The Saint Paul globe., 1903-02-09

who had sojourned three weeks be-
meath his roof and spent every day
studying the philosopher. The gov
erness' could, apparently, see only the
outside garb- Of the man, and the
strange contrast Of the life he- leads
within the most modern and up-to- date
OF households. For the countess, his
wife, is the very antithesis of Tolstoi,
and the family is divided against it,
self, the sons going With their mother,
and one daughter only adopting her
fathers methods of life and concurring
in his views. When the newspaper
man arrived he was met by the count
ess in full evening dress and asked
to dress for dinner at once. When he
entered the dining room he found a
dinner party in progress, the countess
ablaZe with diamonds at one end OF
the table, at the other Tolstoi in his
peasants blouse, and next to him his
daughter in a costume of coarse grey
t1annel. He took part in the CONVEX
Saton when appealed to, but was very
silent during most OF the dinner of
nine courses and many wines. After
dinner he retires each night to his liv-
ing room, which contains his work
bench, at which he sits and makes
shoes while his daughter reads aloud
to him. He takes no part in the af-
fairs of the household save appearing
at meals, and his belief in the doctrine
OF resistance of evil prevents his
making any protest against the friv-
olfty of the life Of the family The
newspaper man was convinced of the
sincerity OF the man, and-eame away
believer in his greatness and abso-
lutte honesty. Elbert Hubbard believes
in him with limitations. He thinks
much of his lack of belief in spiritual
love and of the sanctity of marriage,
comes from an unfortunate personal
Nnr-iAr
r1age not ideal, therefore he denied
the existence of ideal love. If this be
true, it is rather surprising to find
man of TolStoi's knowledge and ex-
perience taking the narrow, personal
view Of life, because one of the first
characteristics of genius is usually a
wide tolerance, an understanding of
possibilities and a comprehension of
the points of view Of others Ebert
Hubbard has been engaged by the Cos
mOpOlitan to write a series of articles
for the current year.
Standard Oil Story in McClure's.
There are some very good things in
the February McClure's, and notably
the continuation of Ida NJ. TarbelI's
history of the Standard Oil company.
The present chapter deals with Rookie
feller's second attempt to control the
oil business, and the editor, in a note,
informs the reader that this particular
story has never been told before. even
in the Investigations Of the company
before the courts. Miss Tarbell is a
brave woman. She calls the chapter
in question "An Unholy Alliance" Just
When the papers are full Of the Rookie
feller generosity to church and college.
and laudation of his desire to put his
great wealth at the disposal Of educa-
tional and philanthropic institutions. it
takes courage on the part of the his
torian and the magazine to thus eX-
plot him. 1t will be interesting to
watch the outcome of Miss TarbelPs
audacity. y
Jacob Riis writes Interestingly in
McClure'S of DR.. Niels F'insen. Of
Copenhagen, a countryman of his, and
of his remarkable discovery Of the
healing power of rays Of light DR..
Finsen's- first interest in light came
l, because he lived many years Of his
life in Iceland, and there suffered for
the lack of light, and grew to study
the results OF the too rare sunlight.
Himself an invalid, he studied medi-
cine, but was too i'll to practice and
became preceptor in anatomy in the
university. This was in 1898, and now
his name. IS famous throughout the
world, and particularly in medical cir
cles. He began his experiments with
earthworms, and discovered that If
several Of them are placed in an OBJ
long box, half covered with red glass
and the other half with blue, that they
will always. crawl away from the blue