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The Washington herald., 1907-10-13

bring back, but their graves We're hon
ored. ana he governed Fez and Tangler
wisely-though with some intolerance.
He made the whole district so safe that
two 1rishwomen and a child camped for
months in the heart of the country, with
no guard beyond their servants Their
/ lives, money, and valuables were at the
mercy Of any passing traveller. for they
left the camp days at a time, with only
the cook in charge. and they never lost a
farthings worth. That could not happen
in many places In the world but it did
happen in Morocco: and l was one Of
those women, and the child is my little
daughter. He was a stern and implac-
able judge, with "a hatred of wrongdoing
that gained him much unpopuiarity
among the legations. Raisouli had no
friends in the legations in any case-he
is the enemy Of all foreigners. being a
Moor of the Moors. Indeed, he has only
one friend who Is Nazarini, and him
the MoOrs admire almost as one of them
selves-a mighty hunter, whom they
nickname "Nimrod" So when thief
was beaten to death before the gate Of
the German legation he was pronounced
a brute. and when the anjera plotted to
he was held accountable. though the an
jeTa are his enemies. and went the length,
not long ago, OF kidnapping his mother,
and making him ransom her handsomely
But the MOors approve OF him. He is
all that is necessary in a man and a
ruler. It would be well TO remember that
in subsequent dealings witl him.
Again a Rebel.
Last year he went out to pacify'' Ar
zila. Arzila had risen in rebelliOn-we
We're told IN Fez, because the Sultan
had given it to the American bashadow-
so wild does Tumor fly in Morocco. When
RaisouH quelled the trouble he asked
that the city might be added 10 his gov
ernorship; and those who sit at the Sui
tan's ear told him not to grant that re-
quest, because Of the legations. There
was too much quiet and good order to
quite please some Of the legations, and
once more Raisouh was a rebel with a
price on his head.
I have told you the story as il is told in
the Sok. Raisouh met guile with guile.
and took the Sultan's ambassador pris-
oner. only God knows the truth
Raisouli knows no fear
ADout ioi thiShl ui 30 dSo tAe EH6ilSh
Ambassador, the secretary to the French
legation, and the Times correspondent.
rode out to Zeenut to see what was once
Raisouli's house. From every desolate
fragment. from every blackened thatch,
suddenly peered a rifle and a booded head.
There was much talk forthwith. The
MOors have a name for the one who
talked, not fiattering, but truly descrip-
tive. He brought the party of. after
much suspicious parley, and when Rails
oul heard his rage reached 10 the very
heavens. Such an opportunity-and lost!
And they say in the SOk when they tell
it. by Allah had Mulai Hummet but
known in time the Sultan would have
quaked upon his throne.
Morocco is the land of surprises-and
from Africa comes always what is new.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
MANSFIELD'S CAUSTIC WIT.
Two Instances In which At was to
the Point.

Richard Mansfield, the recently deceas-
ed actor, hired a private secretary a few
years ago. but was compelled to discharge
him because he could not spell and was
otherwise rather lame in the matter OF
education. When the young man had
received the notice OF his dismissal he
went to the actor and asked for an ex-
planation says the Boston Transcript
The fact is" ne was told, your edu-
cation is too meager for the requirements
OF the position
Greatly offended, the ex-secretary ex-
claimed: why, sir, my parents spent
5000 on my education"
Then, my dear boy" said the actor.
I would advise them to institute pro-
ceedings for the recovery Of the money
They We're swindled."
Another story told of him was his
witty reply to the promoters who came
to him for capital to float the greatest
scheme since Col Sellers time" They
painted their prospects in more colors
than the rainbow, and their optimistic
verbiage was more brilliant than an
autumn sunset
Mr.. Mansfield listened; then asked. with
delicious sangfrOid: DO you know why
the Lord said to Ananias, Stand forth -
Upon receiving a negative reply he said
We'll, I don't. either, unless it was that
you three could stand first, second, and
third
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
HUBBY is FOOLED BY TEA
Fills Wrong Caddy, Then Boasts of
His Taste.
Einds Mueh-praised Brew Is Produced
From Same Old Cheap Tea His
Wife Had Not Disturbed.

A Chicagoan who claims to be some
thing of an epicure recently looked over
his wife's grocery bill and there dlscov-
cred that she had been paying only 50
cents pound for tea, when he thought
he had been drinking tea that cost So a
pound, says What to Eat
de had never before made any COM
plaint about the tea, but just as soon as
he learned the cost he discovered all
kinds Of flaws in the beverage.
He said nothing. but when he went to
town the next time he visited a tea store
and bought pound Of the finest Oolong
tea, for which he paid 8. He took it
home that night. and, slipping-int0 the
kitchen when his wife was out, he search
ed about until he found the tea caddy,
which was nearly full
He threw away the contents, however,
and reflfed the caddy from his own pack
age. 1t had not been his intention TO say
anything about the substitution, but next
evening he could not help referring to
the improved quality Of the beverage.
"Ah. this is something like tea this
evening. said he Don't you notice the
difference?"
NO. I don't" said his wife 'It tastes
to me exactly Ike the tea we have been
drinking for the past month, and so il
should. for II is the same tea.
Just like a woman. he said she
never knows what is good and what ism t
unless We tell her. Now. I could have
told you with my reyes shut that this tea
is better than the tea We have been drink
ing"
1T is a pity you haven't been drinking
with your eyes shut all the time" re-
torted the lady. Anyhow. IL is the same
tea.
We'll, I'll just prove % you, said her
husband. how defective a woman's sense
Of taste can be- Yesterday ! bought a
pound Of s. tea, threw out what was in
the caddy, and put mine in its place And
TO think that you never noticed the diff
ference"
Just what I thought" said the wife.
quietly THAT was some special tea 1
keep for special occasions. The caddy
with the cheap tea is in the cupboard in
the kitchen, and this" she added. with
an eXasperating smile, as she lifted the
teapot, was made out Of the self-same
caddy as It has been every evening How
blessed you must be in possessing such a
cultivated taste, I have heard that tea
tasters set very high salaries! Now,
don't you"
But the husband cut her remarks short
by leaving the room.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
STONES GAINED BY WAVB
Queer Franks Plyed by Sea on tls
YuhaPlains.
Portions of Great Colorado Deses
Now Lie Several Hundred Feet
Below 0een Level.

In the southeastern portion of Cal
fornia is a great deset plain known 4
the yuma plain. whic. lies below ID
level Of the sea, says s. Nicholas.
Il Is portion of theColorado Deser
in which is d depression below sea lev5
having an area of 80 square mile.
Some portions Of this gkat sink are s
feet below the level Of thssea. The Yuh
plain is less than fifty fet below.
One portion Of this plai. several mns
in extent is covered wh remarkable
stones; remarkable in tn they bav
been shaped into many urious forms
and that independent Of the hand q
man. The waves Of an ancient So
which covered the region / the preh.s-
toric ages fashioned the st9es produr.
ing many Tesemblances to kiects man.
ufactured in workshops to-dy Or found
in nature. There are stone bns varying
IN size from a marble to a snnon-bsu
many of them as round and smooth "a
those cast for the great gunsef a man
of-war
There are stone dinner plate, as thin
as the porcelain or china foud on the
tables Of our dinlng-rooms and ieariv as
perfect in shape Sometimes aese are
found in piles two or three feethigh. as
though arranged by the hand IF man.
There are stone flowers, stone cbbages,
stone dumb-bells, stone canes stone
quoits, stone boomerangs, and zen re-
semblances to birds and animals re dis
covered.
The peculiar freak of the waes in
taking up the art Of carving in tbs part
of the plain is accounted for u the
conformation of the desert at this point.
When the waters of the sea Ocapied
this region they were a part Of Gulf
of California. the nearest point of witch
is now ninety miles distant The tdes
came into this ancient sea through he
gulf from The south They rolled up
against what is now known as Supersi-
tion Mountains; the water swept bats
against low range OF hills on tAt
/ opposite side Of the Yuha plain. and re
coiling, were again thrown back towar,
the Superstition Mountains. finally pass
ing out at about the point whence the.
entered this arm Of the gulf This KEEP
the waters at that particular point al
ways in a swirl This circular motion
wore the rocks round, or nearly so. lami
mated some OF them, carving the plate
and thin pieces, kept small rocks ant
powders revolving, turH.i.S out the ball
and dumb-bells, and in ike manner, bl
their peculiar actions.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
CHANGE IN PARLIAMENT.
The Classical Quotation No Longer
in Favor Among Debaters.


/ From the Westminster Review
With the disappearance Of Mr.. Glad
stone. and the passing" Of Sir William
Harcourt. who dearly loved to draw upon
Horatius. The tone Of parliamentary de-
bate has certainly lost much of its OIym-
plan majesty and its Attic polish In the
present House Of Commons the members
/ representing the universities Of oxford.
/ Cambridge. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aber-
deem, ST. Andrews. London. and Dublin.
number approximately go The same
seats Of learning in the Parliament Of
/ 1895 sent to the House Of Commons S29.
while there passed through the lower
chamber by the Parliamentary election in
1850. which was Liberal as representatives
of higher education n3 In the House Of
Commons Of 1874 which represented the
Conservative revolt against the Liberal
Parliament of ISIS. the universities and
schools returned Al TO st. stephens in
addition 70 these we're fully 100 service
members and cadets Of the learned pro-
/ fessions. The great university feeders"
like Eton. Rugby, Winchester. and Har-
row. and the colleges of Manchester, Liv-
erpOol. Bristol, Durham. &c, have con-
tributed proportionately fewer scholars TO
the present Parliament.
In the present House Of Commons lis
members are described as privately ed
ucated, and nineteen are given as self
educated" This is a considerable excess
upon the returns Of 1895, and especially
upon those Of 1850 and 1874 when the first
named class stood at a minimum and the
. - L. III
though several members set down as
/ privately educated" are cadets of high
I social position. one having been a cavalry
colonel and another. heir 10 a peerage.
quite 80 per cent Of the whole consist Of
farmers, merchants. and some kinds of
manufacture. one gentleman is a pilot
Of the river shannon While therefore
the basis of higher education through the
universities and public schools which are
the glory OF the worlds pedants seems
to be narrowing with a democratic eX-
pansion of Parliament, the basis Of prac-
teal and serviceable knowledge among
the honorable members is broadening II
the British House Of Commons. therefore,
can no longer claim to be distinctly the
resort of the pundits or the cultured
classes, it at least may claim more fully
to approach Mr.. Chamberlain's older
ideal Of a strictly business assembly.
Scarcely apropos Of this, however. ]
recall an evening in the lobby and 6
group of members, which included Mr.
Henry LabOuChere. Sir Charles Dixie, and
Mr.. Gibson BOwles-three Of the best
French conversauonalists in either cham.
ber 1 suggested that when the French
naval officers, then upon a fleet stay in
England, visited the House on the follow
ing day debate should be switched into
the French language. Not a bad idea,
replied Mr.. Labouchere, but who would
do the talking?" "You for one" replied
This led to a discussion upon the powers
Of honorable members to sustain such a
debate. but it was eventually decided that
there would not be French enough ip
the House 20 go round for five minutes
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
SHOW VALUE OF VACCINATION.
Medical Journal Comments on
PennsyIvania Statistics.

Such a coincidence as to suggest tie
miraculous that just when the anti-vac-
einationists have done their best to in
sure an epidemic Of smallpox in the near
future. God ald good fortune should have
provided the Pennsylvania board OF health
with so excellent weapon TO use against
them as the group of facts now for the
first time assembled into single tabu-
lated statement says the Medical Exam
iner and Practitioner.
The board of health of Pennsylvania has
Issued a brochure. Information for the
People of Pennsylvania with Regard to
the Influence Of Vaccination Upon Small
pox." 1t is only needful to look at the
pictures TO understand the lesson, and
at one of them TO appreciate the argu-
ment Pictures are introduced, showing
smallpox in every grade in all its horror
and its loathsOmeness, but beside these
Is one OF three little children which with
its legend carries conviction to any one
who has a particle OF gray matter IN
the reCeptaculum capftis
TWO of these children, aged three and
four years, were v3ccinated last year; the
youngest, an infant, had never been vac
cinated, as the neighbors under the in
fiuence OF such men as Hubbard were
persuaded that the board OF health was
In some way injuring the children and
they said so much that they over-per-
suaded the mother. who was warned by
the authorities that she was also in dan
ger, as she had not been revaccinated
since childhood.
The unfortunate youngest child and the
mother were stricken with smallpox. and.
.Gf course, the vaccinated ones escaped
Consequently it was possible to obtain a
picture of the three children just as they
had lived for some days in close personal
contact with the pestilence, but un-
harmed, because they were still protected
by the vaccination done the year before
These figures cry facts aloud; they are
from this same report Of the Pennsylvania
board OF health:
Smallpox. per million OF inhabitants
1908. Vaccination Compulsory: Germany
IL cases, Denmark. 0.5. Sweden. 21; Nor
way, 06 Voluntary: Belgium. 999; Rus
sia, 1872; Spain. sos; Hungary. l3L3"
one would suppose that fac-5 like these
could be understood by all men-but they
appear incOmprehensible TO the most part
of mankind
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
BODY BLOW FOR TARIFF.
Both Parties In Massachusetts, De-
mand It's Revision.

Aside from this factional fight. the
most interesting feature OF the political
events in Massachusetts was the fact
that both The Republican and the Demo
cratic platform declared with almost
equal force for tariff revision, says the
Buffalo Express. The Democrats went
no farther than to demand a gradual
revision, which should not unduly inter-
fere with established industries and
which would bring rates to a point where
they will merely cover the difference in
the cost of manufacture here and abroad.
That is substantially what Secretary
Taft advocates. The Republicans urged
a special session of Congress 10 remove
duties which are needed neither for reve-
nue. nor protection. and make such modi-
fications as experience may have shown
/ 10 be necessary. Massachusetts has long
been stronghold OF protection and the
fact that both parties now agree in de-
manding tariff revision has significance
which Congress cannot well afford TO
overlook.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
NOVELISTS SPOUSE FOR MAYOR.
DIR. Freeman, Who Married Mary e.
wilkins, Candidate of Democrats.

Mary E Wilkins husband-that is the
designation by which DR.. Charles NJ.
Freeman is best known by the residents
of the town where the novelist has her
beautiful home. says a Metuchen,
y. J., dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger-is going to run
for mayor Of Metuchen on the
Democratic ticket, and expects TO be
2lected. too. even though he be at pres
ent defendant in a charge of gambling
several negroes sharing that doubtful dis
tinction as his companions in shooting
craps" on which he was arrested by
Town Marshal FOuratt nearly a month
ago. The election board of Metuchen
after an exciting legal battle. in which
Mary wilkins husband was the aggres-
sor, has made a second count of the votes
east at the primary election on Septem-
Der 10, and will make a return to the
clerk OF Middlesex County, showing that
DR.. Charles N. Freeman received the ma
jOrity Of the Democratic votes cast for
candidate for mayor on the date named
The clerk will place the doctors name on
the regular Democratic ticket TO be voted
on November 8, though the doctor is
Republican, Judge Swayze, in the Su-
preme Court, had declared that DR. Free
man was the legal Democratic nominee.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
ROYALTYS NEWS CONDENSED
How Crowned and TO-be-cTOwned
Heads Learn of Worlds Doings.

From London Tid-Bits
The Emperor OF Austria saves his val
liable time by having a book of cuttings
prepared for him every morning by his
secretary. These cuttings represent all
the principal news of the day. and the
Emperor is thus able To acquaint him
self with all the most important news
without wading through page after page
of the newspapers 1t is the duty Of his
majesty's secretary to slip the columns
of cuttings into a daintily-b0und leather
case. and the Emperor peruses this little
volume at his breakfast table
In the event Of any Of the articles be-
ing very long, however, the secretary has
to condense them. and present them to
his majesty in typewriter form
The Princess of Wales possesses d
unique scrap album, in which all sorts
of cuttings from the society papers re-
lating to herself and her royal rela-
tives are preserved. The title Of this
book is suggestive. for her witty royal
highness has labeled it: Words We
Never Spoke; Things We Never Did"
The majority Of European rulers sub
scribeN TO prosecuting agencies, and so
great is their desire for information that
they insist on reading everything which
Is written about them, whether favorable
or otherwise
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
MENANDER DISAPPOINTS.
Fragments Of His Works Discount His
tOrians' EuiOgies.

From the New York Evening Post.
Undertaking Menander Is no unjust de-
scription of the process to which that
great star of Athens new comedy must
now become subjected as a result Of Jhe
discovery Of considerable fragments of
his plays
The plays of Menander, like the poems
of Sappho and Alcaeus and Agatro's s
Flower, are ;mong the products of the
Greek genius whose loss classical sch0l-
ars have particularly deplored. That has
not prevented them from assigning 70
MenGnder or to Sappho a pace IN the
leading rank Of Greek writer's, "a the
authority Of old report and traditions.
Now Il would appear that the discovered
Menander papyri reflect little glory on
a man who has been placed next To Aris-
tophanes.
His plots are perfunctory, and his char
aeters lack animation-seriCus charges
against a dramatist We are, Of course,
still at liberty to believe in his inCcmpar-
able knowledge of contemporary life, mis-
wit, his faultless style-because the ma
terial discovered is scarcely sufficient 10
contradict what the old historians Of lit
erature have said on the subject On the
whole, perhaps, Sapphos reputation has
suffered no harm from the destructive
criticism of the early Christians and The
Goths.
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
MISSISSIPPTS NEEDS URGED.
Great Area Involved in Proposed Wat
eTWays Improvement.

! From the St. Louis Glob-DemocTat
: From east 10 west the Mississippi Val
ley covers 2oO9 miles, and from north
/ TO south nearly as many Il Is needless
TO say that its population, now le,000 900,
/ is increasing fast No valley Of the world
equals IL in the production OF bTeadstuffs,
meat. cotton. timber, and petro.sv;,l. At
] the recent meeting Of the Upper Missis-
sippi River Improvement Association. one
+ of its officials. A J.. Croker, Of Mime
sofa. said the tine has come for the
cities of the Mississippi Valley to work
/ together for the Improvement OF the main
river. as all have a vital interest in the
subject.
/ If Minneapolis he remarked can
get an average OF twelve feet to St Louis
/ it viii De worth several railroads TO her
/ from commercial standpoint" II can
/ be added that the existing railroads
would not be injured by improved trans
/ poTtation by water, Scarcity Of freight
/ is not the railroad problem. on the cor
trary the puzzle for them is TO avoid
| congestion Of traffic When a student
/ of American progress looks over the Miss
/ issippi Valley, and weighs the extent 10
which il Is already the granary of the
world though its resources are largely
undeveloped. he must realize that tle
/ arteries of transportation are materially
/ its leading question. and that vigorous
action on the subject should begin now
and be maintained with uninterrupted
ereIgy. Improved waterways are regu
I iator Of freight rates and every mill per
/ ton mile saved reaches up into an item
/ Of hundreds OF millions Of dollars.
! IN swiftness Of carriage waterways arc
not expected 10 compete with railroads,
/ but iu transporting bulky articles they
are If unequaied value. Perhaps the
/ turbine engine. or something better. viii
( give an approach TO railroad speed for
| passenger boats, but the main utility of
/ deep waterways VIII be 10 handle ore.
grain, coal heavy manufactures, and
othcr weighty productions. The Mi5sis-
/ sipp Valley will be overwhelmed with
/ its own richness il its rivers are not i'm
proved so as TO pass readily to internal
ports and to the sea what it raises and
makes
The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
DECLAREs WOLVES FEAR IRON.
Ernest seton-Thompson Invites the
Presidents Attention.

In the early days wolves were com
Daratively unsuspicious and il was easy
70 trap or poison them. Then new
knowledge, a better comprehension Of the
modern dangers. seemed to spread
among the wolves. declares Ernest
Thompson-Seton in the American Maga-
zine. They learned how to detect aud
defy the traps and poison. and in some
way the knowledge was passed from
one to another. Till all wolves were fully
/ possessed Of the information. How this
is done is not easy TO say. It is easier
TO prove that It IS done. Few wolves
ever get into a trap fewer still get into
a trap and out again. and thus they
learn that "a steel trap is a tAlag 10 be
feared. And yet all wolves have the
hnowledge. as every trapper knows,
and since they could not get it at hrst
hand, they must have got it secondhand
that is, the information was communi-
! Gated to them by others OF their kind.
It is well known among hunters that
a piece Of iron Is enough TO protect any
carcass from the wolves II a deer or
antelope has been shot and is 20 be left
out over night. all that is needed for its
protection is an old horse shoe, a spur,
OF even any part of the hunters dress
No wolf viii go near such suspicious
looking or human-tainted things. They
viii starve rather than approach the car
c2ss so guarded
With poison "a similar change has come
about. Strychnine was considered infal-
lible when first il was introduced II did
vast destruction for time; then the
wolves seemed to discover the danger OF
that particular smell and would no longer
take the poisoned bait. as 1 know from
numberless experiences.
II is thoroughly wen known among the
cattlemen now that the only chance Of
poisoning wolves is in the late summer
and early autumn, when the young are
beginning to run with the mother She
cannot watch over al of them the whole
time, and there is a chance Of some of
them finding the bait and taking It before
they have been taught 20 let that sort OF
smell-thing alone.
The TvsE1 : that wolves are on the
Increase. They nave been, indeed, since
the late SOS. They have returned 10
many Of their old hunting grounds in the
cattle countries. and each year they seem
20 be more numerous and more widely
spread thanks to their mastery Of the
new problems forced upon them by civ
fIiZation