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The Washington times., 1901-09-08
The Wreck.

How beautiful she lies! the shining shore
Before her. and afar the blue seas verge!
Above her shattered hull the sea guls soar.
And all around her leaps the foaming surge!
Full many a ycas she bore the hopes of men,
The precious freight of lives the countless store
OF wealth. to meet at last the tempest when
No power could save her from the rocky shorel
/, too, have sailed liies seas full sure to crown
The glorious promise of my hopes with ease,
To see my golden argosies go down
And Death, the Wrecker, King of all the seas!
This is the wreck that Time has left TO me,
But still heguiing through the mist OF tears,
See the beauty OF life glorious sea
And hear the music OF eternal years,
Boston Globe.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
Sea Birds.

Like bow drawn light along the strings,
To the seas lute. a soft wind sings;
Songs Of faint, sweet. unworldly things
OF breeze and surf-Ah fash of wings
Sea birds go by!
Poised on waves turn-then away!
Grace of white curves meath bowlders grey,
Lost in the haze across the bay,
What long shut doors open and stay,
Sea birds 90 by!
Cleaning and song with an empty sky,
Piercing call OF a gulrs long cry.
Far hundred leagues the cities lie,
We want them not, the sea nor !,
Where birds go by!
New York Tribune.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
The End of Summer.

Pods are the poppies. and slim spires Of pods
The holIyhocks; the balsam's pearly bredes
OF rose-stained snow are little sacs of seeds
CollapsDg at a touch; the tote. that sods
The pond with green, has changed its flowers to
rods
That balance ccll-pierced disks; and all the
weeds.
Around the sleepy water and its reeds
Are one white smoke OF seeded silk that mods.
summer is dead. ay me! sweet summers dead!
The sunset clouds have built her funeral pyre,
Through which, cen now, runs subterranean
FIRE;
While from the cast. as from a garden bed,
Mist-vined, the dusk lifts her broad moon, like
Great golden melon. saying, Fall has come
Madison Cawein in September Century.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
Sonnet.

It is late summertime; and. in a dream
OF lustrous weather, August wanes, and droops
A cloudless heaven, in silence, stoops
Over world filed with the russell CLEAN
OF ripened corn-felds, and the paler gold
OF piled sheaves, that, far of, dreaming lie
On upland slopes. The streams run drowsily
Within their narrowing beds, their story told,
Their old glad frolic Of the spring days DER.
The hum OF insect life, the birds gay tune,
And all the magic music of glad June
Are hushed; and, in the silence, evermore
A voieeless whisper falls upon the ear,
A breath. that tells the summers end is near.
M. G. C.. in Chambers Journal.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
Grandfather Mountain.

LAND of the Sky!" Thy peaks upheld in air,
A very throne have made. In aeons past,
Yon chiseled, uptnrned face-lone relic vast
OF the stern age of stone-did homage there
To law alone. Its younger sister fair
The golden age of loye-this mantle cast
Its ripping green, in wondrous weave made
fast,
Softening the weary look those features wear.
Uplifted, hushed, we watch the sunset light
Pale softly into rosy afterglow.
While to the vesper Star, hanging low,
The Sun gives out the watchword OF the night,
And yon face-''the eternal silence there
Illumined seems, with caDtiele or prayer.
Helen Clement Huse, in the Boston Transcript
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
The Nightingale.

The silence is no more: It's shattered by
A frenzicd rapture from telthered throat,
Or is i a Seraph drifted down the sky
The dreaming earth with sudden glory smote:
| know not; i il ecstasy. or pain,
Or sated love, unfulhlled desire,
That crystaliziug. falls in silver rain,
And turns birds breast to an angel Tyre?
wizard voice. dividing all the dark!
wonder bird, that seeks nights shelterins
wing.
Leaving the day to the ambitious lark.
When all the worlds awake TO hear him
sing
Wherefore so humble. master OF thy art?
q peerless improysatore! say
All mel the answer comes from mine own heart:
These songs OF sorrow not for the dayF
Nj Hedderwiek Browne in Chambers journal.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
Woman and Man.

Between the dusk of a summer night
And the dawn OF summer day,
We caught at q mood as it passed in fight
And we bade it stop and stay.
And what with the dawn of night began
With the dusk OF day done;
For that is the way OF woman and man,
When a hazard has made them one.
Are upon arc from shade to shine,
The world went laundering free;
And what was his errlnd but hers and mine
The lords of him. l and She?
oh. its die we must. but It's live we can,
And the marvel OF earth and
Is all for the joy OF woman and man
And the longing that makes them one
w f Henley in the North American Review
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
The Plains of Peace.

"Give me the heights of fame,
The hills most high;
And let me write my name
Across the sky.''
Thus in the night l heard
The voice of one
Whose heart and soul were stirred
To reach the sun.
Anon, across the years
heard him cry,
40 give me back the fears,
The hopes gone byl
"The lowly WAYS were best,
The vale and glen,
Where | could toil-and rest
With other men.
"The heights of fame are sweet
But sWeeter still
That humble. glad retreat,
Beneath the hill"
Youths Companion.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
Magazine Notes.

The leading articles of the September
Review of Reviews is 4 character
sketch of Admiral Schley by Park Benja-
min THE Strike OF the Steel Workers, -
is discussed by Talcott Williams. IL. NJ.
Biggs writes of "Dr. Koch and His Dis
coveries" automobile Making in Amer
lea" is the title of a profusely illustrat-
ed article by J. l.. Kingman. The Life
Work of Notable Teacher is a sketch
Of the late IL. b. Adams, by Richard r.
Ely. Cattle Raising as a Business is
an illustrated paper by Robert NJ. Bar
ker: and kansas After the Drought is
a contribution from +. w. Blackmar. The
department entitled The Progress of the
World" is unusually interesting this
month.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Prof. ]. w. jerks, of Cornell University.
who is very prominent among those who
are laboring for settlement of the steel
strike, is qualified as few are to act as ar
bitter in such complications. He has made
a most careful study of industrial prob
lens, Is the expert agent of the United
States Industrial Commission, consulting
expert of the United States Department
OF Labor, and the author of an authorita-
tive and concise work entitled THE Trust
Problem" which Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
publish
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

The leading article of The lnternation-
al Monthly for September is The His
toric Place of Mr Meredith and Mr.. Har-
dy," by Edmund Gosse. Art and Ar
lists" is an exceedingly interesting paper
by John La Fargo. The Laughter of
SaFages." by James Sully. will interest
ali students of anthropology. Another ar
ticle of special interest at the present
time is The Bases of Chinese Society,""
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Did not the Gar Of Russia visit Paris within
the last four or ave yeasi J.B.
Yes: he was there In October, 1896.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Louis Becke, the novelist, whose Won
drous tales of Australasia and the South
Seas have won him fame and fortune, has
written a new volume entitled by Rock
and Pool" which is announced for imme-
date publication by the New Amsterdam
Book COMPANY.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

George Washington, perhaps He was
one of the richest men in the country at
the outbreak of the Revolution.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

When was the railroad from Washington to
Washington Junction built7 Lc.
In 1873
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Where is Rehoboth. Del. situatedf J. s. $.
On the coast. in Sussex county, five
miles south of Cape Henlopen, and seven
miles from Lewes
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Who is in charge of the Government Printing
onice during the absence OF the Public Printer!
W 4
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Within week or two the fate of the
redoubtable Raffles will be solved. for Mr..
Hornung's second series of Amateur
Cracksman'' stories will then he out, and
will bring the career of this inimitable
rascal to n heroic conclusion. The title of
the new book is "Raffies." the name of
the gentlemanly burglar himself, with the
subtitle More Adventures of the ANA
teur CrackSman"
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

The September Cosmopolitan is an
Exposition number. Practically the whole
of 1t is devoted to the Pan-American Ex-
position 1t beginr with Notes on the
subject by Robert Grant, whose name is
an earnest of clever work in any dfrec-
ton; and 1t ends with a resume OF great
inventions made since the World s Fair.
by the editor. Mr Dooley offers some
characteristic reflections on the Midway,
which to many people will be the best
treat in the magazine. He begins with
the following sage remark:
FIR wan nan that goes to a wur-
ruld's fair to see how boots is made
they's Sc twinty goes to see tn hootchy-
kootchy. an that's where tn wan
lands finally
John Brisbei Walker writes of "The
City of the Future and Julian Haw-
thorne of Some Novelties at Buffalo
Fair" Other articles in this number are
by Albert Shaw, C. Y. Turner James E.
Sullivan. Arthur Brisbane, W. |. Buch-
anan, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, David
Porter Heap, and Nicholas Murray But
Ter. and there is an alleged poem by Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

OF what use is sumac in tanning leather. and
what is used, leaves. fruit, or bark? ID. B.
The leaves are ground to powder and
ored feathers
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

What were the populations OF Kansas. Texas.
and Maine by the last cens,s2 D.
Kansas. lao. iss; Texas, sos, no; Maine.
fql 4t6 ~'
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

What was the population of the world in 1890
and in 1901 "a w II
Matte Bruins estimate for 1901 was So
00e.rJ0. 1t now is put at about I5ec 900 90
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Was the wife OF Fred Douglass white woman?
q What were the birthplaces Of Douglass and his
wiie2 ENQUIRER.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Did Shamrock come across under her own sails
or was she .n~ea all or part of the distance!
G. NJ ID.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Who was the richest President of tho United
The Washington times., 1901-09-08
THE TINES, WASHINGTON SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1901.

by f. w. Williams Kenyon Cox's paper
on English Painting and French" Dip
lomatic Life in Pekin,' by Elizabeth Won
Heykingi THE Popular Drama in Brit
tany." by Anatole lie Brax. and Joseph
lie Conte,' by Josiah Royce, are all in
teresting.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Three-fold immersion, all other meth
DDS being rejected as essentially invalid,
and confirmation and baptism are per-
formed simultaneously.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

She was towed about two-thirds Of the
distance.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

What were the scores OF the Harvard-Yale foot
ball games of 1888 and 1897 3 Have Harvard.
Yale. or Princeton been together in recent games
whose score was o to OF u.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Is there not a school in some city in New York
State where Librarians trained? II so. please
tell me where? F.A. G.
Yes; there is one in connection with the
State library at Albany; another Is AZ the
Pratt Institute Rrooklyu
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

How long have sleeping cars been in use in this
country? 2. Is the Lachine Rapids Canal open
the year through? +. II. X.
The first was run on the Cumberland
Valley Road in 1895. Twenty years
later Thomas l.. Woodruff was closely
followed as maker by Webster Wagner.
George NJ. Pullman began making i'm
provements about 1859, and not until 1864
did he build the first real Pullman Sleep
ing car. 2. No; it is nayigable yearly
from 30 to go DAYS
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Thomas Dwight Godell, professor of
Greek at Yale. has just published book
entitled Chapters on Greek Metric" 1t
is d scholarly examination OF the foun-
datlons of this department in Greek
study. The basis of discussion is our an
cient authorities, both Greek and Latin,
who are quoted at some length First
by more careful comparison of these
sources with one another, and secondly by
bringing to bear on them accurate OBJ
servation of the facts of rhythm in mod
ern life and speech, the author endeavors
to reach more correct Interpretations on
some points. and so better understand
ing of Greek verse forms
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

How can prevent piano keys from turning yell
low? L. Il. s.
We do not know. The keys can be
bleached to whiteness, usually, uyi soak
ing for an hour In saturated solution OF
alum, polishing with wooden and wrap
ping with linen to dry.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

The Chief Clerk.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

HIS frst wife was a colored woman.
His second, whom he married January
"a, 1884, was white and a native of New
York. Douglass was born at Tuckahoe,
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

What mode Of baptism is praeticed in the Greek
Church? A
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

When was Labor Day first Observed and will
you name the States in which it has been made
legal holiday? W. J. L.
1t was first celebrated in few States
In 1887. and now Is observed as a legal
holiday in all the States and Territories,
including the District of Columbia. except
Arizona, Arkansas. all of Louisiana. but
Orleans parish, where 1t falls November
25; Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico
(when designated by the Governor;
North Dakota, Oklahoma. and Vermont.
In Wyoming it is observed, but is not le-
galized.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Harvard II. Yale 0, in 1895: Harvard 0.
Yale 0, in 1899. 2. Yale and Harvard tied
at zero, also in 1891
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

THE Deacon's Second Wind is the
very peculiar title of a very peculiar
story. the latest novel by Archibald CLAY
ering Gunter the author of Mr.. Barnes
of New York" 1t is a romance OF rural
hfe and is said to be Mr.. Gunters best
novel.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

A consideration of the more familiar
phenomena of optics, by Charles S. Hast
mgs. professor of physics at Yale Uni
versity. is brought out among the Yale
bi-centennial publications under the title
of Light" The books aims to describe
and explain the very large number of
phenomena in the domain of optics which
may be regarded familiar. in d sense
that all of them may be observed without
the accessories which are found only in
the collections of apparatus characteris-
tic of physical laboratories. The
phenomena of colcr sensations are
dealt with briefly and what may be called
atmospheric optics is given very full
treatment.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Studies in Evolution" by Charles EN-
erson Beecher, Ph. D., professor of his
toricai geology IN Yale University. has
lust been published by the Scribners 1t
is mainly "A collection of occasional pap
ors. reprinted from the publications of
the laboratory of inVertibrate paleontoi-
ogy Peabody Museum.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

4
| of Pallas alu;led to in The Raven?'' j. W. ".
He was born at Boston. Mass, January
| 10, 1909. His parents, who were play erS,
| died in his early childhood, and he was
adopted by John Allan, a wealthy Vir-
ginian. He was sent to school near Lon
don, England, when six years old. and
entered the University of Virginia in 1896.
but removed a year later. The fol-
lowing year. in Boston. he issued his first
volume of poems. He enlisted in the
army under an assumed name as pri-
vate, and became cadet at West Point
in 1880, but was dismissed in 1881. In lS5si
he married and for several years his life
approached regularity. but then he quar-
relied with his publisher and for nearly
ten years edited contributed to the lit
erary periodicals of that day and issued
several volumes. About 1916 he became
so poverty-stricken that Il public appeal
was made in his behalf. In January. 1877,
his wife died. and he died October Z, 1919.
at Baltimore. Md. 2. ''Lenore' was the
narrator's lost love. The bust of Pallas
was an ornament Of the room in which
the events narrated took place. and is
without especial significance, Poe con-
Tossing to having chosen it merely be-
cause of the contrast between its marble
and the ravens plumage.
Some time ago l put a question to the
editor of Notes and Queries TO the
origin of the proverb Ignorance is the
mother of devotion" 1t was not an
swered. Recently | made the same en-
quiry OF the editor of the New York
litneS SATURDAY review. l Wlsneu 10
know il il was TO he found in Anatomy
of Melancholy" big book with multi
tude of quotations, etc. but without an
index. The editor OF the Times review
answers that in that book. first published
In 162l. Democrirus says to the reader
Ignorance Is a privation: error a positive
fact" And he finds the first appearance
of the proverb In Fuller's Church His
terry of England" A conyocation or
priests was held at Westminster in 1910
A dispute arose about service In an un-
known tongue, in, which DIR. Cole said:
Il tell you that ignorance is the mother
of devotion century earlier Luther Is
quoted as characterizing certain order
of monks as THE Brothers of Ignor-
ance." W. II. BURR.
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Modern science gives not only
negative support to practical philoso-
ply and ethics in demolishing the
Kantian duaiism, but it renders the
positive service of substituting Tor 1t
the new structure of ethical monism.
1t shows that the feeling of duty does
not rest on an illusory categorical i'm
perativc,' but on the solid ground of
social instinct. as we find in the case
of all social animals. 1t regards as
the highest aim Of all morality the re-
establishment of sound harmony be-
tween egoism and altruism, between
self-love and the love of ones neigh
bor."
In this train of reasoning there is as
curious a contradiction as the one which
Prof. Haeckel condemns in Kant. The
Categorical imperative" in the last analy-
sis means about this: Act in such way
that all your actions may, II possible, be
in harmony with the universal law of
broad enough for a universal law of hu-
man conduct is the equal recognition Of
our own rights and our neighbors', in
other words. the Golden Rule. This is
conceded by Haeckel himself little fur
ther on. In the latter part of the passage
above quoted he says that the feeling of
duty does not rest on an 'iIlusory cate
gorical imperative" but on a social in
stinct" which points to this very cate
gorical imperative. The reader thus may
see that, after declaring that since all
normal men have not the same sense of
duty and therefore cannot perceive the
law. the author then goes on
to state gravely that this feeling OF duty
this perception of universal law, rests
on a social instinct more and more highly
as society progresses, and
tending directly to the establishment of
one system of ethics founded on the Col
den Rule The flaw in the argument of
Prof, Haeckel seems to come from the
fact that he overlooks the necessity of
martial perception and individual distor-
tion of truth. Because all men cannot see
all truth, II does not follow that they can
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

How much were the German demands at the
close OF the Franco -Prllssian lessened in the
peace negotia:ionss . Do any Of our warships
have arnor a foot. s~d half thick2 l.
They included the cession of Alsace and
Lorraine. with Metz, Strasburg. and Bel
fort, and the payment of 6,oJ0. .OO0, ,Ovo
francs. The French negotiators were
stubborn and had the support of the Brit
ish GovernWent, but could save only Bel
fort and GOO 600 francs. 2. Yes; that
is the thickness of the side armor or the
Oregon, Massachusetts, and Indianaia
The Washington times., 1901-09-08

Now that the historical novel is dead
issue in the book shops, readers are
turning their attention to stories of adj
venture. Among the promising books for
the autumn is Frank Savile's Beyond the
Great South WALL which the New AM
sterdam Book Company will issue in a
few days.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-29
KING EDWARD PLEASED.
He Returns Thanks to the State Of N G. For
the Sympathy Expressed.

1t will be remembered that among the
first resolutions passed by the General
Assembly of 1901, was one of condo
lence and sympathy to the people OF
England and to King Edward VII on
the death Of Queen Victoria. These
resolutions were forwarded to England
through the office of the British EN-
basy in Washington.
Yesterday Secretary of State Grimes
received from Sir Julian Pauncefote,
the British Ambassador to the United
States, a reply to the message from
North Carolina, which reads thus:
british Embassy, Washington, March
%. Sir, / have the honor to inform you
that / duly Forwarded to the Marquis
of Landsowne for transmission to it's
high destination the resolution sent to
me by you on behalf of the State of
North Carolina on the occasion of the
deeply lamented death OF Her late Maj
esty, Queen Victoria, Empress of In
dia. The King was much pleased at
this touching tribute to the memory of
the late Queen, and am instructed to
to you His Maiestys most sim
cere thanks for this nighly appreciated
mark of sympathy.
Il have the honor to be Sir,
Yours obediently,
"PAJNCEFOTE."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-29

But. he explained, It will not give a
man power as an evangelist unless God
has called him to thsl work 1t viii
give power MS teacher as mother, as
father, in whatever vocation one is
called. Touching the subject of moth
erhood, DR.. Torrey said that motherhood
is the most sacred office in the Bible;
that the ideal woman s the mother.
Taking up the question of the abso-
lutte necessity of baptism by the Holy
Ghost, the speaker declared that man
is unqualified to preach unless ne mas
received that baptism, and that one is
unqualified for teaching, for mother
hood or fatherhood.
AS to the possibility. he showed by
Acts ii, 49, that we can all have 1T. The
promise there mentioned is for all OF US
The solemn fact your responsibility
was dwelt upon. If We are not Wiling
to pay the p"ice for this BAPTISM we
will be held responsible for every soui
lost that might have been saved through
our power derived from the Holy
Spirit will be taken uC.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-29
TO BUY THE BURLINGTON.
Strong Efforts to Secure This Road For the
Northern Pacific
CBy the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press0
New York, March 2T.-1he Evening
Post says:
burlington and Northern Pacific
shares were strong and active today on
the revival OF the reports that there
would be a lease of tho Burlington by
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern Railways. No official confirmation
of these reports could be obtained TO-DAY
and important stock-holding interests
in the Burlington denied having intor-
nation that any offer had been made
for the Burlington railroad. 1t may also
be said that neither the Great Northern
nor the Northern Pacific directors nave
considered such a lease or terms Tor
taking over the Burlington.
"a strong effort il iinder way how
ever, to secure control of the Burllng-
ton and to turn it over to the Northern
Pacific and the Great Northern These
proposals originate with President ). j.
Hill and the negotiations are entirely
in his hands. Whether he will be sue
cessful in inducing the present man
agement of the Burlington to accept ms
proposals remain to be seen. 1t is be-
lieved that Mr.. Hill is prepared TO BID
high cash price fo9 Burlington, to
lease it at specified guaranteed rem
tai, or to exchange the stock for the
new bonds-as the Lake Shore and
Michigan Central were acquired by the
New York Central