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seemingly been there for centuries, and will
endure In peace for centuries to come
Looking down from the SCARED steep of
Otley CheYin, the eye dwells with affection
on peupled valley eastward and westward,
wooded, hedged, cultivated, radiant in its
peace, ana almost gardeI-like; here and
there church Spire rising above cluster
OF hamlet houses at atinteryals mansion on
commanding uee-crowned knoll in a modest
estate; occasionally amill, which suggests in
duStry, weekly wages and ill-starred cOmpeti-
ton and far below 4 YiGduct across which
trains rush on Journeys between places less
favored than Whariedale in gentle beauty.
Over the nlOors, and hidden from sigh {, are
numbers OF manufacturing towns vomiting
forth smoke and grinding the lives out of
people In factOrirs 1t is an easy walk out
of the valley TO Keighley or Skipton, Brad
ford or Leeds, where all the miserIes of
sQualOr and the struggle for bread are ram
pant enough, but ia Wharfedale itself the
Gisagreea6le aspect OF an age Of strife is
banlshed. There Is only one manufacture
ing town, Otley. and its enterprise is so
very moderate that its fluent wastes do
not kill tile trout in the WhaTfe beneath,
although anglers. who are pertinacious COM
plainants. believe that the smallness Of
their success IS due to Otiey.
Ii would be long geological story and
somewhat disputatiye to tell how the
Wharfe Valley was formed and how the
river came 10 have such beautiful surround
ings. Its source tributaries begin to course
In Pennysant, modest limestone hill 2270
feet in altitude, in the northwest OF York
shire, and near 1t are other SUBMITS, two of
which-Ingle gleboTough and Whernside-nre
few hundred feet higher, but not more
Impressive to the average tourist on that
account. A few other rivers follow a sim
liar trend in eToded courses down the lime
stone and milestone grit-lhe Aire, the
Nidd, the Ure and the Swale, aud all OF
them empty their burden into the great
Ouse, which at last disappears in the estu-
airy Of the Humber, and the Humber bears
a mighty flood of waters into the North
Sea.
The Wharfe begins 10 be beautiful just
at Arlington. At this point there were no
means Of building up fortunes from indus
try and manufactures, and the valley was
consigned 10 agriculture and primitive life
until well within 20 years ago. 1t is true
the Northeastern Railroad Company has
crossed the valley toward Harrogate-
famous in Smollet's novels--5y a finely
curved high-arched yiaduci but the valley
Itself has only been entered by the railroad
companies within a few years. For time
miles above Arthington; then they laid
the rails TO llkley, and now they
have got to Bolton Abbey, and 70 Skipton
over the moors into Airedale. But the
railways have not disigured the valley.
They have made it accessible,
There is nothing IN American scenery to
contrast with Wharfedale. Our mountains
are bigger, sleeper, more m0jestic; our
rivers broader, mightier, deeper and more
available for commerce. A shallop may
sail on the Wharfe; great fleet may
maneuver on the Hudson or the Mississippi.
But we have nothing to match the pietur-
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days, the children are brought to take their
airing. | visited the establishment this
afternoon. The gorgeous imperial servant,
in his red and gold livery, took my card at
the big front door and a long-gowned
shOck-headed boy ran with it to one Of the
matTOns | was directed 10 the door of the
garden. and q trim little lady Of perhaps 25
wears took me ia charge and showed me- over
the whole Institution. She spoke a little
English and much German, and she talked
about the babies as we walked through the
garden. This garden was cut up by long,
wide and well-Shaded walks, and these
walks were filed with the nurses and their
babies. Each baby has her own wetnurse,
and along each walk were two lines OF these
nurses, each with BABY at her breast, and
the whole garden was flied with such
sights. There were hundteds upon hun
dreds of-theSe nuTseS-buXOm young peas
ant girls Of l6 years old and upward, all
dressed IN their best clothes. for it was Sun
day afternoon, and all wearing the pctur-
esque caps of the institution. These caps
are nurses caps of blue, green or red, which
are as full as Tam OSnanter caps at the
top, but which fit tight about the forehead.
and which are set rather on the back of
the head, so as not 70 hide the forehead.
The dresses of these hundreds of maiden
nurses are cut low al the neck, and stand
. Ing at one end Of ore Of these walks you
look along line Of 500 white necks shining
out under these bright caps aud bordered
by white yOkes. from which full gowns fall
so as TO show the swelling Of these 800 buSts
half of the girls have babies sucking milk
from their milk-WhIte breasts and the other
half have little swaddled infants, who have
had their fill and are taking a rest or sleep
ing In their nurses arms. At first you can
not notice the dresses for the interest you
take iq the nurses and babies and their
. feeding, but as you grow used to this you
note that each girls dress i5 much the
same. The sleeves. full at The shoulders,
aTe short and leave the arms bare 10
the bceps. The waists are full and half
open at the front and the skirts gathered
in at the waist are short and do not reach
to the ankles. The caps are Of different
coloIs. but of the same shape. and the
girls are OF all types Of Russian beauty and
homeliness. Hundreds of them are blondes
and the fdXen- haired. blue-eyed beauties
OF the northern provinces are well repre-
sented. Hundreds nave the rosy cheeks
that you find along the Neva and Upper
Volga, and here and there you see the dark
eyes and brunette faces which are found
further south. AS | stood uron the steps
at one end Of the garden / could see fully
a thousand Of these girls la the garden
below me. Think Of it'll It was, in truth,
sight worth coming TO Russia to see
As We walked through the garden the
nurses saluted US. The young matron
bowed to them and we raised our hats as
we entered one of the walks, and at that
moment the 100 red and blue caps bowed
down to US. The girls bow from the waist
and not with q nod of the head as we do
They are not ashamed Of their business.
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a single deformed child In the world for
whose misfortune cure may be found, so
long are scientists Justified in seeking by
experiments upon the lower animals methods.
and means for relieving the sufferings of
nigh and low, and so long as students re-
main to be taught physiology just so long
should they have the advantage of every
help science has found 10 offer them. The
experiment factor in any system Of teach-:
ing is an important one. He who would
teach child the alphabet might spend +.
hours explaining tile outline and structure
OF the letter "A, yet produce but little eff
feet on the learners understanding, yet If
lie takes crayOn and makes a. upon the
board the baby comprehends in much less
time. SO, fer Instance. glance through
the microscope at the movements Of the.
blood corpuseles in the web of a frogs foot
is worth more TO the student than hours III
undemonstrated porlng over learned text
books on the capillary circulation. | re-.
member we'll how long aud vainly studied
In an effort to comprehend and settle in my
mind the action of the gottis in respiration;
and how the mystery cleared up as 1
watched it in the opened throat of an
anesthetized dog Two hundred other'stll-
dents saw II at the same time, and though
the subsequent usefulness of the dog if ne
had any, was seriously interfered with, as
re was Killed without being allowed tn re-
cover consciousness, still even his pTema-
turely closed life served more useful pur-
pose than does that of many so-called higher
animals. "
We often hear exclam ations against vIyi--
section from fashionable women whose hats
are decked with stuffed birds, skinned alive
to retain the beauty of their plumage; from
the "good-hearted" hunter who regards
with horror the infection Of gunshot
wound upon an anesthetiZed animal for
scientific purposes. vet who in tile course
of days sport will fire into a flock of birds
knowing that be will not find all he has
wounded, but must leave some 10 suffer
until death or some proving creature ends.
their agony. While such acts as these re-
main possible it would seem as though ::
philanthropy might fiud a field for It's
labOrs without inter ferng with those who.
inflict little suffering that they may learn
TO relieve great deal.
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has In fact become a Saratoga on a small
scale tor the whole of England. and is a
much more healthy and bracing resort than
historic Bath, where the inyalids are de-
pressing spectacle.
llkley has the advantage of being within
~ miles drive by rail or road Of Bolton
Aooey. or priory. as it should be termed,
and at Bolton is the crowning charm of
Wharfedale. II is a ducal estate. in the
Devcnshire family, maintained for its pic
turesque qualities and not turned into CON-
mercial degradation by sales TO the real
estate vlla-builder, who, in most cases,
converts paradise into pandemonium by
eccentrlcities of architecture and ex-
cinsiveness as regards the public.
Almost from Likely up to Skipton, 20 miles
OIL distance, the DevonShres are masters.
They could inclose most of the property
with wall and tell the public to 60 round
it, Instead of that, they ask the public
to make the whole of the area pleasure
ground and TO come and 60 as they
please, except on Sunday at the abbey
service, which they may attend, but may
not do any more promenading. This is q
boon, worth living under nobledom to ell
JOY, and contrast to the unutterable self
ishness of our Vanderbilts and Astors.
who do little more than haul ln
money with a croupler's rake. Ab-
soluiely all this estate of the Dukes
OF Devoushire in every direction, save
1arms In the possession of tenants on
lease, is free to the world, and magnificent
boon 1t Is TO the people of great
cities. The railroad companies accom-
modate them with round trips at 80
cents for journeys of 60 mles-a good con-
tras! with our Southern Pacific extortion.
On Saturday there are thousands of merry
rompers in Bolton woods, rambling, botan-
izing. fishing, pcnicking and chorus
ing. Numbers of the hardy climb the
hills which hem in the valley and are
feasted with vistas across the dividing
ridges. From Bolton Bridge, ten miles up
ward, the scenery is positively inexhaust-
lble IN attraction for an impressive mind.
Bolton Abbey, or priory as it really was,
lies on q bend of the Wharfe, the most
lovely it would have been possible to select
Those monks of old knew where to build.
Their taste is attested everywhere in York
shre-at Furness Abbey in the north; at
Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, where the
Marquis OF RipOn charges % cents head to
look at the ruins; al Rieyaulx, near Helms
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A YORKSHIRE VALLEY.
WhartGdalG and Its Artistic and Scenic
Associations.
Tie Lovslisst Valley in E.glana-Bolton Alb
Day and the Observation-Disclosures
OF Refinement.
Written for THE MORNING CALL.

Perhaps the loveliest valley In the whole
oil England is Wharfedale. Other valley
nave their charms. The Thames is soft
and peaceful for many a mile above Kew
ana upward 10 Oxford. but its charm de-
pendS upon wood and meadow alone and
the reflections of cool shade In the tranquil
waters, with here and there mansions and
villas 10 give the life Of human association 10
the scene. The Severn also Is noble river,
and tho scenery is grand at certain points.
But Nharfedale has peculiarities of beauty
quite unique in England, unless the upper
valley OF the Tyne below and above Hex
nam is taken into comparison. Even then
the Wharfe bears away the palm by superb
orily II softly nodded formations. The
charm OF the valley is its association of
cultivation and peace with rugged aspects
OF hillside wildness. On the sleeps, the
moor and cliffs, aud solitude broken by the
call OF the grouse and the whirring noise of
families on the wing; in the valley where the
river meanderS, an uncontaminated stream,
dear TO the angler and the artist, richly
dotted with ash aud willow and clumps of
sycamore.
All has been civilized for centuries, and
the gray stune farmh0uses, the trim hedges
OF hawthorn bounding the small fields in
Dewildering juxtaposition of angles, have
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COLONEL BAKER AS A POET.
The Brilliant Orator Viewed in a New
Light.
A Man Who Dsrcd Not Write a Poem to
Niagara-Recollection of Ante.
Bsllum Days.
Written for THE MORNING CALI

You have read of Colonel Baker. orator.
Senator. soldier? Yes; know all about him,
you say; knew him personally. Let us see.
i doubt if you ever saw or even ever heard
Of the E. ID. Baker Of whom i shall try to
say a word or two. And yet they are the
same, the one you knew and the one 1
knew. But l knew a side OF this man
which you did not see, though thousands of
men still live who saw more of Colonel
T. d. Baker than |.
My elder brother and l were attending
Columbia College, now the University of
Oregon, when Colonel Baker and Delazon
Smith, contesting for the United States Sen
ate, came to Eugene to speak.
The college stood on a hill south of town
and when these two eminent men were seen
sauntering leiSurely up the green hill to-
gether one pleasant afternoon the master of
the college dismissed school and sent little
committee Of little folks. among whom were
my brother and self, to meet them and bring
them into the great big ugly stone house.
And that is the way / first came to know
Colonel Baker personally, although. Of
course. had heard him speak oftentimes in
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and they hold up their babies for US to look
at as we pass. The nurses seem to be fond
OF their babies, and l would like to show il
/ can just how one of these Russian babies
is cared for. Behind each nurse along
these walks stood little iron crib, and
these cribs arc smaller than any baby cribs
you have ever seen. They stand on iron
legs, but they are not as big as the average
family clothes basket, and they are about
two feet wide, three feet long and two feet
deep. Each baby has a crib 10 itself, and
there were. was told. 1850 cribs standing
Ia the garden at the time l visited il. In
some OF the cribs babies were lying They
rested on soft mattresses with their little
heads, many OF which seemed 10 me no big
ger than baseball, upon little pillows. aud
over them were drawn nets TO shield their
red faces from the too ardent kisses of the
wind. They look most comfortable, and /
venture you could get nowhere In the world
1000 babies, all under four months old, who
would MAKE less noise than these 1000 odd
Russian babies were making
here al there about the grounds | noted
tables on which the babies were laid when
their nurses wished to rearrange their
toilets, and / noticed how carefully the
little ones were handed. The tables. which
were about four feet square. had padded
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traiture, for it was his manner to produce
Impressions rather than Photographic
fidelity, but the impulse and pulsation of the
valley are felt in his drawings, and he evil
IDENTIFY loved the country. Down there be-
low Otley at Farnley Hall. when you get
permission, you may see sixty or seventy
water cOlOrs of tie great painter, aud a
dozen or more of his oil canyaseS. The Sc
works are worth many thousands of pounds.
Turner passed many months In the Wharfe
Valley at Farnley Hall. and painted with all
the vigor Of early manhood while there. He
has done much for the valley all the world
over, many OF his drawings having been re-
produced. But there is room still for the
great painters of landseape. Almost any
thing painted in the Wharfe Valley is
paintable, for every foot is stamped with
nature in a smiling mood, or nature under
the refinement and association of civilza-
t0n. DECAY MACKART
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BABIES IN RUSSIA.
:7hG Great: Asylum for Folldlings at
Moscow.
-.
An Acre Of squalling Infant Humanity.
!, IrcubatOrs for Sick Chidrsn-An
:. - Imperial Institution.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL

The biggest baby farm in the world is
here at Moscow: 1t costs $500. coo a year to
run It. and it has an annual crop of 1900
babies. 1t. hasa branch farm at ST. Peters
burg, which. turns out yearly. harvest Of
5000 more, and since its foundation it has
sent out into the country districts of this
empire more than 100000 Squalling in
fants. / saw last week 800 babies under four
weeks old in the St Petersburg institution,
and as l rite this letter 1900 little ones are
sucking out their evening meal within
the walls of the establishment here at
Moscow The Moscow founding asylum
is ar imperial institution. Ii was founded
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Lynch Law Among Rats.

In the neighborhood of Burley the other
day gentleman looking over wall saw a
dead hen in the field. Presently a rat ran
up, snuffed at the defunet fowl with
much satisfaction and went away in
some haste. The onlooker, who Is a
student OF natural history, knew what
that meant, and removed the hen
from the spot. In minute or two
the rat came back with half dozen friends.
with the evident intention of removing the
carcass for future use. Arriving at the spot
where the fowl had lain, the rat raised a
loud squeak of astonishment at its absence
In trlce the other rats fell upon him so
savagely that they left him dead on the field
as warning not to play practical jokes with
his frianda
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sequences OF Wharfedale in the innumer
able evidences that every acre Oh thlS
ground, from the river brink to the crown
OF the mo0rs, or divides, as we should call
them, has been under cultivation for GEN.
turies. Those little pastures OF four and
five acres, surrounded with thcket oil
well-clpped hedge, could not have been
formed otherwise. The valley was lelI 10
Itself and concerned itself not with the
affairs Of the outer world. 1t was valley
without foreign politics, although 1t had
good share in the fighting during Crom-
wells time. The land is all cleared and
cleaned, kept free from weeds and made as
fertile as seasons and husbandry can pos
sibly make IL; the kline In the heids are as
sleek as any to be seen in agricultural
England; and in the spTiEgtide the bleat Of
sheep and lamb is constantly associated
with the far-away notes OF the shy put
omnipresent cuckoo, fitting 10 ana lro De-
tween the elumps OF wood ana sometimes
bold enough to build in the caves OIL mousse
on the hillside.
The charms of this valley were discovered
more than 80 years ago by company. who
built a hydropathic establishment at Ben
Rhydding-a species of gold cure establish
ment now common, where good food is sup
piled and plenty of exercise is inculcated.
but NO drink allowed unless the guest is
ADEPT at smuggling, which he often is.
1t was one big establishment on hill. domi-
mated by another hill covered by curious
rocks called. in popular parlauee, the Cow
and Calf. Ikley, now town OF 10000
inhabitants and doubled In population dur
ing the tourist season, then consisted of
few thatch housrS, and the principal occu-
patton of half a dozen of the population
was to watch over few donkeys kept sad
died and brdled fer a few patrons who
came not too frequently. Now 1lkley is
one OF the famous hydropathie resorts OF
England. Ii lives on the bulb-eyed, puffy
checked people whose livers and other in
ternal organs are disordered and who are
In search of miraculous cure from mineral
waters and less gus,ativeness than they
practced before their troubles came to q
head. Otherwise the hydropathle estab-
lishment is home for scandal and chit
chat, small talk, and thus many women OF
amiahle aud virtuCus character cCme to
enjoy sojourn there, and return home re-
freshed by the woodland walks and we'll
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GRACE.

Something IL Is like herl
The curve OF the cheek and the way
The hair has gone astray
1wining about the ear;
Yes, and tbs picture here
Has that look OF vague surprise
That saw sometimes la her eysG
Something IL Is like heri
As II a painter had seen
Her face but once, aud then
StriVen with u to his heart
Almost In vain, to impart
TO bis canvas aught OF the grace
OF the soul he saw IN her face
Something IL is like h4ri
And so u hangs here by my head,
Ana the light OF It's beauty Is shed
over my room. and IL seems
Ihat sometimes II brings NE dreams
OF herself, OF her Hitting smiles
In these dresry sad afterwhijes.
II. &. BUNNFR
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and altogether foundlngs are better treated
in Russia than in any other country in the
world. Their treatment. however. after they
are sent out into the villages to be nursed is
not so good As ii is here. and tho statistics
show that fully half Of all these babies die
before they are year old. and the
science Of baby-raising over the whole of
Russia is n such a backwar state that one
fourth Of all the ba hies born in the empire
die before they are Il months of age. Forty
two per cent die before they are five years
old, ana still the yearly crop of children is
so great that the population Of Russia, ac-
cordlng TO the statistics OF the Statesman's
Year Book, is increasing al the rate of two
millions year. In European Russia alone
there are every year 1.600,0 600 more babies
than there were the year before. and more
than 100000 babies are born here every
year.
] am told that mothers often bring their
babies to this institution and afterward ap-
ply to the establishment for places as wet
nurses and thus manage TO get hold of their
own babies and get paid for feeding them.
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DOGS OF WAR LET.LooSE.

Interesting Experiments by the German:
Military Authorities.
During the last year numerous expert,
ments have been made in Germany with
the Scotch collie dogs for military purposes.
especially during times OF war, and it has
been found that this dog is the best and
most available among the various breeds of
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Beaursgsrd Spoke Well OF Him.
New York worIi

lt Is as we'll for a general as for prophet
to be not without honor at home. A Chicago
man visiting in New Orleans met dapper
little Creole, colonel in the Confederate
army, whose admiration foF General Beati-
regard approached alteration. HE was the
greatest general in the world. The South
nevair see hees eqnal-nevair." said the
colonel. What about Lee?" asked the
Chicsgoan. "Leei Lee!' said the colonel.
'ah, oui: General Boorasar spik yari well oi
hemD
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DISRAELPS SON.

He VIII Take His Seat In the New
British House OF Commons.
Pail Mall Gazette.
We give here portrait of Coningsby
Disraeli. who will take bis seat in the new
House of Commons as the Tory representa-
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by Catherine II. one of the loosest and the
liyeliest EmpresSes Of Russia's past. and it
is kept up to-day by tax on playing cards.
All of the cards used in Russia are made by
the Government Their Importation IS pro-
bbited under heavy penalties, and every
gambler aud every card party has TO con-
tribute TO the support Of this Institution.
The servants of the Gar in the royal red
livery stand az its doors and Its accounts are
looked over by the officers of the treasury
department. Ii is in fact a model among
the baby hospitals OF Europe, and the scenes
within 1t are such as you can see nowhere
else In the world.
This big Moscow founding asylum lies
within a stones throw of the kremln,
where the most sacred Of all Russia's great
churches stand. 1t is on the banks of tie
Moscow River and in the very heart of this
city of S00000 people. The buildings are
vast fOur-story structures, built in the shape
of a hollow square about a garden which
contains. perhaps, an acre of trees and
lawn, into which, On these bright summer
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A GREAT JOURNALIST.
Brief Sketch OF the Eventful Career of
George Augustus s.Ia.

George Augustus Sala-or, as popularity
has abbreviated him, &C. a Sis one OF
the merriest men OF the nineteenth century.
Touch the veteran journalist on his anec-
dotal trigger and you will live all the hap
pier after receiving a yolley Mfr. Sala and
his wife are not fRvorsbly inclined toward
flats, and infinitely prefer to live at
Brighton. where they have a little house.
Enter the house aud you everywhere see