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New-York tribune., 1909-04-04

uesc scholar worthy OF the name for two
thousand wears at least has known the Five
Books OF Cpnfucius 50 nearly by rote that
II every copy was destroyed a thousand
could be taken Immediately from memory
and the differences IN text would be negligible
The Five Books are printed IN many vol
uut, and with the commentaries ni MenCtuS
make q library IN them elves, Vet well are
they textuaIly known among the hterati that
II ls an insult-whIch well meaning foreigners
anxious t. display their learning frequently
commit refer to q passage anywhere IN
any of them except by the mention of word
or two The text of al Is well known TO
the scholars as Is the passage To be or not
10 hr" To- ShdkeSpearean scholars.
Nagaulay once boasted that II Milton and
Ncrgil and Homer were destroyed, the poets
could be taken down verbatim again from
his dictation About a thousand years ago
such d necessity arose IN China \ great ET1-
pcror ordered the classics and commentaries
utterly DESTROYED. Those who clung To their
books more than TO their lives were executed
and their books burned The catastrophe was
well nigh complete The next Emperor. how
ever favored the learning of the hterati and
himself ordered the texts restored from the
memories Of the learned The catalogue ~
classic books includes more than thirty-tw
hundred titles IN many thousands OF volumes
and of these a very great many have been
preserved to poSterity solely 10y the memories
of those old men
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
Memorizins from the Bible

TO-DAY the Bible Is the best memorIzed
book IN the world. and no doubt It could
be entirely reconstructed from the minds OF
its students One young woman alone could
dictate the New Testament She Is Miss LeSte
Nav Williams Of North Carolina. now twenty
years old. Early in March 1905. the Rev
J. A. Brcndcll. pastor Of the local Baptist
church. offered two Bibles aS prizes ipr mem
orizing verses of Scripture. The first was for
those over twelve years old, and the second
for those under that age.
On the day of the award Miss Williams had
committed and rcCited to the committee Ic.eSo
verses of scripture, covering the entire New
Testament excepting the two geuealogleS OF
Iesus in the first chapter of Matthew and the
third chapter of Luke. and including liberal
selections from Genesis, Psalms, ECCleSIdStcs.
and other parts OF the Old Testament The
New Testament itself contains 1850 verses
and 100 600 words Miss Williams sister Ella.
eleven years old. Won the prize for the
younger children, reCIting seven hundred and
fifteen verses. The winner Of the first prize
performed her mnemonIc feat IN ninety days.
during which she had an attack of the
measles. She had averaged about one hundred
and thirty-tive verses daily during her three
months Of study.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
EuIers Wondcrful No.

+ EONHARD EULER. who We p. "a n I-o-
- and died IN SIS At st Fets--. .u-g Where
ne spent hi life rs a teacher g great power
and AS t prolific writer. Was an1t1-- instance 2'
the genuine mathematician end with a.
most Superhuman powers He ..-- more thar
two hJydred manuscript trc-,tl~e- % his favor
ite subject. and the bulk ri -.e works pup
liShed By his academy between ---- and ~
were from his pen In old age =. v-.S totaAs
blind. Then he carried n hi~ n --'-y a t11-y
ot the first SIX powers OF the Ee-'.- 9i naINl''
numbers up % 100
II i related that on one OCCASION Two %
Euler'S students attempted O. Late con
verging series AS they adv-..1 they toan- ti1
they disagreed IN the result .. unit N '.7
fifteenth figure. The qUestI.r e.- reterred @
Euler who decided 70 make the ----culatiol.
He did this mentally and his -.--- was lo'al'
70 ht clrrr.t
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
Colburn the Prodigy

THE most frequent cases OF wonderful! mem
ories are found among mathematical prodI-
gieS. These usually develop their remarkable
very ordinary individuals The phenomenon
has never been explained; but there are Sev-
eral well atteSted instances of genuine marvels
of this kind.
Zerah Colburn was one such At the age Of
SIX ne could neither write nor cipher and Vet
could answer apparently by mere intuition.
all sorts of arithmctical questions correctly
and Instantly At eight he left the United
States to show IN London and there IN mo-
ment answered this question correctly, How
many minutes are there III eighty-tour years,
He added the number Of seconds IN the period
immediately on request He could not ex-
plain the mental process he used, and 1t may
have been simply queer instinct Young
Colburn raised eight to the sixteenth power
mentally, and gave the answer a. eSI,474.o-o.-
-Io.o5o without any hesitation whatever. and
found the square root of 10000 t. be So
instantly. But he WAS only prodigy
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
Repeating i New splper

DR lGACKLIN used o. TELL story .: - : -,
IL proud of his great mental -etentIveilesis
He offered to give any proof e- 10 desired II :,
was asked TO read a new~pape- anu ti'e'- tn
repeat every word of 1t from memory. -
host held the paper while ths man 1ePei1.C g.
i verbatim and every word m l-5 proper p-l-. IL
The surprise OF the host. however We %.It,'-,5s
greater and his skepticiSm taxed oeyoIiu. 5ssr
when the visitor. 20 show how easy u ti-T -
had been. offered u repeat che "oru'
wdri
That IS impossible.
Not At all If You viii listen. ! il 30 y !: me
And he did 1t Beginning at the end % '. ~
last word Of the last column, he WenI -.
beginning OF the first word ot the rlrSt y rve
without an error DR. NacNl,n f4IS ~
this prOdigy's name
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
Anronio Nfasliabechi

SIMILAR ability was possessed y y -. Il
Magliabechi who was born al - Y,-S.-r r,or
I6s5 His father and mother were 'e-' ',--T0esr
and he was apprenticed - a green - ,raed
Though ne had never learned 70 relo- -it-sIIers -
u spend considerable time N D,s'H-tS - he
stall One day the proprietor aSNSu ut the
STAYED there So much. and le1rneu - - vyhv
lad could not read. Surprised ne 5Sn~ 1raS told
he handled the books 50 much. anu IL not
that the boy found a pleasure ne .o-, oS1ss
resist Just IN looking at the PrnteSSI, bee
The bookseller forthwith took 'i-'sI sII and
into his employ. taught HIM % Is'' T. was
shortly he secured work IN a horiIl i;scov-
then that his marvellous memory Va "dS II xas
cred. IL seemed as If every BOOK Hs
textuallv retained IN his mind ,-,an Of
A writer of the period tells thaI . MAJ ,,anu-
Florence had lent Maghabechl tne 3,.sr pre-
script of a book 10 read Sometime 90 - c4ne
tending he had lost the manuscript l. - tod
to Magliabechi with very long Iace - - said
of his loss. 1t made him very S4d' -.n.oCoosed
because he had no other copy. ne fl5ts i,
he would have TO make research anu u, ,o Be
all over again. Magliabechi told nlllr,bsr nllr i
comforted: he thought ne could rerrelllgg 3ng ths
we'll enough To give him a copy
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
John Wallis Feats

THE English mathematician John Wallis put
his exceptional faculty to some use, being
an accomplished scientist in his day. His
powers of mental computation may be illus
trated by quoting from some OF his letters to
friends
December 22 1000, in a dark night. II
bed without pen. ink, or paper. or anything
equivalent, did by memory extract the
square root of 5000 ooo, ,ooo. 900. .ooo. .ooo.-
ooo. .ooo. .ooo. 900. .ooo. .ooo, 900. which | found
correctly, and did the next day commit it to
writing On February IS. 1910, Joannes
Georgius Pelshover giving me visit. and de-
string an example of the like, ! did that night
propose to myself in the dark without help to
my memory 4 number in fifty-three places.
- 24,6SI, 5S7.QI o.I2I,4II.ISI.5 .o2S, S,o5I-
o20,S5T57o go, 57o.oI5 ,2+I,-of which | ex-
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them with little difficulty past the
camp and across the rope. Behind the
brush covert sat a man with his hand
on the rope and his eyes on Brown.
Brown watched the horses, and, when
ne saw one with its feet in the loop
he threw up his nand The concealed
man jerked the rope and the iron post
held the mustang, Brown let the re-
mainder of the herd gallop away; the
man came running from his hiding
place, and they seized the captured
horse.
Another man now came from the
camp, bringing a heavy iron chain four
or five feet long Attaching this to
the foot of the mustang, they suffered
him to rejoin his companions. Again
and again this process was repeated,
until at last the entire herd of wild
horses had been chained. When such
was the case, Brown set a man TO guard
them, and sought a new bunch Of mus
tangs, which he began to follow, as
before. When this herd was chained,
it was added to the first, and guarded.
This was his plan, and so well did
it succeed, that within six months he
was passing Tascosa again, this time
with 300 mustangs, which he drove into
Arkansas and sold for from five to
forty dollars apiece. Mules and horses
with brands he left at TascOsa to be
returned if possible to theri former own
ers who paid him a small sum for
their recovery. So well did Harry
Brown do his work that bys 1890 the
mustang had followed the buffalo.
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L~ EFT out my other suit; pIeaser'
came the voice of Mr.. Jarr
Il from behind closed doors, for
he was initiating himself into
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Mr.. Dooley on Flying Machines - -. !

well. sir" said Mr.. Hennessy, I'D
ike to come back a hundherd years
firm now an see what has happened
since I was away. Think iv tn changes
thatn be made be tn flynn machines"
4 don't want to think about tn fly
in machines" said Mr.. Dooley. "Ivry
time I think iv tn flynn machines ]
think iv tn Wright brothers. an whin
I think iv tn Wright brothers, it makes
me mad. What have they done, says
We? Why, they've disgraced US. They've
lowered us in tn eyes iv Europe. They
whit over there an behaved just as they
wud AT home Think iy a man firm
Dayton actin lords a king tn same
as he wud lords tn mayor iv Dayton.
. Were humilyated. It's goin' to be
a hard thing FIR US to regain our pres
teege. An how we've wurruked fr it.
As I've often told ye, a few years ago
twas impossible FIR to distinguish an
American ambassadure firm a waiter.
They wore tn same clothes, both per
spired freely an both were eager an
obligin' an afraid they weren't dom
tn right thing. I don't blame tn signs
iv a naughty arrystocracy fr whistlin'
at thin an ordhrin' ham an eggs. But
today, thanks to tn pathritism iv our
diplomatic sarvice, there's no excuse FIR
amy patricyan maxim such a break.
a footin' where they command RESPECT.
TIL rule i'm coort circles is. In findin'
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saved enough money to buy an outfit
and go to work for himself and that
he was going to a place called Running
Water, near where the town Of Plain
view, Texas, now stands. He had
heard that mustangs were plentiful
there. Brown bought enough supplies
to last several months, and departed
But, before he left, he told his method
knowing, perhaps, that few would have
the means to give it a trial.
Never Desert Range.
Mustangs never desert their range
all day, but they viii 90 in a circle,
covering perhaps thirty miles, and so
returning to their range at night.
Brown would camp near the range Of
a herd Of mustangs, and, in the morn
ing, mount one Of his fast horses ana
approach them swiftly. They would
scamper away, and he would follow
them all day, giving them no oppoT-
tUnity to Craze. At night, he would
be within four or five mile Of his comp.
He would sleep at the camp, and. next
morning mount a fresh horse and find
his herd Of wild ponies, repeating the
performance Of the day before. The
third day he would press them and
would now succeed though at dis
lance, in turning them this way or that.
Meanwhile, the men in camp were
building a brush covert, perhaps one
hundred yards from camp. Behind this
they set firmly an iron post Attached
to the post was a rope $50 feet long,
which was stretched out flat on the
ground, with a slip moose in the end.
On the morning Of the fourth day,
Brown would mount his race horse.
The mustangs were jaded from running
and lack Of food. and he would drive
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The Passing Of the Mustang

TT is a strange story. We all know
that the wild horse is gone; how
many of US know that its departure
was fastened by two or three men, TO
whom the passing of the mustang
brought wealth?
If the mustang could return today, it
would scarcely recognize the prairies
which were its home. Fences and
farms would prohibit the long, free
gallOps that steeled its muscles; it
would not even in the pastures find
the tall grass that nourished its cOmely
body. The grass is there, perhaps, but
the presence Of mOny more cattle and
horses to the acre than formerly pre-
vents it from growing as in the days
when the early settlers called it
prairie hay"
The mustangs ancestors were the
Spanish war steeds. The mustang
however, was small, though when seen
scampering on the green it looked large,
owing to fine condition, shapeliness, and
the distance that lends enchantment I
have heard old settlers say that they
had seen as many as 500 i'm the course
fifty together. They went about in
small herds, numbering anywhere from
ten to fifty, each led by a stallion.
This leader chose the range escorted
the others 10 water, and protected them
while feeding. He would allow no
other horses to encrOach upon his ter
ritory, and fearful battles have been
witnessed between two such leaders.
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By F. P. DUN NE
Copyright, 1908, by H H. Mcclure Company

needn't mind comm with thin. If ye
don't want to- says she. Well, will ye
believe me, Wilbur Wright wuddeu't 60.
No, sir he said he had to make some
repairs in tn machine an he thought
he'd surround a couple " hard billed eggs
an q piece " pie in tn machine shop.
They were asst to go to places that
some iv our stateliest REPRESENTATIVES
abrood on'y knew be name, an they
wudden't go. Thousands ~ Americans
busted into s'ciety be pretindin' that
they come firm Dayton an knew tn
Wrights. They stint over to this cOun-
thry an got copies iv Googan's Histhry
iv Dayton firm tn invintion iv tn cash
registher to tn prisint day, so that whin
a noble jock said, 'Ye ar-re fr' IN Amer
lea. Tell me something about Dayton,
they'd not be embarrassed an perhaps
fired out Nv tn house as imposters. But
they cud do nawthin' with tn Wrights.
These foolish young men wint on ham
mrin' away at their flynn machine, an
whin tn king Nv Spain asst to be led to
thin an an American millionaire told
thin iv tn honor that was goin' to be
hurled onto thin, they said; oh, is it
that wopper-jawed young fellow? Well
bring him over An whin this here ex-
allied monarch deigned to speak to thin
they said: didn't quite catch tn
name. Oh, tn king iv Spain. Glad to
have met We. If yen excuse me I'll go
on with our wurruk. Boy, go an fill
that can with lie while I'm putin on
me overalls.' An there We ar-re. 1t
will take a long time befure tn bad i'm
preston created be thin will wear off. "
Dye think We'll all be flynn soon ?''
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tn American ambassadure look at tn
legs. Niver mind tn head. If tn hire
ling We have ordhered spare ribs an
spinach firm has on knee breeeches can
eel tn ordher. TIL man is tn Ameri-
can ambassadure.'
. IAN it isn't on'y tn diplomats that
have got US in right with tn effete gov
ermints iv Europe. Ivry year thousands
iv volunteers goes abroad to square us
an establish betther relations thin they
enjye at home. They supply tn estab-
lishmint an tn furriners supply tn re
Iations. They have done fine WurTuk
FIR US, yet they preserve their naytion-
atty. There's no mistaken an Ameri-
in England. There's no mistaken him
FIR an Englishman. No Englishman.
howiver bold ne might be, aven if he
was born in Canada, cud be as much iv
an Englishman as an American with
money. An English accent waited
through an American nose is a fine
noise.
But our fellow citizens abroad are
thrue to their country. They admit its
faults candidly, it is thrue. They con-
cede that it is infeeryor to what they
find around thin. But they stand up
bravely FIR it in spite iv it all. Hogan,
who has been over there, says that nav
thin iver thrilled him more thin to hear
a rich American standin' up FIR his own,
his native land. No wan says this
here pathrite, no wan deplores more
thin me tn class iv Americans wan
sees so often abroad. But We must ray
mimber,' says he, that we are not all
alike. There are gintlemen over there
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Americans with loanable money, are
poplar ivrywhere. Ye can see. thin in
cabs minglin' with tn naughty arrys-
tocracy iv tn Fowboorg San Germayne.
Ye find thin in tn most exclusive
schnitzel impOryums iv Vienny or losin'
their money with tn best at Monty
Carlo. Ivrywhere they were received
kindly be tn best blood ~ Europe ontil
tn Wrights whit over an disgraced
thin. Tn Americans Twin over there
thried to do ivrything FIR these deluded
young men. Why, sir, wan Nv tn lead
ers iv American s'ciety in London got
Wilbur Wright a chanel to meet tn
Duchess Nv Dorking. It was this way.
with tn job iv tendin' tn American bar
at a bazar FIR tn benefit iv tn anti
foreign league iv British gintlewomen.
She was approached be tn Duchess who
spoke as follows: My dear. I can't re-
call ye'er name, nor wish to, but won't
ye bring those wonderful American
Wrights to lunch tomorrah?' says she.
oh, ye'er, grace says tn queen iv
American s'ciety, we have been so long
away firm tn states that we don't
know hardly anywan there. Who are
these Wrights?' says she. They come
firm some place called Oheeo Dayton or
Dayton Oheeo. Ye have such a1nusin'
names fr ye'er cities says tn duchess.
oh, We name Dayton, Ohio says tn
American arrystocrat. we iv Cinoin-
naty know very few people in Dayton.
oh, but says tn duchess, We must
know those dear delightful WTights
who've invinted those darlin' flynn ma
chimes Ye must bring thin to me. Ye
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By Berta
Hart Nance

As may be supposed, the early set
tiers We're always trying to capture
these beautiful animals. Sometimes
they would work for days, making an
enclosure near d stream where the
meEse labor, succeed in driving one or
more into it. Sometimes a man would
hide himself IN a tree near a spring and
attempt to throw q rope over a mus
tang's head. Sometimes a skillful
markSman would crease" a mustang;
that is, send a bullet through the top
of the neck, halfway between the head
and withers, producing an effect,
which, for the moment, equals a stroke
Of paralysis. But all these methods
were slow and insure; it remained for
two daring Adventures to discover and
operate one both speedy and sure.
The beginning was an affair at a COW
camp near Comanche Texas, when
Harry Brown, a reckless young COW
pUncher, shot and killed a cOmrade.
Brown fled TO Kansas, and was soon
forgotten. Three years later, in the
spring of 1888, he came to Tascosa, in
the Panhandle section Of Texas, at the
head of an outfit of his own. It con-
sisted of three wagons, drawn by four
mules each, three or four saddle horses
and a race horse.
Three men, whom he had hired, were
with him. He said that he had been
capturing wild horses in Kansas, work
ing under man to whom he referred
as wild Horse" Charlie; that he had
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asked Nfr. Hennessy.
Faith, I don't know" said Mr..
DooIey. Eye niver can tell what this
here dhrou little race ~ men viii do.
We've gone a long way. Man can fly
now almost as we'll as a hen with
busted wing But 1 don't think tn kind
iv flynn We'll liver do will look much like
rale dy5n' to a wild goose goin' south
with his family. If I was a flynn ma
chine man, bumpin' around in d con-
thraption made iv steel an wood an
canvas an run be gasolene, an called It
flynn. I'd be ashamed to look goose in
tn face. What Pm afraid iv is that
these here flynn machines viii make us
a joke among tn bur-rds iv tn air. Up
to this thine they looked up 20 us whin
they looked down on US an see tn Won
dherful things we cud do with our feet
But whatu they say whin they see We
don't fly amy more gracefully thin they
walk? P'haps whin they see a hyin'
machine in tn air, they don't think
were flynn. They think there's been an
explosion in q machine shop"
well, anyhow" said Mr.. Hennessy,
I'd like to come back a hundherd years
firm now an see how it all comes out"
"Ye wud," said Mr.. Dooley, IAN I'll
bet ye this, that If We come back on
AIondah, two thousand an nine, an I
come back on Choosdah an meet Hogan
an asst him what We ar-re doin', he'll
say: Hes got a good job at a dollar an
siventy-hve a day wheelin' a barrow in
a fyiH machine foundhry.' An thin
III have to start a liquor shop again
TO give We tn on'y taste w flynn yen
liver have"
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working and exc the 81 in bills he had
just been relieved of.
"AhaW said Mr.. Jarr to himself.
Now, if I left my money around care
lesSly like that, Mrs. Jarr would soon
make away with it, She's always talk
ing about the domestic financial strin-
gency, and yet I'll bet she put this
in here weeks ago and has forgotten
all about it. I'll just take il and see
if she misses it,
SO saying, Mr. Jarr pOcketed the 81
Need any money today?" he asked
casually at breakfast, for he wanted
to bring UP the subject Of Mrs. Jarr' S
carelessness.
Who's Ahead?
yes. indeed I do," said Mrs. Jar,
readily.
We'll, I can let you have 81 / came
across unexpectedly" said Mr.. Jarr.
What good will 81 do meg" asked
Mrs. JaTr. Z need a great deal more
ooh, you do, do you?" replied Mr..
Jarr amiably. 80 you refuse the 81
Offer?"
Indeed I do not" said Mrs. Jarr,
amiably. Every little helps, and there
are some things coming c. o. D. III
take the 81"
SO Mr.. Jarr, chuckling to himself.
handed over the bills Il only wish it
was more, my dear" he said, but easy
Il wonder if he had more money
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lose her balance. In no case must she
hit tn king on tn wrist with her fan
or say. PLACED to have met ye.' It is
on'y permissible to wear an expression
manin', This is tn moment iv me life,
but. oh, hivens, me osthrich feather is
comm loose Tn gintleman will pre-
tind that he was brought up to wear
silk knee breeches an a tin soord hired
FIR tn AFTERNOON. Whin approachin'
his majesty he will make a low bow.
No, not that way. Good hivens, if We
do it like that tn king will think ye're
goin' to butt him in tn stomach. Thry
it again. That's betther!
80 they go home an rehearse befure
tn lookin' glass. An at last tn great
day comes around an they are in tn
prisince iv rilety. Rapchoous moment
There sets Edward, tn Pious, a thrue
monarch, with his rile chin sunk as deep
little forward in his throne to rest
himsilf, fr tn hour is late an he's been
there FIR some time, an as tn old sayiu'
goes, tOnaisy lies tn head that wears a
crown He recognizes thin, although
his eyes are closed. They expict him to
say: We'll, If that amt Missus Hicks!
An Silas, too, iv all personsP But he
don't. A benign expression that SCENE
to say: Where tn blazes did they
come FIRM crosses his features. An
befure they know it they're on their way
back to tn hotel, an AIissus Hicks is
sayin': Amt he tn perfeck gintleman %
an Mister Hicks replies: Ivry inch a
king.
AN it's tn same way ivrywhere in
Europe. Americans, tn right kind ~