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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-25

The towering Washington monument.
solid as It is, cannot resist the heat of the
sun poured on its southern side on a mid
summers day without a slight bending of
the gigantic shaft, which is rendered per-
ceptible by means of a copper wire ia
feet long hanging in the center of the struc-
ture and carrying a plummet suspended in
vessel of water At noon IN summer the
apex OF the monument, $50 feet above the
ground, is shifted by expansion of the stone
few hundredths Of an inch toward the
north. High winds cause perceptible mo-
tons OF the plummet, and In still weather
delicate vibrations OF the crust OF the earth,
otherwise unperceived, are registered by it.
Representatives Hughes and Kinkead of
New Jersey and Cravens of Arkansas,
wits OF the house, had just returned from
the funeral Of a colleague They were dis
oussing the pomp and publicity of a con-
gressional funeral.
Il do not wish suoh a funeral, do you
Gene7" said Mr.. Hughes to Mr.. Kinkead.
mo. Billy. do not care to be put away
with 30 much display. What about you.
Benz" said Mr.. Kinkead turning to Mr..
Cravsns.
Il don't want any funeral" responded
the southsrner, dryly.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-25

Complete Preparatory. Commercial. se,sn.
ufie. English and Classical Courses. speoIal
facilities In Vocal and Instrumental n,I.
sic To secure the family spirit the school
attendance y limited TO small numbers
send for catalogue
Very Rsv. Fortunatus Hausssr, o. r. N
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22
BEWILDERlNG PLOTS.
THE THIRTEENTH MAN. By Mrs. Coul
son Kerna an. Emo. PIP. SlS. The I
W Dillingnom Company.

THE THIRTEENTH MAN. By Mrs. Coul-
son Kerna nan. Emo. pp 3ls. The u.
W Dillngnom Company.
1t is a sad late to be the thirteenth
sor cf a superstitious mother, for she
will tell him that he is foredoomed TO Ill
luck all his days. and he will come to be
lleve il. with the result that his own
lack of faith in his fortune will make the
prediction come true. 1t is thus with
Mrs. Kernahan's thirteenth man, who,
superstitious always, at last believes
that he can change his luck by turning
10 crime. And such a plot he weaves,
He kidnaps the heiress who stands be-
tween him and fortune, keeps her a
prisoner day and night, and drugs her in
order to obliterate her memory Of her
identity. This is but small part OF the
complications Of the story, for, Of course,
there is a hero. the lover OF the KID
napped girl, who has been led to believe
that she is dead, but whom coincidence.
ever kind TO lovers. sends TO dwell in
solitude near the very country house in
which she is kept. This much may be
told without injustice to the author or
her prospective reader because ii leaves
ever so much more untold. And at the
last We learn the way in which even a
thirteenth man may free himself from
superstition and its results.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22
New Stories, Pleasant and Un'
pleasant.
AN ANcLo.GREEK clRcE.


JANE oGLANDER; BY Sar;e. Mrs; seIiSe ssriS!
ners Sons.
The girl who gives this book its title Is
the victim Of its story, rather than its
heroine. In fact. It cannot be sa'd 'ha'
there Is a heroine. or a hero, either' vi
this chronicle of a modern Circe, whose
love is treachery, WHOSE spells OF inia'"-
alton silence the voice OF honor anu
numb the saving strength or charac'ei' l.
OF course. her wickedness is explained
nv her maternal Greek ancestry. III is
good old tradition of English fiction 10
ascribe the offending of its arch-Viiiaihs
TO the taint Of foreign blood. aithoush VI
late English novelists have been as uh-
pleasantly bold In their dealings WIFI
English womanhood as their French
confreres has been with their own. All
this does not prevent Mrs. Lownoes
book from being ably written, or from
being as clever in its analysis or Sinners
their weaknesses and wickedness, as IN
that of simple virtue; Of the vengefui
righteousness Of puritan motherhoou'
and of the patient cynicism OF the IN
valid husband and his nephew and heT'
whose belated revelation is the last straw
added TO the load on the readers moran
sense. The younger Dumas's "Tue-ia
is the final resource. but the unwritten
law is applied stealthily. with due regard
for the reputation and standing or
highly respected county family. most
unpleasant story.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22
Keeping
Up With
Lizzie
By Evine BacheHer

A book for men largely about
women, although we are in
clined to think both sexes will
delight in it's queer motor race,
it's love duel, and it's strange
Ham War. Lizzies are every
where, but there is only one Soc
rates Potter, and he is in this
book-a keen, good-natured,
witty, honest country lawyer
and by far the most unique fig
ure in recent fiction. Here Is
wit and satire and humanity OF
a high order. 1t has genuine
humor, real characters, a foun.
dation of truth and a gentle
love story. You're in it. So is
America, and at least one hum
dred and fifty laughs.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22

years n teacher of mathematics IN
German gymnasium, and denied aii
conscious trickery. He had In all good
faith begun 70 educate Hans, not 10
train" him in the usual way. and SIN
cerely believed that the horse mad IN
telligence in the human sense OF the
word, that 1t reasoned logically In Its
method of solving mathematical prob
lens. He had other convictions about
the animals mental powers OF which
he spoke without reserve.
The present book contains the report
OF the experiments made and the con-
clusions reached by Mr.. Pfungst, who
was one Of number Of scientists who
investigated the phenomenon with truly
Teutonic thoroughness. The account Is
highly interesting. presented with ad-
mirable clarity and reaches far into
animals, notably the dog. In the light
Of these Investigations, Hans's accom-
plishments were found to be based, first
or all, on marvellously developed
power Of perce!ving even the slightest
involuntary movements that accompany
human thought, upon an intensely
trained attention and upon some meas
ure OF memory by means Of which the
horse was able to associate perceptions
or movement with q small number
of movements Of his own, which had
become habits. In cases where the
questioner did not know tho answer
himself-the places Of the numbers re-
quired. for instance-Hans invariably
failed. The questioner himself gave the
answer through involuntary motions, and
Hans registered them with mods. shakes
and taps. So. when Herr Won Osten
asked him whether he liked or disliked
certain person. the answer did not
represent Hans's own feeling. but that
OF his master. Mr.. Pfungst concludes
as follows:
Inc proof which was expected by so
many that animals possess the power of
tnought was not furnished by Hans. He has
served 70 weaken rather than strengthen,
The position OF these enthusiasts. BIIt wa
must Senera!ize this negative conclusion
or ours with care We are in no nosj,ion
to deny priori the possibilities OF traces
OF conceptual thought I'm those forms near
est man In the scale, whether living In
tHeir natural manner or under artificial
final word has not yet been spol,en S,i,n ree reo
Itself. s''
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22
THE SECRET PROCESS.

rtIr, PED ROOM. BY William lie Queux.
With frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo'
l2mo, pp. 29i Boston: Little Brown
x Co.
What would the novelists do wlthout
the rivalres Of great states? one OF the
motives getting commoner every DAY IN
popular fiction Is the secret invoNihg
European government or Its ruler'
Papers on which hang the destinies OF a
nation rest in the hands of an lnolVluuai
who. for some occult reason, cannot 20
ot once and put them where they be-
long. but must first play hide and seek
with scoundrels who stop AT hothihe'
Or an invention is at stake, the posses
sion of it being sought as matter OIL
life and death by the emissarles OIL Two
mowers. II As something Of this sort
that goes forward In ''The Red Room.
A murder is committed and II Is
promptly swathed in mystery. Ihe plot
thickens until it pretty nearly cohgeais'
u would seem the simplest thing In the
world for the supposititious narrator 10
clear up his puzzle, or at all eVeh's W
save himself a lot Of trouble. bu' III
these exciting stories the suppositltious
narrator is usually more than coniding
souI and he allows himself to be fooled
Therefore, as we read chapter ai'e'
chapter in 1.-The Red Room"-and read
them quite willingly--we are more anu
more bewildered, and only at the emu
does the whole truth come out concern
ing Professor Ernest Greer ana 'he
secret process for the hardening OF steer
which makes him an object OF the Keen
est solicitude to the rulers OF England
and Germany Mr.. lie Queux mas Writ
ten only one more Of those average
mvstiflcations with which readers OF cur
rent fiction have long been familiar put
he has a little way Of his own, and The
Red Room" does very well.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22

THE HONOR OF THE BIG SHOWS. BY
James Oliver Curwood. illustrations by
Charles Livingston Bull. limo, PIP. 3lS
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.
While our own novelists are writing
the reminiscent closing chapters Of the
life Of the vanished West and its ro-
nance, new fiction OF the frontier is
growing up beyond the border in the
great Northwest. A Hudson's Bay COM
Iany post in the AthabaSca country is
the scene OF this story, which is made
worth while by it's realistic atmosphere
uf remoteness and isolation among the
big SHOWS" and by its telling descrip-
lions Of its daily life and occupations
There are no fourishes Of revolvers. no
bad men, no sensationalism-it is a
tale Of sober. laborious lives and of d
code of morals which visits the sin OF the
Parents upon their innocent children.
which will not forgive the stain Of
illegitimacy. This is the secret Of Ian
Morean, come from the silent stretches
beyond. with his violin, his heart filled
with yearning for affection. but also with
8 murdcrous hatred. This is also the
barrier that In later days rises between
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22

quarrel. Mr.. Hardy's pessim'sh'
own affair. though we may re"'".N =.
passing that when he tries 70 s'e -
poetic form no puts 1t In the worst poe
sible light. In the novels he may r"'~
our hearts with q sense OF the crueity VI
fate, but we emerge from tho eAper'e".o
the wiser and the better for IT; there 10
strength and there is healing In MS nc
ton. as well as painful truth. But ""a'
are we to say Of the verses just quote"'
as poetry? Is there 80 much as gilm'
mer I'm them of true poetic fire? 10 ther0
any music? Is there any beautyT Mr'
Hardy's countrymen havo been very
kind. as the lovers Of his books every
where would wish to be kind. toward his
mistaken resolution. But sometimes It
Is necessary. indeed, to be cruel TO Dc
kind, and Mr.. Owen Seaman. In "Punch'
has written perhaps the most enectlVe
possible criticism Of these "Satires OF
Circumstance" He has parodied them
after this fashion:
AT THE MOTHER-IN-LAWS.
Your son deserts me on Tuesday next"
Remarks the wife In q wailing Groom;
II cannot disguise / am greatly Vext
That he should be at 1t again so soon'
He only eloped with me last year,
And the aDniversary's not yet here.'
II warned you once" says the mother-in-
"Tis in hi, blood: he is not to blame;
His heritage had this fatal flaw,
For his poor dear father was just the same
From the first time out. when he ran with
He was always eloping with somebody"
AT THE FAIR.
They meet at a fair where tho hot o00tn'
steam, .
The girl and her rival. muslin gowned; ~.
Saws one: HE stood me large ice cream!
And the other, 1--WE rode on the merry-go-
"He patted my cheek and he pulled my
"He kept on pinching my arm. so there"
A woman's shadow is thrown between. ~.
And her breath comes sharp through the
I'm wife" she says. ito the man you
Who mailed your arm and your hair and
But 'iHm; I know that he loves me best, and
Thres nights running he bIdcked my eve'"
IN THE LOUNGE.
The neer's heir sits on his honeymoon
~ Iond hotel with his chorus bride.
a eramaphone grlnds a rasping tune
That tickles the page boys Deep inside, inside,
The future baron is thrilled right tnrougn. I'm
And Dearest" he says. III souhoS "A'
YOU"
Yer I,ps relax from the toothsonne smile
That smirlls through the picture postca'o
90, Gang IT," says she; 1T used to begu'le
The oniy lover that stirred my veins
7 ,oaTried YOU lust for your rank, OLD oesr'
But the song ls my true U1drnnsoSs I0yas so.Ve"
bouep
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22

of n Brief Welded Life as Told IN lill-
mate and Confidential Letters Wr,.,en ,a
nv a Bride to a Former College MAZE
nv Helen Reimensnyder Martin. l-mo'
pp. ia. The Century Company
When. in the end. the music master
dies by his own hand for grief at the
loss OF his soul mate, the reader ex-
claims. Good riddancew And so thinks
his widow after she has married MS
brother. The two chief characters OF
this novelette,. which the author evidently
meant TO be a tragedy In little, are
utterly uninteresting and unimportant'
The husband Is a sorry figure, not so
uuch on account OF his affinitive esca-
made as for his general lack OF backbone
and manly principle. his half baked
artistic temperament" which gradually
reveals itself to his adoring wife. HIS
enchantress IS an insufferable prig, TAX
ing herself and current "emanclpated
theories with the utmost seriousness
ever insisting on the centre of the social
stage I'm the glare Of the limelght. The
author seeks TO convince the reader OF
the fundamental strength and beauty OF
this woman's character below her selfish
hunger for attention" and admiration,
but does not succeed. The wife herself
is "mushy" in her early correspondence
md. later on, should not have washed
the family linen before the eyes of an out
slider. even though she was her "chum'
at college. The only person worth While
IN the whole business is the brother-in-
law. And. by the way, Captain Cutie
did not "fall into poetry" 1t was Silas
Wess who dropped into It on occasion.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22

combinations OF railroads and trans
portation companies and dealers ana
manufacturers OF paper. groceries, meat
lumber, tobacco, fertilizers. explosives
petroleum products. drugs. salt and Ice
throughout the United States.
Since President Taft took Office new
prosecutions have been begun against
manufacturers and dealers In paper
glass. sugar, plumbers supplies. elec-
trical appliances, meat. butter and eggs.
and against n towing concern ana a
group OF Cotton Exchange spectators
who bid up the price Of cotton, ana 10
carry on this work Congress has recently
voted 100000. The Taft administration
has extended the scope Of the Sherman
antitrust law to combinations which the
Roosevelt administration thought to be
exempt from the act. In his annual re-
port for 1903 Attorney General Bona
Justice had repeatedly been requested to
procure temporary injunctions against
the collection Of increased rates OF
freight by various railroads adopted
through agreements between competing
railroads in violation Of the terms Of the
law. Attorney General Bonaparte
added:
The Congress, having clearly indicated
by tho terms Of the statute regulating IN
terstate commerce, under the circumstances
OF their. enactment. its deliberate judgment
raf oh n
first instance by the railroads themselves,
and when SO fixed should remain effective
until abrogated in accordance with the law
through action Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, II would mot In my opinion
accord with that conformity to tho intent
OF Congress, appropriate on the part OF this
department. TO- utilize proceedings under
tho sO-called antitrust law TO prevent
the application Of said rates. while tho COM
mission had their reasonableness under
considerations: as consequence OF such
advice, no action OF the character indicated
was taken In the premises.
Attorney General Wickersham. how
ever. declined to recognize this limit
upon the scope Of the Sherman anti
trust law. and In the spring Of 1910 pro-
cured, on the eve Of q contemplated ad-
vance Of rates by the Western Trunk
Line Association, an Injunction forbid
ding the advance Of rates. on the ground
that the circumstances OF the fixing and
filing OF the advance OF rates showed
that the railroads were acting in concert
and therefore In violation Of the Sher-
man antitrust law.
From Mr.. Walkers narrative it Is
plain that the end is not yet. A COM
pilation from "Moody's Manual shows
LOS corporations classed as holding
companies" with s,11O subsidiaries and
S1O,612,3 ,372, ,4S9 OF capital, all Of which
arc affected In greater or less degree by
the Sherman antitrust act. Enough is
thus shown 10 justify President Roose-
velts oft quoted remark that the law
as construed by the Supreme Court Is
such that the business OF the country
cannot be conducted without breaking
IT," and that "the result Is to make de-
cent men violators OF the law against
their will and to put premium on the
behavior OF the wilful wrongdoers."
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22
Mr.. HARDY'S VERSE
Some Further Evidences of q
Curious Ambition.

Inc world owes a heavy debt 10
Thomas Hardy. More conclusivelv than
any OF his contemporaries he has az
nrned IN our own time the great tradi-
'ion or English fiction. If any OF the
novels of the last half century NAV ba
regarded as certain Of Immortality thew
are such novels as "Tess" or "The Pa
turn OF the Native" Just because these
masterpieces have given us all SO much
pleasure and have done so much to stfn-
ulate profitable thought, one ia naturally
inclined to grant the author almost anv.
thing. And yet II is a little difficult to
sympathize with Mr.. Hardy's poetical
ambition. Being man Of imagination.
man Of genius. he has poetical ideas
and sometimes can bring to the framing
or a line or phrase a fairly poetical
touch. THE Dynasts," which Is not the
work OF poetry that II assumes to be.
nevertheless could only have been con-
ceived by man having a poetic streak
In him. On the other hand, poetic
streak is not quite enough to make a.
man poet.
There Is something pathetic, and, be-
sides. something exasperating about the
manner in which Mr.. Hardy persists In
doing the thing he was not born to do.
In the current number Of THE Fort
nightly Review" he has a set Of "Sa-
tires OF Circumstance" We quote from
the Twelve Scenes" the following:
BY HER AUNT's GRAVE.
"sixppence week." says the girl to her
Aunt used TO bring me, for she could con-
fide
In me alone she vowed Twas to cover
The cost of her headstone when she died.
And that was a year ago last June
I've not yet put It here. | must soon"
And where is the money now?" asks he
20, snug In my purse. Aunt was
In saving it--eghty weeks" says she
Let's spend It," he hints. For she won't
know.
There's dance tonight at the Load of
She passlvely mods. And they go that way.
IN THE ROOM OF THE BRIDE-ELECT.
Would IT had been the man OF our wish."
Signs her mother. To whom with vehe-
IltlCe SUe.
Then why were you so molyish
AS not TO insist on him for me"'
The mother amazed: why. dearest one,
Because you pleaded for this or nonev'
But father and you should have stood out
strong,
Since then. TO my cost have lived 10 find
That you were right and that was wrong;
This man is a dolt to the one declined.
Ah!-here he comes. Well-'tis too late
now,
And must marry him anyhow
OUTSIDE THE WINDOW.
MY stick!" he says. and turns In the lane
To the house Just left, whence vixen
voice
Comes out with the hrelight through the
pane.
And he sees within that the girl of his
choice
Stands rating her mother with eyes aglare
For something said while he was there.
"At last / behold her soul undraped.'
Thinks the man who had loved her more
than himself:
my God.-'tis but narrowly have es-
capped.
Ny precious porcelain. proves Il delf"
His face has REDEEMED like one ashamed,
And he steals off. leaving his stick un-
claimed.
With the bitter substance OF these
verses we have. perhaps. no right to
New-York tribune., 1911-04-22
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

That irrespective which 1t Is SO Wise to
cultivate in judging ones own country
and countrymen Is to be revealed III an
or+,c,e IN the June "Scribner." Mr. w.
NJ Fullerton, the author. has lateiy re-
r,s;ted this country after long absence
IN Europe. and everything he has OBJ
served here has apparently filed MIN
with satisfaction. He thinks he has
found a dominating note Of idealism. And
he perceives that new beauty. belong
ing both to men and women, is being de-
veloped here.
Mr.. Barrie's New Book.
Mr.. J. M. Barrie Is working upon q
new book, and 1t will probably be pub
Itshed in the autumn. He has been play
ing dramatist instead Of novelist for a
long time-and it must be confessed that
readers have not protested.
Mr. Loeke's Titles.
Mr.. w. J. Locke's new novel. which
will be published in the summer, may be
called "Dr. Quixtus." Or 1t may be
called 1.-THE Glory of Clementine Wing"
Also the author has thought Of title
no less taking than THE Romantic
Lady"
Mr.. Carnesies Opinions.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has written an
article for the next number Of THE Cen
tury." He calls 1t "The A B C Of the
Tariff Question"
Melancholy Russian Books.
why are most Russian tales melan-
choly2 1t Is not altogether political con-
ditlons, II appears. which create this at
mosphere IN fiction. A writer In THE
Pail Mall Gazette ascribes 1: to the in
tense boredom that must fall upon those
who live on their own estates during the
long night Of a Russian winter" Added
to this must be the perpetual snow.
which makes every part Of the land
scape look alike; the misery Of the peas
ants, which the fortune Of q Rothschlld
would be insufficient to relieve; the sense
Of monotony caused by always seeing
the same people and the Same interior
and the complete absence OF anything
like society and the pressure Of public
opinion"
Mr.. MaxWeII's Theme.
Mr.. w. B. Maxwell has written a novel
Of storm and stress. the story Of pictu-
rescue struggle between two department
stores for the trade Of a large city.
Mrs. Thompson" Is the title. and the
Appletons arc Just publishing the book.
Remembering Poet.
Another monument is to be added to
the multitude In Paris which commemo-
rate men Of genius. This IS statue Of
Camoens, the Portuguese poet 1t Is to
be the work OF Portuguese sculptor