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tention in consequence to the business
side Of the raising Of revenues. This
volume is designed to answer the Ques-
tions which arise In the minds Of men
who undertake this study. 1t shows
what taxes are, what their purpose and
what the principle upon which their
imposition and collection are based.
The author sets forth three theories Of
taxation-the proportionate method. ac-
proportion to his own revenue; the
progressive method, increasing the
ratio of taxes as the revenue increases,
and the fiscal or economic method. the
aim of which is to produce public reve-
nues with the least possible diminutio on
of the Individual revenues. The work
is somewhat theoretical. inasmuch as 1t
deals with broad principles as well as
practical details.
WILD FLOWERS EVERY CHILD
SHOULD KNOWS Arranged accord
ing to color with Reliable Descrp-
of the United States and Canada.
BY Frederick William Stack. for
merly field collector for museums Of
scientific section Of Vassar Brother 3
Institute. and Of natural history at
Nassar College. Illustrated. New
York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
The amateur botanist is Ill equipped
for the study Of flowers unless ac-
quainted with those growths which are
generally known as field flowers. These
"unconsidered trifles" Of the woods and
field, which most farmers regard as
pests and seek to destroy, afford as
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chapters. From the first 1t has had the
hearty cooperation of the board of edu-
cation, the District Commissioners and
the inspector of buildings. and its COM
mittee on decoration has been consulted
freely in regard to tinting school room
walls and interior finish of new buildings
This committee, composed OF MISS Grace
Lincoln Temple, chairman; Miss A. M.
Wilson, director Of drawing in the local
public schools; Mrs. Justina r. Hill.
member of the board of education: Mrs.
E. F. Andrews and Mrs. George r. BOW
erman, has visited numerous schools ana
after much deliberation recommendea
that one school building. the Hubbard
at the extreme north of the city, be COM
pletely decosated during the coming
summer in order to serve as an example,
and that another, the Van Ness, which is
in the extreme south section Of the city.
be decorated in part. as the funds might
permit. This action was agreed upon, ana
already certain purchases have been
made-pictures of size and kind to be
decorative, interesting and educational
the school children with worthy works
of art, but to create an environment
which in itself will conduce to the cul-
tivation of taste and increase of refine
announced. One, a collection of water
colors Of Italian scenery, from Mrs. Hub
bard, and the other a group of twenty
large photographs. suitable for framing.
frpm the Corcoran Gallery or Art, or
paintings dn its permanent collection.
For so young an organization this seems
indeed a most encouraging record
T the veerhoff gallery this week was
IA exhibited a portrait Of the Spanish
minister, Senior Don Ramon Pima, ny
Sorolla. painted during his brief stay In
+hjc city Like all the work by this
artist, the portrait contained both distinc-
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upon conditions that mirrored the in
tellectual life Of France from 1926 to
1869. The author has done this with an
effectiveness that combines educational
value with the charm of personality.
The reader gets a very human view OF
the boy reared by two old women who
stamped their timidity upon him for
ever after: Of the ambitious youth who
believed himself a poet and Of the man
who found at last that his life work
was to be the dissecting OF the lives
Of others. In general reference to the
criticisms that have made Sainte-
Beuve's name worthy Of perpetuation
the author says: TT was his practi,e
and the secret of his mastery In his
hundreds of essays to dig into the
souls history of every writer he dis
cussed. He reached back to the ori-
gins, to ancestry. childhood and youth.
and downward into the heart. grap-
ping the nerve Of motive and touch
ing the LESSONS and deposits Of early
experience" before he would let sub
ject go.
The work contains a frontispiece
photograph Of Sainte-Beuve, a bibliog-
raphy and index.
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Of men in the kitchen tonight, sir. That
that old panhandler over there, sir.
pointing an abhorring finger at the refu-
gee. came around looking or an odd
iob So | set him to washing dishes. He
said he'd stopped off train on his way
from the west He got at some OF the wines.
sir, when we wasn't looking. He's in a
disgusting state. sir. Then one OF my
and I told two of the walters to search
him and send for the police. They grabbed
him. but he slipped away and ran IN
"That will do. That will do. thundered
the POSTMASTER succeeding. after divers
trials in breaking in upon the narrative.
Remove him. At once! And as quietly
as YOU can-I am more sorry than l can
guests. that such a disgraceful scene
should have
A howl from the man on the floor cut
short the apology. Two servants had ap-
preached to do the toastmasters b1dd1ng.
AS the first of them seized him by the
shoulder the little man screamed like a
mad cat. Locking his legs about the p.l-
lar, he turned upon his assaiants with
fists and teeth. fighting with the deadly,
,Inscientific fury of cornered wild thing.
The scrimmage that followed set the room
in dire confusion. To end which. the
toastmaster so far unbent as to. rush
among the combatants and order back
his myrmidons. The attendants drew
away. disheveled, bleeding. robbed Of the
spruce neatness that was the Arareek' s
pride. The defenders jacket had been
torn off. There was slight cut on ms
forehead. But his little bloodshot eyes
glared with undiminished drunken def
ance; nor had his opponents best efforts
dislodged his legs from about the pillar.
''Oh the sacred Arareek! muttered
Caine, leaning across toward Conover.
"Dllingham will be in Mysteries In an
other minute. The sanctity OF his state
dinner shattered just when he was at his
asinine best! See. some of the women are
starting to go. II they leave. it'll break
his heart.
But Caleb did not hear. Almost alone
of all those in the room. he had shown
no excitement. Fights were no novelty
to him. Bent forward. yet emotionless.
his eyes had never once left the distorted
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face Of the drunken interloper.
Leave me be' the latter was demand
ing in a squealing hiccough, as the cessa
ton of attack left him breath for words.
Leave me be. can't yer? Fine lot-swellsh
you are. to pick out one poor old man
what never harmed none Of you! Iemme
'lone! as Dillingham;, with thoughts OF
diplomacy, edged closer. "That-that rel.
Ter called me-p-panhandler! s lie!
I'm honesh. 'spectible workin' man.
Fought for M country in S-S-Shivil war.
Got m hon'rable discharge Fought for
m'country while the most of you was in
in y'r cradles. I'm drunk, too" he con-
fided. squirting up at the unnerved Dill
lingham. Drunken I wouldn't a stolen
those thingsh. Learned tdrink while was
d 'fendin' m country. Perfectly shquare
when I'm sober. Perfly. I'm"
and then x9ce on in ' time to
vent Dillingham's Interruption. His tone
had shifted once more from the explana-
tory to the pugnacfous.
IF had had my-my rightsh! he bel
lowed, shrily. glaring about him. 10
be ridin' In my carr ge-m'own carr ge!
Yesh Thash right. Own carr'ge. Got a
boy whoshe rich--rich man. Whatsh'e do
for me? Noshint'all! Don't ev'n know
didn't know he'sh live. Firsh time been
here in twenty yearsh. They shent mt
Jail. lasht time, dammem! Poor OIL Saul
Con'ver.''
He broke into senile, weak sobbing.
And from all over the room rose con-
fused Whispering. a rustic. an indefinable
electric thrill. Women whose escorts had
led them to the door halted and looked
back In Grass interest. Men glanced At
one another, muttering queries that found
no answer. Even Dillingham; forgot at
last his faint hope of restoring the shat
tered function to its former banal calm.
Pair by pair, all eyes slowly focused on
Caleb Conover. But the most imaginative
gazer could not descry emotion-whether
of surprise, chagrin or fear-on the heavy
mask of the Fighters face. For mo-
ment there was hush. The old man on
the floor still sobbed in maudlin fashion.
But no one needed him. Then Caine arose.
Il think" he began. his pleasant, low
pitched voice breaking in like dash OF
cool water on his hearers superheated
senses. II think there Is no need for any
of us to magnify this trifling break In our
Jolly evening; nor to allow 1t to mar In
any way our spirit of good Fellowship.
Nav / propose that we-?
Hold on" interposed Caleb quietly. He
got to his feet and laid a OBTAINING hand
on Gaines arm.
You mean WELL" he said. 'an' thank
you. But think this Is where l do the
talkin', an not you. I've never made
speech here BEFORE" he went on. raising
his voice. AN / never expected to.
But I'll ask you people to have patience
with me for a minute or two. Because
there's one or two things that's got TO
be said here an now. An I'm the one
that's got to say en-.
He glanced about him. Never before
In the Arareek Club had orator enjoyed
so rapt an audience. The quiet, heavy
voice. the brute magnetism Of the man,
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no less than curiosity as to how he would
handle so impossible a situation, had
already caught every ones attention His
wholly masterful manner. his latent
strength, lent force of their own to his
rough words as he went on:
Yes. ladies and gentlemen, that man
doubled up on the floor there is my father
Il didn't know till five minutes ago that
he was still alive. I hadn't seen nor
heard Of him In near twenty-five years;
now an broke up your party. I'm sorry
for what he's done. If l could make any
kind of rep'ration to you for the bother
he's caused I'd do 1t. l guess you know
that. But l can't. All 1 can do is to try
to make you look at him less like he
was NANCY dog in d Il, an more as II
he was a human like yourselves. That's
why I'm takin' the liberty to speak to
you now. Will you hear me?"
The unconscious buzz and murmur that
all at once swept the room served him
for nanswer, and he continued
MY father" with another nod toward
the mumbling figure on the floor. was
a risin', hard-wbrkin' man. He come
of decent people, an he was a promisin'
young chap that everybody liked. That
him, which is pretty near as bad as bein'
liked by nobody. Nothin' pers'nal in
tended. When the civil war broke out
he went to the front. There he learned
to starve, to loaf. to forget his business
trainin'. An he wasn't the only one. ]
guess. There's where he learned to
drink, too. When men have to go sup
PEERLESS to bed on the wet ground after
an all-day march. swig Of whisky's a
blessin'. It's a blessin'. too, when it
dulls the mem'ry of the comrade at
your side that was blowed to pieces by a
she'll or ripped open by a bay net. Can
you blame the soldier if they let the
whisky bless 'em so often that 1t gets to
be a habit?
After the war my father come home.
There'd been bands of music an women
wavn' handkerchrfs an noospapers to
call him an his fellers a lot of hot-air
bloc uniforms to the war. When the
boys came slouchin' back. footsore. rag
ged. an SO thin they looked like walkin'
embalmer advertisements, there WASH I
quite SO much cheerin. My father'd gone
away brisk, fine set-up lad. leavin'
good work behind him. He come back
like a good many thousand others, none
the better for a four-year course in
shiftlessness, booze an no reg'lar work.
'The folks who'd cheered him when
he went to fight for 'em had cheered
that time. There want enough of it
left in Granite to give my father q fair
start in the world again. Because he'd
learned to drink. to loaf. to be uneasy
an unreliable when he worked, they Tor
got he'd picked up those tricks while
he was defendin' their country. Heroes
was drug in the market. II any Of
YOU fellers know how 1t feels to get
down to work the day after your fort
nights vacation, maybe you can under
stand what 1t meant to him to settle
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SUCCESS TALKS-BY DIR. MADISON C. PETERS.
SPECIALIZE IN YOUR WORK, YOUNG MAN.

Jews. Louis de Santangel and Gabriel
Sanchez, enormously rich merchants, who
supplied the funds needed to fit out CO.
lumbus' caravals. isabella did not sell
her jewels to fit out Columbus. She had
already pawned them to defray the wars
then devastating her country.
Morse was in Washington riding his
hobby-the telegraph. One day. on leav-
ing a congressman. the representative
said to one of his constituents: What
do you think that old fool wants me to
do. He wants me to help him get bill
through Congress. SO as to stretch wire
from Baltimore to Washington. so that
one fool over in Baltimore can talk to an
other fool over here in Washington" :"
Morse kept on riding his hobby until the
telegraph encircles the globe and makes
thought omnipresent.
Harvey is distinguished for the circula-
tion of the blood and that alone. Ark
wright. the cotton gin: Watts. the steam
engine; Fulton, the steamboat; Jenner
vaccination: Edison, electricity: Howe.
the sewing machine; Garibaldi. liberty;
Bismarck. the unification Of Germany;
Wendell Phillips. the abolition of slavery;
Lincoln, emancipation.
President Hayes said to Maj. William
Mckinley on his entrance into Congress:
ITO achieve success and fame you must
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Sea Power" etc. Boston: Little.
prnun e, cn


Brown & Co.
THE GOVERNORS. BY f. Phillips op-
penheim. author of "A Maker of
History" etc. illustrated. Boston:
Little. Brown & Co.
HOMEsPUN, a Story of Some New
England Folk. BY Lottie Blair Par
kerr author of the plays Way Down
East" etc New York: Henry Holt
& Co. Washington: Lowdermilk.
THE WINNING CHANCE. BY Elizabet n
Dejeans. With frontispiece. Phila :
delphia: ]. B. Lippincott Company.
WALT WHITMAN. BY George Rice
Carpenter. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Company. Washington: Bren-
tano's.
THE ETERNAL VALUES. BY Hugo
Munsterberg. Boston: Houghton,
Miffiin Company.
CONDOR, in the Fight for South Amer
lea. English Edition. Berlin: Her
mann Paetel.
A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME: Pictures
and Text by Walt Kuhn. New York
Life Publishing Company.
A. h. c. OF PHILOSOPHY. BY Grace
F. Landsberg. New York: r. r.
Fenno & Co. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
A MAN WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. BY
Retsel Terreve. Norfolk: The Hook
ing Publishing Company.
RAILROAD FREIGHT RATES IN RE-
LATION TO THE INDUSTRY AND
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CHAPTER X-Continued.

The door leading from the buffers pam
try burst open. Through the aperture
into the brightly lit dining hall scurrled
a red-faced, bald-headed man; two club
servants close at his heels. The fugitive
was clad in a soiled waiter Jacket and
pair Of patched overalls. Both garments
had evidently been intended for some one
much larger. Their present wearer SEEM
ed lost in their voluminous folds Yet,
even thus hampered. he lodged his pur-
suers with an agility little short of In
credible In so old a man.
Darling forward into the full blaze OF
the light, he fed around the table. The
two servants had checked their pursuit
near the door and now stood irresolute,
at a loss whether or not to continue the
chase into the sacred precincts of. the
dining room. They looked for instructions
to a stout, pompous parsonage. who fol-
lowing them up from the pantry, now
blocked the doorway and stared bale
fully at the little old man. The latter In
his flight had come into violent contact
with one of the slender pillars near the
toastmaster's chair. Wrapping both arms
about this, he slid to the floor and crouch
ed there. still clinging to the pillars,
making horrible simian faces over his
shoulder at the trio beside the pantry
door.
At the apparition several diners had
Jumped excitedly to their feet with the
worid-old instinct which taught prehis-
toric man to meet danger or surprise
standing): others had craned their necks
or shouted confused queries. One woman
had cried out Every eye In the room was
upon the grotesque. couchant little figure
huddIed against the center pillar. The
toastmaster turned in lofty severity upon
the big man in the doorway.
Stew ard"' he detained. What does
this mean?"
II am extremely sorry. Mr.. Dilling-
ham, answered the steward, venturins
forward. I'm sure l apolog1ze most
sincerely. I wouldn't have had such a
thing happen for worlds. We were short
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ton and eccentricity. None could have
failed to recognize in it the token OF
genius. despite the fact that it was
obviously faulty. Senior sorolla is an
accomplished craftsman. but the head
in this portrait was decidedly Ill drawn.
the planes being poorly related. I'M
mensely clever. yet the brushwork was
careless and superficial-self conscious
rather than arrogant and more fndif-
ferent perhaps than daring. To be sure,
1t was purposed chiefly as a souvenir,
the name of the minister being written
across the top of the canvas above
the artists signature appearing over the
sitter's left shoulder, but even so 1t
might have been more should have
been less. From those of great genius
1t Is fair to demand great work. And
this gives rise to the question whether
or not the day Of the specialist in art
may have arrived. 1t is Sorolla the in
terpreter OF sunshine and sportive child
hood that America has welcomed and
applauded not Sorolla the. portrait
TWO interesting marines by William
T. Richards. one very similar to the
painting Ion the Coast of New jersey"
in the Corcoran gallery. are now to be
seen at veerhoffs. This painter. who
oleu Iour years dso dt ehe dse VI eo'-
enty-two, belonged to the Hudson river
school and was one of group who
early came under the influence of Rus
kins writings and strove to follow out
the Pre-Raphaelite principles. though at
the time scarcely conscious of the ma
terial upon which they were based. In
other words. he strove to accurately re-
produce nature. to copy unerringly its
multiple colors and forms. Gradually,
however, his style altered and though
it never entirely lost a certain exactitude,
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pursue SONS special line. You must not
make speech on every motion offered
or bill introduced. You must confine
yourself to one particular thing; become
a specialist Take up some branch OF
legislation and make that your speciality
Why not take up the subject of the
tariff? Being a subject that will not
be settled for years to come It offers a
great field for study and chance for
ultimate fame" Mckinley began study
ing the tariff. became the foremost au-
thority on the subject and the Mckinley
tariff bill made William Mckinley Presi-
dent of the United States.
The miscellaneous man Is well de-
scribed by Praed:
His talk is like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses:
1t slips from politics to puns
It gfdes from Mahomet to Moses
Beginning with the laws that keep r..
The planets in their courses;
And ending with some precept deem
For skinning eels and shoeing horses
AS with knowledge. so with work. The
successful worker today is he who
singles out from vast number of pos
sible employments some speciality, and to
that devotes himself thoroughly. The
specialist does not have to look for a
job. The job is looking for him.
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About fifty students were registered this
year in the department, and they took
part in the exhibition, which occupied
the walls OF five classrooms. over one
hundred drawings. Half of these were
finished rendus. and the rest sketches IN
pencil, charcoal and water color. The
themes of the most important finished
designs were peculiarly interesting and
of a nature to induce original thought
such, for example, as an aqueduct' sup
ported on arches like the Roman Ones
with road above and driveway peio"' d
triumphal arch following In treatment
classical precedent, a private villa ana
garden, Italian in style. clinical amphl-
theater, q rostral column and PARK
pavilion. The majority Of these prob
lens we're given out by the Beaux Arts
Society, and the drawings were Juoseo
in New York. where one obtained men
tion for merit.
BY this system a measure OF .n,'dh
ity In architectural training throush-
out the country is maintained. and the
work of the students from all sections
brought into active competition. Inc
last of the problems named was prop-
ably the best presented. The program
called for park shelter and a pavlllon
on a bluff overlooking the sea, and two
especially good rendus were shown, one
in sepia. the other in blues and sra!s'
the former displaying admirable drafts
manship and the latter excellent tone
There were numerous designs for a
rostral column. some Of which were well
worthy of note. and though the solutions
of the clinical ampitheater proplem
were perhaps rather academic, one IN
particular was remarkably clever. The
charcoal drawings, which were for the
most part set forth in the rear room
on the first floor. were excellent ana
I@l aYVn0
vious years, in vigor. accuracy and
handling Of medium. Less can be said
of the sketches In color. though some
of these also were essentially commend
able. A few were still life studies, but
the greater number were outdoor pic
lures made on excursions into the coun-
try under the guidance OF one or the
instructors, the purpose OF which was
tion than to cultivate facility with the
brush. One, well worthy Of mention, was
of the barn on the old Pierce Mill place
in Rock Creek Park. There were also
included in the exhibition NUMBER OF
wash drawings in monotone by students
OF the freshman class, which gave good
promise for future displays. 1t has been
said, and with truth, that good taste,
poetry and common sense are the es-
sentials in the making Of an architect.
hut to those who visited this exhibition
It was quite evident that an abundance
of hard study and serious work was
likewise required.
~
At a recent meeting Of the executive
"A committee of the League for the
Decoration of the Public Schools an en-
couraging report was rendered OF what
had already been accomplished by this
organization. The league came into ex-
istence late last fall and in February
issued an appeal for annual subscriptions.
in response to which about $500 was re-
ceived It now has 21s ass ociate and ten
life members, as we'll as TO II contributing
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE STRAIN OF WHITE. BY Ada
Woodruff Anderson. author Of The
Heart of the Red FRS etc. illus
rated. Boston: Little. Brown CO.
THE HARVEST WITHIN, Thoughts on
the Life of the Christian. BY A. T.
Mahan. Del, LID, captain U. ).
Navy, author Of THE Influence OF
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age of the trained man-even specialists
have their speciality. 1t does not pay 10
know everything. Only sophomores are
omniscient
The best way to prevent gun from
scattering is to put in a single shot Bet
ter to be a frst-rate something than
second-rate nothing. MY father, said
a little fellow. Dragging about his fatner'
.'can do almost anything; he Is notary
public. a druggist. a horse doctor. he can
pull teeth. he can preach, he can mend
wagons and things. he can play the fiddle
and is a jackass at all trades.
The men who have been most success
full in their calIings have been the men OF
one idea. an all controlling idea of which
they made a hobby and which they rode
to the mill, to market and to meetlng-
ahout which they dreamed, talked, laugh
ed, wept and prayed. Columbus rode hob
by from court to court till he found TWO