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The Largest Morning Circulation.
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with and with red blood in their veins. nor
nal moral instincts, and high character.
Dr. Gordon has say, therefore. concerning the
popularity books the late production Of Mrs
Ellnor Gyn is of unusual interest.
You will remember the fuss that stirred UP when
Titian-haed authoress published the Of her
hero Paul-and fresh in your mind the breathess,
whispered discussions with your about the book
Critics were almost unanimous consgning the lit
erary hades which sale Of about $4,000 copies
And so it was the success of the season.
You recall too of Mrs. Gyn 70 this country.
her spirited ructon with the Puritan Mothers in New
York her indignant denial Of suggestion of inn
propriety in her novel
why" she declared. a softly voice up
lifting her eyebrows 'it is story. 1t teaches
spiritual awakenng-through the love Of beautiful and
noble woman"
some people took it at One would dare dis
some drolery Balzac in polite society be-
cause immoral but immoral Mrs Giyn her
story moral That saved it-in her opinion
Recently there evangelistio mission to the
United States his parish Canada Ralph Connor
Appalled, by the popularity of decadent books in this coun
try interview he has uttered the most ringing words
OF warning He foresees corruption of the youth OF the
country by modern books He can see no moral IN such
This is as though one would have to go hell first
to get TO heaven is 1t not? Personally have not read
Mrs Gyns book. do not think should wish to do So
teaching a moral lesson is absurd
When I read book it leaves most vivid impression
on me II is as though had met the characters. And
books which evil impressions wreak more spiritual
The success of books of that type in this country is
regarded the Canadian clergyman the most omnous
In England really healthy book has little chance
nowadays" he declared The people have been poisoned
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secutve hours. and Immediately with stoppage of
the current.
In order to indsce electric narcoss the circuit is form
ed by the supply. the rhessta the nterupter the cur
rent reverser. the mampermeter and the subject The
hair shaved from the head of the animal to be expert
mened dog rabbit The hair should be shaved on
close and the skin must be cut The shaven surface
extend in front the that all the anterior
part brain tTaversed by the current and under its
influence
On the shayen surface is placed thick piece OF alb
sorbent cotton soaked with hot cent solution OF
sodium chloride on this Is placed a piiable eectrode
which sodered the conducting wire The second cleo
trode be much larger, and may be placed on any
point Of the body long II is symmetrcaiy placed in
the axis.
All the accessory apparatuses placed between the
supply and the elecrode the back which con-
neced with the positive pole The head eectrode must be
connected directly with the negative pole BY this means
the potential Of the head remains always that OF the mega
tive pole of the supply.
When the experiment is properly carried out the ami
passes quietly and gradually without without A
defensive movement and without sign of pain. into
cerebral inhibition analogous to choroform mar
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tered lower percentage of fatalities than has attended the
more general employment of chloroform in Europe
For years there has been physician who has dared
either Of the reacherous drugs without preparing for
deadly collapse of his patient. and far too many such
coapses In spite Of precauton taken
Recent experiments upon the organs of patients who
died chioroform and ether have shown that the
important organs of the body undergo fatty degen
eraton-hear lungs liver. BRAIN and kidneys-and the
opinion gaining ground that the appearance Of fatty
degeneration some organs in patients who at
the time appear 10 suffer minimum of inconvenience from
the inhalation is due to the baleful anesthesia.
Prof Ledue's experiments extensively conducted upon
animals carried by him. in the true spirit Of science
up the of man as his subject with himself the
first subject
The result. he explained recently, was narcoss
analogous that Of ether condition in which the sub
ect is without power voluntary movement. makes
reply stimulation exhibits only reflex move
ments such the beating Of the heart and respiration
mite electric current be maintained for several con-
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TUCSON THE OLDEST TOWN.

According the majority of STANDARD textbooks
geography St Augustine. Fla the Oldest town in the
United States but this is incorrect Dr. Alexander
Craig Methodist minister Of Newton, N J., who spends
his winters at Tucson. After much research he
claims sscertaned that TO Tucson belongs the
honor of being in the United States He
says:
When Spaniard Menendez discovered the coast OF
Florida planted standard of his country and founded
tho city Of St Augustine 1858, Tucson growing
pueblo and had been for thirteen years obtained
Of my information from the Roman Catholic Bishop OF
Tucson who agrees with that 4 is at least thirteen
years older than st. Augustine
In Church Of San Xavier, in the bishops diocese,
there has been stained and time-orn document
of velum signed by their Catholic majeses Ferdinand
and Isabella and couneTsgned by the vceroy Of MeXi
and Coronado who in the early part OF 1859 raised
the flag OF Spain the little Indian village Tucson
and laid stone OF the first mission there with
his own hands This important document has for
varded 70 the Library al Washington for safekeepng
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dabolcay But hts idea Of marriage is loose-n
Double Harness he is like dancing tight rope
precpiee. One watches breathessy whether
he get Hope deals with these things dex-
terously"
What do you think Of the books of Hall Game and
Marie Corell?" asked.
I find a bad streak in both Of them" he replied.
Caine however usually paint evil without making it
attractive; he depicts the punishment of the sinner.
think the philosophy Of Coreln is pretty shaky."
Probably every reader Of Three Weeks gloated over
The Sorrows Of Satan In this book is the famous love
between the Prince Lucio-he earthly incarnation
satan-and Lady sybn Elton It takes place in the depth
OF night stairway. Lady Sybi is in white simmer
ing in the red glow of window depicting the
tyrdom of St Stephen pleads Satan recpocate
love
The husband listening the top OF the stairs hears
Satan scornfully reject the love-msd OF course
Lady sybn terrible end. in some respects
resembling this takes place in Sir Richard Camady"
popular novel of Lucas Malet'
Parts Of this book" said Ralph Connor ARE ghast-
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T<HERE is hope-leading scientists of France al
ready declaring it certanty-that the moral dan
gers which have always lurked in the of ether
and Of ehloroform anesthetics ended last
In Nantes, Prot. Ledue, assisted BY Miss Louise G.
Robinovtch young girl physician New York who
has already distinction France and Germany by her
experiments in electrical anesthesia has developed re-
marabe method of inducing narcoss or suspension Of
sensiblty, by means of the interrupted current
Miss Roblnovitch is likely receive permit to apply
the system scale the patients in the insane
asylums of Paris NJ Louise Parsot who general coun
clor for the the Seine declares that the dis
covery IS influence greatly medicine and
surgery
It can be applied the major surgical
operations also OF acute mania and of de-
lirium remens.
Importance Of discovery OF electric narcosis as it
has been termed which America will appreciate only
less than Europe here the has regis
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QUALIFICATIONS FOR STAGE.

In Edgar Pemberton's Life OF Ellen Terry" anus
ing summary quoted, Mrs. Kendall expert
in and the qualifications that
necessary for actress. That clever thus
pressed her mind:
so many persons have wrong impressions Of the stage
think they jump into fame and there is no
work think ali WORK. that there
But of course, there many drawbacks.
only sit the of the theateT cannot
comprehend is until they have been behind the
scenes and worked it from childhood
Every day people write and ask what the qualhca
actress. Well she should have the face Of
goddess the strength lion, the OF Venus the
voice dove. the temper OF angel the Of
the agility Of antelope and the skin Of Thn-
great Imagination concentration. exquisite
enuncation. generous spirit, loyal disposition plenty
OF courage a keen sense Of humor. a high ideal OF
morality. a sensitive mind. and original treatment Of
everything She be capable Of being kind sister,
good daughter, and excellent wife judicious mother
gng friend ard enerprising grandmother
Those attributes, combined with innate faculty for
dramatic expresson-hat faculty having been carefully
trained developed by experience and sudywoud
doubtedly, make good actress.
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ELECTRICITY no TAKE T PLACE ETHER AND CORoFo SURGERY

The experiment be stopped instantly by cutting
of the current.
Awakening is instantaneous; usually the animal gets
on feet looks quietly around shows signs Of suf
ering fright fatigue and when released from the cleo
fered 10 il.
There after effects vomiting. rarely ltts
stupor The experiment seems 20 pain, for the
aversion toward the experimenters fear and no
revolt during preparations for another appIfSetion
DR.. Robinovitch. assisting Dr. Ledue in Of his
experiments kept rabbit in electric narcosis for eight
hours and twenty minutes without interruption. The ant
NAL to without displaying discomfort
In the experiment DR.. Leduc himself in the pres
ence Maherbe and Rouxeau Of the School OF Medicine
OF Nantes the current not raised sufficiently high 10
cause total Inconsistencies but carried enough
to convince the operators that If necessary this could have
been done
in the INTERRUPTED Altogether Or. Leduc
der the influence OF the for I'VE minutes He felt
no after effects unleGs count such Of well
being and physical vigor Immediately aftarward he Leo
tured before the Societe de Retraite OuvTiefe-
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iy Lucas Malet has written charming things: she
can write beautifully and thought it ptabe that
she should have put her pen this"
"INGRowING' LITERATURE.
Another authoress who has undertaken to treat Of
the smart people Of society is Frank Dandy,
whose pigs in Clover such popularity The book
was universally decreed being clever" but slightly
naughty"
Literature in London has been ingrowing for years,
said Mr. Gordon. There the modern has his being
Strand popularity Of books of this in the
United States alarming should be learn
the character Of books they buy.
y regard the United States field where grow
up healthy virie strong literature The coll
British empire and South Ares hold promise
They viii produce great things The of manly
type OF the British colonies Canada, proportion to its
population has done than any other Mrs. Glyns
book which received such enthusiastic welcome in the
United States. not popular in Canada.
In England to-day Wordsworth IS not popular The
people prefer drawng-room poets They ask What
is good eviI-what book and what Is
bad book? There are standards right wrong in
life AS said, what eevates strengthens and
ennobles good; what tends corrupt enervae char
acter, and destroy faith is evil
1T a happy thought, however that bad book has
lived People always demand what is their level
copies Of The Genemens Magazine published
years ago. and the correspondence in it IS awful
America undoubtedly a great field for great good
literature But II 10 get H. you must be careful
the coming generation is not poisoned by noxous
poetry hctior."
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my house than such book Rattlesnakes might
kill physically-but bad books kill spiritually |
would rather take the worst man into my home
man of degraded, corrupt morals-and let him
be among my family than decadent book
you may protect your children from the
evil influence of man; but YOU can't protect chill
dren from the bad influence of an evil book. An
evil book has a personality as much as a human
being. 1t cannot be destroyed. It's influence is
insidious
The popularity of erotic fiction and putrid
poetry tends to degrade and corrupt the youth
of the land The success of books Of this type
in America is most significant 1t is onlinous."
NOVELS OF GREAT POPULARITY.
Ralph Connor" you know. the author of BLACK
Rock" The sky Pilot" number of other novels
which have enjoyed tremendous popularity They all
healthy books dealing with rugged people outofdoor e
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ERoTICIsM LACKS POWER.

Possibly you have read swnburne and sursed on the
rcseate waves Of passionate melody But have you
analyzed his poetry grasped The thought beneath the
musical lines and become acquainted with the naked inn
morality clothed beneath the glamour Of his genius7
the opinion Of critics Swinburne is the great
est living poet the one notable figure in contemporary
English whose voice above the mediocrty
Of the day His classic. Ralph Connor' asserts
emphatically
Most young people and most women would find Swim
deadly His poetry wonderful It possesses sweet
ness and rhythm surges and sings and ripples with
song It ntoxicates with its sweetness and
bewilders one with its ravshing music.
He has put in words the singing Of nightngales and
the thunder of the But in many of his poems. be
meath words that flow marveously. detects
gsty horrible things He touches gracefully upon things
which expressed in ordinary language. would disgust
and shock people. Many Of his poems, while musical
are rotten.
"Swinburne would appeal to the who has gone
through experience and tired of simple things
the lower phases OF life To the inexperienced mind
which cannot detect his subtiees, many of his poems
would have anything but wholesome influence.
T fail TO see any effect swinburne on English liter
ature: cannot detect single mark Of his influence
Shakespeare alive to-day in mans mind because
he was strong Many writer's who are
the product of certain type OF English society Of the
hothouse variety popular for little while the
current soon changes.
in this country there effort to make "Salome
popular it failed The effort to give vogue the poems
OF Wilde another evidence of unhealthy His
poems graceful beautiful, imaginative, but there
not them single vibrant note Of power: passion
doubtedly the calm strength which would appeal
person with the big heart and broad healthy mind
Tn many books OF fiction I find lack OF reverence
for marriage ideas about love- and lax
responsibility The evil of sUeh books is that they
attractive by speciOus philosophy they tend to blind
peoples eyes the proper relation of right and
take Anthony Hopes Double Harness. Hope Is un-
doubtey clever of his stories the most delight
full read. I admire in many ways and con-
slider Zenda' superb The Dolly Dialogues are
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by the fetid hothouse literature OF the drawng-room.
Many popular books and poisonous.
The people want such things.
But in the United States the people have demanded
healthy And the popularity OF decadent
sign OF formation. It should create
alarm in the parents They should protect their
children"
An author. in the opinion Of Mr.. Gordon. should be
judged by influence Of his books whether they upft
and help the reader or whether they depress the mind
weaken the character and corrupt the morals Some Of
the popular writers he pander 10 demand for
the forbidden
Among the writers who have greater less degree
injected the deoadent note in their books he places Lucas
Malet" Mrs Leger Harrisonl, Anthony Hope, Marie
CorelH Hall Caine. and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
People buy what they ike TO read said the Canadian
writer and the fact that they buy bad books OF
most awful OF the times II shows the mental
attitude of people Books which deal with sin and make
attractive or gorify the baser passions deadly
poisonous fatal And such books the library shelves
tables many families. They literary rattle
snakes"
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Ralph Connor's" Warning
to the Young Readers of
America, Especially the Girls

IF YOU had your choice. would you take a
nest Of rattlesnakes into your home rather
than one OF the highly inhaned, erotic novels
that have marked recent broadsides of modern
literature from the printing press?
You say you would prefer to handle the red
covered volumes of fervid love stories? But if
you had children-daughters just budding into
womanhood, or sons whose minds might be re-
ceptive to evil suggestion? What then?
IF had my choice, declared Ralph Con-
nor"-the Rev. Charles w Gordon, of Winnipeg,
Canada would rather take nest of vipers into
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ItYORK RIVER LINE.''

ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMER ATTAIN
: ia" for WEST POINT and RICHMOND, Va.
Steamer leaves Baltimore Tuesday. Thurodoy
ts1O
Steamers call at Gloucester Point ClernentH
mitting.) -
STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE FROM
PIERS 18 & 10 LIGHT STREET WHARF
Through Tickets to all points may be secured
baggage checked and staterooms reserved from
the City Ticket Offices, l19 e. Baltimore street,
ARTHUR ". ROBSON, Agent, 127 e. Baltimore
street, or the General Officet. Light and lee
streets, Baltimore Nd
REUBEN FOSTER, e. J. CHTSM
General Manager. General Passenger Agent.
Nov. 23-tf -e"'
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STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
"cHESAPEAKE LINE."

ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS "C0-
LUMBIA" AND AUGUSTA"
For OLD POINT COMFORT and NORFOLK Va.
Steamers leave Baltimore daily except Sun
day. at $50 P. NJ, and arrive Old Point Comfort
at 6 A. NJ. and Norfolk at 100 A. NJ. where con-
nection is made with the Rail Lines for all points
South and Southwest.
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Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Fur Farming-Our Two Atmospneres-
Electrolvtsc Iron Tubes-Progress on
the United States Map-Passing OF the
Sea NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Music by
Birds-The Submarine Bell-Wireless
Weather-Cheap Egg Preservation.
One of the most precious products OF Ameri-
can soil is supplied by three backwoods farms of
Prince Edward Island. These farms are devo-
ted to rearing the very rare black fox. and Con-
sui John H. Shirley, of Charlottetown, reports
that they contain 20, % and 90 foxes respective
ly. Priced for royal cloaks. as it is the only fur
to which gold ornaments can be applied. the
skins sell in London for $500 to ST. 800 each. The
farm described is in rough, broken woods coun-
try. and the animals are confined by heavy
woven-wire netting. which reaches eight feet
above the ground and two or three below. To
ensure the best possible fur, the foxes are not
cross-bred. They sleep in hollow trees and logs
the year round, are fed chiefly on oats and milk
and bread and milk, with little meat once
dav. and are 80 wild that only their keeper with
food can. get near them.
"a
The lower atmosphere and the upper atmos-
phere are believed by Prof. J. Ham to be two
very different gaseous mixtures. Atthe eartn 5
surface the composition is: Nitrogen, Ic.U5;
oxygen, $685. argon, 094; carbonic acid, O.OS;
hydrogen. Dol; neon, 0.0Ol5; helium, OOOOl5 !;
krypton, O0O01O. at height of 20 kilometers
Q2.43 miles, he finds the nitrogen increased to
1874 per cent. with 1919 of oxygen. At 100 kilo-
meters, with probable temperature OF SO' pc
low zero Cent, the hydrogen seems increased 70
99.45 per cent, with 0.453 of helium and only
O099 Of nitrogen.
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Special Low Prices
on IL, 20, 30 and 40-Qt.
Iron Clad Cans, with
name in large letters
and heavy chains.
Your own private
mark stamped on all
cans to prevent being
lost or stolen.
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" L. PAINTER,
De ATTORNEY AT LAW,
30l st. Paul Street, Baltimore. Also, OwinRs'
Mills till $50 A. NJ. daily.
CITY and county nractice. Both Phones.
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VOHN HI. RICHARDSON,
81 ATTORNEY AT LAW,
022- 623- CAGES Law Building, CORTLAND Street
near Lexington, Baltimore, and Towson.
Residence-4z Eastern Ave-, Highlandt0wn.
G. g. p. Phone.
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Bird whistles are a curious Picking product.
Bamboo whistles of two to five tubes and gourd
whistles of two to thirteen apertures are wired
to the tails of the pigeons, and emit peculiar
and pleasing aerial music as the birds fly through
tho
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JAMES j. LINDSAY,
I'll ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Baltimore City Ofiice-4l2 Equitable Building.
Towson Uffice-Smedley Row.
phonas C,,tv Office 9: psf. Paul Sl43:
fnones lily olnce Mary CORTLAND 1875.
Residence Phone-C. 4 p, Towson 40 X.
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EDWARD A. o'MARA. M. O. ANGELMIER.
A'MARA & ANGELMIER,
~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW
227 St. Paul St., (Rooms l. land 81 Baltimore, Md.
Phones Maryland 1881 W: ,,oo
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A PPLEGARTH. HERMAN
n g REIFSNIDER,
ATTORNEYS q COUNSELORS AT LAW.
BaltimoreC County MISUNDERSTANDING, TOWson
Baltimore City Oflice-l0 e, Lexington Street.
Long Distance G. & P. Telephone.
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LIST Distrtct-Dr. A. H. Mann.
ga Dtstrtct-Dr. Harry f. Shipley.
3D. Dtstrjct-Dr. Henry A. Naylor.l
4th Dtstrict-Dr. Harry M. Slade.ss
6th District-Dr. B. +. Price.
GU Dtstrict-Dr. Joseph s. Baldwin.
IN District-Dr. E. w. Hyde.
8th District-Dr. T. Ross Payne.
9th Distrjct-Dr. r. @. MassenburR
10th District-Dr. Thomas H. Emory
11th District-Dr. James F. 81. Gorsuch
12th DtstTjct-Dr. W. Z. McClanahan.
1861 District-Dr. Frank H. Ruhl.
14th Distrjct-Dr. William d. Corse.
18Th District-Dr. John W. Harrison.
Lamp Lighters.
DickeyviUe-John P. Murphy.
Mt. WinGns-Simon Seigle.
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Comfy SurUeyoT-Fred. D. Dollenberg, Jr.
Inspector Weights and Measures. p. ID. Parks.
Keeper Of Bear Greek Drda0- Bridge-Geo. Grace.
Keeper Of Back RiUer DrGa0 Bridge-Frederick
Steinbach.
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GoUGnstoacn- Molyneux j. Fisher. Jr.
Htghtdndt0s0n- Hahn and John Schwarz
Canson-Geo.A. Telljohann and John Foertsch
berk.
CatOnsUi1e-Peter Toole, Hartman Faye.
I0acs0n-J. William Phipps.
Tuxedo, EverQreen and Plat /, Roland Park
William Foster.
Plat 2 and 8 Roland Pdrk-W s. Hull.
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Acting on the theory that the preservation of
eggs depends upon absolutely preventing the
interchange of air between the outside and in
side, DR.. Campanini has stopped the pores of
the shells with lard and packed with no point of
contact on bed of dry tow or fine odorless
shavings. By this simple plan the weight, color
and flavor of the eggs were perfectly retained
at the end of a year.