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TPTE BROOKLYN DAILY TsAnTE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 190S.

MISCELLANEOUS. A JAP ON NAVAL POWERS, i MATHEMATICAL PRODIGIES. TO I have been in I was always the parlor boarder the parlor boarder. I had my suite of rooms frecueutly over ttie doctor's rooms, and 1 always had tho b.st to eat. "But up there at White Plains they put me Into a ward room Just think of that EEK-END LENTEN OUTINGS Brags a Good Deal About the Force Nippon Has on the Water.

Some of the Wonderful Feats of Boys 5 Who Have Become Famous. AT and gave me food unlike any 1 ever had before. It was what the others got. 1 TURKISH BATHS 6 Tickets, $5-00 32-34-36 CLINTON ST. Always Open for Gentlemen Ladies' 3iths, 9 a.

m. to 9 p. m. 'Nothing Doing" for "Old Fools" Who Want to Marry Her, or Reinvest Her Fortune. (rr upon rijjj in the mcni.

It and enjoy gt( health al" It ts Tbe Bes' When scarcely years old. Gauss, according to an anecdote told by himself, followed mentally a calculation of bis father's relative In regard to the wages of some workmen, who were to be paid for overtime in proportion to their regular wages, and, detecting a mistake in reckoning is wrong, it makes so much," the amount, ho called out, "Father, the reckoning is wrong. It makes so much," naming the exact amount. The calculations were repeated and It turned out that the child was correct, while all who witnessed the performance were greatly Adachi Kinnosuko, a Japanese writer, describes In Appletpn's Magazine the overwhelming increase of Japaneso naval power. He says.

"In 1870 my country had thirty-five steamers; that was the entire fleet of the mercantile marine of Nippon. Their tonaago amounted altogether to we were exceedingly protid; we showed them to the Englishman; we wished to let hira see that we. too, were civilized; when he turned red In the face, we looked at each other anu asked: 'What makes the Red. Beard behave In the year of grace 1907 wo have over two thousand steamers with an aggregate tonnage exceeding the seventh In tho rank of the great, marl, time powers In the world. And this, a She IS GLAD TO BE FREE.

Atlantic City VIA Pennsylvania R. R. Saturdays, March 7, 14, 21. 28 April 4 and 1 1 $10 or $12 according to hotel selected Covers rountl-trip transportation and two ijays' board ThroiiRh trains loflve New York nt 0 A.M. mill 2 :55 P.M.

week-days 7 A.M. Sundays. Consult Ticket Agents, or C. 8tudds. 3.

P. 2t3 Fifth New York. GRAND JURY DISCHARGED. A Very Human Old Lady, With the Usual Feminine Traits and Some Shrewd Ideas. Miss Mary Elizabeth Lewis, through Somewhat Unconventional Body Recommends Dismissal of School Janitor.

FOR ry CONST! PAT I work of less than forty years. her counsel, Hyaclnthe Ringrose, submitted for confirmation to Justice Carr in Special Term this morning, the find have no fault to find in that respect but It wasn't such as I had been accustomed to in those sanitariums where I had bciii the parlor boarder. But I find now that they chargod me $4 a day for it $4 a day. And the bill of Incidentals they had charged up against me! My, ijj I had stayed thure much longer there wouldn't have been anything left for those lawyers who were responsible for mv Incareera-, tionl But, thank fortune, I am out of tho place now, with its big. red brick buildings and iron-barred windows, and I hope I shall never have to look upon it again." was Quite evident from what Miss Lewis had to say that she didn't relish her two years sojourn at Bloomingdale.

She didn't so much as Insinuate that she had been treated unfairly by the management, or that she didn't receive as much attention as any other inmate did; but she was convinced that it was not exactly the proper place lor a parlor boarder to stop. Miss Lewis Tells of Her Sanitarium Experiences. "How did I first come to go to these sanitariums? Well, I'll tell you frankly," continued Miss Lewis. "1 went the first time voluntarily because I was very III and needed the care they give. That was when my father was alive and he saw to It that 1 got the best of everything.

Later I went because I got to using morphine and other drugs and wished to slop the habit. And I did. I never use drugs of any kind now. I went to Morris Plains and I went to sanitariums In Philadelphia and in this city At each of them I remained for only a comparatively short time, and I was never a prisoner as 1 was at White Plains. "Then, some sixteen years, or so.

ago, I went to Amityvlllc. That's another OKIGIN OF LOUD DTJNDR: ings of the jury which yesterday declared to be sane the woman who has spent 18 "It Is the dawn hour of a new era. Some one has already christened it by the stage on which the world drama is about to be played, the Pacific Era. Yesterday It was the schoolboy and the -poet who told us of the Star of Empire and its westward course; to-day you hear the samo thing from diplomats, financiers, makers of canned goods Tho financial and Industrial activities of the world which moved on from Tyre to Venice, from Paris to London, from Liverpool to of her 64 years in sanitariums and asy nly It Was Built Up From Or JEROME MUST ANSWER. lums.

Justice Carr, having In a former seven Lines. hearing, pronounced Miss Lewis insane, declined to act in the case, saving that it would be better to have the finding Given Until March 9 to Reply to Charges Formulated Against Him. Talk of Removal. me i neater Magazine tens now part of Lord Dundreary, which Is acted by E. H.

Sothern, came to be passed upon by a court whose mind was wholly free. ated by Sothern, the elder: New York, have not halted. I "Since 1870, in the thirty-seven years under review, Nippon has had three for "There Is not a single, word or ac Mr. Ringrose was expecting just such ruling and was. therefore, not disap pointed at Justice Carr's decision.

He his death, "in Lord Dundreary that ha will submit the findings to another justice next week. not been suggested lo me by person whom I have known since I was 5 year surprised. lie retained an extraordinary ability for mental calculations throughout life and remembered the first few decimals of the logarithms of all numbers, so that he was able to use the data of a logarithmic table in bis mental calculations, and hence be possessed a mental slide rule a unique1 possession. Gauss was not only one of the greatest mental calculators on record, but he excelled equally in all branches of pure and applied mathematics. At the age of 20 he discovered the first rigorous proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, which affirms that every algebraic equation has as many roots as its degree, and at the age of 24 he published his great work on the theory of numbers under the title "Dlsquisitloneg Arithme-ticae." Lattr in life he turned his attention principally to applied mathematics especially to astronomy and geodesyand he Is generally regarded as the last of tho great mathematicians who were pre-eminent In nearly all branches of mathematical knowledge of his day.

He considered mathematics the queen of the science and number theory the queen of mathematics. While Gauss was both a great mental calculator and a great mathematician, and was a real mathematical prodigy, we proceed to consider several who were merely arithmetical prodigies and seemed to have very little general mathematical ability. The greater of these is Dase, who was born at Hamburg In 1824. and "seems to have been little more than a human calculating machine, able to carry on enormous calculations In his head but nearly Incupablc of understanding the principles of mathematics and of very limited ability outside bis chosen field." His extraordinary ability In mental calculation is evidenced by the fact that he was able to multiply mentally two numbers, each of which contained 100 IlguroB. It took The February grand jury was discharged to-day.

after handing in a number of Indictments to County Judge Dike and a presentment mentioning, as other grand juries have done, the Raymond Street Jail, and several other matters that impressed themselves upon that body's attention. The 'presentment starts mil with the grand jury's impression that the world is yet tar away from the millennium, for It would seem, the grand jurors naively say. that about every crime in the calendar has been brought to their attention during the month. After recounting some of the crimes Vstened to. the grand jurors commend the police, taking into account a "few black hcep in every large flock," and then expresses the grand jurors' horror of trson.

That crime they Insist, should lie classed with murder, and the puree; rators. when found guilty, punished to Ihe limit of the law. The Fire Department is commended for its vigilence In lirinoing liivlmgs to justice, and the fire nmrihu! ami his deputy are named for Then ill" presentment proceeds to take lay mil of Itayruond Street Jail, and i i "omemts i ha the Department of r'. i cleaning got busy and clean slde--illi and gut let's In front of city prop-ir'V. The DiHfiplinnry School gets Its mnal commendation, and the grand jury, before it concludes the presentment, does toiueihing quite unusual, and that is, (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, February 2S Governor Hughes has set March 9 for the filing of an answer by District Attorney Jerome to the charges against him yesterday with Governor Hughes.

As soon as the answer is filed the Governor will name a commissioner to take testimony. The Impression seems to prevail here that the Governor will remove Mr. Jerome, but of age." This was written in 187S. wnen jor In the meantime. Miss Lewis, for the first time In two years.

Is practically free. After the jury returned its verdict yesterday she was paroled In the custody nt 1,1 nAiinml a A 1 1 nnnllnnA I nunrirfinrv nan honnmn hotter Known tna most memDers ot me uuumij. when his whiskers had set the fashii ou know. I went there be- nts clothes' had been copied Dy tne eieci. 1 6nnitarlum.

yi state until tho case Is finally passed calSe et that It would, bo good for there is nothing tangible on which to base the likelihood of such action. The his ulster (suggested by the long frieze coat of an Irish pig driver) had introduced that comfortable garment to society, his remarks wero household words, and everywhere this unique creation of Sothern mercurial genius and nimDio upon. If, as is generally expected, the findings of the jury be confirmed. Miss Lewis will then become free in theory as well as in fact, and will have the' exclusive raamgeruent of her property. The minute the court confirms the find ings, some S2S6.000 In back interest will be turned over to the woman and she will eign wars the first, was with the Island of Formosa, then with China, and finally with Russia.

The three wars divide the story of the growth of the mercantile marine of Nippon into three chapters. From 1870 to the close of 1893 (the year Just before the Chino-Nippon War) wo increased the number of steamers from 35 to 680; but the gain in tonnage was from 16.49$ to 110,205. less than a hundred thousand tons to 645' vessels! From 1894 to the close of 1903. within the period of ten years, we added 890 steamers to tho fleet. In number of ships our gain was small.

It was only 210 moro the gain in the first period of twenty-three years since 1870. The increase In tonnage, however, was quite different; in the teu years we gained 662,257: in the first twenty-seven years we only increased 94.707 tons. "For many years it had been a courteous wont of the foreign sailor to laugh at our mercantile marine as nn old ladies' homo for old Irons; this period after the Chinese War persuaded the uncomplimentary sobriquet to retire into the grave of picturesque rhetoric. It was in this period that we established our European, American, Australian, and other foreign lines. The Nippon Yttsen Kaisha (Nippon Mall Steamship Company), by far the greatest steamship company in the Far East, which has greater tonnnge than any ocean steamship company In the United States, opened its London iine in 1900.

"Meanwhile we lost the habit of buying wit had become a familiar, and, in spite of his apparently empty mind, a beloved friend. If Mr. Sothern's statement is to be accepted literally, he must have met a vast number of oddities in his time. my health to go. I wanted to remain there for some time, but a society known as the Antl-Kidnnpping League, or some such thing, got nfter me and wouldn't let me stay.

The society had me brought before Judge Cullen on a writ of habeas corpus. At first I couldn't understand why the society interfered, but I know-now. I have discovered that connected with the society were some 'doctresses' who had sanitariums In New York. They pretended to be your friend that they wished to get you out of asylums because they thought the managements were detaining you Improperly. That sounds welh but it these really wished tongar the inmates; out of and'1.

Saniv tariums for was so that ttaev could' lodiw them in their own places, That's fact. afterward enjoy unmolested an income of $27,000 a year. To a reporter for the Eagle to whom she told the story of her Governor, of course, has not committed himself in any way. Attention Was called at the executive chamber- to-day to the fact that this is the first time during Governor Hughes' term of office that a formal demand has been made for Mr. Jerome's removal from office.

Previous complaints have sought the superseding of Mr. Jerome by the attorney general. This Is the first proceeding to which Mr. Jerome must make answer. Some significance has been attached to tho fact that the Governor should have, in.

a measure, pointed out that this is the first opportunity he bas had to consider charges against the district attorney of New York County. The statement was evoked by newspaper comment calling on the Governor to act in Mr. Jerome's case without the presentation of formal charges. Yet at the beginning Lord Dundreary was a minor part, with just forty-seven lines to speak, in a very poor play. In 1858, as a stopgap.

Laura Keene put In rehearsal "Our American Cousin," by Tom Taylor, a comedy having as Its central: figure a Yankee as Imagined by an Englishman of the time, a grotesque cari life to-day, Miss Lewis said that she planned to make her permaneut home in Brooklyn, remaining for a time at least at the Clarendon Hotel. She has been stopping there since she was brought down from Bloomingdalo Asylum for her recent trial. Miows Its displeasure at the testimony of ft witness ii. The wiinoss was Albert Knox of Ho Wyona street, the Janitor of Public School No. 01.

"We likewise recommend." reads the presentment, "that Albert Knox of 145 Wyona street, the janitor of Public School of this borough, be Immediately i from the service of the Bor-eoklyn. because of certain evi-by him in ihs case number own evidenco. In the minds id jury unflt3 him for the cature, without merit. The role of Dun dreary, a conventional English fop, eivnn.to Edward Askew Sothern. an him eight aud three quarters hours to perform this feat, which stands da a class by itself as no other arithmetical prodigy is known to have been able to multiply mentally two numbers each consisting of more than 39 figures.

Two fortv-flguro numbers Dase was able to multiply In 40 minutes, while he woulil nmitiniv iwn eluht-flgure numbers In lish actor of 32. who had been with tMt ouair fnr rnnp apaanna. ae heavy Darts and low comedy, making the cast-off old hulks from the shipowners THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY. Lived Twelve Years at the JHotel St. George.

"Out at Morris Plains, over In Philadelphia, and down ou Long Island I had the best of treatment. At Amityville 1 was the parlor boarder. I had rooms right over the doctors' and the best to eat the land afforded. It was the same nt the itn.t,n Heron's Camillc. Kiss lewis' Hard Fight for Freedom.

Miss Lewis has put up one of the hardest fights for freedom that has been recorded in the annals of the local courts. On a writ of habeas corpus she was taken from tho asylum where she had buen Dundreary was not ot. all to nis limn EBUKES NEWSPAPERS, him urllllniy tn rrn nn with If. I ho Annual Report Shows Good Work Done by the Brooklyn Branch. New Officers -Elected.

of the West. We bought a number -f new and very good boats; but that was not the end of the wonder. We actually began to build ships at our own dockyards. How did we manage to build the dockyards? Never We built them. Some fifty-odd years ago.

on the beautiful west harbor of Nagasaki, there was a shanty repair shop. The sole excuse for lt being was to repair a mlscroscoplo toy was praciicuuy ikhullcii, iu with an Idea Mr. Sothern had had in mln confined by her relatives for the last two hu" 1 aT There It tt'as the ward room, little to eat of One Paper's Report of Conspiracy Case Anger ldge MacFarlane. for years. Everything that was absur and $4 per day and additions were soon came the gait that was nothing like human, the hesitating, earnest speech, the "magnificent sneeze." tho letter from his "bwoth- President Arthur von Briesen stated at the annual meeting of the Legal Aid S--clcly at 25 Broad street, Manhattan; yesterday, I hat the latest important addition to he sociey, the Brooklyn braueh, at .186 had developed Into a great The Brooklyn branch had been opened on January 1, 11107, and at once proved the necessity for such philanthropic work by receiving hundreds of applications for legal aid.

During the past year were secured for 2,022 applicants atid far more could have been accomplished if tho means had permitted. Mr. yon Brieseu said that It was a very significant fact, that- the magistrates i and the, police both'. of, Brooklyn and New York had begun to direct applicants for legal aid to the offices of the society. Mr.

von Brieseh complimented the society upon the work ft had accomplishes "Just to prove to you that the stories that I have spent the last forty years of my life In sanitariums or asylums are untrue, 1 will tell you that before I was committed to Bloomingdale 1 lived for twelve years at the Hotel George. No one will contend that that hotel is an asylum, I am sure. And the way they got me to Bloomingdale that has always galled me. I went to a lawyer's office, supposedly to see about a personal matter. When I arrived 1 found a detective In waiting.

Away I was whisked off to a psychopathic ward, and tho next thing I knew 1 was an inmate at White Plains. "Why was I committed? The explanation Is simple," contiuued Miss Lewis, the fire blazing in her "I wHl Bolve the problem' by asking another very simple question. Do you suppose tha.t If I had been a poor woman. If 1 hod had an income of $27 a year, instead of $27,000 a anyone would have bothered' to commit Miss Lewis? I guess not; there wouldn't have been any money: for the lawyers In it, then. Does that make it plain?" February 2S When the piracy case was resumed to-UacFarlane asked the attor-their seats as he had astate-ike.

lie said: my hand a newspaper which attention because of the 'Hooe's Lies Read eo the of the questions to be de-i jury Is whether the deposi-or false. There must be evl-ced in this case in order to i jury as to the "accuracy or le statements made It is civilization and if anything jears again in auy newspaper, i the district attorney direct detective to prosecute the that paer." The matter referred to was the of Clifford. Hooe. i lie negro coachman, read to the jury yesterday, on Cue character of Mrs. Hartje.

er," tho business of counting his fingers, the twisted proverbs, tho thousand and one touches that went to make up this absurd, half-foolish, entirely amusing figure, who possessed, nevertheless, a certain measure of intelligent shrewdness, and whose wildest conversational shot usually hit some sort of a mark, though not. perhaps, the one he had aimed at. The career of "Our American Cousin" was long and honorable, and, although Mr. Sothern appeared with success and distinction In other plays, it was as Diuir dreary that his audiences wanted him, and It is In that rolo that his name will be handed to posterity. From 1858 to 1S61 he played It in this country always to.

crowded houses. In 1861 he took It to London. For two weeks the company faced failure, then came phenomenal success, a run of over four hundred It was the first of the long runs in that city. less than one minute. What Is most surprising about this greatest calculator on reoord is that he was stupid in mathematics.

Petersen Is said to have tried in vain for six weeks to get the first elements of mathematics into his head, and other eminent mathematicians found that he had very little mathematical ability, i Fortunately he was advised by some of the leading mathematicians of his day to turn his extraordinary ability to scientific uses Instead of going around the country giving public exhibitions, a career upon which he had entered at the age ot 15. Ho calculated many useful tables and was engaged on an Extensive factor table at the time of his death. The ease and speed with which ho could count the numbers of books In a case, the number of sheep In a herd. was almost more surprising than his extraordinary ability as a mental calculator. Another well-known mental calculator, having even less mathematical ability than Dase, Is Buxton, who remained illiterate through life, although his father had some education.

He had a wonderful memory for numbers and- could call off long numbers from right to loft or from left to right with equal facility. On one occasion he squared mentally a thirty-nine-figure number in two and a half months. He was extremely slow and In this respect resembled a negro by the name of Tom Fuller, who Is known as the Virginia calculator. Although entirely Illiterate, he was able to reduce men-tallv years and months to seconds and couid multiply two nine-figure numbers. Darboux has called attention to an Infant prodigy.

Joseph Bortrand was born in Paris In 1822 and was such a delicate child that his parents did not expect him to arrive at manhood, and hence his early education was partly neglected. At the ago of 4 he was sick for a long time and overheard the lessons which wore given his brother in the same room. Ho knew the letters of the alphabet, but nothing more. When he was convalescent his par- years and produced before Justice Carr last November. She was then tried before a sheriff's jury and a commission in lunacy, with the remarkable result that the jury found her sane, while the commission reported against her.

Undaunted by this unexpected development. Miss Lewis, through her counsel, obtained another writ. This time her case was tried by a jury before Justice Aspinall, sitting In tho Supreme Court, and tho verdict rendered yesterday makes it altogether probable that her confinement In asylums is nt an end. Sixty-lhree years old, with hair that is almost snow white, and a face that bespeaks shrewdness as well as kindness; Miss Lewis, in spite' of her long siege of troubles, is very much of a human being, actuated by the" same motives, holding the same ideas and exhibiting the same little feminine whims that other women, who have never seen the inside of an Insane asylum, possess. She is frank and straightforward in her conversation and apparently bears no malice toward the relatives who caused her comniltmant to Bloomingdale.

Bears No 111 Will Toward Her Relatives. "Will I seek revenge on my relatives? Why. certainly not. Why should she exclaimed to the renorter. "It is lint mv man-of-war which the Dutch, with a touch of their characteristic humor, had presented to the Shogun.

In 18S8 the great family of Mitsui, which controlled the Mitsubishi Company, took tho shop off the hands of tho government and paid for It a fanciful price of several hundred thousand yen. The government needed money. And that was the beginning of the now famous Mitsubishi Dockyard and Iron Works tho largest shipbuilding yard In Nippon. "At the close cf 1903 just before the war we had 1.088 steamers of 657.269 tons. At the end of January.

1905, wo had increased tho number of our steam vessels by purchased and not a single vessel below. 1.000 tons; the aggregate tonnage of the 67 ships amounted to 176 -160. We had also captured 26 steamers 67,000 tons In this first year of the war. In other words, gained in one year more than one-tHird the total tonnage which took us thirty-three years to create. "The latest statement from Uchida Ka-kichi, chief of the Mercantile Marine Bureau, places the stearaBhip tonnage of our country at 1,000.093.

At the time of writing. It Is safe to place It at 1. 200.000. "Meanwhile the shipbuilding yards of the country are not devoting all the time to the composition of classic couplet? in honor of the Cherry Cloud of Yoshlno or to the feast of the autumn moon. "Against all this Nippon activity, what has the United States dono to cover the Pacific? You know better than I.

Tho merchant tonnage of the United States on the Pacific, does not seem to be one-half that of Nippon; one can flguro It In many ways, but this Is the best he rah say ot it. When It comes to the trans-Paclflc during the thirty-two years of its existence. During this period 256.490 case3 came before the society, $290,916 was ex "Nothing Doing" for Money Hunters, 'pended by the officers and $1,345,373 was recovered for -clients iu very small BHOTKEBS DON'T AGREE. Says Miss Lewis. iainoiinls.

in 19(17 th Rftclet denlf- with Miss Lewis' then went on 16' tell some 126,399 cases, $38,632 was expended and of the experiences she had had since her recovered for exit from Bloomingdale. She says I The election of officers resulted as fol-that she is in daily receipt of scores of jlows: Arthur von Brlcscn. president; letters frbm strangers, who profess ajfarl L. Srhurz, vice president; Louis sympathetic interest in her welfare Wlndmueller. treasurer; A.

Leo Everett, and money. Some of them contain pro- secretary. New directors: Louis Stoiber. posals of marriage from old men "old -j. Warren Greene, Philip J.

McCook, Hor- toois, sne cans tnero wnue outers are iai.a white, Maurice Leon. A. Leo Everett, relatives who were really responsible for I trom men and women assuring her that my incarceration. They were only as tools they know of investments that will yield Lawrence Atterbury and J. B.

Coles Tap-pan. FOUK ITALIANS HELD her a fortune In the hands of certain lawyers. It 1 service, the American showing Is much euts brought him a book to look at the worse. We havo beard from Mr. Hill; he pictures, and he relates, in his account of THE POLKVILLE CLARION.

"At high noon, yesterday. In the presence of a select gathering of tho heauty and chivalry of our progressive little city, at the residence of the bride's parents, the Reverend P. I. Bilderback spoke the well-chosen words which united the fond and loving hearts of Miss Gladys -Mae. Smathers and Elmer Tidball for the remainder of life's fateful journey.

"The bride Is tho charming daughter of our genial fellow-townsman and most liberal advertiser, the Hon. John R. Smathers, who will undoubtedly be re-elected to the legislature for which he has again consented to run. at the earnest solicitation, of his many friends. In the meantime, he will pursue his regular calling of conducting his well-known Tote Fair general store nt the Southwest corner of Public Square, and bids us say that while his business will keep him from stumping the country during the coming campaign and talking on the momentous issuos of the day to every voter personally, tiff, hopes to have the pleasure of meeting them one and all at his emporium, "where he will continue to give them genuiue bargains in staple and fancy goods, taking produce the same as cash, and, as boldly defying competition.

"The groom was attired in the conventional black." Puck. is not going to replace the Dakota we his childhood, that he remembers dis cannot see why he should. Offers have been made and, there Is reason to believe, are being made now by Nippon companies for the purchase of the ships of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and those of the Oceanic Steamship In Connection With Murder of Salva-tore Marchinne. The four Italians arrested by Detective Lfeutenant Vachris and his men in the course of their Investigation into the circumstances of the murder of Salvatore Marchinuo, whose dismembered body was found in FlatbuBh, were held to-day by Magistrate Steers until next Wednesday, to be heard then on the charges of vagrancy that have been made against them. The inquest in the case of the murdered man will take place in the coroner's offl.e next Tuesday night.

Magistrate Steers Advises Them to Go Home and Make Up. Heinrich Rudolph was in such a state oT mind this morning in the Adams street court that he would have liked, maybe, to hive seen Magistrate Steers send his brother Otto Rudolph to jail for a while. Heinrich is probably 23 years old and Otto Is about ten years older, with that disgusting habit elders brothers have of advising the younger in a lordly way. Detectives Williams and Denney of the headquarters squad brought the two brothers to court, not under arrest, but because there was a summons out for Otto, secured by Heinrich on the representation that Otto was keeping Hein-rich's tools from him. The Rudolphs were well dressed and apparently well bred.

Heinrich Is a watchmaker and he had ben living with Otto at 49 Hoyt street. There was much talk before the magistrate, with Stenographer Christmas as an interpreter, and it ended in Mr. Steers gently advising the two brothers to go home and not quarrel any more. It came out in the colurse of the Inquiry that Heinrichs had lost no tools, but that Otto had some repair parts of watches hands and bushings for jewels and balance wheels and other odds and ends, which Heinrich claimed as his own packed away in his trunk. Otto said they were as much his as Heinrich s.

but that he ewas willing to let his brother have the.n for 410. Heinrich said that he would gladly give $10 for the things. The real cause of the trouble, it appeared, was Heinrich's reckless habit of forgetting to turn off the gas when he went to bed late at night. Otto, the more sedate and regular in habit, always lurned the gas outu when he retired, but Heinrich was accustomed to stay out late and he forgot the gas. or he did not care to bother his head about It.

RUBBER WORKS BURNED. Chicago, February 28 A Are which destroyed the plant of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company at 762 West Lake street to-day drove about twenty-len employed In the place into in a panic. Several of them overcome by smoke but re-a short time. The property lout $.10,000. "For I he benefit of all these sympathetic strangers." said Miss Lewis, "I may as well announce publicly right now that there's nothing doing; positively nothing doing.

"Why, they must think I'm easily duped! They begin their kindly letters by telling me how glad they are to hear that I am out of the asylum; that it was an outrage that I should have ever been incarcerated r.nd then they proceed to make propositions if I ed, would conclusively I belonged In the very place they decla-r' I should never have been. By the. way, I wonder If lawyers r.ren't at tho boitom of some of these kind offers? The propositions read very much that way. "Old Fool" Bachelors Who Want to Marry Her. "It seems as if every bachelor in the country and a good many men, I fancy, that aren't bachelors had suddenly discovered that 1 was a desirable matrimonial catch.

The old fools'. Haven't they got any sense? Only yesLerday 1 received a letter written evidently by a man of advanced years. He told me in ender.ring terms how pleased he would be to marry me and then added fyaren-thetlcally, of course), that ho was In a position to show me how to spend my money to good advantage. Now. that old idiot whoever he may bo isn't In any Buch position and he can take It from me that he never will be.

"Another sympathizer this one was a woman wrote to say that she would like to have me Invest with her in an orange grove out in California. She told me how lovely the climate was out there and bow-luscious the oranges grew, and she offered to come way on to Brooklyn and take me out. Wasn't that magnanimous? But I guess it isn't me. but my money she wants to take out. So far as I am concerned, this particular individual had better remain jest where she is in California.

A trip East would be both futile and expensive." the lawyers, not -the relatives, who have caused me all this trouble, and, therefore it is against the lawyers that any 111 feeling I may have is directed." In her opinion of lawyers in general. Miss Lewis resembles to a remarkable degree Hetty Green, whom, indeed, she reminds on of in many other respects. Save for her own counsel. Miss Lewis has no use for lawyers. She looks upon them as an expensive habit and an unnecessary evil, and doesn't hesitate to say so.

One of the first things Miss Lewis did after the Jury had pronounced her sane was to come to the Eagle office this morning and request that the fact that she entertained no ill-feeling toward her relatives be made public. And In making this request she exhibited a trait that is as thoroughly feminine as was any ever attributed by a novelist to his heroines. Asked If she would not consent to have her picture taken, she at first demurred. "Under ordinary circumstances I would be perfectly willing to sit before the camera," she said, "but this bonnet well, you see. this bonnet is not exactly the kind that a woman would care to be photographed in." MIbs Lewis was told that she could be photographed without the bonnet, if she wished.

"Well, I'll let you take the picture," she finally said, "but this bonnet I. wish I had another kind of a hat on." Has Frequently Gone to Sanitariums of Her Own Volition. After Miss Lewis sat for her pictura she went with her lawyer to court. Tt was while waiting for her lawyer to make the formal motion that she told the story of her troubles to the reporter. "In the first place." began Miss Lewis, "I want you to correct the Impression that I have been confined to asylums for forty years.

That Isn't true. I never was very strong. I have frequently been seriously ill. and about forty years ago 1 voluntarily went -to a sanitarium for treatment. Since then, whenever I have felt that a rest would do me good, I have gone to sanitariums, but until my recent incarceration at Bloomingdale.

I never stayed at a sanitarium, or asylum, for any length of time. I have figured this thing all up. and the total length of time that 1 have spent In those places would not exceed eighteen years. And two of those eighteen years I spent in Bloomingdale. incarcerated by my relatives, or rather by their lawyers.

"My. but that is an awful place that Bloomingdale asylum' I began to go into a decline Immediately I was committed there and, if I had had to remain there tinctly how he shocked his parents by reading the text fluently. His frightened father snatched the book from him and commanded that under no pretext should he be allowed to do any work. Tho manner in which he learned elementary algebra and elementary geometry is still more extraordinary. reproduce his own account: "At the age of 9 I had the great misfortune to lose riry father, who, during the last part of his life, resided with my uncle, who directed then a school preparing for l'Ecole Polytechnique.

The students, the youngest of whom was twice my age, loved me very much and I was happy in their midst. I was assiduous at their recreations and often, followed them to their classes. The teachers regarded me with astonishment, but paid little attention to me. The students observed that I understood the work and when a demonstration appeared difficult the first one who noticed me would run after me, take me up In his arms, and, placing me on a chair so that I could reach the blackboard, mako me repeat the demonstration." At the age of 16 he entered l'Ecole Polytechnique, and, as the examiner knew that he had already passed the examination for the doctor's degree in science, he gave him some very difficult questions. From one of tho answers it appeared that Bertram! had never opened a table of logarithms.

The examiner considered this answer an Impertinence, but gave him the highest grade. At l'Ecole Polytechnique Bertrand says that he was a problem for his companions. He always received the highest grades, but he was Ignorant of some of the simplest things. For Instance, he did not Know what words were called 'adverbs, as he had never prepared a lesson in literature or in science and no teacher had ever asked him to make any calculations of any kind. Bertrand's extraordinary youth gave rise to many marvelous stories.

Fortunately, he wrote a brief account of bis early life when he was elected In 1884 to the French Academy. Hence, we have a more reliable sketch of this infant prodigy than Is possible to obtain in most other cases; for instance, in the case of his countryman, Pascal. The facts that Bertrand was permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences for more than a quarter of a century, that he is the author of many theorems relating to modern mathematical subjects and that he lived so recently.add interest to the account of his marvelous early education. A COLD WEATHER PLAINT. Priscllla Jane's a helpmate, worth her honest weight in gold, A wife who scorns fault-finding, and who's never been known to scold.

Of calm and even temper, meek and quiet as a lemb. Who, whate'er the aggravation, never gives the door a slam. Yet her mood doth oft annoy me when from work at night I come And a cold draft, from the parlor, on the threshold strikes mo dumb With experienced conviction, born of my ten wedded years The furnace isn't working, and Priscllla Jane's In tears! It takes but one wee moment to assure me of the fact That since mid-day, or thereabouts, Priscllla Jane has been racked. Chilled, worried, grieved and frozen, sooted, grimed and smudged, in turn. By a cranky furnace fire that would do all else but burn.

That first cold draft convinced me, so I feel naught of surprise At her choked, subdued boo-hooing, with her apron to her eyes. On a cold day I expect it and there's ground for all my fears That the furnace isn't working, and Priscilla Jane's in tears. The mild warm days of winter never give me great concern. I know such days our furnace, all un- cared for, is sure to burn! When It's too warm for much fire, yet to chill to do without, 'Twill, feed on nothing sheer perversity, no doubt! But wait until the mercury's at zero, or below. And Just as sure as preaching, when from work at night I go I find a cold reception, and fruition of my fears Our furnace isn't working, and Priscllla Jane's in tears! Puck.

IMMATERIAL. The' janitor of a small church on the. South Side raises a few chickens in a small enclosure In his back yard. The eggs of these he sells to some members of the church In which he works. Last Saturday one of his customers asked him if he could spare a dozen eggs within the next two or three days.

"Oh, yes, ma'am," replied the Janitor. "I'll bring you a dozen fresh ones tomorrow morning." "Oh, no," protested tho housewife; "I shouldn't want you to bring them on Sunday not on Sunday, John." "Well." replied John, "all right, ma'am. If you say so, but it don't make no difference to the hens." Harper's Weekly. A POINT OF INTEREST. In a certain county of Arkansas a man named Walters was put on trial for stealing a atch.

The evidence had been very conflicting, and as the Jury retired the judge remarked, suavely, that If he could afford any assistance In the way of smoothing out possible difficulties he should be most happy to do so. Eleven of the Jurors had filed out of the box. but the twelfth remained; and there was on his countenance an expression indicating great perplexity. "Is there any question you'd like to ask me before you retire?" asked his Honor, observing the Juror's hesitancy. The man's face brightened.

"Yes, your Honor," he replied, eagerly. "I'd like to know, your Honor, whether the prisoner really stole the watch." Harper's Weekly. THE REAL LANGUAGE. CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. One of the distinguished visitors tft Washington recently was Governor Duncan Fraser of Nova Scotia.

Ho had Just returned from a visit to the Jamestown Exposition and paid his personal respects at tho White House. He talked very freely of the matter of reciprocity treaties, insisting that Canada will not, under any circumstances, make further overtures to the United States, and that this government would have to make th. first move if anything of the kind should be contemplated In the future. He called attention to the fact that th trade of Nova Scotia with- England hart increased enormously during the past tea years, and also noted the fact that tha value per capita of exports and Imports is just twice as much in the Dominion as in this country. Ho insisted, too, that Canadian banking laws are equal to meeting situations like that in New York recently, because the banks are required to deposit cer-, tain amounts of money in the treasury of the Dominion, and this fund is used to meet any emergency.

The government, in return, allows the banks as much as 3 per cent, on money so deposited andv in this manner. It Is felt that the government and the people are In every instance safeguarded. Joe Mitchell. Chappie. "Affairs at Washington" in National Magazine.

STARTING RIGHT. In Guam, one of the Far Eastern islands belonging to the United States, a fine not exceeding $70 is imposed on dealers in tobacco who sell tobacco In any shape to persons under 15 years of age. The internal revenue laws fix a tax of $5 annually on the sale of tobacco In the Island. United States Tobacco Journal SAUNDEBS DID NOT APPEAR. OF VAN SCHAICK.

of petitions to the Federal au-tklng for mercy for Captain of the ill fated steamboat cum, sentenced to ten years nt. are being circulated to-stores and dining saloons and irooklya, by the members of Association. They have met most unanimously favorablo May Wilson, Accused of Bobbing Flathush Man of $400, Is Let Go. May Wilson, who gave her address as 317 West Thirty-seveuth street, was discharged by Magistrate Droego when arraigned in the Tombs court. Manhattan, to-day on a charge of larceny.

The woman was arrested on complaint of Samuel Saunders, who said he is a law- yer and uvea in nuiiana roan, riaiuuu. i that while in i-omnauv Office boy The editor says he much for another six months, it would havo the woman on January 9, she obli aed to you for allowing him to see ACTURERS ORGANIZE. pecial to the Eagle.) "ebruary 28 Wolf Elias of is a director of the United Man-. urers and Merchants Association of New York Citv. just chartered bv the State Department.

been the end of me. Then thoBc lawyers would have got what they were after a LOCATED. A "ge'man of color," in relating some ot his troubles to a friend, said in part: "Yais, suh; en, mo'orah, dey's somebody done gone en tole mah lady frien', Miss Sybil Jackson, some things whut is ve'y highly detrumenshul ter mah stand-In' in de community. Miss Sybil tole me no mo' den yistiddy dat she done up en heahed f'om diffunt pahties ob 'reproach-able rep'tatlon dat Ah was, dey ve'y lan him of $100 In casn and a worm ot your drawings, out mucn regrets an is other valuables. To-day Saunders failed unable to use them.

to appear against her and Patrolman; Fair artist (eagerly) Did he say that? Walsh, who made the arrest, told Magis-; 6fflce boy( truthfully) Well, not ex-trate Droege that he had gone to the aclly. He just said: "Take 'em complainant's home in Flatbush and had Pim.de; they make me sick." The POLICEMAN THE FOOLKILLER. The thoughtlessness of men Is some INDEX OF REGULAR FEATURES. been told that Saunders was out of town. Tatler.

big slice of my money. A Prison, Not an Asylum, Says Miss Lewis. "They call it Bloomingdale Asylum, but that isn't the right name for it. It isn't an asylum at alii it's a prison," continued Miss Lewis, biting off the worls as snapplly as her eyes flashed. "Yes, sir; It's a prison.

Whv. in the other places although he bad promised to appear in court. A hot beverage for breakfast is desirable. If coffee causes trouble, drink times past understanding. A friend of a new patrolman In Portland sprang out from a clump of brush In the night and aimed his pipe at him, with a command to the officer to throw up his hands.

The answer was bullet and the thoughtless 1 friend Is dead. Who can blame the pa- trolman? Tacoma Ledger. I Sour Stomach from fermentation of undigested Stuart'. Uyapniala Tnkleta re. comes food.

Par 1'Twnal a 1.1 R. E. N.wa R. E. Records in sch ol.

8cl'y 10 Staae Xcte. 2 Steamahlp. a SKri. 4 Walk. Walla bout 18 Washington Letter 4 Aeatner 5 Wum.a Jjep: "4 guage, a low-down, uppish, double-dls-hones" scoun'el en rep'obate; dat Ah'd be a monst'ous good Hah ef Ah didn't hab such a monst'ous bad 'membrance: en dat Ah'd steal de worm f'om a po' ol' crip-pled-up bird ef dey wa'n't nobody look-In'." "Is dat all whut dey said?" queried the friend.

"No. suh; dey said mo', much mo' flat's cal'lated ter far me down in Miss Sybil's eateem." "Well," said the friend, "ez you' pus-sonal frien', Jeems. all Ah kin say is dat. whosomcver de 'spnsible pahties is. dey's done come pow'ful close ter locating yo' pow'ful close." Lipplncott's Cl.Mlncation.

Trnf. A'ltnmnbllea 4 rtu.t-.li 1 4 Iiouk. I Howling 11 tourt. 3 t-hildran's Dept Editorial 4 1 in.ivjMI Keoa.lM I Fraternal 10 Societies. 7 Marrtac.

3 Municipal I pbltuarle. 3 POSTUM CASTOR I A For Infants and Cbildrei. Hit Kind You Kava Always Bought BUILDING AND LOAN MEETING. New Orleans, February 28 The sixteenth annual meeting of the United Slates League of Local Building and Loan Associations opened here to-day. The sessions will close with the election of officers to-morrow afternoon.

Several hundred delegates, representing practically every state in the union, were present when Mayor Behrman made his address of welcome. President W. G. Weeks and Secretary H. F.

Cellarins delivered their annual reports. EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS. Fastidious Youth (In Grizzly Gulch) Bog pawdon, sir, but cawn you direct me to a shoe-shining parloh? Cow Puncher Sure! Go down the street one block, turn to your left an' move its cause by assuring digestion, doing half the stomach's task before the stomach gets down to business. The starchy food elements, direct cause of fermentation, are quickly converted to dextrose sugars which assimilate at once. Stop Indigestion and you stop sour stomach.

Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets never fail to do the work and remove the underlying cause of many diseases. Fifty cent' per box, at druggists. 'There's a Reason" Bears tt. you'll find one only a few hundred miles away. Puck.

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