodigality yet
more; lh .promoting or dis
gracing whom he pleased alike
unaccountable; cringing to those
he stood tn need of, end domineer
ing over others who stood tn need
of him; mi that It was herd to tsll
whether his natur* had more tn It
of pride or of servility.
As to hts unequal distribution of
punishments, os, for example, that
upon alight grounds he would put
to the torture, and again would
bear patiently with tha greatest
wrong*: would readily forgive and
be reconciled after tho moat hein
ous acta of enmity, and yet would
visit small end Inconsiderable of
fence! with death and tonflsca-
tlon of goods, one might Judge
that himself he was of a violent
and revengeful nature, which,
however, he could qualify upon
reflection for hta own Interest.
. . . Sylla, using his fortune
moderately and unambltlouely at
first, and giving good hopes of a
true patriot, firm to the Interests
both of the nobility and common-,
alty, being, moreover, of a gay and
cheerful temper from hla youth,
has perhaps deservedly coat a
blemish upon offices of great au
thority. a* If they deranged men's
former habits and character and
gave rtae to violence, pride and In
humanity. Whether thta be ft real
change and revolution In the mind,
caused by fortune, or rather n
lurking vIclouaneM of nature
discovering Itself In authority. It
were matter of another sort of
disquisition to decide
This spectacle of an unstable char
acter. brought to morel min by luxury
end power, la on* which all, official#
aa well at private persons, may re
flect upon with pmflt. But there would
seem to be no special reason why It
should be brought to tha notice of
the President-elect. The man who
brouught forward and nominated Mr.
Taft rather thaa Mr. *naft hlmsoif Is
suggested by some of the lines In the
portrait. Howeven there ere many
rulers who are full of lnCenetstendea.
being merciful to lawbreaklng favor
Res while item toward ©there, eub-
dervtent to tha powerful and domt
nearing toward the weak. Incapable of
any other than an unequal dUtrlhu
tion of punishments and rewards,
flylla was human, and an are
modems whose careers ta sores re
spects suggest his.
' Under it* fostering care the 8tato has
become the protector and guardian ot | If a f • p J!i. ■
S specie* of plutocratic fJoclallim. Jl l16 (j€0fQl3 HOilOiS,
Hpw long can tbU last without men-
a clog a triumph of tho other Social
ism. which Involve* abrogation of all
rights of person and "property?”
Shall the Democratic Porty Die?
New York World.
There are no elements of surprise In
Mr. Bryan's flan Antonio interview.
Of couth he will take the nomina
tion for President again if he can get
What la a fourth defeat to a man
who has already been thrice defeated,
but who has ao successfully aapltal-
Ixed the prestige of his leadership
that It yield* him an income of Slft.ooo
or 860.000 a year In profits from his
newspaper, hi* writings and hla lec
tures? Deprive Mr. Bryan of hi* per.
pctual candidacy for President and he
might *gy wJth fthylock.
You taka my life
Wllen you do take the means where
by I live.
Much as we may deplore Mr. Bry-
sn‘« selfishness end hla cold-blooded
dlaregard of the interests of hla par
ty. the fact remains that If he la again
the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent the responsibility will rsst wholly
upon the D*moeratio politicians and
mor* particularly upon
loaders in tho south.
Mr. Roosevelt I* boosting that "It
I had been a candidate for President
thl* time I would have carrltd Geor
gia and broken the solid south.” At
against Mr. Bryan he undoubtedly
would. With Mr. Bryan *a*ln ths
Democratic candidate it ia likely that
any man (ho Republicans nominate
ean carry Georgia and break the solid
south. With tho Democracy *11 but
exterminated os a national organisa
tion in thr north, what would be left
of the party with the solid south
broken?
There la only one answer toMr. Pry.
in*n complacent announcement that
If the Democratic party and the con
tingencies demand It I would again
bo a candidate.” That answer Is em
bodied In the World's question. 8hall
the Dsmoeratlo party dioT”
Worth the Money.
Savannah Preas.
Mr. W. T. Anderson hta bought a
block of The Macon Telegraph stock.
don't know' what he paid for it,
but It la worth the money to be as
sociated with Editor Pendleton.
Democracy Still Grows.
Tffton Gaxetfe.
The old-guard of the Georgia dem
ocracy atlll presents an unbroken front.
After protesting to the last, against
the hopeless nomination of Bryan, <t
proceeded, with seven fleketa In ths
field and the head of two of them from
this state, to roll up a nubatantl.il inn-
Jorlty over the whole lot. Yea. the old
guard l» etll on duty.
An Exampls of Sensationalism.
President Hadley, In Youtha* Com
panion.
In tha year 1788 the whole Freich
people wa* In a *tato of political ex
citement. They *clced eagerly unoo
everything sensational. A young Jour-
nalfft named Camille Pe*moullus
shared thl* feeling, and took advanv
tags of It# lie wrote a series of ar
ticles called “Lamp-post Talks to tho
People of Paris,” in Which he urged
that anybody wiao wa* not a friend
Ing a great many Innocent men and
women, and began to tell men so.
Then they «mid that he wa* not a
friend of tfie people any longer, and
executed him. Thl* story has a mora’
for us In Amerloa today. It shags
the dangers that come to u noople
which reads newspaper* tor tha *ako
Looking to Governor Johnson.
Philadelphia Record.
Governor JoSmaon, of MlnnaROLij
looks ltko a rising sun. A democrat
who oan carry his state threo ttm>*
In succession tn tfto face of a nor
mal republican majority of 100,000 It
marked for a man of destiny. Por-
hnp* he will be the Moses that will
lead the agricultural constituencies nt
the northwest out of the wilderness
ot protectionist and trust-breeding re-
A King's Frugal Luncheon.
From M. A. P.
The king of Italy has very frugal
habits, and on one oocaslon when out
hunting hla k*’t of simplicity led to
an amusing Incident. The king was
quite alone, and after walking about
for some time without obtaining any
sport, he was at last lucky enough to
shoot a line chamois. A peasant boy
who had scan the animal fall into a
chasm offered to fetch Its carets* for
King Victor, although he had no Idea
Of tha Identity of tha sportsman. "Very
welL" said hla majesty, "I will walk
here” "But what will you give me,
Signor?” aeked the lad. “What do you
vant?” said the king, smiling. “Oh. a
r.inc and half your luncheon.” re
died the lad. The bargain wa* struck,
md ths boy went off down the moun-
aln side and soon returned with the
body of ths chamois. The king*gave
bin a franc, and UAu proceeded to
divide his luneheon Into two equal por
tions, but the peasant, when he saw
what King Victor had to eat. turned
away contemptuously, for the lunch
tnnelvted of a email loaf of black
bread and ft large raw onion. r ~~
thanks, none of that for me," _
claimed the lad; T thought you wera
a gentleman, but I tee you ore only a
poor fellow like myself."
New York's Share In Violence.
From the New Tork Tribune.
While watching with Intcrrat ajd crib
tclstng freely the eetleos ot the atgkf
riders In the south and the grottora ef
Fan lYmactaco, it Is derlrabl# that the
people of New York shoe Id not overtook
the fact that week after week an exhlhi
lion of UwteeeneM U going on un.ir-
the very eyta of the local poUee, who
seem utterly unable te cope with the
THR VOICR OP THR HARVR8T.
On a fair end luminous summer day.
Borne by the train aa U swept on lte w*,.
Peal a hundred thousand acres of han**«t.
A silent votes said. "I grew etee thou
etarveet.”
Mach changing shadow, each gflmmer of
^ light.
flrnt ih»> language of beauty to greet the
eight;
Heawn * hose, an ocean ef rotor caress
ing.
FU»hed forth the glad son* ef the har-
fr* in*-Olid It*
, The open* Which the tariff levies
upon the earning* of tha people la not
Ita worst feature. **y* the Phlladtl-
|ihfa Eeesrfl. “Ita woret ts betrayed
In'the dilly exhibitions of greed and
ot a spirit of piracy before the com-
f.* hVp»elf a go J IfnRtee on ways-and mean*. Next *©
Jth which f o hang him -1 this la evil la fko State Socialism
I which tb« system has engendered.
Joke Not on ths Turkey,
Augusta Chronicle: Very few Joko*
this season on the turkey. Selling at
18 cents a pound he probably realises
that the Joke 1* on us. t
Who.® Finish?
Columbus Ledger: Maddox Is in the
race to a finish, he says, and hla
friends say that hie opponent, Mr*
Woodward, will be finished in tho
wind up.
And Then There Was a Killing. ^
Savannah Press: tVnen a crowd
gathers to see a public hanging, it ex
pect* to see a man killed. Why does
a crowd gather to *ee automobile
races? asks the Charleston News and
Courier. Come and see.
May Cut Capers. • ,
Elhcrton Star: If Mr. Capers does
get a place on Taft’* cabinet, won’t
ths psragraphers have a good time.
Advice for the Farmer. ’
Sparta Inhmaellte: When a cotton
grower raises'his home supplies on hla
T I. he la always to hold his cotton
h* prices ‘ Mtih
oa outMldere u - -
risk of forming a trust, In restraint of
trade. This Is the wky. and the wise
farmer will walk in it—even If It be
rough.
Coffs* County Unfortunate.
Tifton Gaxette: Coffee county I*
peculiarly unfortunate. Only three
week* ago. Douglas sustained a dis
tinct loss In the death of Editor S.
H. Christopher, of tho Coff**^ County
News, and last week calamity again
visited that county when Mr. H. L. (
Williams, the young editor of the
Broxton Journal, was called from ms
field of labors.. He I* succeeded by
Mr. C. A. Tyler, as editor of tho
Journal.
/auuii 1 " •**- ■ •* _ . _
, w astounds us Is how the fellow wno
never t.ke. the paner oliray.
what la In It—ana another thlnx. any
ha stultifies himself by readme some-
«-«* read and lro«
State Bapt! a t Convention.
Hartwell Sun. The .State Baptist con
vention of Georgia will meet In an
nual aejislon In the Baptist church at
Madison ort Friday. November 2»th.
It Is estimated that 508 delegate* and
minister* will attend the convention.
Interesting Facts
About Great Fakes
Remarkabls Case* of JForgery and
Fraud That Have Astonished
tho World.
Little of Everything
A spring In on Imperial radium mine
at JoachJmathal contain* so much radium
that tho Austrian government will estab
lish baths there so that sufferers from
certain disease* may obtain relief.
Experiments by the Canadian govom-
msnt lend support to the old theory of
farmors that anow Is a fertiliser. It Is
■aid to yield about a pound of nitrogen
to the acre per year of average snowfall.
Prince Henry ef Prussia, the kaiser’s
brother, ho* been granted a patent on a
rubber device to wipe moisture from
glass wind-breaks of automobiles by
of tho people ought to be taken to turning a handle from the chauffer's
tho nearest lamp post and hangad.
He waa not himself a bloodthirsty
man. Ho chose his title chiefly be
cause It sounded *o picturesque. After
a time he saw that they were exeaut-
■eat
Coal mine accident* In the United
State* In 1»07 cost J.115 human lives, be
sides the Injury of I.S06 more pemons. on
Increase of 1.688 In the number of deaths
and 604 in the number of Injured
1166.
The largest barometer In the world has
been completed by Father Alfant. direc
tor of the meteorological obiervatory at
Florence. The tube Is nearly fifteen
meter* high and over twenty centimeter*
In diameter. Olive oil Instead of mer-
cury la used.
Coal ashes are being washed In space:
tn Pennsylvania mines from which the
coal has been removed. Aa the water re
cedes they form a solid mass strong
enough to hold up tho earth and prevent
cave-ins.
A recently patented roller skate carries
a fiftirwhecl under the toes, slightly rais
ed above the ground, and revolving trans
versely to enable the skater to execute
fancy figure* and to atop suddenly when
necessary.
A new flying machine Invented by
Russian military engineer Is said to lift
weights flvo times gerater and to carry
then at higher speed than the aeroplane*
of similar powor owned by other Euru«
pean nations.
As an advance on the typesetting ma
chine. a patent has been granted
Vienna man’s Invention that produces
matrices ready or the aterootyper by the
manipulation of a keyboard almllar to
that of a typewriter.
Santa Monica. Cal., claim* to kill the
genua of animal and vegetable We In Its
sewage at a cost of »6 cents a day by
passing it through concrete tanks, where
U la treated by strong olectrio currents
at a low voltage,
Within twenty mlloe of the city holt.
Including Greater New York and the
neighboring portions of New Jersey,
there ta a population of 1.600,000 JeWs,
more than In all America besides.
Oonssto de Que«sda. lhe Cuban minis'
ter to the United litotes, has arrived at
Utbon tor trt# purpose of InvesUgailn*
ths possibilities of •migration to Cuba.
Later b* will visit Oporto. Ban 8ebas-
tl«a and Madrid.
lslonda of *Z<uuibar and Pern bra. It is
the prtaotpal product of the Islands, sad
«Ht*thrr with the copra and the Ivory
brought from the mainland, clqvea form
the principal Item of export.
A healthy regularly formed brain
twenty-four ounce*, soareriy half of the
normal average, seems to have been the
smallest ever recorded for an adult. It
waa recently found In DoAlel Ryaa.
New Tork coachman, who died suddenly
at lh* a«« of forty-six.
Ml** Selma Logerlof. besides being
the moot popular writer la Bweden. has
just received an honorary degree from
the University of Upsela. flbe la the
first woman tn Swsdcn to receive this
distinction, and It le sold to be only
matter of time whea she will get tha
Nobel prise.
Th Vl U h t £*M f ■* TW#
tthojgrmt&o bright green they softly
Thor mingle In love with the boekwb
■i white gtory.
Ever repeating hte harvest story,
flosa the silent voice wm be sent on Its
To t*t' nations of earth may It never say
nay.
But ever repeat the smut of tbo harvest:
*t grow fto the© sad for throe, else thoo
--Mr*. Asset Oppcnhelm ta Ftns Arts
JouraaL
Paper nursing bottle, to bo thrown
away after being used once. Is a Ixta
patent.
aa Amertoaa railroad.
first act after taking tho
k* waa to kiss hts mother.
study of
From the Scientific American.
AboWfl76l Boron Kempslen or Hun-
gary began to* astonish tho etvllzed
world of Europe with bis chess player.
This was apparently a figure controlled
by mechanical devices, and which was
able, notwithstanding the fact that ap
parently no Intelligence \\j% re (team
ed In Its movements and decisions,
generally to beat ts human antagonists.
The cabinet connected with the auto
maton appeared entirely too small to
contain a hidden operator. And yet
It did conceal a man who was an ex
pert chess player. He was a Polish
patriot who had lost both of his legs
—perhaps In the recent war over Po
land. This man. Woronsky by nome,
was an expert player. With him hid
den in the cabinet and yet really on
the spot, the rest was easy.
The career of George Psalmanaxar
—a* he called himself—war one of the
most astonishing on record. This
man was born . In Swltxerltnd or
Franco, but during the time of hi*
fame claimed to be a native of, the
Lisland of Formosa. He had acquir
ed a moderate education, but seemed
Indisposed to employ hlmnelf In any
regular occupation. Indeed, he roam
ed over Europe, serving with the Dutch
and with the German army. At one
time he prefended to be nn Irishman,
at another an unconverted Japanese,
at a third time as a converted Japan
ese. In the l**t capacity he deceived
the tolonel of a British regiment nt
Sluys. The chaplain of the regiment
— a man named Innea—however, did
not seem to have proceeded to England
and flisiw organ a marveloue career.
Psalmanatar masquerade^ a* a gen
uine native of Formosa converted to
Christianity.
The clergy received him with open
arms. He had an Interview with the
archbishop of Canterbury, who. how
ever. was unr.ble to understand his
Latin. But then, who would expect
a Foremosan to speak Latin with per
fection? Ho publlehed an Invented
Formosan alphabet, together with forg
ed examples of the native language,
accompanying them with translations.
The bishop of London seems to have
believed lmpll:**v In b<r clofm to kni.v
the language of Formosa, for he em
ployed Psalmanaxar to translate the
church catechism Into It. He was sent
to the University of Oxford to flush
hts education. There he Is said to
have employed his waking' houfs In
anJdle way. but to have left a candle
burning while he slept to bear witness
of his seal In scholastic pursuits. He
wrota a treatise upon Formosa In Lat
in. When this wo* translated Into
English, It had a very large success.
To corroborate hts claim of being a
native Formosan, he would eat raw
meat, roots and herbs. Ho was lion
ised. end was Immensely successful.
Although he carried on the deception
with the greatest Ingjimt/ -Waiving
great and small, he tripped at last. In
an unwary moment ho polnal with
some one In exploiting a ’ whtel For
mosan warp.” Thly Jed to hJs down
fall. Detection being Imminent, he
confessed. This Is one account. An
other has It that he became cohsclence-
strlcken. and voluntarily withdrew irom
tha public gaxe.
Lucas’ Great Fraud.
A self-educated man of humble ori
gin of the name of Vraln Lucas. Igno
rant of both Greek and Latin, became
the perpetrator of a fraud Involving
the preparation of 87.600 'odd forged
documents, many of them purporting
to be letters written by celebrated his
torical personages. Although written
In French they purported to be letters
from Sappho. Thales, Dante. Petrarch,
Julius Caesar, Alexander tho Great,
St. Luke. Shakespeare, Lazarus, New
ton. Paschal, Cleopatra and others. M.
Charles, the great mathematician, waa
apparently ready to believe that all the
ancients wera proficient In this lan-
E jage, for he was completely fooled by
uens. In 1167, among toher docu
msnts Lucas communicated to th<
academle through Charles two letters
and four note* purporting to havo
been written by the celebrated French
mathematician and thinker. Blaise
Pascal (1632-1668). If these letters
had been genuine they wouM have
proved him to have anticipated New
ton 1(642-1787) In his great discovery
of the law of gravitation. Charles was
attacked, but stood h's ground, even
producing other letters to bear him out
—from Pascal to tho boy Nswton. The
discussion lseted for two years. In
1868. ths academle made an official de
claration In favor of the genuineness
of the letters. France went wild. The
’people In the atreet cheered the name
of Pascal. But shortly afterward an
official of the observatory, pointed out
that sixteen of the Pascal letters were
to be found In Saverien’s “History of
Modern Philosophers,” which had ap
peared a century before. But M.
Charles claimed that M. Eaveretn had
used them without acknowledging hts
source. And so It went. But Le Ver-
rler demolished tho whole fabric of the
fraud. Lucas was finally brought to
trial, convicted and sent to prison for
two years. He had realised, however,
about 880.006 from his activities.
Simonides was a past mister In the
art of literary forgery. Hla perform
ances belong to aproxlmntely the name
period, but were accomplished on dif
ferent soli. His greatest achievement
was the forgery of a*history of ancient
Egypt written In Greek by Uranolt.
This He proposed to sell to the Ger
mans for a greet sum. In order to un.
dsrsUnd Just what a marvelous piece
of work ho produced. It wjlf bo neces
sary to understand some of the diffi
culties. He undertook to produce a
palimpsest—that is, an old parchment
manuscript which has been used again
for a modern work. He took a mann.
script of about the twelfth century,
and wrote hts history on the same
parchment. As this new writing waa
to masquerade as the older, he had to
avoid getting a single lino of new
upon any part of the old. Thta re
quired wonderful core, os there was
really but very little apace. In eddl
tion. he hod to make ths Greek 1st
tera he used agree with ths style of the
century they were supposed to repre
sent. Of coursa. the history Itself and
the character of the language had to
correspond with the supposed period
of composition. A* Prof. Max Muller
tolls as, ba followed Bunsen's "Egypt*
and "Lepstus* "Chronology”
And so ths finished fraud captivated
Iaepjtus. great scholar that he wa*. for
the dates were *11 correct, that was pla n
to be seval However, the manuscript
had to undergo a very searching Investi
gation. which iBdqded chemical and ml-
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had. properly hpeaking, no sHtsmEwol
education, either literary or artlstlo. But
h« had real genius. An autlquoiloa of
the name of Frcppa employed him for
two franca per day to produce ' antique*
which might be sold at a xood profit Bo
tills became Bastlunlm's life work—tho
Piofuction of forgeries. One at f.Ja most
coxbrated works Is the bust of Bavo-i >
rola. • Persuaded that here waSa reiu
Fifteenth century bust, two publlc-splr-
Ited gentlemen collected 10,000 francs
ahil purchased It from Freppa to prevent
Its sale and exportation. Ono critic. Du
pre. declared that ho must assign it to
Michel Angelo for Its force and to Robbia
for the exqulsltenees of Us treatment, re
garding It aa a wonderful work of art
1 Sir Frederick Leighton, the noted Eng
lish painter, having received a photo
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the head of his bed.” It la said that tho
I Grand Duchess Marla of Russia and Llp-
part seriously thought of building * tem
ple to house this wonderful work of art.
t;-" M YfftSKSHL 'bust 3 L ud M
I Rumors having become current that the
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ported to be. one of the purchasers
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at his workshop whether he was the
I creator of tho bust And he admitted
that he waa. But this was not the only
great "success of Bastlanlnl. A terra
cotta bust of Benevienl. a sixteenth cen
tury poet of France, was regarded as
a con temporary work of-art and pur-
cnaited by fhe Louvre for 13.000 francs,
and 'installed In a room .containing work
of Michael Angelo himself. But It w.xa a
fok< for all that. u
In tho late nineties an English maga-
slne was founded with the avowed object I
of printing true tales of adventure and
the like. Gne day a man. caUlng himself
Louis de Rougemont. handed a letter of
Introduction from a member of parlia
ment to the editor. The stranger told a
harrowing tale of a life, spent In Aus
tralia with cannibals In an unexplored
region of that continent Rougemont was
‘he most merciless cross-]
The editor introduced Rougemont to
scientists, confident that the experiences
of the man were of value to geography
and anthropology. Two omlgsat geo
graphical expert* heard hi* _atory, tested
tt from their wld* and accurate knowl
edge. and risked their reputations by giv
ing It full credit. They, too, were of
opinion that It contained matter of sspa-
rt*l Imnortancs to science. The Brisk
Association for the Advancement of Sel
ene* began to bs officially Interested.
Bristol meeting.
Roukemont’s Fight With Octoputi
Rougemont told a truly staggering tale.
He enriched It with lively detail! of a
fight with an octopus, of a wreck from
which he was saved by a swimming dog
to whose tall he cl^ng, of an Island on
which he landed and where ha. lived
turtle meat and rode on turtles as If they
were horses, of a visit of four starving
blacks, one of whom, a woman, he mar
ried and to whom he even dedicated hla
astonishing narrative, and of his leaving
ths island to become ths ruler of an Aus
tralian cannibal tribe for thirty years.
Long before ths magaain* had com
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to b* a faker. Hla blograph” wa* Action.
Ho had, however, deceived for a consld-
and the finest collection of examples of
are that exist* anywhere In ths world.
And yst this great museum of art has
been made within reesnt years the victimi
of a striking Piecs of forgery. There was
submitted tolls Inspection and anoroval
a wonderful example of ths goldsmith's
art. This was claimed to ta the tiara of
Saltapharnea, and to have been dut up
In southern Russia. Tha Louvre paid
£4,666 for thi hradptec*. Henri Roche
fort. the noted editor of L'lntrsnslgeant,
branded the headpiece as a forgsry. It Is
porsibel that hs did not act entirely Inde
pendently. although hs was an sxpert In
art matters. To support tha allegation
of fraud, there was brought t op»rls a
certain H. Kpubhomovskt, a goldsmith of
Odessa. Arrived In Peris, hs demon-1
*trated that hs could Indeed execute work
the equal of the tiara. The upshot of It
all seems to be that ths tiara was partly
genuine, but #th*rw!«e to have been the
I work of the accomplished M. Koukom-
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