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of lessons and explanations delivered
orally as there was of pupils unable to
see well those which were presented
on the blackboard.
These two Investigations and their
astonishing results led to the sending
OF many hundreds of cards to parents,
telling them that their children were
suffering from eye or ear diseases, or
from both, and advising that they
should be Immediately taken to a doc
tor. Every teacher in Chicago is now
on the lookout for signs of defective
eyesight or hearing, and large num-
bers of cards are being constantly sent
out. The parents attention has been
drawn TO more than 10000 cases.
But almost every other physical
characteristic has been carefully
studied, and many useful things have
been learned about the relation be-
tween other parts Of a child's body
and its mind. One of the most i'm
portant subjects taken into considera-
ton was the matter of desks and
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By ELEANOR LEXINGTON.
TT is question whether the name

= T is question whether the name
Grant is derived from the French
J. word grand" meaning great,
valorous. If so, the family is of
French origin, and probably came
from Normandy. Or the family may
be Of Danish descent from Aquin de
Grand, or giant. Then there is a High
land clan of Grants, one of the best
known Of Scottish clans.
The earliest recollections Of the FAM
lily begin with Gregory de Grant, or
Ghraunt, who was sheriff of Inver-
ness in 1914, and the history of the
family is interviewer with the history
of Scotland. If the family is not of
Scottish origin, it early made a set
tlement in Great Britain.
One of the chain Of fortresses
which defended Scotland, Castle Ur-
quahart, was held for the King by the
family called Grant Of Grant. Gregory
de Grants grandsons, Sir John and
Sir Ralph, joined Wallace in defense
OF the liberties of their country, and
were carried prisoners to London.
In later times, one of the heroes of
the family was Sir Colquhoun Grant,
lieutenant-general, one Of the most
dashing Hussars in the British SER
vice, who commanded a brigade at
Waterloo, where he had several horses
killed under him
The first of the name in America
was Matthew Grant, who came over
on the Mary and John" in 1890 with
his family. He helped to found Wind
eor, Connecticut, and his name figures
in almost every position of trust.
Among the offices he held was that
of town clerk, and old records in his
handwriting are of value and are still
occasionally consulted.
AS church deacon, it was one, OF
Matthew's duties to carry pillow in
clean case to church every Sunday.
to be placed on the desk as cushion.
This church, it may be noted, is the
oldest Evangelical Church in Amer
ica, and, with the exception of the
Southwark Church, London, the old
est orthodox Congregational Church
in the world.
The first military member Of the
family was John Grant, born in Wind.
sor, Connecticut, i'll 1912 He was ir
King Philips war. Lieutenant Solo.
mon Grant was also in the Colonia
wars.
The muster roll Of Captain Noaf
Grants company in the French anc
Indian wars is still extant. datec
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Progress Of a Most Interesting Experiment in
the Metropolis Of the Lake Region

ture TO accommodate the excessively
tall and the excessively short among
the pupils. But even when the most
improved school furniture .at present
to be bought is installed f the public
schools, something like a quarter Of
the pupils must still be placed in seats
and at desks likely to iniuriouslv af-
feet their health: But this unfortunate
condition will undoubtedly be met bv
inventors and manufacturers and the
school children Of the whole world
will be the gamers.
A Complete Surprise
to the Educators
of the Country
The fact that the figures resulting
from the Chicago investigation were
complete surprise to the school
boards of the entire United States
shows clearly the importance of this
novel investigation. Letters from all
parts of the world are received by
the department asking for details
Germany seems to be more deeply in
terested than any other foreign coun-
try.
But much other work has been done
by the Chicago investigators. More
than thirty thousand children have
been examined scientifically. This has
resulted in many interesting discov-
cries concerning individual children,
which greatly assisted their teachers
and parents in adjusting their school
work and everyday life to their
especial needs
A machine called the "ergograph"
tests the child's nerve and endurance.
The relations Of height standing and
height Sitting, weight, strength of
grip in both right and left hands, vital
capacity strength and capacity of the
lungs), and other minor matters, to
school standing and general health
have been carefully figured out by the
examination of thousands Of cases.
The conclusion is undeniable that in
the majority of cases the healthy child
is much better and more capable
student than the one who. while not
definitely i'll, is occasionally ailing.
and, moreover, that Drawn and MUS
Gle, weight and stature have their dis
tinct reactions on the brain.
Tests Of the memory power of large
numbers of children show that the
larger and stronger pupils are supe-
rlor in native force of memory to the
smaller and weaker ones. But the re-
lation between mind and body has
been found to go even farther than
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ESCAPE. OF A MURDERER
By JULIAN HAWTHORNE

quaintance's name was So-and-so, and
that he belonged to the - Club.
Richard Grant White was a mem
Der of this club, and was interviewed
by the detective who came to make
inquiries. He was interested in the
case, and went to see the prisoner in
his CELL for he had been remanded
without bail pending investigation. |
should have said that a person of
name similar to that given by the pris-
oner was really member Of the club,
but he was not known to be in town.
White had a long interview with
the prisoner, and became convinced of
was, of course, in the teeth of the facts
alleged against him, and was based
simply upon the impression which the
prisoners manner produced.
That evening White attended a
theatre-the same which was after
wards called The Star He sat on the
left aisle, in the middle of the sec
ton. After the performance, as the
audience rose to depart, he was
amazed to see the prisoner, whom he
had left in his cell only two or three
hours before, standing up in the mid
die of the parquet, leisurely putting
on his overcoat. There could be no
mistake; there were all the character
istics-the lofty stature, the aquiline
features, the scar under the eye. 1t
was surely the man.
White signalled to him to attract
his attention, and. at last succeeded
in doing so; but the man seemed to
become ill-at-ease, and hurriedly left
the theatre before White could reach
him. Greatly perplexed, White went
down to the station, and asked the
captain why the prisoner had been re-
leased. The captain, perplexed in his
turn, declared that the prisoner was
asleep in his cell at that moment, and
had never left it. They went down to-
gether, and, sure enough, there he
was.
The prisoners alibi was fully
proved within the next twenty-four
hours, both by the CLUB member and
/ by the clerk of the Chicago hotel. II
| had been a case of mistaken identity
an extraordinarily minute resemblance
between the arrested man and the rea
murderer The latter, who never wa,
captured, had attended the theatre
and was mistaken by White for thC
prisoner; Whites gestures and ap
parent recognition had alarmed him
and he had lost no time in escaping. I
is perhaps the sole case on record o
murderer being identified by tn,
! identification of an innocent man who
looked like him.
/ JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
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a day in advance the story of the de-
structlon OF Cervera' feet. MacHugh,
who IS a captain of the Royal Garri-
son Artillery Volunteers, was a medi-
cal student for three years, but aban-
doned pills and physic to enter the
gallery of the House of Commons,
where he was a conferee of Maxwells
During the Spanish-American war
MacHugh was present at the bonn
bardment of Santiago, and from his
despatch boat saw Schley put Cervera
out OF the game. Thinking that the
cable at Mole, Hayti, might be
blocked, he made for Port Antonio,
Jamaica, more distant, but. TO the 10Y
of himself and his associate, free, if
they could only raise the price.
Though it was late in the dav, a mer-
necessary cash-$8,Ooo gold-and they
succeeded in getting their story
through.
MacHugh was in South Africa
throughout the war. He was shut up
in Ladysmith and had several close
shaves, so many, in fact, that they
grew monotonous. While talking with
a friend in the doorway of a hotel, a
36-pounder came through the roof
down the stairway and cut his friend
in two, bespattering MacHugh so that
those who saw thought both men had
been hit MacHugh, however, es-
capped without a scratch.
General Butler used one of Mac
Hugh's letters as an official despatch.
The despatch provoked considerable
controversy, and finally Lord Lans-
downe, Minister of War, stood up in
the House Of Lords and told the story
of MacHugh's message and how Bull
Ter came to use it. This was a grand
send-off for MacHugh.
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HISTORY OF THE GRANT FAMILY

March 26, 1856. Reuben Grant served
all through the Revolution; and in a
list OF American prisoners exchanged
at New York, December, 1880. the
name Of Lieutenant Jesse Grant ap-
pears.
The life of maiden in Colonial
times was not lacking in thrilling ad-
ventures. Take the case Of the lieu
tenants cousin, Grace Grant, after
wards the wife of Asabel Green, Her
adventures began in her school days,
when she spent nearly half the night
alone in a cabin with wolves, she in
the loft above, they below. Stealing
the bride" was a social function in the
early days, and she was the heroine
of an episode of this kind. but clever
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'ALKING of murders and
they are talked of daily
Richard Grant White, the

Y ALkING OF murders - and
they are talked of daily
i Richard Grant White, the
late distinguished editor and
critic, had an experience with a muir
derer which was, so far as l know,
unique.
He told it to me one soft English
forenoon, as we walked together
through the green lanes in the neigh
borhood of Twickenham, near Lon
don. l have forgotten the names Of
the persons involved, but the incidents
are distinct in my memory.
A was. found murdered in his
r, IN boarding house in New
York. He had been seen the previous
evening going up to his room with
another man Of marked personal ap-
pearance-tall, thin, aquiline-featured,
with a peculiar scar under the left
eye. He was never again seen alive.
He had been stabbed through the
body from behind; and on the table
was a long-bladed knife, quite new,
with the sale mark of New York
dealer on the handle. On the blade
was dried blood.
The knife was traced to the store
of the dealer, and a salesman recalled
having sold it to a tall, hook-nOsed
man two days before. The person
who had seen the strange man enter
ing the boarding house with the VIC
tim gave a detailed description oi
hin Nthe police. Five hours later a
n Sering the description was ar.
IA saloon on Broadway, and
% the station. There he was
bnted with the witness, who i'm
nately and positively identified
IN. The salesman was then brought
in, and his recognition OF the prisoner
was no less absolute.
The prisoner asserted his innocence
declaring that he had bought no knife
and had never visited any New Yorl
boarding house. He said further tha
he had arrived in town from Chicago
only few hours before his arrest. Ht
had never known or heard of the mur
dered man, nor had he ever befort
seen either of his identihers. Beint
asked if he had witnesses to supper
his alibi, he said he had registered a
a certain small hotel in Chicago thre,
days before; and that on his journe,
to New York he had fallen into tall
with New York man, who had ex
changed cards with him. He had mis-
laid the, card. but he thought his &C
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TWO WAR CORRESPONDENTS
By c. L. BROWNELL,
Atthor OF "The Heart of Japan"

SEW London newspaper men
ID would refuse to E. F. Knight,
j of the Morning Post" the
primer position among English
war correspondents
knights war experience began
years ago when he served with the
French through the Franco-Prussian
War He was also in one of the Sou
dan campaigns for the Times" for
which he has a medal with clasp
showing that he was in action. Later
he was for the same paper further
south in Africa This was when the
Matabeles grew troublesome Knight
saw that fracas through to its end.
After that the Times" sent him
across the Atlantic to do the war with
Spain from the Spanish side, and he
was able to associate himself with ad-
venture almost from the beginning.
He arrived in Florida a few days
after war had been declared and could
not obtain permission from the Unit
ed States authorities to go over to the
Spanish. Nothing daunted, he pro-
ceeded aboard vessel whose skipper
agreed to set him adrift in a small
boat off part of the Cuban coast
where the Spaniards were known to
be IN possession.
The skipper carried out his part of
the programme, but the small boat
misbehaved She upset and kept
Knight astride her bottom for eigh-
teen hours. Then the Spaniards took
him for spy and put him in prison
to dry before they shot him. His
papers had gone overheard when the
boat upset and he did not doubt that
he was IN a predicament. but fortil-
nately, through the agency Of the
British Consul, he was able to square
himself with Spain and to carry out
the scheme he had planned for him
self. He served his paper until the
declaration of peace He was the
only English correspondent in Ha-
vana during the war.
Immediately on the outbreak of the
Boer war he went to South Africa.
AS usual, he sought for excitement
at once, and getting between the firing
lines at the battle of Belmont. he in
tercepted a Boer bullet. The bullet
caught him in the shoulder. 1t was
explosive and destroyed his better
arm. He has only his left now.
R. ]. MacHugh, who is with the
Japanese army for the Daily Tele-
! graph" is we'll known to many Amer
ican newspaper men through hi;
work during the Spanish-American
war. He assisted in getting through
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A Department Store in the Wilds.

Nowadays there are fine stores in
many parts of the Klondike, where
man can buy anything he needs" said
Cy Warman, the author Of that popu-
lar song, Sweet Marie, but when
went there, soon after the gold dis
coveries, the. average store was like
one | saw on the trail through the
Bonanza Valley.
In front Of little tent man had
a fe% old books, cheap magazines and
cheaper paper-bound novels, some
Knives two or three spoons, a small
piece Of lead pipe, a tomato can and
an old currycomb, all piled in one
heap upon the grass. Upon card
tied to a low stake that stood above
the wreck he had written with char
coal, 'FersaiL
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The Fate of Empires.

Empires totter and fall, and states
men wonder why they don't totter
and fall when speeches are made say
ing that the ultimate is reached. Thus
Empires show wisdom, and the states
men the other thing.
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day and turned the tables on them.
Captain Noah Grant III. took part
in the famous Boston tea party, and
he was one Of the first to march to
Lexington He was grandfather to
General Grant, who was of the eighth
generation from Matthew the Set
tier, of whom he said:
His nationality never interested
me. | am perfectly satisfied with
being an American through and
through, with seven generations of
honest American ancestors"
II there was strain of Scottish
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this. Careful Investigations have
shown that quickness of muscles
means quickness Of brain. This was
demonstrated in a test recorded under
the heading Of Motor Ability"
A simple instrument consisting Of a
metal plate connected with an cleo
tric battery, and metal stylus, SIM
llarly connected, was devised for this
purpose. The child undergoing the
test was given the stylus and told to
tap with it as rapidly and regularly
as possible on the metal plate. It was
found that the children of the same
age who were at or above their prop
er grade registered anywhere from
two to ten taps more a minute than
the children who were below grade.
Following these physical tests came
tests Of memOry-frst, Of memory Of
things heard; second, of things seen;
third, Of things both heard and seen,
and fourth. Of things heard seen and
written down. These tests proved that
the average child remembers things
seen better than he remembers things
heard, and that visual memory power
increases steadily up to the age Of
fourteen years and six months.
They show the superiority Of an ap-
peal to the eyes Of school children
over an appeal to their ears. Ear
memory is superior to eye memory
among children up to the age Of eight
years and six months. There NAV be
found in this an important point for
the consideration of all parents as
we'll as for all school teachers.
The Healthy Child
Always in Advance
of the Weakling
In these researches into the memory
Of the child the Importance Of stature.
bodily strength, weight and motor
ability, or muscular quickness, has
again been demonstrated. In the
memory, as in all other tests. the child
with the healthy, normal body comes
out we'll ahead of the sickly weakling.
Another conclusion which these
tests have led to is, that the best
teaching is that which appeals to the
greatest number Of the child's senses.
1t has been proven that sight memory
Is better than hearing memory; but
1t has also been proven that the COM
bination of the two is better than
either alone. IF the muscle memory
is also appealed to-that is, if the
child not only sees and hears. but is
required to write down-a still fur
ther advantage is secured.
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Scien It's is
Have Figured Out
Their Relationship
Strong Muscles
Make Strong Brains

IN 1893 the Chicago Board of Edu-
cation established the worlds
J. first Department Of Child Study
and Pedagogic Investigation.
The Department. little group Of en-
thusiastic pioneer invest tigators-ha
been working since then to find out
the relation between a child's mind
and a child's body. Many discoveries
of the highest interest and Importance
have been made, and, although they
have attracted the attention of pro-
iessional educationists all the world
over, they are now given to the gen
eral public for the first time
Despite the old saying about "a
healthy mind in a healthy body"
many false impressions have existed
concerning this matter 1t has been
the general belief, for instance, that
really bright children were likely to
be physically weak; that brain ac-
tivity was likely to decrease bodily
activity. But it has been conclusively
proved in Chicago that the healthy
OON Ol SIl SldlluS IHuCH DSCLeF
chance of being the "brainy" boy or
girl than does the weakling. The
Chicago scientists have demonstrated
that the nearer normal a child's body
is, the nearer normal its mind will
probably be. Those cases Of unusual
mental abilities in weak children land
the reversed, which do unquestionably
exist. may be set aside as exceptions
which prove the rule Most of the
Chicago investigators assume that
children who are both weak and
bright are bright in spite of, and not
because Of, their weakness, and that
if they had strong instead of weak
bodies they would be much brighter.
The Linking
of Physical
and Mental Training
Thus in Chicago has been created
what is unquestiOnably the strongest
argument ever advanced for the link
ing Of physical and mental training
All of the early Investigations of the
Chicago searchers after truth hinged
on this relationship between the
strength Of development Of the body
and the strength and development of
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Relation Of
Bodily Strength
With Mental GRASP

nc course OF the lnVeSugdtiOn was
most interesting. Before these men
went to work it was not generally un-
derstoOd that there was any direct
relationship, for instance, between the
strength Of the grip Of a child's hand
and the ability of his mind to grasp
facts. No one assumed that steadiness
and endurance of muscles bore at all
on ability to concentrate thought on
school studies, or that the size and
shape of school desks and seats had
anything to do with the progress in
their studies of the children who
worked at and sat in them. The fact
that many children had weak eyes was
recognized; but weak eyes were
scarcely considered an excuse for bad
class standing. Deafness was known
to af1ict thousands Of children, but
just what relation it bore to their
ability to learn geography or arithme-
tic was not understood. All Of these
things, and many more, have now
been worked out
The first work of the investigators
was to take fair proportion of the
children of various specific grades
from a number of schools and sub
Ject them to tests OF many kinds.
Their eyesight was carefully investi-
gated in search not only for near
sightedness, but for color blindness
and other defects. The results were
amazing.
Hundreds of children were found to
be suffering from defective vision
many Of them SO seriously that the
trouble had effect upon their studies.
In most cases the children themselves
and their parents were ignorant of it,
and, this being the case, it was not
surprising that their teachers should
have also been unaware of the pupils
handicap.
A little research showed that many
children who had been slow to learn
lessons written upon blackboards had
been prevented from so doing not by
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R. ]. MacHugh, who is with the
Japanese army for the Daily Tele-
graph" is we'll known to many Amer
lean newspaper men through his
work during the Spanish-American
war. He assisted in getting through
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the mind, and most of the results
which have been obtained are along
that line The work of these men in
Chicago seems destined to be the be-
ginning Of a movement which will re-
suit in making the education of the
young not matter of theory, as it
has always been in the past, but an
exact science.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-10
NOT RAPID SPRINTERS.
Two Greek Boys Attempt to Escape
From CUSTODY.

Two Greek boys who had been prevented
from going away to New York on the noon
train today made a break for freedom
when they reached the entrance to police
headquarters, but had not gone far before
they were recaptured and returned to the
building. Detectives Berman and Muller
were in the Baltimore and Potomac depot
when the boys entered and purchased tick
cts emitting them to a ride to New York
Because of their youth and for the addi-
tional reason that they were not attended
by older persons, the detectives arrested
them and took them to headquarters for
investigation. Detective Muller had other
business on hand and his partner was left
to make part of the trip with the boys
alone. 1t was not until they were about
to enter the building that they attempted
escape. Detectives Flather and OBrien
left the building in a hurry and sprinted
across the street behind one of the fugi-
tives, while Detective Berman pursued tie
smaller of the pair. The boys were not
fast runners by any means, AMI rad rot
reached the opposite side of the street when
they were caught
There was no question about the nation