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Where Some Writers Fail.

From Harper's Magazine.
1.-THE most frequent defect in fiction SUBJ
mitted for magazine use, and, we might
add, in most of the fiction that someh how
gets published in book form, is its lack
OF spontaneity in construction and express
sion. The writer Of this manufactured fic-
tfon has certain precalculated effect in
view, with reference to which he ambi.
dously contrives every incident and situa.
ton of his story. The harder he tries the
more surely he fails of any genuine appeal
to his readers. II he DISCUSSES his labor
by facife mastery of dramatic material
and expression, he may succeed in reach
ing crude sensibilties and, because of his
lower aim, may outsell his betters. The
multitude is easily captivtaed by splendid
artifice, which, In exceptional instances,
has compelled the admiration of even the
judicious. We shall find, however upon
close examination, that in such instances
the writer has not by his strenuous effort
wholly closed the door against all spon-
taneity. Poe came very near to the ex-
clusion in his short stories of such genius
as was in him: but because he was by tenn
permanent a poet, lover therefore OF
haunting melody and easily the creator
of pregnant atmospheres. he could not COM
pletely shut himself out Of his fiction. In
our day polite literature must appeal to
human sympathies, and the writer's fer.
tility Of invention is of little service
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FREE DELIVERY AMONG INDIANS
How Messages Were Forwarded by
the Pillagers of Lake Superior.

From the Records OF the Past.
The general delivery of private informa-
ton from house to house, theoretically at
public expense and actually under govern
ment regulation, is supposed to have been
unknown to the ancients Of all periods; but
can state that one of the most effective, as
we'll as one Of the most interesting systems
of rural free delivery" ever conceived was
in use for untold generations by the In
dams Of the north shore of Lake Superior
especially the Pl.agers, and suppose prior
to the decentralization wrought by the ad-
vent of the Caucasians by the Indians Of
other localities.
Under the tribal law every person who
travels over the trail must examine the
contents of each post office that he passes
for the purpose of forwarding any mes
sages which are deliverable In the direction
that he Is pursuing. II the first person who
passes the cache or post office In which
have deposited my letter knows my family
or where they live, and expects to see them,
he must take the message to them. II he in
tends to go. only a portion Of the way he
copies my message, leaves the original as
he found 1t and deposits his copy in the last
post Office that he passes on his journey
toward my wl8wam. - +-~'
II another person comes into the trail on
the hither side of this copy he must repeat
the operation described, delivering the COPY
to my family his own copy into the last
cache on the road he travels in their direc-
ton. 49, <.=---.=- W. . !
asked the civil. chief Of the Pillagers how
long his people had used this beautiful and
effective free delivery system, and he re-
piled, Always"
natives Of the soil where the remnant Of
their tribe is now located, and as the tepee
OF the present hereditary chief overlooks
the graves Of more than thirty generations
case must mean. at the lowest. many many
centuries.
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HEROISM IN ENGINE ROOM.
Nova Scotia Steamer Burned, but All
Hands Escaped

HALIFAX, N. s., December 24-Word
was received here yesterday from Port
Dufferin. a small coast town some sixty
miles east of this city, of the destruction
by fire of the passenger steamer Strath-
coma, owned by the Halifax and Canso
Steamship Company and bound from this
port for Canso and Guysboro.
That no lives were lost is due principally
to the herosm Of the engineers and fire.
men, who stuck to their posts until the YES
sci was beached and every one OF the $50
passengers landed. Less than an hour later
she was burned to the waters edge.
The Strathcona left here Saturday even
ing under command Ct Capt. Reid. Most of
the passengers we. returning to their
homes Long the east coast after a few
days Of Christmas shopping in Halifax.
A few hours after leaving port fire was
discovered in the after hold.
When the cry OF fire was raised the Wild
most Of them clad only in their night
clothes, rushed on deck and made a dash
for the life boats, but the crew prevented
panic. The boats were not launched. but
made ready for use in case the flames COM
pletely enveloped the steamer before land
could be reached.
The terror-stricken passengers were hud-
died together in the bow of the ship, which
was headed for Port Dufferin, the nearest
place on the treacherous coast where the
steamer could find a harbor. While the
Strathcona was driven toward land at top
| speed, the sailors tried to fight back the
flames with streams of water. The draft
caused by the steamers rapid progress,
however, famed the flames and in short
time the entire after portion of the vessel
was fire.
Down in the engine room the engineer
and ffremen stuck bravely to their posts, al
though the blaze had begun to surround
them. Not until the keel of the steamer
grated on reef, a mile from the entrance
of the harbor did they abandon their dan
gerous positions and rush to the deck. Then
| the boats were lowered and all of the pas
sengers, together with the thirteen men,
| bers of the crew, taken safely ashore.
The Strathcona was only two years old
and was a vessel of 200 tons. In addition
! to the passengers she carried full gen
eral cargo of supplies and Christmas goods
| for delivery at various points along the east
coast. She was valued at $4,000
Not long ago the Strathcona ran into and
sank the sealing steamer Havana in Halifax
harbor and was condemned to pay $4,000
damages.
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association Of indictments provokes pro-
fuse and extremely abundant perspiration.
Finally, after the fourth or fifth day a
large camphor blister should be applied to
the spot attacked.
This treatment constitutes what may be
called the fundamental treatment Of pneu-
monia. None of the elements individually
can be regarded exercising a direct cura-
tive action. 1t is intended to provoke or to
stimulate the invalid to react against the
malady in self-defense. 1t operates in the
same sense as the spontaneous effort Of ma
ture.
This medical treatment has produced the
following results: In f1fty-three cases, of
which twenty-six were very serious. forty
seven were cured; that is a percentage Of
1871. Such a percentage Is far higher than
any published up to the present.
1t should be added that the foregoing
treatment does not constitute the sole
method Of treating pneumonia, but 1t rep
resents the fundamental element to which
may be added when necessary the medical
ments that may be necessitated by the in
PREVENTION Of complications or by abnormal
predominant symptoms.
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TEN KILLED IN WRECK
RACE BETWEEN RESCUERS AND
FLAMES AFTER ACCIDENT.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, December 24.-Ten per-
sons are known to be dead six others are
fatally injured, and at least twenty-five
others were hurt in the wreck yesterday
of an eastbound accommodation train on
the Minneapolis, st. Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie railroad at Enderlin, N. D.
The train from Moose Jaw, Canada. is
due at Enderlin at 11:45 pm, but last night
was about two hours late. The engineer
was running at high speed to make up lost
time. AS he swung around a curve just be-
fore entering the yards at Enderlin. q
switch engine was shifting string of box
ears to a side track. The cars did not
clear the main track, and the passenger
train hit the switch engine head on.
/. The following list of those killed In the
collision early yesterday between pas
senger train and switch engine at Ender-
lin, N. D.. was given out to-day by Of
ficials of the Minneapolis st. Paul and
Sault Ste Marie railroad. here:
Charles Backus, Bergen, N d.
H. J. yolkerng. Anamoose, N; d;
John Satterburg, Anamoose, N d.
Tony eileen, Volva. N. D.
d. J. Bersford. Medicine Hat. Canada.
Herman Rosenbaum, Volva. N. d.
w. r. Danielson, Sheldon, n. d.
Nels F. c. Hanson, Kenmare
Ole Thompson. Starbuck.
The list of injured given out by the Of
ficials includes twenty-four names.
Both engines were wrecked and the pas
senger cars were thrown in confusion down
a small embankment at the side or the
track. Several of the day coaches were
turned bottom side up and the passengers
pinned beneath the wreckage, which took
fire from the car stoves.
The passenger train was heavily loaded
with people going to spend the holidays.
Enderlin is the divisional headquarters OF
the railroad. and a rescue party was soon
at hand endeavoring to release the Inn
prlsoned passengers. Many persons were
In imminent danger from the flames, which
were fast spreading through the cars. The
roofs of the overturned cars were broken
open, and the dead and injured taken out
as quickly as possible.
1t was a race between the rescuers and
the flames but by unusual efforts all of the
injured were removed before the flames
reached them.
Ten bodies were taken out and laid beside
the track, while the injured were taken in
hastily improvised ambulances to hospitals
and hotels.
All the fatalities occurred in the smoking
car, which was telescoped by the baggage
car. Here also were most of those who
were injured, only two occupants of this
car escaping injury. There are only four
physicians in Enderin, and special train
with physicians and nurses hastily
made up at valley City and rushed to
Enderlin.
Only few passengers in the day coaches
were injured. None of the sleeping cars
left the track, and in these there were no
casualties.
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HUGHES SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
Governor-Elect OF New York to Have
No Spokesman at Albany

NEW YORK. December Ex-Governor
elect Charles +. Hughes is to try to get
away To Albany ON Thursday. He LAS a
few matters yet TO attend to in connect, on
with his law business which must L. m
ished ana in the hands of the printer the
last OF this week.
Mr.. Hughes, ii is expected. will not an
nounce any more appointments until he
reaches Albany. He has informed some of
his friends recently that he is going to stick
hard and fast TO the rule that he has made
for himself to do his own talking. While il
has been the rule with other governors to
have generally recognized spokesman IN
the Legislature from whom has been learned
the governors attitude on pending legisla-
ton, Mr.. Hughes has informed his friends
that his opinion on all such matters Will be
announced by himself alone, and that no
one, even among his cabinet will have the
right 10 speak for him. Mr. Hughes has
spoken very strongly in the last few days
to some of his friends about this matter
and they believe he means business.
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TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA.
Period Of Year When the Malady Be-
comes Most Prevalent.


From the New York Herald.
No less than five deaths due to pneu-
monia in New York society were reported
in the Herald on Monday. 1t is at this
period Of the year, indeed, that this re-
doubtable malady, which caused SO many
deaths in New York last winter, usually
begins to be prevalent. In France pneu-
monia is much less severe, nevertheless at
least % per cent of the cases end fatally.
The statistics of! mortality are sufficiently
grave to warrant Prof. Albert Robin of the
Academy Of Medicine, at its meeting yes
terday. to read communication on the
treatment Of pneumonia, of which the fol-
lowing is the gist: - - '---'- - =
"If the patient has vigorous constitu-
ton one should begin by taking from three
to four hundred grammeS of blood from the
arm. The pain In the side should be at
tenuated by means Of an injection of from
one-half-- a centigram to one centigram
of Carbohydrate OF morphine. The nourish-
and. in addition, the patient should be
given sixty ,grammes of rum in the form Of
Todd's portion every day. ~.a
1.-THE morning after the blood letting the
patient should be given forty centigrammes
OF calomelz in four packets.-of- ten cent?
grammes each. The packets should be
taken at intervals OF, all hour. Twenty
four hours after the, administration Of this
calomel a deep subcutaneous- injection
should be given of ten cubic centimes of
metallic ferment. referred to by the Herald
on several occasions, which consists Of cleo
trio solutions In water of various metals
such as silver. gold, palladium, platinum,
etc, which. in g. certain measure. may be
compared to, the liquid gold OF the ancient
alchemists; this injection should be repeat
ed every second day; the day following
each injection a cachet Of forty cent?
grammes OF carbohydrate of quinine fol-
lowed ten minutes later by a cachet of
thirty centigrammes OF pyr&midon. This
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HUNGER ON A TRAIN.
New York Central Passengers Appeal
to Governor-Elect.


BUFFALO, n. Y, December 24-After
spending eighteen hours in train 30 on the
New York Central railway on the way from
New York to Buffalo, the passengers held
an Indignation meeting and. after vigorously
protesting against the unnecessary delay,
drew up petition addressed to Gov.-elect
Hughes, asking that he order an investiga-
ton of the management of the railroad
with view to avoid repetition of such de-
lays. No provisions We're made for feeding
the passengers, they assert, although trains
were crowded, and during the last ten
hours of the trip the passengers suffered
keenly from hunger. They were violent in
their denunciatiOn of the management of
the railroad and threatened the conductor
The train supposed to leave the Grand
Central station at II 80 o'clock Saturday
night was run in three sections, and the
last one was six hours late at Buffalo
The passengers informed the governor
that the reason assigned by the train crew
was that 1T was desired to run two sections
with one engine for economy They sub
mitted that in all decency and humanity
some provision should have been made for
feeding them, and suggested that the rail-
road commission of this state be required
to investigate the management of road
which permits such gross imposition on the
public.
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ACCOMMODATING LITTLE CRAB.
Kindly Turns Over His Claws to
Fishermen and Grows Another Pair.

From lie Temps.
Visitors in Seville see women carrying
baskets full of crabs claws. The claws are
cooked and people nibble at them, more for
fun than for sustenance, just as the Rus
slams nibble sunf1ower seeds. But what is
this crustacean? What becomes of the
rest of him-especially. if crawish, of his
tail? AS matter of fact, the crawfish has
no part In the business. The carrasque-
nas-as the claws are called-are taken
from a saltwater crab and Gelasimus
tangeri, which lives along the shores OF
Morocco, Spain and Portugal. Each little
crab, with his one little wife, has little
cave for a home; and adopting the Arab
estimate of the other sex, he usually keeps
his wife shut up inside the cave, mean
while staying about the threshold himself
and making brave show with his big
claws.
When the tide runs out the crabfshers
prowl along the beach looking for crab
holes. Either the crab is stalking up and
down seeking what he may uevour, and
thus showing whether he has fine claws,
or he is still at home and the size of his
doorway indicates the size of the house
holder. In one case the fisherman cuts
off his retreat by blocking his front door
with mud. In the other case he digs him
out. Anyway, he deprives him of his
pincers and sets him. at liberty-to grow
some more -.
Right here appears the happiest feature
of the whole affair; for the pincers are
not torn away from the crab at all. In
stead he presents them to the fisherman
perhaps even with his compliments. 1t is
a fact, easily demonstrable, that the crab
can detach his claw by a muscular effort,
thus making no hemorrhage. but leaving
the stump in such condition that a new
claw is soon grown. The fishermen sim
ply take Mr.. Crab by the hand, whereupon
he lets go. leaves the claw with them, and
runs of home without 1t. And as the
claw Ia no longer of any use to him or to
anybody else in the water, and as it Is
salable and edible, the fisherman naturally
takes 1t home and sells it
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The Musicians Temperament.

From the Chicago Post.
In the ignoble story Of Alexander Petch-
nikoff's desertion Of his mother, who is
poor and widow. 1t is noteworthy that he
is an artist, a musician Of sensitive feeling
and taste --~
Petschnikoff's- behavior would not be
worth commenting on were it unique. But
he is only one of very many celebrated ar
tists-most Of them, however, musicians
whose lives, according to workaday stand
ards, are weak and selfish to an extraordf-
nary degree.
To generalize on these premises is dan
gerous-to look on all musicians with pu-
ritanical or pharisaical suspicion would
be ludicrous But that any of the famous
practitioners OF an art SO spiritual and
ennobling should be morally unstable is Gu
rious Great composers and musicians are
not infrequently vain. effeminate. sensual,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-24

irresponsible. They do not pay their debts
Ihey trade on their friendships and family
ties. They are petulant capricious and
jealous They desert their wives, make love
to other mems wives and have a wanton
disregard for all the ideas that help main
tain society.
A complete mental and physical devotion
~ eAacIed by their art of all great musi-
clans 1t is more absorbing than any other
art, more devitalizing. A musician has an
Independent intellectual existence as rarely
as an actor. His art units him. in many
cases, for the common intercourse of life
and leaves him, subtle and sensitive ex-
posed to all the coarser temptations against
which ruder natures are. proof.
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Mining in England.
From the London Mail.

From the London Nall
The value OF the minerals mined and
quarried in the United Kingdom last year
wa G95.sIO7 23. The output of coal was
the largest on record-23G. IDS, a36 tons-but
the value was only $50. OBS, 553 as against
esq S51 .7S4 in 1904. when the output was
$780, 600 tons less. The total quantity of
coal. coke and patent fuel exported was
a., 100, 645 tons. There was an increase of
SIG, 42I tons In the iron ore output. .l
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Society and the "Black Arts"

From the London Ladys Pictorial.
1t Is not too much to say that more than
half society is more or less devoted to
necromancers, sootksayers and fortune
telers and that never was there time
when the charm was more cultivated.
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No Unoccupied Land.

From the London Baker and Confectioner
Certain people always talk as IL there
was vast amount of unoccupied land
ready to be turned into wheat fields. AS q
matter of fact. nothing Of the sort is the
case. The land of the country Ia, roughly
speaking. fully occupied. and If the farmer
is to produce more wheat he must produce
less Of something else.
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The Disuse Of Faintinp

New York Correspondence Pittsburs Dispatch.
Athletics and more sane system of liv-
ing have put an end to fainting by women.
That ia the opinion Of prominent New
York specialist. who as a young man used
to visit score of 'fainting ladies'" as he
laughingly puts 1t, each day. Not many
years ago It was the fashion for a woman
to scream and drop down in a dead faint
at the least provocation." said the doctor
the other day. But now women are
ashamed to faint
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-24
True Consideration.

From the Losdon Punch
Statistics show that 5000 wives are de.
serted in Chicago every year. This proves
what we have always been led to believe.
that the American is the most considerate
husband In the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-24
Unusual.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
she-"Anything unusual in today's foot
ball game?"
He-"Yes: one of the players had his
hair combed."
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FIRST PLAIN CITIZEN HERE
Other British Ambassadors to This
Country Changed Names.
CANADA IS NOT WITHOUT HOPE
Belief There That a Canadian Will Be
Sent to Safeguard Dominion's
Interest.

LONDON, December 2i.-James Bryce,
II would appear has declined a pcerage.
and. according 10 the Daily Telegraph. will
go to the United States British ambas-
sador without changing his name and thus
be the first plain citizen to represent his
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Deluged With Complaints.

The interstate commerce commission has
been deluged with complaints as to car
shortage, and requests that some action be
taken In the matter. However, the large
southern shippers believe they will obtain
better service If the matter is not pressed.
why is it?' said a prominent lumber
man today, that the roads persist in the
cry Of no cars when big railway yards
throughout the country are damned with
empties? Take Kansas City for instance.
1t Is said that over 1900 empty box cars
are lying idle at that point. At Galveston,
ed with cotton that have been standing
there for weeks. True, the Galveston sit
uation is said to be the outcome of an al
together different question, but you cannot
convince me but that it Is simply a vari-
alton of the roads fight against the rate
law.
1T has been suggested that this conges-
ton of cotton at Galveston might be re-
lieved by wholesale shipment to New
Orleans. But the Southern Pacific knocked
the proposition in the head when 1t point
ed out that the rule requiring a thirty
day notice before special rate can be
put into effect must be complied with. The
Texas situation requires action at once.
In thirty days there will doubtless be no
need for New Orleans shipment. This thir-
ty-day notice rule is made to cover a multi
tude Of embarrassing situations and the
roads are and will continue to show up the
worst features of this requirement"
Thirty-Day Rule.
The thirty day dule is said to be playing
an important part in the alleged descrimi-
nation against New Orleans for the trade
with Panama. 1t Is reported that not long
ago a Louisiana manufacturer got con-
tract for a lot Of canal supplies He at
once inquired the export rate on his goods
from a Louisiana point to New Orleans,
where he intended to ship to Panama The
export rate Ito Europe was ~ cents. The
question was asked what was the destina-
ton of the goods. When 1t was known that
the shipment was bound for Panama. the
shipper was quoted rate of 121s cents to
New Orleans.
In explanation he was informed that
there was no regular rate for export to
Panama, and because Of the thirty-day
rule it would be impossible to give him a
special quotation until that time had
elapsed. In the opinion Of the aforesaid
shipper, this is a clear case of discrimina-
ton, with the aid of the thirty-day rule.
and another effort for the defeat of the
object of the rate law.