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M ment. is undoubtedly one Of
Wv the most unique and interest
ing members of depart
mental life in Washington.
Possessed of a vast fund of general
knowledge relative to the needs of his
department, he is devoting his life espe-
cially to the mastering not only of mod
ern languages as they are taught in the
schools, but of many strange tongues
which few. If any other American. have
ever found it possible to use.
Born of American parents in the pic
tIlresque little town Of Shakapee. Mimi.
MIR. Stevens can claim the title Of true
American linguist. Not until his genealogy
reaches back TO the grandmother of his
mother is there found an ancestor who
could have transmitted to this remarkable
son the linguis- power which is his by
right of possession. and not in any way
by heredity, would naturally be ex-
pccted if Wilfred Stevens We're an Euro
pean.
Mr.. Stevens smiled when he said:
Not a College Man.
Eyes, translate the principal European
and oriental languages in my capacity
here in the department, and can speak.
read and write with less ease Chinese
Cantonese and Pekingene dialects and the
literary lansuages}, Japanese, modern
Greek Hungarian. Dutch. Norwegian.
Swedish. Polish. Latin, Yiddish and F;spe-
rantO.
mo ! am often taken for a Russian,
but | am not
Il am just a Minnesota boy and proud
of it,
NO | am not even Il college man. /
started to go to a German school. but was
impatient Of the progress made there and
left ii for the high school
Il started at twelve years of age to
study German, and from THAI went easily
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ii. the Lenox Library. New York. with the
purpose of showing its superiority over
that produced in America and OF sti,nu-
lat;ne effect. Miss tiutherz is also finish
ing her portrait Of Mrs. Hardin and her
two little sons. which. in an Incomplete
state. was shown in the Society OF Wash
ingtcn Artists recent exhibition.
With in the last few weeks Mr.. Louis
d. Ridenour has painted several addi-
tioral pictures of the strange western
scenes in the valleys Of the Yellowstone
and Colorado rivers. They are interpre-
tations rather than prescriptions from
nature. for they are memory pictures paint
ed at long range. This lends them to a
degree. both originality and charm for
after all. as Tolstoi has said: Art in
reality is feeling handed down. And
the only Legitimate excuse for production
IS the desire To pass on to another that
which the painter has found beautiful or
significant. Mr.. Ridenour is still 10 an
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on to the study of French. Spanish and
Italienne. After that came Portuguese
and Russian, which languages 1 speak
read and write with practically the same
facility as I do English.
II also read and translate Arabic Per
sian. Turkish. Rumanian. Bohemian.
Servian and other Slavonic dialects
Mr.. Stevens entered the service Of the
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government as Il clerk in the printing Of
flee. where he did. at odd times, any
TRANSMITTING :hac was necessary. From
this office he was transferred 10 the War
/ department. where he remained five
yeats. He has now been in his present
division for the same length of time.
Mr.. Stevens modestly asserts that he
aims t. learn all languages of political
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More than a little excitement has been
caused by the discovery that we'll
known dealer in New York has been SELL
ing to certain collectors works supposed
10 be by Homer Martin, Inness, Wyant
and other American painters of distinc-
ton. which were cunning forgeries. a
year or 50 ago a painting sold To one col
Iector was openly discredited. and with
many apologies the dealer took it back
and refunded the amount paid for It.
This opened the road to suspicion and for
some months careful investigation has
been going on.
Art forgeries are, however the hardest
10 prove and to prevent. for the reason
that the man who produces them-th"
painter skilled in imitatiOn-does not sign
fine work and the dealer can always plead
cred that IL Young painter belonging to
one Of the we'll known artists clubs in
New York was producing Illnesses" but
as TO one saw him paint them the charge
could not be proved. and the. committee
OF the club could not bar him from mem
hership. The trouble. to n great extent.
lies with the public. which does not dis
criminate between merit and fame. A
canvas signed by Homer Martin ought
TO he worth Just as much il ii is signed
by John Smith or Tom Jones. but in the
one case IL would bring 5000 and in the
other less than $500.
To be sure there is no excuse for the
painter who profits by another's fame by
initiating his work for the dealer who
passes a forgery. but the temptation is
great-greater than it should De. The
very fact that such a thing is possible
however should put collectors on thair
guard and go 10 show the commercial
value of American works of art. A pic
tura that is worth counterfaiting Is worth
having commercial asset.
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BOOK REVIEWS.

LADY OF CLEEVE. BY
IN ~ Percy j. Hartley. Iilustra-
O tiOns by Harrison Fisher and
Herman Pfeifer. New York:
Dodd Mead d Co. Washing
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Newt Monday afternoon at 4:1J o'clock
nm fart talk will he given in the lower
bemirycIe hall at the Corcoran Scnool ny
Mr. r c. Messer This will be the last
In the course for this ason.
LEILA MECHLIN.
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dotted by tiny vaporous clouds. which
catch the glow of tie setting sun and
cast A delicate rosy light over the land
s,spe 1t is n particularly attractive
osi.ion-Simplc Yet decorative-and
has been broadly handled with excellent
effect Mr. Max Weyi has been invited
to hold an exhibition of his paintings
next November in Chicago.
Miss Suzanne Gutherz is doing some ex-
tremely interesting work at present. de-
signing magazine covers and commercial
posters. for which she displays excep-
tional skill Her drawings have direct
ness. simplicity and impressiveness. and
her color work decorative feeling and
good effect Some Of the leading painters
and illustrators of today do this kind Of
work occasionally. but for the most part
that which is in current use might we'll
he bettered An exhibition of posters
and the like designed. printed and dis
,r;I,,+a3 in Germany is now in progress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-02

Mr.. Carl Rakemann who has been for
the past four years in New York. has re-
turned quite recently to this city, where
he will probably remain until fall Much
of the time he was away ne had a studio
at Tompkinsville. Staten Island and he
has brought back with him quite num-
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Mr.. Ralph Willis. former student
both of the Corcoran School and the Art
Students League OF this city. has oeeh
engaged during the past winter on Sc
ries cf mural decorations for the MAYA
Reserve armory in Brooklyn. N T. lEos'
who have seen the work since its com
n,etion declare il to be notably success
full and good.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
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%Y YILFRED STEVENS. expert
Translator Of the State Depart
NM ment. is undoubtedly one of
Nv the most unique and interest
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extent feeling his way. but he Il making
progress and several ~ his works reach
5, high plane They ar, all I'm water"oi"r.
freely handled. and for the mos part
of medium size. For "A week or more. b.
ginning May II. he will hold an exhipl-
ton at Shepards. in Providence. X l.
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In one of the terrace rooms at the Capt.
toll there is now on exhibition a picture
of the battle of Gettysburg painted about
forty years ago by the late James Wal
ker 1t Is large canvas, probably
twenty feet long and eight feet high. and
il represents tract of country many
miles in extent. In the foreground is the
Union army as ii was drawn up the third
day of the engagement and off on Il dis
tant ridge the Confederate troops are
assembled Thousands of figures are pic
tured and in many cases accurate por-
traits have been made.
Ii is a scene of tremendous movement.
of onrush and confusion: here a battery
is pressing forward; there a mounted Of
ficer is giving command to his men:
yond a whole division is changing its
position. and yet. closer at hand two SOL
diers are giving aid To dying cOmrade
Shells are bursting. men falling. horses
bolting with terror. and yet the compo-
siiion is not confused nor the picture be
wi!dering. The painter has balanced his
subject we'll. and nicely focused the on
lockers interest. For a painting of this
character IL is remarkably good but it's
prime object. of course, is to serve as his
tor cal data.
1t was painted fer Col. Bachelor. to-
pographer 10 the Union army from his
own charts. and the painter himself took
part in the memorable engagement
Af;er Col. BaCheller's death it was stored
for IA time III the Boston custom house
and then purchased from his heirs by the
present owners. who offer il To the gov
eT''m mt for SO 0io. Little is known of
James Walker an artist except that a
painted this picture ard. at the commits
sion OF Congress. The Battle of Chapul-
tepec,' which now hangs in the Senate
gallery. Probably he mad little or no
art training but as technician he dis
played much skill.
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An exceptionally interesting exhibition
of etchings and dry-points by the Scotch
artist. u. Y. Cameron, is being held at the
Groier Club in New York. Two hundred
and nineteen prints are included in the
catalogue. quite number of which have
been lent by Mr.. A. j. Parsons of this
city. who has probably the largest col
lection of Mr.. Cameron's etchings in this
country. Mr.. Cameron himself has con-
tributed generously and other collectors
have helped to make the showing COM
plete The catalogue. like all publica-
tons issued by the Grolier Club, is de-
Iightfuly printed and contains a charm
ingly written fOreword relating to MIR.
Cameron's work. 1t is hoped the cOllec-
ton may be brought to Washington.
The state herald., 1908-02-14
President A Modern Isaiah.

Boston. Mass. Feb. 6. President
Roosevelt was characterized us an "a
ncriean Isaiah" by Rabbi harles Fleis-
elmer in an address on THE Moral
leart Of Life" at the Temple Israel to-
lay. lie said in part:
Tho president is reported to have said
recently that every time he repeated
Thou shalt not steal. " there IL fina'
ial panic. BE that as it may. /. who
m no out-and-out supporter Of the
Presidents policies, hail his last utter
nee as that Of an American Isaiah. It's
moral feryor is worthy OF Jewish
lrophct. that Of statesman haunted
" the Ideal.
II Is high time tie world Of fnarce
began 10 realize that business is bufi-
tess" was no. among the moral maxims
iyenlcd on Mount Sinai Business Is
iorc than that. II is the means Of
1ndueting rightly or wrongly. ethically
r uncthieally. the material affairs Of
nsn OmrhR Bee.
The state herald., 1908-02-14
More Money Ihan Ever

What becomes OF the actual money In
sirrulation7 II might be supposed that
since Americans now have morc dollar
ler capita than thoy ever before pos
sessed. that money stringcneics'
would not rccur. For every person II
the United States there h t35 81 Of rca
cash. That is just 81 more than the ay
rragc four years ago,
10 ndd a sixth TO the circulating me
lium In 50 short a time ID nm immrna
addition TO the money supply Their
has baen a atoa ~ Increase In th'
amount for years, and yet the fact that
only few months sso money sold ai
premium shu 10 that even n large yo',
umc of currency could notHyurt panic
The only remedy is 10 have. not .
large Increase, 20 keep all year round
but large sum which can be creatst
when there is demand aud which jus
as automatically. can be retired whcr
The state herald., 1908-02-14
W CT u. ITEMS.

II has been decided to hold our meet
iRs at the court house In the future.
ur next meeting will be Friday after
ioon, the p, nt 3 O'Clock. Let as try
0 be regular in attendance and always
. time. We will have special pro-
ram In memory Of Francis =, willard
nd will also take free will offering
" the Nillnrd Memorial Fund. Every
me cordially invited to be present.
Arrangements are being made for nm
,ther contest, the - Contestants will
,e from the high school
wray Union has y active members
nd ~ take the ". e. 7. Z McfEcug,r.
lolyohe has 81 members and II Mes
1ngcrn taken. n We want 10 keep
ostcd on What our women are accom-.
i'ish.ng in our own state, We will want
take our state paper. The price s
10 small W. can't afford 10 be without
H.
Mrs. Doughty. State Sec. Of the l.og.
Temperance Legion work, desires 10
rRaniEr L. 4. l.. here. but II whs
tpught boat a. postpone taking up tbs
lmich ~ W. c, 4. 4. work tll lat, ~.
hia "a AN important work and Il ia Ia
hoped We can havr such an organic
,tian here, "a child shall lead thcm"
I'd The children arg taking apromir nj
inrt In the victories af lhe south. God
hs bra 4ihpd upon the world great
Iuirkrning u the public conscience in
n7ny lands ard hHs used fh'drrn tof
eide great moral victories, let us be
uofr active Tor the good of puf young
Dop'c
Atter jrwEtL, Press supt
.as
The state herald., 1908-02-14
Farmers Institute Program,
MAR. la. FonENooN.

MAR. l3, FORENOON.
opening prayer. Rev, G. a. Spence.
Question Box.
Duet, Reta and Edith Summer,
Question Box,
Recitation. Miss Nellie johnson.
AFTERNOON.
Reading. Anna llaRrraycs.
study Of Agriculture In Our Publ,
Schools, Prof. l.. Il. Briggs.
Iest Way TO Prepare Ground for the
Seeding Of Grass on Sandy or
Hard Soils. ~. Odlanf,
SATURDAY. Mar. II.
Gill Il Pay the Average Farmer Il
Ra 80 Pure Bred Stock. E.E. T, llnzcn
Piano Solo, Miss Nina Slack
Does Il Pay to Raise Australian Corn.
A. Gcfriaf.
70 Organize ioyu Agricultural = %
pertinent Club. $, u. johnson,
SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
Music By the Institute,
Recitation. Eva Long.
low 60 Prepare Butter and ERrs 4
Market. Mra. =. G, Summers,
What 'o1ntry Schools Should Offer ih
Coun ~ Boy nnd Girl. Mra,
Stella Summers,
Boys. bring your coin, Any hos
ndgr n years Of age can compete
'om must be grown by boy making rs
iibIt and also grown the srason Of 1907
ist prize 81, 2nd 81. Ord ~. amount oI
corn. ~ ears.
Speakers from the college will B.,
with ls on these dates and you vii
nGrly bs benefited n you attend
Come out and let's have a rguslbR soot
time. Plenty of good music.
A. c. CAuptE, Secy.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

The railroad companies seem to be
considerably worried over the new nine
hour law that goes into effect on the
ith Of March. The law provides that
train dispatchers. telegraph operator,
md towermen shall not be kept on duty
more than nine hours continuously.
The companies have appealed to the
Interstate commerce commission to
postpone the time for putting the law
into force in order that an effort may
be made to have congress so amend
he law Ms to make il more satisfactory
to the railroad companies.
The state herald., 1908-02-14
5pncIAL PAPER OF PHILLIPS COUNT
ONE SOLDIER DEAD.

y fair young mother calmly read
While one hand rocked the cradle bed
Wherein her firstborn slept away
Tue twilight Of summer day.
Size carelessly the paper turned
|rih --latest War News" she discerned;
= ldr loss was small, dispatches said
- skirmish. and one soldier dead"
They troubled not to give his name,
0fe'en the troop from which he came;
Eor who, rejoicing in success,
Sares If there be one private less?
G1ly a soldier lying there,
\ 18th blood upon his sunny hair,
y lth no kind friend to raise his head
c treasure the last words he said.
G happy mother, do you know
Tnat not so many years ago
7 lat soldier was a baby, too,
NitlAface as sweet, and eyes as blue
a those within yon cradle there,
iad knew mothers tender care,
VINO now must sit alone and weep
keeaus, he wakes not from his sleep?
Ahlo.her thousands also said:
")nly private soldier dead"
Without passing thought that he
Might one of natures mobiles be.
Or that the words that line contained
Would wreck life that yet remained.
III mother waits for him in vain,
Fcs he, her only child, is slain.
jean Paul Wayne.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

The house committee on naval affairs
has recommended bill providing for
he construction Of two battleships to
,ost 50, 500, 900 each. President Roose-
'elt recommended the building of -four
oattleships but the committee seems to
nave considered that four would cost
1co rnrch money for one seasioa 4 con
gress 10 appropriate.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

Secretary Taft from present indica
ions will have a walk-away in the con-
sest for the delegation from Ohio. Sen
ator Foraker and his following have
made considerable noise but will not
have the votes to land the delegation.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

Senator Foraker would have had .
much larger following in his contest foi
.he presidential nomination had he re
trained from making the fight which h,
1as made on President Roosevelt an
MS administration. lie has gone OUT Of
his way, apparently. to place obstacle
n the way Of the successful carrying
iut Of the Roosevelt policies and nov
'omes before the people with the schoo
BOY complaint that President Roosevelt
has sot appointed his friends and sup
7)rters TO federal positions. Afte
making as bitter and uncalled for fgh
IN President Roosevelt as he has, suel
, plea now com y with very poor grae
from him and, even II the voters were
convinced that Senator foraker's eharg,
wsre true. they would simply say that
President Roosevelt had served him a
he deserved.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

A poll Of the democrats Of the house,
in Washington, shows that at leas, one
third Of the democratic members Rrt
opposed 10 Bryan. Everywhere demo.
Gratis, who openly declare for Bryan.
will privately admit that they have 70
nope Of his election. No man Of poli,i.
'al intelligence believes he would be e,
leeted. The newspapers that urge III,
nomination Of Mr. Bryan are. with fcv
exceptions. weak cditorially, and othc 9.
wise are Of the third or fourth class.
The ablest newspaper advocate Of Mr.
Bryan'snomination are republican news
papers, They feel that with Bryan ~
The democratic nominee the election o.
the republican nominee Is assured, ne
matter who he may be, Its n qucs.
ion Of judgement II the democrats
think Mr., bryan has chance 10 sue
e,ed let him be nominated. The troub
lc Is he will be- nominated absolutely rc
gandlcss Of any hope Of winning NJ th,
polls. II ID one Of the strange thing
n modern politics. FL Paso Count
De no rat.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

The Sterling council is considering
the matter Of granting another fran
,hise for an electric light system.
The state herald., 1908-02-14

resident Roosevelt has recently been
= 5el by some fool friends OF other
1870 With the rse nf federal an,
pointments in the interest Of Secretary
raft's candidacy for the presidential
nomination. In his recent reply to this
'oolish charge. President Roosevelt
strikes straight out from the shoulder
and dcHounces the charge as false and
malicious and challenges the parties
making the charge to cite single IT,
stance in which an appointment has
been made TO further the interests Of
Secretary Taft's candidacy. The par
ties who made these charges will dis
cover II they have not already done so.
that they have made a very unwisC
move for the interests Of their pet can
didatc when they made such an uneall
ed for attack upon President Roosevelt
The state herald., 1908-02-14

that demand ceases to exist. Philad,l
phia Press.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-11-20
Wilson is Hopeful.

Attorney Thomas Wellman. counsel
TO the receiver of the United Home
Protectors fraternity, returned Sun
day morning from Ionia, where he
went to take the testimony of William
l.. Wilson, former secretary of the or
ganization. who is serving a sentence
at the reformatory for embezzling the
funds.
Wilson is reported as being one of
the "trusty" inmates of the institution
at Ionia. and expresses himself as sat
isfied that he will be released at the
end of one year. He says that the
money lost TO the Home Protectors
through his speculations was invested
by him in the hope of regaining some
of the losses, and he does not think
he did anything wrong.
AS there are several other charges
against Wilson it is hardly likely that
he will be released before the expira-
ton of his full term of FIVE years.
Fred. Brown, who was Wilson's law
yer when he was convicted, is the new
prosecutor of the county.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

The Cuban elections resulted in a
sweeping victory for the liberal ticket
headed by Gen. Gomez.
Five buildings of the Indiana state
reformatory and nearly the entire
plant of the Indiana Manufacturing
Company at Jeffersonville, Ind, were
destroyed by fire.
The post office at South Bend, Ind,
was robbed of $1S,653 in stamps.
A negro desperate in Okmulgee,
Okla, barricaded in his house, killed
four persons, including the sheriff,
wounded ten others and, being shot by
a frenzied mob. set fire to the house
and persisted in the flames.
Morris Haas, who shot Francis ].
Heney, shot and killed himself in his
cell in the county Jail at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Heney was stated to be re-
covering rapidly.
William Reed, &c years old, of Vine
land, N. j., was murdered in his home
by robbers who escaped with $1,000
worth of railroad bonds.
In football game at Monmouth, H.,
between Knox college and Monmouth
two of the Monmouth players, Nc
Kiterick and Richards, were badly
hurt.
George A. Burnham of Detroit,
Mich, general factory manager for
Morgan & Wright and we'll known
among automobile men, was accident
ally killed while duck hunting at the
st. Clair flats.
While a party composed of Maj.
Hon. J. p. Veraker, his nephew, Wis
count Gort of England, and William
Prettie and George Gilbert, guides,
were hunting moose lat Raleigh, 100
miles east of Winnipeg, the accidental
discharge of Viscount Gort's gun
killed Prettie.
Miss Margaret Lee Conway of Chi
cago brought suit to recover $4,000
because her picture was published in
a magazine as a corset model.
Clarence Agnew. colored, was given
a life sentence for causing a fatal
wreck on the Southern railway near
Duncan, S. c.
One man was killed and 35 injured
by an explosion In the Excelsior
Springs Powder factory at Dodson
Mo.
Judge Taylor OF the federal court
at Cleveland, o., appointed Warren
Hicknell and Frank A. Scott as Joint
receivers for the Municipal Traction
Company and the Cleveland Railway
Company.
Manila's new water system has been
completed at a cost OF $4,000, 900.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-11-20
WIFE SHOT, KILLS SELF,
Grand Rapids Man After Reading Ac-
counts Of Two Tragedies
Acts on Suggestion.


Did psychological influence Of ex-
ample today prompt Jacob Sikkema TO
shoot his wife and then kill himself?
That is the question to which stu
dents of metaphysics answer, Yes, "
while the reply of the coroner is,
Probably"
No other motive than that adj
vanced by psychologists has been sug-
gested as the prime cause of the
tragedy. Ii is known that Sikkema
devoured the newspaper accounts OF
the shooting of Nellie Tiemeyer by her
lover, August Sauererein. Sikkema
also read with avidity the published
story of the second tragedy. He was
not respondent over business or fam
lily affairs. He had not quarreled with
the woman he shot
In the absence OF all other motives,
II is thought that Sikkema, his mind
made morbid by whisky, acted on the
suggestion contained in the printed
accounts of the first two tragedies.
1t was about 2 o'clock in the after
noon that Sikkema shot his wife
through the throat and then put bull
let through his OWL head. The wo-
man, while still alive in Butterworth
hospital, is believed to be dying.
Sikkema was a string butcher. He
drank heavily, going on debauches
which would last until outraged nature
succumbed completely.