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i Decadence < _i fuf . a Sydney HERE Is perhaps no n COIlimtinn In an m a n \ ate rial prosperity sudt voted to plain living spirit of materialism love of science and ki tingulshed the ante-b? many's high, austere, been replaced by a b Germans are no longer the greatest rear to be in some danger of developing to English contempt That intellectual c< of the most admirable and seductive i with the dazzling succession of autbc were Its embodiment and the nnworldl uated it A new luxury, restlessness, vaded all classes. The Germany of tod American ardor, has cultivated with ai amenities and what Burke called "the come more polished, more ceremonlot niceties and embellishments of social ir losing, the old simplicity and purity of Crimes aicainst nronertv ?nrf m?r?i last thirty years with an appalling rap pace with them. Berlin is the most c European cities, and flaunts a coarsen equalled anywhere. The Germans hav When they are losing; their spiritual fail Influence of the Socialist temper is not indoctrinated at least a third part of tl the crudest materialism. The great cit; was little more than & placid village s exuberant architecture, its restauranti , gaiety, the .vastness of the distance wt generation. Unity, prosperity, and imp Ible change in the character and socia nographlc literature of the most rcvoltl greater evil in Germany than it ever wi the higher classes grows later and lat< of a marriageable age?estimated at cc great increase in divorces emphasize neas; and the many scandals of recen Is always and in all countries the first iruiui w su uiiuiisuiKKUie lowering OI ll per's Weekly. W J ? * I 'Romance o * By Henry WISE motorist is not II I the time, the place, tl I I inspired choice on w yV I knows when to brave 1 I hills or tunels of gre< I V W S that would soon toss I I M. I on grass-grown lanes InrVffl waysides of jagged ti [color; and quenching Mnger in long cadences of stream and 1 All this, however, he can do perfe * For in motoring, as In love, one man's i cleansing joy another's pool of infam: shares can the motor-sage share his ] depends for you on the blindness of sp ' suffice you. If your thirst is for shy with some motoring painter may slake and for whom does it not wait??like a he street as in the desert, in the throb :y as in the openness of a woman's mc eurs will be an abomination, acquaint welcome only as he loosens your too fir our fingers to the levers controlling our engine, and with a word or two )ide you on your first long run.?Atl is >i ? a Va ... ? Work and By Dr. L. Vfl "l HERE a re conditions f I do the most and the I Vlfl I tain those conditions fc* j It Is useless for 1 I tlgrued man to try to 1 J matlc, even-tempered which the two men p V * oal. The man who > nerlod of wnrmlnnr-iin y-ot at it, as long as he can kee 2^ real economy for him. On th? fcjV when he works by Bpurts, and -^Ait to feel that he is doing wro JeJvorkman. System and contlnu< Both men can do high-grad< nan ought to discover the s| o make such conditions for I* * waste somewhere. ] -fcin- .ne to run everybody throu r/ rkf fh ^ uy if i ! ECZ \ ? v fjr Brandmr y N " i -IETHER any one of f?v oeptance as the secbi I highly desirable worl i jQz~ cation, can be decided reil of the fotnre. Bo aohlere this cHatlnctl that tongue is moat I '' ' ie.. of Germany ^ f Brooks. ^ atlon that haa altered within a single r essential qualities as Germany. Ma lenly descending upon a country deand high thinking, has brought the in Its train. The idealism and the tow ledge tor their own sakes that dla- j ilium generation, and constituted Gerand distinctive claim to honor, have aid and repellent utilitarianism. The lers in the world. They seem, indeed, ir books and book-learning an almost ismopolitanlsm which used to be one of German traits has vanished along >rs. scientists, and philosophers who y professors who fostered and perpetdiscontent. and chauvinism have inay, pursuing wealth with a more than isiduity, and not without success, the solemn plausibilities" of life, has bets. more preoccupied with the small ttercourse; but has lost, or is rapidly manners. Ity have multiplied in Germany in the idity. Financial juggleries have kept cosmopolitan and the most corrupt of ess of depravity that is not, I think, e rushed into city life Just at a time :h in theories of moral restraint. The to be sought in politics alone; it has tie German nation with the religion of y on the Spree which a generation ago uuwb in lis siyie 01 me, iu rents, us i and hotels, its strident round of lich Germany has traveled in the last erialism have wrought a deep and visI outlook of the German people. Porng and debasing quality is becoming a is in France. The marriage age among sr. The number of unmarried women mslderably over two millions?and the a growing social and moral unsoundt years among the aristocracy, which class to show the taint of corruption, he standards of national morals.?Hari ? i s 7P : f Motoring f C Greene. ? merely exempt from mania; he knows tie way; he has the skill to make each hich poetic motoring depends. He wind and sun, when to seek sheltering sn. Leaving the allurements of a road like the English Channel, he comes, , to the ease of green-winged locusts; iwdriness he lets pass in one flare of ; a burst of speed, he makes beauty willow. ctly, not for you, but for himself only, loem is another man's prose, one man's f. Only with spirits whose nature he romance. If, then, romantic motoring eed, a chauffeur's bought wisdom must lights on ocean or hillside, friendship it. But if all reality waits for you? goddess scarcely veiled; if it lurks in bing of machinery as in silence, in the St Intimntp amilo thon fnr uah oKo..f tances inept, and even a close friend m grasp on the steering wheel, guides throttle and electric spark, "cranks" of technical reminder, takes the seat antic. > M I 4k Efficiency f Gulick J? Wlr or each individual under which he can jest work. It is his business to ascerand to comply with them, the nervous, high-strung, quickly failve by the same program as his pblegneighbor. The conditions under roduce the best results are not identican't work at his best until after a , ought to stick to his job, when once p up to the high-grade level. That is : other hand, the man who accomplishtakes intervals of play between times, ng when he gives up imitating the ous driving decrease, not increase, his e work, but not under the same coudipeclal conditions of his own best work, himself?in so far as he can. OtherNothing is gained and mnoh u i~?? gh the same mold.?Prom the World's i m ? ie -vS ie Future 1 Matthews- ^ the living tongues is ever to win ac- I ad language of educated men, as the j d-language of International communi- I only by time, and no man can lift the I it If any one of the Urlng tongues la to I an and to Mm this useful purpose, Ihely to be tinglisb. We who speak to help la bringing this about and to aa do little or nothing. Those who i to present the spread of oar speech; It if It should come to pass, this will E d ' '' '. .. 'v - - V. ' DOINGS OfCTNCTESS Turn Daj to Day. abort lagialativa aaaaion of tba Sonata devotad to tba tnmaiHon of roatina morning hnrim* wag brought to an abrupt eloaa Wadnaaday by a motion to go into ozacatiwa aeaaiou to woiucr in uuiaaiio wiwrwiys treaty. Senator* desiring to consider various pending sow res resisted the wish of the naajoriay to dispose of this treaty, and a yea and nay vote was required to close the doors for executive business. The treaty was not disponed of. A variety of subjects occupied tbe attention of the Houre of Representatives Wednesday. Tbe proceedings began with the adoption of tbe special committee report recommending the expunging from The Record of the recent speech of Mr. Willett. of New York, denunciatory of President Roosevelt. The UOStolBee tnnmnriltinn Kili was amended in several particulars, the most important being the transferring of 500 assistant superintendents. clerks, etc., of stations from the $1,000 to the $1,100 elass. while the provision for the payment of necessary expenses of division superintendents, railway mail clerks, and others, while away from headquarters was stricken out. As amended the bill was passed, carrying an appropriation of over $234,000,000. The omnibus claims bill was before the Senate during almost all of the session Thursday. Various amendments were offered to the measure and acted upon, the vote on an amendment to repeal the Tucker act under which war claims are sent to the court of claims being postponed until Friday. Senator Foraker gave notice that Friday he would again call up his bill for the reinstatement of the soldiers of the Twentv-fifth Reriment I who were discharged without honor on account of the Brownsville. Tex., "shooting up" August 13th-14th, 1900. Almost the entire session of the House of Representatives was taken up with a discussion of the conference report on the bill providing for the taking of the next census. A lively debate ensued over a provision granting to the Director of the Census the right to have the printing of the reports done by private concerns in case such action should be deemed advisable, with the result that the supporters of the proposition were successful and the report was agreed to. The army appropriation bill was called up and had been but briefly discussed when the House adjourned. The omnibus ?-.lr.ims bill, carrying an appropriation of about $3,000,000, which has been favorably acted upon by the House of Representatives, was passed by the Senate Friday, with an amendment repealing the law allowing the reference of Southern war claims to the court of calims by the Seua;t' or House of R'p.'sentati/os. A substijuto bill for all pending measures relating to the re-enlistment of ihe soldiers of t!?-_ J"*venty-tiiM? Regiment, who were discharged with out honor lolowing the Brownsville, Tex., "shooting up," was introduced by Senator Aldrich, and accepted by Senator Foraker and other Republican Senators who had proposed legislation for the same purpose. It provides for a court of inqury to pass upon the qualifications of the discharged men for re-enlistment. Viporoup denials both by Charles P. Taft oxd William Nelson Cromwell of the charges made in the recent speech of Mr. Rainey, of Iillionis. on Panama canal 'affairs, were read *.n the House of Representatives. The conrnunication from Mr. Taft was in me snaps or a caDiegram irom Havana to Mr. Rainev while Mr. Cromwell's rejoinder was addressed to Mr. Lovering of Massachusetts. There was an animated discussion of the subject. Then the army appropriation bill again was laid before the House. The bill was not considered, however, the time being taken up in general debate. Mr. Clark, of Florida. argued for jury trials in lunacy proceedings in the District of Columbia. Mr. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, presented views holding to be unconstitutional the acts of the last session of Congress in relation to the issu anee of restraining orders, injunctions and cofttcmpts of courts; Mr. Perkins of New York, favored a lowering of the tariff; Mr. Gaines, of Tennessee, attacked the so-called powder trust and Mr. Reeder, of Kansas, spoke in defense of the forest service. The judiciary committee continued its hearing in the case of Judge Hundley, of Alabama, in the Senate on Saturday. Further testimony was given out in the case of the inquiry into the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway t-mpany merger. The Senate Democrats arc planning a filibuster to prevent a vote in the Brownsville case. By voting an appropriation of $500,000, the house of representatives Saturday made liberal provision far farther experiments by the army, with balloons and airships for use in warfare. The subject gave to a soi hat?, which continue^ points, bat the eh sir in elaborate opinions overruled these, snd thus naved the Way Tor the incorporation of tho provision in the army appropriation bill. Previous to taking up the army bill, the consideration of which was not oompleted, the house passed a number of miscellaneous bill* of more or less public interest. At 4:46 p. m., the house adjourned until Sunday, when it will meet in special session to hear eulogies on the life of and character of Representative Powers, of Maine, who died during the recess. IELECTRICITYFROM WAVES William Suss Finds Way to Oatch Power From Wind and Wares. Washington, Special.?Within the next few days Atlantic City is to witness a practical demonstration of a new invention that will litili** limitless force of-the ocean tides and waves in the production of power, light, and heat. The inventor claims that he has mastered the problem in a manner that makes its application both economic and practical. Engineers who have tested the wave motors invented by William Snee, of Pitsburg, state that these motors will do the work for which they are intended. The mo'or. or rather the revolving portion of the motor, resembles in construction, and is. in effect, a turbine. It is the only turbine wheel ever invented for generating power from wave and tide motion. The motor revolves within the stationary shield that is equipped with reflectors and guide blades set at such an angle as to harmonize all outside conflicting forces of the water, so that no matter from what direction the water is jetted into the interior, the motor always turns in one direction. Models of various sizes have been made, and the experiments have Droved such an unnnnlifipd succpcr that two 61-ton motors have been installed at the end of Young's pier at Atlantic City, and the power obtained will be utilized to make the pier and beach s bluze of light. The wave motors works as well on land as it does in the water. This feature was tested recently at Pittsburg, the motor proving itself to be twenty per cent more sensitive to the currents of the air than the anemometer, and the same principle that harmonizes the outside wheel performs the same service in harmonizing conflicting forces of wind. This discovery naturally suggests the idea of using both the wind and wave motors in government lighthouses, and the inventor at once brought the matter to the attention of the government officials. Nine Jurors Found, Nashville, Special.?When the sec unu venire 01 ouu tniesmen was exhausted without the completion of the jury to try Col. Duncan Cooper, Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp for the slaying of former Senator Edward W. Carmack. Judge Hart announced thathe would devote Wednesday to the hearing of charges against Jurors Leigh and Jackson. Meantime he drew another venire of 500 names and the sheriff is summoning them for service at 0 a. m. Friday. Just before court adjourned the State filed charges against Juror H. C. Jackson, claiming that he was incompetent because he was an habitual drunkard Thn StntA Iw, linon tn'inff since last week to pet a hearing on the charges against Juror J. S. Leigh and its witnesses were summoned to appear Wednesday, when both cases will be gone into. There are now nine mer in the box with charges against two of them. The failure of counsel to complete the jury from the first thousand talesmen together with the fact that the number already selected may be reduced by the court makes it extremely improbable that the twelve men will be sworn in before some time next week. Cleveland Womun Leaves Money to Negro 8c boo Lb. Cleveland, O., Sneeial.?Mrs. Samuel Mather, sister of Mrs. John Hay, who died a few days ago, left an esJ _ 1 AO AAA AAA ? * Laic vaiutm Ul ^,UUU,UUU. UI THIS $250,000 is set aside for charitable purposes. Among these bequests are $15,000 for superannuated minister's of the Presbvterian Church; $5,000 for Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., and $1,000 for Tuskegee Institute,. Tuskegee, Ala. No Election Tet in Illinois. Springfield, 111., Special.?Senator Albert J. Hopkins, Republican primary choice for Senator, with 90 votes came within nine votes of re-election on Wednesday's first ballot, the 13th joint ballot taken since the senatorial deadlock began. The 90 receded to 85 on the 17th ballot. None of the other candidates made consequential gains and the election of a Senator doeg not seem to be in sight. Root Bids Goodbye to the Cabinet. Washington, Special. ? Secretary Root attended his last Cabinet meeting Tuesday and his colleagues in the official family gave him a farewell such as be will long remember. The understanding is that Robert Bacon will be_jcottfljy" '" Wednesday as See rjH at once take ^ it ' ?, It 8001 / ' i Wednesday Ml , , COLD. ICY BLIZZARD Afl.Sections of the Courtry in Grasp of Sleet and Snow. TRAINS BURIED UNDER SNOW. Wins Art Proctr&t?d la rations Ottos Which Btotdily Swejt From Wsst to ths Sail With Oral Dsmt(t in Thsir TraiL .J Chicago, Special.?Four dead, many injured, much suffering and an unknown property loos is the bll paid by Chieago to the storm that iwooped down upon this eity Frida* noon. Early on Saturday the sno* ceased falling, the temperature droped not much above tLe zero mark: The dead: Thomas Clancy, lelivery wagon driver, killed when n automobile crashed into his tear under cover of blinding snow. Patrick Crane, 35 years old, killed b being blown from stairway. Morris Iaberle, 70 years old, dropped dead fnm over exertion, while shoveling snc.v from bis side walk during the lizzard. Patrick Higgins, 35 years ol, dropped dead overcome by colt, while waiting for a street car. Train Lost in the Sno*. xne train on the South Mnnesota division of the Chicago, Mlvraukec and St. Paul, lost in the snov drifts some time Thursday night is still unlocated. The train was -eported lost in a snow drift west of Fackson, Minn. It was last reported at Kinbrae, Minn., 345 miles west of LaCrosse. The train is now upposed to be buried between Kin ae and Sibley. Communication betwen these two points is obstructed. In he train there are two day coaches and a combination mail, baggage and express car. No food was nbnrd the train. Railroad officials brieve the passengers were given shlter at Kinbrae or at farm houses long the line. The overland train, du Friday, became stalled somewhere a Iowa, and for 24 hours it has beei battling with the blizzard. Intense suffering was experienced by many pssengers On train*-. mViinK -1 - J ?*iL w?. iiivii Itcic lill |'l UVIICH Willi sleeping and eating aceomo ations. Florida Weather Coldest n Years. Pensacola. Fla., Special?Following a wind Avhich attained i A'elocity of 15 miles an hour and Thich had been blowing steadily fc tAveh'e hours at o\Ter thirty mile, came a drop in temperature Satur.ny morning of 5 degrees and this section of Florida is experiencing tl? clodest weather of the past two sasons. It is feared that the fruits and vegetable crops may be seriouly injured by the cold weather due t- the warm weather of the past feAV ?eeks causing them to bud and spoi:. Entire East in Storm \ Grasp. W ashington, Special.-Clale-swept coasts, a freeze in the f*uit belt of Florida, temperatures 2( to 30 degrees below the seasontl average, snow in many sections ad cold snaps everywhere north of he Mexican Gulf and east of the lockics were the features that marled Saturday night's weather map. The storm, with its trail of cold /ave and accompaniment of high wnds, is off the New England coast, pasing off to sea, wrecking craft along tie Atlantic as an earnest of its force Anniston, Ala., Speial.?A fierce blizzard prevailed here the first snow of the season falling Saturday morning. There have beer five fires since the blizzard began. Columbus, Ga., Speial.?With the mercury several degees below freezing point and steacily falling, Columbus on Saturday night was in the grasp of the severert blizzard of the winter. Wireless Saves Tvo More Vessels. Norfolk, Va.t Sfccial.?The inestimable value of wireless telegraphy was again demonftrated Saturday in Hampton Roads when a message flashed through trie air telling of the collision of the Old Dominion liner Hamilton with a car barge of the New York, Philadelfhia & Norfolk Railroad, and eating for assistance. Kills Wife and Self. Wilmington N. C., Special.?Evidently enraged toward her because she would not consent to return with him to Atlanta, Ga., or surrender to him their 17-month-old child, Edward A. Mizer, a young white man living here for ths past six weeks, Sunday at Second and Nun streets, in a prom inent resi-ience section, intercepted his young wife, a daughter of John H. Land, a well-known carpenter here, as she was on her way to the First Baptist Sunday school; shot her twice, resulting in her death an hour later at the hospital; then turned the pistol upon himself. Town Devastated by Fire. v.. a :-1 wi iva u.f oiicciai.?lflf town of Nowata, across the line from here in Oklahoma, was almost wiped off the map Saturday by a Are tha: destroyed 13 business houses, two banks and the county court house, whieh held all the records of that ill" a? ALUI TL. mm v4 vmlaumilft. 1DD lOH ]| estimated at 9200,000. ??? A Grin u W ,jf)L e? a grave m^^H| jBS tions in the ;]2 pearance a to medical acient^^^^H .' For several rentjF v known to h^1 rcedit for i C. H. Lavy.v $?"' and marine h a ?- mtim lagra" is a eating of spoiled *^-^^Hftft| ,4ft duces in persons . sort of intoxication. x?? Jft"' * ft erally occurs amon|\\' md -ft classes of the rural p<?, subsist largely or exclusi^" corn most usually prepared bF (| a corn meal in salt water call^ jentia" in Italy. Dr. Lavin^ft^ 3 that in pallagrous countries' JK . is often of r poor quality, before maturity and not *: ft cured nnd stored, so that pT"ft JHj more easily develop upon it. t<ft H "The disease usually beginJ| gastro-intestinal disturbances," jft Assistant Surgeon Lavinder, "foi.ft ed shortly by the erythema of ft skin, and in a brief while there more or less involvement of the nft 1 vous system. It is slowly advancift toxemia, the brunt of which, in tft end, is borne by the nervous svsteftL^ft and each annual recurrence leaves B| deeper and more indelible mark the mental and nervous condition t 1h> sufferer." The great graviftft lies in the number of people affecte^B^Q and in its immediate nnrl rmom. sequences not onlv to individuals, bu* to the race?intellectual feebleness, lessened resistance, economic loss, physical deterioration of the race, B etc." , 1 Concerning the etiology of the dieease, it is said to he an intoxication . due to using as food Indian corn ^ (maize), which under the influence * 1 of unidentified parasitic growths -I (fungi), has undergone certain ^*4 changes with the production of one r * or more toxic substances of a chemical natures. Within the past two qr ^ *4 three years, for some reason or rea- << sons unknown, this disease lias rapidly increased in numbers and ex- ^ tent of territory afTeetd. "Pllagra" ^ ^ hpflrfi .1 nlpco roc/?mklrt?-A * ? * i- ~ ? ? V.v?v * Vicviuumiicc IU Mil* acfont to territory effected. "Pellagra" ^4 it occurs in the old world, though differing in some particulars, and the ^ *' acute cases greatly preponderate and the mortality is high. "Since it is K of n serious nature, and epidemic in character," declares Dr. Lavinder, * "knowledge concerning it is becoming of much importance to the Amer- ^ * iean physician and especially to the practitioner in the Southern States." g* Roosevelt and Fairbanks Guests at Dinner of Gridiron. Washington, Special.?Farewell to ^ President Roosevelt and Vice-Preai- ^ dent in their official capacity only, was saia 10 mem Saturday night by C the famous Gridiron club of Washington newspaper men. 4 The occasion was the annual winter dinner of that club. In all there were 4 nearly 200 guests, and. as is always the case, the roll included many that < figure conspiciously in the hall of fame. Ambassndors. justices of the supreme court of the United States, cabinet officials, senators, representatives. editors, publishers and men of affairs generally, were in this gathering of guests of the newspaper men. It was far from a sad affair, though the occasion was of a farewell nature, Gridiron dinners never are sad. As the president and vice-president were the guests of honor, go they came in for equal prominence in the fun of the evening. Water Wagon a Feature. The temperance movement that has swept over the country showed its effect on the club. As, the souvenir of the dinner, the guests were given "H-2-0," illustrated Grid-Iron almanacs, published by the "Grid-Iron Water Wagon Press." Between ita covers there was no remedy given for the ills of 'statesmen, journalists, real newspaper men, molly coddles, malefactors of great wealth" other than plain "H-2-0" In this nlau|AQft the "Teddy Bear" formed the orotre of the Zodiac, while the entire pronucuon was marked as forwarded to congress as "soecial message No. 232323232323." "A Total Eclipse." The quests observed particularly that a total eclipse of the vear is doe "early in March," and "will be viewed with interest by the United States, Canada, Africa and Oyster Bay." Glass Works Resume. Grafton,, W. Va., Special.?The operation of the Wells window-glasa plant, at Sistersville, was resumed Friday by co-operative concern composed entirely of Morganton workmen, who have formed the Independent Glass Company. By this mothol I the company will be able to sign the national scale.