consult with its engineers, so that the structure may be as little as possible of a disfigurement, and perhaps even an ornament, to the metropolis. As a rule, the construction of a railroad bridge is treated purely as a problem in engineering, the problem being to carry the heaviest possible loads for the least possible money. The engineers have even seemed to take pleasure in throwing in as much ugliness as possible for the price. In taking artistic considerations into account, even though it may have been stimulated thereto by the existence in New York of an Art Commission whose approval must be secured before any plans can be adopted, the Pennsylvania has set an example that ought to have imitators everywhere. BIG STICK J.LONG ROOSEVELT ON "NATURE FAKIRS" Writers who misrepresent animals are the latest additions to the White House black list IRING of the monotony of these dull, dun, ingloriously peaceful times, and looking about for new enemies to scalp, President Roosevelt has taken the trail of the "nature fakirs." In an interview in "Everybody's Magazine," whose authenticity is guaranteed, notwithstanding the recent announcement from the White House that the President would give out nothing more for publication, certain writers who have undertaken to write about wild animals, either in the form of literal description or in that of fiction founded upon fact, are classified and ticketed according to the trustworthiness of their observations. Mr. Stewart Edward White passes the Presidential examination with a mark of 100. He is "true to nature; he knows the forest and the mountain and the desert; he puts down what he sees; and he sees the truth." Mr. Thompson Seton and Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts get about 60 each. They tell a good many things that are not so, but they write delightful nature fairy tales. Jack London wins a zero. He reaches "the very sublimity of absurdity' in his accounts of wolves fighting bulldogs and lynxes. His realism is "a closet product." "Nobody who really knew anything about either a lynx or a wolf would write such nonsense. But the prize dunce of Mr. Roosevelt's school is the Rev. William J. Long, with whom his friend, Mr. John Burroughs, dealt at length some years ago. Zero does not begin to express the President's opinion of his nature stories. The tale of Wayeeses is "filled with the wildest improbabilities and a few mathematical impossibilities. Mr. Long's lynx stories. 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In the pure days of the founders of the Republic the terms of Burgoyne's surrender were shamefully violated; the States would not heed the recommendations of Congress to give fair treatment to the loyalists; the work of Washington was hampered and almost ruined by jealousies, pettiness, and narrow prejudice, and the soldiers at Valley Forge tramped the snow with bare and bleeding feet because officials had not sense enough to distribute the supplies that were at hand. A little later Aaron Burr was elected VicePresident of the United States, and Wilkinson was left in command of the army during our controversy with Spain over Florida, although he was known to be receiving $2,000 a year from the Spanish Government. Such things could not happen now, nor could the Congressional scandals of the Crédit Mobilier days be repeated. There could be no parallel in our times to the sale of offices by Belknap as Secretary of War, or to the whisky frauds under Grant's second Administration. The discriminations, rebates, and other offenses for which railroads are now being indicted and convicted were formerly practised without objection. Corporate management in general is more honest than it used to be. Harriman is so much more respectable than the men who wrecked the Erie, the Atlantic and Great Western, and the Union Pacific thirty or forty years ago, that in those days his Alton financiering would not have attracted any attention at all. Although the corporate standards of probity are higher than they were, there is more complaint than ever, because the people's standard of morality has risen too. Mr. Root's cheering review of our progress from the ancestral bog of corruption to our own state of comparative virtue is that when financiers, politicians, and the people have learned to keep step, so that they are all in the same stage of moral advancement at the same time, there will be an end of the present discontents and recriminations, and everybody will be happy. 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At the dinner-table. where The Romantic Story of Mary Plummer Professor Clémenceau was something of an artist, indeed he seemed a Jack- Mary Plummer was one of the older pupils of the school, a girl with quite a She was a brunette, of medium height, with beautiful eyes, wavy dark hair, and a clear olive complexion. Her general appearance, as well as her musical voice, seemed more to belong to the South than to the frozen lake region of the North. Yet her childhood home was in the wilds of Wisconsin, many miles from any town. She was one of a large family of children living in poverty, alone with their mother, in a small cottage, so far from civilization that they seemed, literally, "out of the world." 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