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sin that case he is doing nothing more
than what you are doing yourself!'
Haeckel's frank simplicity and openness
of character are well illustrated by the
remarks he made at his last lecture at the
Geological Institute of the Jena Univer-
sity February 10. when he said:
Il must frankly confess that I have
never been good teacher. Often wnen
/ had taken special pains to prepare my
self on a subject in which | was particu
larIy interested, l fell into a melancholy
state of depression because l could not
find the right words. 1 have seldom been
able to teach as I would have liked to do.
/ am firmly convinced that my successor,
pills. will Not only fill my place, but sur
pass me-.
This public statement in the presence
of the students who had just honored
him with a manifestation Of boundless adj
miration and attachment, helps to dis
pose of the unfounded charge that Prof
Haeckel is disposed to assume the atti-
tude of an infallible pontiff of science
who lays down the law for his fellows.
The same modesty is evident III all his
acts
Several years ago when Haeckel had
come to Berlin to deliver some lectures.
his friend Haro Magnussen, the sculptor.
limited that the occasion called for a new
suit of clothes. a suggestion 10 which the
astoniShed professor at first offered
vigorous resistance. His friend. however.
at length succeeded in persuading hm
that the sacrifice was due to Berlin and
to his respect for science. The professor,
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later by the Wonders of Life," and some
shorter works.
AS a matter Of fact, for Prof. Haeckel.
like the artist that he Is, work Is pleas
ure Thus his retirement at the beginning
of April from the professorship at Jena.
which he has held for forty-eight years.
will only mark a change in the form of
his activity and not a cessation of his
labors. He proposes to devote his lei
sure to writing history of biology. 1t
is not yet certain whether this work VII
be confined to the progress made In that
branch of science during the last CEN
tury, in which it was completely trans
formed. or whether 1t will cover the whole
story from it's tentative beginnings in an
tiquity. One thing. however. is quite
clear: 1T will be work of exceptional in
terest and value. in which will be given
10 the world for the first time a mass of
correspondence between Darwin and all
the great biologists of the age and the
author. 1t will thus constitute a resume
of all their achievements, as well as of
the authors own work. during the most
important period in the development of
that science
While the preparation of this book will
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England Aids in Celebrating Beatication Of Joan Of Arc


and ugly green glass that her page threw
her banner to her as she ran 10 rally
thertroops at the ST. Loup bastion. She
banner.
The lineal descendants of Jehan Bour-
geois. the tailor and J6han Lhullier,
the draper. are still living in houses own
ed by their historical ancestors. and
will have places in the PROCESSION of
May 3.
They were the tailor and the draper
who supplied the maid with gowns fit
for the high society in which she moved
at Orleans when not fighting. Joan wore
armor on campaign. but in cities she
dressed like a lady.
The Lhuilliers have the ancient account
book to prove it. Among numerous Items
it mentions in detail a robe of crimson
cloth. trimmed with white satin gift TO
the maid from the Duke of Orleans. He
owed more than that to her
AS to her armor, the inventory of the
Chateau of Amboise of the year 1899 men
tions among ancient armor of defunct
kings" the harness of the maid gar
nished with armpieces. a pair of mittens
and a headpiece, which has a gorget
uhroat protectiOn) of mail, the edges
gilded and the whole lined with crimson
satin.''
When she went to the king at Chinon
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unquestionably constitute the most i'm
portant part of his new task, Prof:
Haeckel, in concert with his distinguished
pupil and successor. Prof. Ludwig Plate
of Berlin, will complete the organiza-
tion of his phyletic museum at Jena.
This institution, founded by Prof. Hack
ell and handed over by him to the Jena
University last year. is intended to pro-
mote an interest In and knowledge of the
theory of development. This is done by
the exhibition of natural objects. as well
as of pictures. arranged systematically,
showing the development and the rela-
tionship between the various forms Of
plan. and animal life. completed by an
anthropological collection establishing
mans place in nature. This museum Is
further intended to promote an apprecia-
tion of the esthetic aspects Of biology
by the exhibition of numerous pictures
and models. as we'll as by Haeckefs beau
tiful collection of valuable coralS, one of
the finest in Europe. 1t will also contain
manuscripts. documents. and correspond
ence and comprise d library of all i'm
portant works on the theory of develop
ment and of the monistic system of nat
ural philosophy.
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pieces belonging to a young prince. per-
hapS even himself. The 100 livres-tour-
nois paid to master-armorer on her ac-
count in the books of Guillaume Belier.
lieutenant of the captain of Chinon Cas-
tie could only have sufficed for their has
ty adjustment to her figure
At the siege of Jargeau later. a Stone
bullet certainly broke on her iron head
piece. yet she was wounded in the thigh
before Paris. That the English archer
at Compiegne pulled her from her horse
by her long habit proves nothing. be-
cause. as leader, she would be wearing
on horseback. a floating silk or stuff
duster of her colors over her armor
In any case. the superb suit of plate
which she finally deposited in the Abbey
of ST. Denis-"an entire white harness
which 1 won before Pars"-bekonged to
an English nobleman and was almost
certainly never worn by her. For .O)
years 1t was kept in the Bastile-possibly
the. harness of the Amboise inventory. 1t
now figures in the Paris Museum of Ar
tillery under mo. G.. 49, The cata-
logue of Louis Philippe calls it the ar
NOR of the maid,'' but a single glance
discloses that it was never intended for
a lady.
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more numerous than the original besieg-
ing forces,
We shall see it all over again. On the
evening of May Z, 1929 the maid, having
at last carried the Tourelles fort re
entered Orleans with her banner and men,
alarms. The ST. Croix baslica to which
her thanksgiving procession moved, is
now the cathedral The Tourelles fort no
longer exists. but it's foundations were re-
Gently discovered in leveling trolley line.
Behind them, in a tiny square surround
ed by mean houses, is a cross which in
dicateS the exact center of the second
greatest English redoubt. Here the cor
tege forms May s.
The cellars of all these little houses are
nothing but the ancient English classmates
which were. indeed, the outer defenses
of Orleans, which they had captured. The
proprietor of one house accepted s. to
take three Of us down. He led us a sur
prising distance underground in heavy
arched masonry like the subterranean
ways of Vincennes itself. 1t has all been
private property for centuries.
For another 81 each he gave us stone
cannon balls from the ancient English
magazine. 1t seems that he really came
upon a pile of them in the corner Of q
bricked-up archway-absolutely similar, In
species of stone, workmanship and other
technical details to the hundreds Of such
stone balls from the siege preserved in
the Joan of Arc Museum. He can sell the
remaining two dozen for SO apiece to rev.
erent British tourists in the next two
weeks-and we told him SO.
The Joannique Museum preserves even
half a dozen massive oak piles of the
wooden bridge on which the maid ad-
vanced alone to the last stand of the
English, demanding their surrender. Re-
turning from the final capture Of that
Tourelles fort. they burned the bridge
and here are the charred ends of the piles
in the museum.
house of Joan of Arc, both being situated
on the old Rue Talmellerie, now Rue
Tabour. This house in which Joan board
ed In Orleans between April . and May
10, 1929. is absolutely intact as she lett
it.
1t is a dignified three-story gable town
house of brick. filled into great inter-
crossing wood joists. diagonal. vertical
and horizontal, not unlike the steel frame
work of American office buildings. At
the moment of Joan's residence, 1t was
the house of Jacques Boucher. treasurer
of the Duke of Orleans.
Today it is occupied by an unfashion-
able but excessively prosperous milliners
Patriotic middle class provincial ladies
would not have their spring hats from
any shop but that of Joan'-not to men
ton the romantic floating tourist trade
of England and America. 1 know the
husband of charming full-blown rose
from Doylestown. Pa, who Is carrying
three immense pasteboard boxes full Of
Joan hats as presents for home loved
ones. He will have to hold them on his
knees all the way to Paris. the trains
will be so packed.
Buy a hat and they show you Joan's s
bedroom. a second-story front. with
massive pillar of time-stained oak sup
porting the ceiling in Its very center.
The room is paneled in gothically carved
wood, as Joan knew 1t. Her bed occu-
pied a recess, and 1t was from this right
hand window with its tiny panes of thick
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look where you step. An unexpected trap
door on the other side of the table has
rotted away, but you see its hinges
opened downward. Directly beneath it
is steep-slanting elevator shaft, only
it never elevated. Down, down, through
the center of the castle 1t leads through
the cellars and the dungeons. slanting
down. down to the river. 1t was the sur
prise chute of the dangerous guest.
A local guidebook tells how, during the
srst secret interviews with the young
dauphin. when she was suspected OF a
possible design upon his life, the maid
stood always ON the trap door side of
the table. A rug concealed the trap, but
had she made suspicious movement it
had happened to her what happened to
the Sieur de Beaugency by the foot of
Henry III Of England-a bolt would shoot
by his weight pushing on it. and down
the black shaft the dangerous guest fell,
skull smashed. to be swept away by the
river.
Instead of such fate, Joan lived at
Ghinon from March 8 to April 20 under
the care Of Guillaume Belier. Her room
in the Coudray tower is oval. spacious
and with a delicious little stone bay win
dow on one of the prettiest river views
in the world.
On April 20 she started with what was
ostensibly a victual train for Orleans. in
which the troops were preceded by raft
of clergy with banners singing hymns.
1t is generally supposed that she arrived
i'll front Of the Tourelles fort May T. but
it is an error.
In fact, they entered Orleans April %
by unbesieged Burgundy gate, unmolest-
ed and amid the ovations of the inhabi-
tants. At once she was taken to the
house of Jacques Boucher.
Now only began the fghting-by sallies
from inside. The English, besieging Or
leans in the fortified "bastions'' on three
sides, became the besieged. Between
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les VII at ReinS.
May 1 and 6 the maid led assaults, cap
turing. one by one. all the English bas-
tions but this one Tourelles fort. On May
story front of the milliners shop, ana
Joan. who had been at church. arrived
just in time to change it's decision.
I'VE shall attack Tourelles from the
other side of the river" she told them.
simply. No captain dreamed of disputing
her. They crossed on a bridge OF boats.
fought all day. lost 700 men and returned
by the wooden bridge in triumph.
So returns the grandiose historical cor
tege which we are to see $50 years after.
Only the figure of Joan will be lacking.
IN the Johannique Museum is still ex-
hibited the life-size doll figure Of the
"Puceau' borne as Joan I'm the annual
professions up to $780, Cultured Orlean-
lists seem ashamed of its cooked hat and
ridiculous boys clothes Of the seven
teenth century, trumpet OF the cathe-
dral belfry in one hand and a French
fleur-de-lys flag in the other. II. how
ever. for $50 years this boy-like figure
stood for Joan, may we not see beyond
1t the fierce insistence of the common
people on the puerile strength and grace
of their Diana?
No living person has ever represented
the blessed maid in the Orleans process
sions. After the abandonment Of the
"Puceau'' in 1855 mai1ens in white bore
on their shoulders the Dust by Legendre
Heral, whose pure virginia. outlines have
inspired so many popular wood cuts.
On May the maid will be present only
by her banner, on which angels kneel
at Jesus feet amid clouds sown with
feurs- de-lys. 1t is the lily standard OF
her own making, the lily Of France. the
lily of purity. the lily of the barony Du
Lys bestowed upon her father by the
gratitude of France.
STERLING HELLO.
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OF ARC never
made such a stil
in the world = not
even when fight
ing-as d uri n e
these few weeks
In April and May,
1909.
F i + t Y thousand
French. led by fif-
ty bishops, and
1900 English led
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HERE has just re-
signed from his
professorship at the
University of Jena
possibly the great
est living man or
science. r. r n 5 l
IIaeckel, eNpound-
er of the monistic
theory. and long
the most militant
and powerful dis
cipIe of Charles
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TAS for Years Been the
i j the Most Militant and
Powerful Disciple of Charles
Darwin-By Means of His
Writings and His Lee
lures He Welded an Enor-
nous Influence Throughout
the Civilized World - Al
though He Has Celebrated
His Seventy-hfth Birthday
He Will Begin Writing a
Gigantic History of Biology"
will Also Complete the
Organization of His Phyletic
Museum at Jena-Engaging
Personality of the Aged
Scientist.
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by the Duke of Norfolk. premier peer of
the realm; Archbishop Bourne of West
minister, and all the Roman Catholic
bishops. are now at Rome for her beatifi-
cation-and the English to apologize for
having burned her at the stake at Rouen
in 1431.
The English enthusiasm is wonderful.
Long ago in the Identification process, the
capital position of reporter before the con-
gregation of rites was accepted by the
English Cardinal Howard Postulatory
letters came from every Catholic bishop
of Great Britain, including Cardinals Man.
ming. Newman and Vaughan. And Fa-
ther Captier of the Canadian College at
Rome has acted as supporter of the beati-
fication.
Between Orleans. Chinon, Angers. Rome
and back again come thronging such null
titudes of English and American tourists
AS were never seen in summer, much less
spring There will not be hotel or lodg-
ing room in Orleans for the ceremonies
attending the historical procession May 8.
Thousands of wealthy pilgrims will have
10 sleep in towns twenty miles distant,
thronging in by special trains to swell
the triumph of the maid, now called
blessed.
Yearly since Joan forced the English to
lift the siege of Orleans Orleans had per-
petuated the spontaneous ceremony of her
entry and procession TO the cathedral i'm
proyised by the enthusiasm of common
soldiers. captains mobiles, burgeois, arti-
sans and people of the hour; but never in
the $50 years will it have been repeated
with such pomp and expense for historical
accuracy of costumes-or in the presence
Of an army of. repentant English tourists
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THE Maid of Orleans
1 Triumphs in Her City
May 8-After Beatihcation
England Joins France to Do
Her Honor-Duke of Nor
folk, Premier Peer of Eng
land. Takes Part in the Cele-
bration = Relics and Near
Relics and Alleged Relics of
the Deliverer of France.
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Darwin, retires to semi-private lie, put
those who know him we'll are sure that
his pen will still be busy, and that he
will lay about him with the same vigor
that has always characterized his con
troversial style. For Haeckel Is one OF
those fighting Germans who live and
thrive on battle and to whom heated con.
troyersy is music.
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he bears no Ill feeling, as was shown
by his generous appreciation of Rudolph
Virchow, one of his teachers. who after
ward became bitter and powerful op-
ponent Indeed a touching character
istic of this nestor of living biologists,
who might very we'll be spoiled by popu-
lar adulation and worldwide fame, is the
modesty with which he attributes his sue
cess first. to the training of his mother
and then to the inspiration and encour-
agement of his different teachers He
hits hard. for plain and open speaking is
par. of his ideal Of truth. goodness and
beauty; but he bears no malice and has
always been not only ready but glad to
admit and correct his own errors.
Nothing could prove more clearly that
he is no mere bookWorm than a glance at
the tall. handsome figure and bright. clear
blue eyes of the man who all through life
has cultivated his physical powers. AS a
young 'Privatdocent' or university lee
turer he won a prize a meeting of Ger
man athletes for a stX-meter long jump,
and In his seventy-second year he could
be seen with a knapsack on his back max
ing tour on foot through the Harz
mountains, beloved by Heine.
Haeckel possesses an invincible good
nature which the attacks of whole life
time spent in intellectual strife have not
been able to sour. an engaging simplicity
and lack of all Self-consciousnesS and a
keen sense of humor. The goodness,
which is such striking feature OF his
nature as Well dS Oh HIS fuedl. Is snow RI
not only in his gratitude and attachment
to relatives and friends. but in his sym
pathy for the less fortunate of his fell
lows This was evident even in boyhood.
when he frequently gave his pocket money
to the poor and took food to an aiiing
fellow-pupil at the national school to
which he was sent by his well-to-do
parents.
In dedicating his Travels in India to
from nv earliest childhood cherished and
developed i'll me a sense of the infinite
beauties of nature. All early hour you
impressed upon the growing boy the value
of time and the happiness of work. You
have followed my many changing move
merits with all the tireless thought and
care that can only be expressed in the
words Mothers love.
His warmth of affection is evident In
the gratitude which he has constantly
manifested for the princely house Of Sake
Weimar, which afforded him secure ref
use at the Jena University during period
of storm and stress when the clerical and
other defenders of the old school strained
every nerve to silence the most eloquent
German advocate of the theory of evoin-
ton One day an ardent and irritated
theologian complained to the late Grand
Duke Karl Alexander of Haeckels lee
lures and begged that they should be pro-
hibited.
Hnced of the truth of what he says?
quietly asked the grand duke
Certainly, | do. was the reply, ana
what he says. is all the worse Tor that
very reason.
..But. then" retorted the grand duke.
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Although Prof. Haeckel recently cele-
hrated his seventy-fifth birthday, he Is
man so full of irrepressible energy that
ne can lay down his work only with lie
itself Like great actors, he has more
than once threatened to leave the stage,
hut only to return again and again for
a last performance. In 1899. in the pref
ace to his Riddle of the Universe. he
bade goodbye to- his many readers
,hrnurhout the civilized world But that
, last performance proved also Ia be the
..la 4 but one" being followed five years
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must content ouselves With its mellow
beauty and be on guard against the
coarse peasant face. form. attitude and
garb that he has given to Joan.
The maid has. indeed. gone through
four distinct iconographic periods, each
cherishng its different ideal of her. Bas-
tien-Lepage's was that of the third-and
most erroneous.
In very ancient representations, 1t is
the warrior maid type. Large and ro-
bust in her armor, her banner Tapping.
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We Americans who have admired the
painting Of BastienLepage in the Metro
politan Museum of Art of New York.
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castle, she was a slip OF girl under
nineteen. Even if she could have carried
complete suit OF plate-armor, with
it's articuated, overlapping arm. thigh.
knee and calf pieces. it would have taken
a year to prepare one for her. Yet she
was at Chinon only between March s and
April 20. =
To protect her trunk from arrows it is
probable that they gave her certain
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ORLEANS, France April 81, 1889.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
JENA, April -, 1913
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-21

manufacturing. was the reply. I'VE are
here right on the edEe Of china with an
abundant supply Of labor. which Il com
parstively cheap and which IL both artistic
and adaptable TO the handling OF ma
chinery. Their ought to be opportunities
for combination OF American capital and
American raw materials In the manufacture
Of goods for US here on these islends for
the great market OF China We are on the
ground. We understand the field and the
natives Of the countries about uS. and We
have such trade connections In the way OF
steamship lines and other lines that ] be-
lieve that the capitalists Of the two ma
lions working together could do better than
either could alone We very much desire
American capital"
That brings up the financial condition
OF your empire. Japan is now In the throes
of hard times. What Is TO be your future
along such lines"
Il hin We shall rapidly recover from
the distress we have been lately experien-
oing. We have had a big war and In con
sequence we have an enormous debt which
must be paid. We are rich. however, in
resources OF many kinds and BY holding
back a little and e-conomiEing much the
business Of the country will soon take care
Of itself. As Il IL today, Japan IL not alone
in having financial troubles. Similar con-
ditions have existed during the last year
throughout your own country and also In
Europe"
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real estate business in Brooklyn, where he
now resides.
The early days OF the Hartman family
were dark ones-that is, 50 far as posses
sion Of worldly goods went. They were very
poor and remained so until after had gone
into Wall street as a clerk and was study
Ing the inside workings Of that wonderful
piece Of machinery.
The Rev. Mr.. Hartman. although a man
OF artistic breeding. who had married a
girl from one Of the best families Of New
Jersey, was In no sense a business man.
He had not the faculty Of gathering money
which developed so strongly in his son in
after years. A year after Edward was
born his father took his little brood over
TO Staten Island, where he became asEis-
tOnt rector at St. Paul's church, Castleton.
And after a year there he was without a
charge. but managed to exc out a scsnty
existence for himself and his family filling
IN fer various rectors when a temporary
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-21

Before l give you our conversation. which
covered a wide range, both personal and
political. L would like TO describe the cir
cumstances Of our meeting. 1t was at his
new villa, near Omori. half way between
Toxic and Yokohama. that his highness by
appointment received me. l took a jim
rikisha at the station and with my human
horse rode for more than two miles on a
road shaded with pine trees. There were
many little shops, a temple or two and
some beautiful villas along the way. Leav-
ing the road, we climbed a hill and en-
tered a garden Of many acres filled with
fine ~shrubbcry. out OF which looked sew
eral bronze storks and other works of
Japanese art. In the center of this was a
large building with walls of pine and heavy
overhsnging roofs. This was Prince Ito's
villa. 1t has wide verandas running about
1t and the walls are SO arranged that they
slide back and forth. permitting many Of
its rooms TO be thrown into one. Trs
building is mostly one story. but IL IL so
large that II covers an acre or more. A
sort OF temple-lIke projection forms a porte
cochere. and It was here that 1 was met
by Mr.. Hisatsuna Furuya- the private
secretary of his highness. and led into a
reception room.
After waiting there a moment / was told
that the prince was ready to receive me.