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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1001. IN YELLOWSTONE PARK AN INDIANAPOLIS TOURIST'S IMPRES SIONS OF TIIC PL A CI!. Natnrnl Scfnerr of Variety "1 Chnrnctrr Not KUewhere to Me Found in Tlil Country. Every American traveler should visit the Great Yellowstone Park. Unique in its physical feature?, no other equal area of tarth presents to the scientist, the ordinary tourist, and th person of feeling and senti ment such an unending panorama of fas cinating and surprising objects in nature. 2Iere the geologist can read earth's history In its rocks, tossed in chaotic confusion by great convulsions; the botanist revel In the diversified hues of its abounding flora; and the zoologist find enough in the animal kingdom to keep him long interested. Here are found, in au area not larger than four Indiana counties, so many curiosities, such iublime and bewildering scenery, that one hardly knows where to begin to name them. Here, for untold ages, fire and water, the two great elements, have had a battle royal for supremacy. This conflict has torn down as well as built up. On every side, the evidences of this mighty struggle appear. In this museum of nature, at an elevation of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet, are found petrified forests, rushing rivers, dashing cascades, roaring falls, steaming mountains, snow-capped peaks, electrified uraralts, boiling, eruptive geysers, and placid hot and cold water lakes. An at tempt fully to describe this aggregation of nature' attractions would be futile; but enough may be suggested to induce lovers of the beautiful, profound and Eubllme to go and see for themselves. Some fifteen hundred miles north and west of Indianapolis, the present center of popu lation and civilization, high up In the Rocky mountains, accessible by the ordinary means of travel from the North and West only, lies this wonderland. It comprises the "Continental Divide," where, standing at an altitude of more than eight thousand feet, on a vertebra of the Rockies, looking east or west, a short distance intervening. Is ffcn gushing from the rocks tho sources of the noble Columbia and the mighty Mis souri. It Is no unimportant experience to see these sparkling, snow-fed rivulets, the one starting in Its flow a thousand miles to the Pacific, and the other on Its way more than twice that distance to the Atlantic. What fancies for tho imagination In con templating these great water arteries, as they gather strength In their sweep to the seas! After a trip by way of Chicago, across the Mississippi, through St. Paul and Min neapolis, and eight hundred miles beyond, we reach Livingston, Mont. The Journey ha3 taken us, for the greater part of the way, over a smooth and most fertile coun try. varied only by the "Bad Lands" of Dakota, which are worthy of special note For fully a hundred miles, as far as the eye can reach, in all directions, rising out of the plains, to varying heights of a hun dred feet to several hundred, are er en pyramids, square, oblong and conical. They vary in area at their base from a small garden to a good size farm, and can be fair ly classed among the great wonders of na ture. In tho higher altitudes, approaching the foot hills of the Rockies, they stand out bold and bare; while in the lower eleva tions, where rains are more prevalent, they are covered to their tops with a grassy coating that subdues their harshness to quiet beauty. GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. At Livingston, five thousand feet above sea level, the air Is perceptibly pure and light. Here the tourist enters Paradise Valley, and after a ride, by rail, of fifty-one miles up the Gardiner river, reaches Cinna bar. This is within three miles of the northern boundary line .of the park. After changing the mode of travel to Rockaway coaches or spring wagons, the traveler is soon within Uncle Sam's exclusive domain, where, by plainly printed and numerously posted rules and regulations, It is learned that things there, animate and Inanimate, are to be seen and enjoyed, but not defaced, frlxhtened, killed or carried aw&y. n brings a sense or relief to know that there Is an occasional spot In wido creation, where all can como and go, and where the vandal of modern Americanism cannot paint and plaster on rock or tree, the highly exaggerated virtues of his many nostrum. Paternalism and executive control, as here seen, meet a most responsive approval. The only purloining Uncle Sam allows, with un stinted generosity, and In which nature Joins with a lavish hand, is the taking and carrying away the shadow of thlng3 real by the disciples of the kodak, whose num bers are legion. The entrance to the park, to the traveler whose mind is filled with too great antici pation, may be disappointing; so much the better, as It prepares him for the feast ahead. At Gardiner, lonesome little valley town, one steps from its only sidewalk Into the park. Here the valley is narrow, the surroundings sterile, bleak and dead, save the Gardiner river, which adds some life to the scene. Rising on both sides from four to eight thousand feet, the mountains stand sullen and frowning Nearly cn the right !s pointed out Sepulchre mountain. At its top, by bringing into play a lively imagination, can be seen the outlines of a prehistoric giant's tomb. To the rlsht, again, but some miles to the south and west, rising ten thousand feet, is teen Electric Peak. Around It3 summit, ow ing to the peculiar commingling of mineral deposits, the lightnings flash and play with a gplendor and vividness rarely seen else where. It Is stated that the engineers have been unable to make a satisfactory survey of this immediate region by reason of the erratic deflections of the compass, caused by the magnetic Influences of this mountain. Ascending the Gardiner river a few miles farther, and after creeping up some two thousand feet higher, Yellowstone Fort Is reached, a fort only in name, as it dos.s not now consist of fortified structures, but neatly painted, comfortable buildings, or barracks, where Is quartered a company of blue coats, who assist in policing the park. Here the traveler registers his name, and here, also, he begins to drink in the wonders of this enchanted spot. In the narrow valley to the west his attention Is attracted to a conical-shaped rock, rear ing Its head some fifty feet, known as Libeity Cap. This, upon closer inspection, proves to be a landmark of an extinct geyser, as shown by its formation und cavernous cratr within, and remains as a silent specter of former glory and activity. A short distance to the south the "ter races' art reached, the only one now a thir.g of life being particularly named th Jupiter Terrace. Thfs formation. In connection with their hot-water springs, are so fascinating in beauty and structure that the observer Is Inclined to exhaust bis fupyly of adjectives In admiration, but th guidw lays Wait." by which he means that more wonderful objects are ahead. Rising like sUanth sttr.a, one above the etiler, each step being a considerable plateau, they reach an altitude of many hundred feet. The higher and older one were the active fields of sttaming water bursting from ihdr craters and flowing ever their ides in th morning days of earth's building. The peculiar action of this flowing water warf to build up, so that thce terracci now stand as the seeming remnants of overgrown lime kilns, having left behind them their acres of calcaieou3 rubstarce of gray whiteness, as soft to the touch as T.he chalk of commerce. In wan dering ov " plateaus a hollow sound is hear! I : .rath the feet, and the feeling of the traveler is that the foundations fcupposed seething furnaces cf the abysmal depths beneath. The whole geyser forma tion of tills region produces the same sen sation; it seems to be hanging over an illimitable void below. A BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE. Jupiter Terrace stands at an elevation of a thousand feet below tht of its extinct ancestors. Its plateau and crater may not exceed In elevation a hundred feet abovs the road at its base. Here the first splen did coloring is teen. Boiling water, in filmy sheet3 of silvery spray, pour over its billowy sides. Tho reflection of the sun's light through thiä sparkling, crystal, lace like covering upon the substance beneath varies through the shades of bright gold. pink and cream, commingling so harmoni ously together as to produce a transparent brilliancy. This beautiful blending of col ors by nature's artist must be seen In Its mountain frame to leave an Impression that will linger as long as things beautiful delight the eye. Again, threading the way through and amongst a most curious for mation of grotesque rocks that rise to different heights and ara in so many weird shapas that they have been named the "Hoodoos," the Golden Gate, or entrance to what some call the park proper. Is reached through grand and rugged scenery. Including Rustic Falls and . it3 beautiful cascades, and the tourist finds himself on an elevated plateau of some 7.Ö00 feet, com prising a bright glade, with Swan lake as a centerpiece, the whole framed In a mat ting of lofty pines, c till further beautified by snow-capped peaks around and boyond. From this time on the entire Journey through the park Is at an elevation ex ceeding 7,000 feet. The first night brings the traveler to Villow Park Camp. Here permanent tenta are pitched at the foot of the mountain towering above us. Near by is a babbling brook abounding in speckled trout, while still nearer, gushing from the mountain side, is a cold Apollinaris spring, the deli cious waters of which are charged deep down in earth's laboratory. Add to this the lofty pines, the stars shining through the clear, crisp atmosphere, a congenial company gathered around a dancing, spark ling fire piled high with resinous logs, and a much more ideal spot could not be desired. At this place the animal life of thi3 great zoological garden assumes interest. The Industrious beaver, who fishes for the trout without rod, bait or fly, makes his habita tion In the stream near by, where his me chanical skill Is displayed in curiously-constructed, compact dams. Other of the larger animal life abounds in the park, such as black, brown and silver-tip bear, deer, elk and some bison or buffalo, whllo the forests teem with the small animals, such as the graceful chipmunk, gvay squir rel and the burrowing woodchuck. These are all so little molested that they are ap parently tame. Bruin, however, who takes the greatest Interest In civilized affairs, Is a regular visitor to all the permanent camps and the three summer hotels. In some of the camps he has become bo do mestic that he can be fed from the hand, and the mother bear often brings her cubs to partake of the garbage. These big, bur ly fellows can only be killed when, through their marauding habits, they become dan gerous, and then only by permit of govern ment. Only one of their many funny freaks will be mentioned. At one of the summer hotels a large, black bear had be come so sure of his welcome that he in vaded the dining room as a guest of honor, which caused such consternation among the paid guests that his bearship soon had possession of the entire feast, which, for his greater convenience, he proceeded to spread on the floor, taking along knives, forks, dishes and table linen. His boldness and sociability cost him his life, as the de cree went forth that he must die, although the earlier settler In this, his primeval home. A PICTURESQUE WAY. Beaver and Twin lakes are soon passed, beautiful sheets of water, the first of which lies almost in the shadow of the Obsidian cliff, a mountain of veritable glass. Legend says that the conflicting tribes of the once noble red man met here on neutral grounds to supply themselves with arrow and spear heads, and also carried away this obsidian for the use of their wives in making uten sils for light housekeeping. Leaving this object of interest the tourist 13 soon in sight of Roaring mountain. From Its sloping sides hundreds of columns of steam arise, suggesting the activities of a busy manufacturing center. Next Is the Devil's Frying Pan, then Norris's basin, a place of hot pools and boiling paint pots, with their variegated mixtures. Following down the canyon of Gibbon river, whose waters plunge over a precipice of a hundred feet to the deep gorge below, comes, after a dis tance of a few miles, the ascent of the pic turesque Fire Hole river, which, with the Gibbon, forms the Madison. Next comes the region known as tho Lower and Upper basins, where, to many, the greatest marvels of this wonderland are found. At the Lower basin Is Excelsior geyser, the largest eruptive body of water In the park. Here also are seen Rainbow and Prismatic hot water lakes, appropriate ly named for their great beauty and their reflection of the prismatic colors. A few miles further and the Upper basin is reached. It Is the amphitheater of more geysers, large and small, regular and ir regular, than can be seen elsewhere in the world of unending marvels. Within an area of two miles square are found to ex ceed 4.CKK) of these pools and fountains. They Issue from receptacles of various forms, curious, grotesque and beautiful. Some are in settings of seemingly delicate tinted coral, and others are surrounded with golden honeycombed structures. A few of them, but enough to excite the in terest of the reader, may be mentioned; "Economic." "Grotto." "Riverside," "Lion," "Daisy," "Bee Hive," and, always, "Old Faithful." These all appropriately take their names either from their location, con tour of formation, explosive sounds or con stancy of action. Economic serves on a small scale as an Illustration of many of tho3e named, and of others. With watch in hand one should slop for a time and watch this rather di minutive geyser. Its crater hardly exceeds a foot in diameter, and is surrounded by a symmetrically hollowed-out basin, not un like and old-fashioned soap boiler. . A slight gurgling, some hiding, and. without further warning, a column of steam-hot water shoots ta the height of thirty feet, plays for one minute, and a3 suddenly subsides to quietness in Its own crater, not flowing over the sidts. Again, in six minutes It repeats the erupiion. and so vn with an exactness almost to the second. This rneagerly describes the action of all these wonderful fountains, the only difference being the Interval between their eruptions and thf volume of water ejected, tirotto. t use the common expression, plays every two hours; Daisy, every five hour; River side, every seven and one-half hours. Old Faithful, not the largest, but admired for its constancy, is majeetic. Regular us the sun, with but few premonitory signs, a column of water rising full one hundred and sixty-five feet, bursts from its wide mouthed crattr. pours in torrents ovtr the sides of its elevated cone, for full seven minutes, subsides, to repeat again and again this grand spectacle. Others of these intermittent fountains present individual peculiarities, all of curious Interest. Among tne little freaks, is an automatic laundry. This is a small boiling cauldron" where a handkerchief dropped In disappears, when it" Is said to go down to "China Town." Within two or three minutes it is thrown to the surface, hot and clean, expenses prepaid. WHERE THE SCIENTIST REVELS. In this field, of all the spots In the park, the scientist revels in his speculations. He explains the surrounding phenomena, mak ing, as he thinks, all clear but a little; that little, to the plain thinker, is the most puz zling. He says that deep down in the bowels of the earth is Intense heat, not specifical ly naming the combustible material that keeps the fires aflame; the vater from sub terranean reservoirs, comes in contact with heated surfaces, thus generating steam, which is held in cavities to a degree of ex plosionthen an eruption or geyser, vary ing In time and volume. The filling and evacuation of these underground boilers cause a repetition of the explosion and the process goes on with regularity. But, a3 Eome of thse geysers Tlay at widely Irregular periods, the explanation does not fully explain. A day or two is usually spent by the traveler in this field of rare - commotion. Again on his way, sometimes up steep ac clivities, then acros3 lovely valleys, through narrow defiles, amidst magnificent pines, he reaches the Continental Divide, with its elevation of more than 8,000 feet the great water shed of the continent. Although numerous peaks, full 2,000 feet higher, rise at varying distances, still, at this point, looking to the south some dozen miles away, can be seen the beautiful Shoshone lake resting in its mountain defile, nearly a thousand feet below, and shimmering like polished silver in the glories of the morning sun. Forty miles beyond rise the three Tetons in their sublime effort to pierce the sky. A few miles further to the east Yellowstone lake appears in all lis beauty. This body of water covers an area of many squaro miles. Its western shore Is reached at tho "Thumb," one of Its arms, a3 this lake. In its outlines, represents the human hand. Here transferring to a sub stantial little steamer, probably floating at a higher altitude than any other liko craft, tho tourist travels for full two hours at rapid speed over ice-cold crystal water, from 100 to 200 fathoms deep. Reaching the northern side of the lake, near its outlet, where rises the Yellowstone river, he comes to the end of another delightful day. Here he goes into camp amid the ever companionable pines. A fine stretch of velvety glade, some half-mile in width, slopes down to the sparkling waters of the lake in front. AT YELLOWSTONE FALLS. There is regret at leaving this enchanting spot, but the next morning descent is made along several miles of the highly pictur esque Yellowstone river. This is no diminutive stream. At its source, where it breaks from the lake, it is fully six feet deep, a hundred yards wide, with an initial flow of not less than six miles an hour. After a few miles along Its course the traveler diverges to the west, crossing the undulating Hayden valley to reach Sul phur mountain, a towering mass of that mineral, in almost absolute purity. A little further on is Mud geyser, a black, retching belching monster, impressing one who holds orthodox ideas that this region is not far from the home of the presiding genius of darkness. Once again the traveler is skirting the Yellowstone, which In its dozen miles of Impetuous rush has gathered strength for lt3 mightiest efforts. After innumerable struggles with rocks and bowlders, form ing a succession of foaming, tumbling cas cades, it falls over a precipice of a hun dred feet, and on again for a mile in un controllable fury it dashes over a pre cipltous wall for more than three hundred feet to the bottom of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, whose glorious walls tower fully 1.G00 feet above. This spot has been the one great object of the journey and is the sight of all sights for which the traveler has been told to "wait." Other canyons are deeper, wider, longer and more gigantic, but none so im pressivtly beautiful and sublime as this. The first sensation is one of profound be wilderment. Many weep here in silence. Standing upon'the dizzy heights above one gazes into this mighty chasm, where far down the misty, roaring, reverberating river struggles towards its destination. As the eye becomes more accustomed to the yawning abyss its infinite beauties begin to unfold. A thousand fancies take posses slon of the imagination. Here among Its crags and peaks In bold relief are graceful spires, mosques with their minarets, cas tics and fortresses buttressed strong. No living thing makes its abode in this re sounding, re-echoing vault except the eagle. Balanced upon the pinnacle of a towering crag midway down the abyss is suspended his aerie. The climax In this master piece of nature is reached In the commingling of its re splendent coloring. More than a half hun dred hues are here harmoniously blended, with a soft golden shade predominating over all. Drape the vast areas of its ancient walls with tapestry woven from the gorgeous colorings of an autumnal forest after the first few days of frost and sun have wrought their artistic touch and a slight conception of the marvels of this spot may be realized. W1XFIELD S. MILLER. THE AUTOGRAPH FIEND. One of His Victim nt Laut Iliaes to Protest.. Julian Ralph, In New York Mail and Ex press. A Mr. Stein, of this city, was the first stranger to welcome me back to New York In a letter" in which he took occasion-to ask for my autograph. Almost every mail brings similar requests, and for every such demand that I receive plenty of other men get twenty. Mr. Stein belongs to that numerous class of collectors who do not stop at a desire for a mere signature, but ask for "a sentiment" or a thought. In this case I opened my desk and got out my paper and thought for ten minutes be fore I could worry out a 'sentiment" which was sufficiently interesting to be signed. Then I wrote it and posted it, remarking with Dogberry, "thank Cod, you arc rid of a villain." Villain is a trifle too strong a word to meet the cae, but no other quotable expression of supreme relief oc curred to nie at the time. Now that it is over, I wonder why I should put myself out to oblige Mr. Stein or ''Miss Gussie Atterbury, aged ten years." or any one of the myriad of men, wunun and children who call upon us quill driwTS to stand and deliver sentiments and autographs to suit their whim? At times I have rebelled, and either thrown away the letters or written such sentiments as they are certain never to show to any one. Then. aain. I have said, with chim- mle Faddi-n. "Ah! what !" (You know Chimmie Fadden's notorious exclamation.) And. blng relieved. I have done as I was requested. I remember bting in a contrary mcod one day, when I was asked to write a Itnpthy pice tu help alon u commercial travelers' bazaar, and I wrote back that it was "about ns fair to ask a writer to write for coninierci.il traveler." as it would be to ask the travelers to travel for tho writers." If 1 charged a dollar and a quarter for my autograph, as does one great writer (who devotes the proceeds to charity), perhaps th?t would end the prosecution. I would n ver pt tho money, but char'tv would be the sufferer. On stcond thought I mijjht -as 11 charge $i. 1 think 1 will. STUDYING MENTAL ACTION AUIOIS EXPERIMENTS TRIED IX A PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Effort to Throw Light on the Work- lugs of the 31 1 ml Interesting: Dnta from Tnrtlesi und FroRü. BOSTON, Oct. 23. Psychology Is an old science, but only of late years has It turned from being merely a "metaphysical specu lation concerning the essence of the soul," as one of its leading exponents has phrased it, to what may be called an exact science. As recently as 1S7S Professor Wilhelm "Wundt established at the University of Leipsic the first laboratory of experimental psychology. There is naturally a great contrast between the little room where Wundt began hi3 experiments with his home-made apparatus and a modern psy chological laboratory like that now estab lished at Harvard, equipped with a hun dred appliances for the assistance of the student in hi3 investigations; and the con trast seems only the greater, perhaps, when one learns that Professor Hugo Muensterberg, the present head of tho Harvard laboratory was one of the first of Wundt's pupils. In 1SÜ2 he was called to America to organize and superintend the equipment of this new branch of the university activity, at which time tho Har vard laboratory, which had already been started by Professor William Jones, though retaining Its full connection with the di vision of philosophy in which psychology is one of the most important branches was establshcd as a distinct department, ranking with the Jefferson Physical Lab oratory, the Chemical Laboratory, the Gray Herbarium, or the Museum of Com parative Zoology. To-day it is the center of the interests of a large number of stu dents, graduate and undergraduate, the former representing perhaps a score of different colleges and universities. WE THINK QUICKLY. To Illustrate the work done in such a place ono may point perhaps to the one or the other special line. The experi mental psychologist studies for instance the time of mental processes. For that purpose ho uses clocks, kymographs and chronoscopes, which give the thousandth part of a second and record accurately tha time it takes to "sense" a color or think a thought. The mechanism of the chrono scopes Is so delicate that only electric currents are used to start and stop them. Various instruments are employed In con nection with them in order that a sound may be given, or a light suddenly shown, or a color or a letter or word exposed, and at the same instant an electric cur rent be made to start the clock. Mean while some one has been waiting for the sound or the light, with his hand upon a telegraph key. The moment he hears the sound or sees the light the hand is removed from, the key, and an electrio current stops the clock. The time that the clock runs is the time that it has taken him to see the light or hear the sound and to move his hand. The time is about 323 thousandths of a second in the case of sound, and about ICO thousandths for light. From this simplest and shortest of all reactions the psychologist may then pro ceed to more complex problems. He can measure the time it takes to name a color or a letter or a picture of some simple ob ject, to read a .word or sentence, to add, subtract or multiply, to think of his own name, to think of the capital of tho United States to give the meaning of a Latin or German word. WHAT EXPERIMENTS SHOW. It has been found that women can see a light or hear a sound and then move the hand more rapidly than men; that women and children sec and name colors more quickly than they can see and. name the words for the colors, while men name the word for the color more quickly than the color itself. It takes about the same time to read a word of five or six letters as it does to read a single letter. People, it appears, read by jumping at groups of words at a time, not by picking out a sentence word for word a theory which has already been applied in teaching chil dren to read. The chronoscope shows that one remem bers .one's own name more quickly than the name of one's friend, no matter how intimate, although one may seem, In or diary speech outside the laboratory, to re member both names Instantaneously. It shows. In thousandths of a second, how much better one knows in what State one's own city Is tluin in what State some other city Is to be found, or in what qountry Paris or Berlin may be. Even the most confirmed Anglomaniac does not know the location of London quite so well as he knows that of his native town In America The chronoscope, indeed, as Dr. Lightner Wltmer, of the University of Pennsylva nia, has suggested, would be better than any possible examination paper that could be devised to test the familiarity of a body of students In the rudiments of a lan guage or science. "Everyone that ha3 studied Latin," he says, "and many that have not, knows the meaning of the verb 'amo,' and could even conjugate perfectly the present indicative active. In an ordinary examination to conjugate 'amo' and give its meaning would hardly be a test of scholarship, but, as recorded with the chronoscope, the best Latin scholars will give the English words for 'amo a few thousandths of a Fecond before the others. The best mathemati cian can add two and two, or multiply two by three, a few thousandths of a sec ond more quickly than the others. You may be familiar with two languages, and may think that you know equally well the Latin word for 'good' and the Greek word, but the chronoscope would show you that you were mistaken. You will always read most fluently the language that you began earliest in your life, although you may think you know and read both equaily well and alothousjh others can detect no difference. But there is a difference, and the chronoscope would detect it and re cord it in thousandths of a second." SOME MENTAL TESTS. The study and measurement of mental acts, of the precipitations of time and space, of association of ideas, of attention, of discrimination, of memory, of the feel ingsboth pleasant and painful of the emotions, of will, of voluntary and invol untary movements, or of the decree of in terest or appreciation one has for aesthet ics, alrfo receive the attention of the experi mental psychologists, involving the use of special and highly complicated conditions and apparatus. Three rooms at the labo ratory in Cambridge are painted black and the windows and doors can ho light-sealed, so that absolute darkness may b obtained. These conditions are necessary for tests of the activity of visual perceptions, their in tensity, and the time it takes for them to be registered on the mind. One interestinz Instrument benta sounds in the intervals and in the rhythm, variable at pleasure, of the different forms of verse, from the hex ameters of Homer to the intricate and In volved fantastic of thd latest Parisian school, while an automatic apparatus reg isters on a scroll the unconscious sensa tions produced in the mind, so that It may be known just what 1 really going on in the brain, Irren-eetlve of what the aubject 3C Some Pit flitllf e Faci m A 1 There are larger Furniture Stores in the world than this, but none better. There are larger stocks, but none more carefully selected, none more de pendable, well made, durable. There are lower prices, BUT NONE FOR SUCH HIGh QUALITY. Buy Your Furniture From a house whose distinctive specialty is Furniture. 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If you need something odd in size to fit a certain place, to conform with a certain style, we will make it to order in our own factory. $8.50 Vs.,- 219-221-223 EAST WASHINGTON STREET Directly Opposite Courthouse, 1 - 2 may consciously think under the influence, perhaps, of his memory. The study of human beings to which Harvard laboratory has devoted so larg a part of its energies is perhaps no more in teresting than the newer phase of this work In experimental psychology, now only in its third year, the study of animal psychology, which has been conducted by experiments on turtles, newts, frogs, fishes and pigeons. Man. as he exists to-day. Is a creature of evolution, and to understand his physical construction it has proved necessary to trace back bones, muscles and nerves to their earliest app'earance In simplest form in the lowest animals. So It is with the mental functions, which are so much more complicated than the functions of any oth er part of the body. Most persons, however, will be glad to know that none of these ex periments at Harvard is such as to require the practice of vivisection. All refer only to the sensations, feelings, memories, in stincts and habits of well-cared-for, normal living animals, which are kept in the best of condition and are subject only to mild restraint during the time of their captivity, so that Professor Muensterberg was able recently to say: "I emphasize again that all our animal experiments carried on in the past and planned for the future are without any pain, almost without discomfort for the animals to be used." THE FROG AXD TURTLE. Among recent lines of study have been the memory and perceptive faculties of the frog and the turtle, the training of new habits in the crayfish, and the symptoms of memory in the newt. Of these the ones in volving the frog and the turtle have been the most extensive and the most popularly interesting if only because of Aesop and his followers down to Joel Chandler Harris and the knights of Uncle Remus. Both animals are fixed in the imagination of mankind, and all grown-up children will be glad to learn that the verdict of the cen turies on the comparative judgment and wisdom of the turtle is confirmed by the exact methods of modern science. In the first place, before making compari sons, it became necessary to determine whether theso lowly creatures had any fac ulty of memory at all and this required a special apparatus handily put together from dry goods boxes. In one box called the "nest" were cool sand and stones, well shaded with a board a true haven for a rest-seeking creature. Against it stood an other box, with a single opening communi cating. This second box was divided into a series of long and comparatively narrow compartments by means of sliding pieces, through the bottom of each of which a small opening or miniature "dog-hole" had been cut. By spacing the openings at different intervals something like a maze was obtained. The subject of the experi ment, turtle or frog, was put in the com partment furthest from the nest and then watched, recorded, and timed as he worked up and down, back and forth, until he had finally made his way to the resting place. The first time he would discover it, prob ably, by accident; but afterwards the func tion of memory would. Influence the result. Ample Intervals of rest were allowed be tween each test, perhaps an hour or two, to avoid fatiguing the little subjects. The first journey might require an hour; but in the fiftieth experiment the turtle or frog would fairly scamper to his haven, and even a shifting of the position of the little doors failed in time to throw them out. Again, when inclined platforms, runways, and blind alleys were introduced, the little creatures still continued to learn. Allowed a rest for a day, for several days, and then for a longer Interval, traces of memory re mained, strengthening with each experi encethe turtle, however, coming out first throughout, with the nimble frog the less nimble- witted. NEEDED BY TEACHERS. If there were space one might go on in definitely with these experiments with ani mals, like the memory of the fro,; for color to determine which anothervnaze was u.fd, with glass or culored slides with which the subject was to familiarize himself or the faculty of memory in goldfish or newts. But instead of enumerating further the labor of the work, it is better in closing to look for a moment to its general aspect. "How can the teacher," says a recent au thor, "rightly train the minds of youth, if he does not understand the structure of mental life? How can the Judge estimate mental acts, how can th? preacher influence the spiritual life, how can tho statesman understand social needs, if he has never taken the pains to comprehend the laws and the phenomena of mind? And there is no danger that the highest dignity of our mental life will suffer injury from this study, or that our moral strength and our aesthetic treasures will ho destroyed when science shall teach us how to understand ewn the most subtle processes of our soul llfe. Just us the admiration of nature be comes constantly more intense the deeper natural science penetrates, no will mental life grow In dignity the better we learn to comprehend It. And f-hall I, In conclusion, be biltnt over the hnmt.urable sigulficanct y N Evenin rrv Press So, villi That's our great specialty. 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It Is thus rightly the unify ing central science; or, rather, I would say, it ought to become this central science. Yes, it ought to become that. It can become that, and it will become that when the universi ties rightly understand its true advantages and their highest duty." ut of the Sordid Kind. Boston Journal. Statistician in Washincton compute that the Spanish war cost the I'nitcd States just about JÖ14.".,..!. Cynics may say th.t that is more than Cubi was worth In money, but Cuba could not thus be houßht. Spain would newr have parted with tlie islands, (xctpt at the point of the bayonet and the muzzle of the cannon. The jirice of Cuba's liberation had to be brave men s blood. The people who were ea?r to mike this Facti lice are 'not in the habit of tainking too much of the dollars and cents cost of an obligation to humanity. The expense of harvesting one thousand acre of wheat i not nmrn than Vft. Thla umount i .clu.iv. o( ,cur., pf lh planting. 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