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Chinese reform army seem 'to have no basis of fact except his unsuccessful mission to China 

 in 1900 and his militaristic ideals. He wrote The Vermilion Pencil (1908), The Valor of 

 Ignorance (1909), urging the necessity of military training in the United States in case of 

 Japanese invasion, and The Day of the Saxon, predicting the fall of the British Empire. 



Ida Lewis, American lighthouse keeper, died October 24, 1911. She was born in New- 

 port, R. I., in 1841. In 1857, when her father was incapacitated, she took up his work as 

 keeper of the Lime Rock Light, Newport Harbor. Her official appointment by act of Con- 

 gress (the first given to a woman) was dated 1889. An expert rower and swimmer, she saved 

 1 8 lives from drowning, receiving many medals, and a pension from the Carnegie Fund. 

 In 1870 she married W. H. Wilson. 



Morris Loeb, chemist, died in New York, October 8, 1912. He was born in Cincinnati 

 on May 23, 1863, graduated in 1883 at Harvard, where he studied under Wolcott Gibbs, 

 whose assistant he was in 1888-89 after his return from Germany, where he worked under 

 Hoffman in Berlin and Ostwald in Leipzig. He taught at Clark University in 1889-91 and 

 then Until his death was professor of chemistry in New York University. His principal 

 chemical investigations were on the kinetics of substances in solution, osmotic pressure and 

 crystallization of sodium iodide from alcohols. He was a member of a wealthy family and 

 was prominent in Hebrew charities, to some of which he made large bequests, as well as to 

 the American Chemical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Institute, the American 

 Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Harvard University. 



Charles Battell Loomis, author, died September 23, 1911. He was born in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., November 12, 1861, and was a writer of humorous fiction and verse, his best 

 known volumes being Yankee Enchantments (1900) and Cheerful Americans (1903). 



Eben Jenks Loomis, astronomer, died at Amherst, Mass., December 2, 1912. He was 

 born at Oppenheim, N. Y., November n, 1828, and was educated at the scientific school of 

 Harvard University. He spent 50 years in work on the American Ephemeris and Naut- 

 ical Almanac. He was also a naturalist, a Shakespearian scholar, and a poet. 



Patrick Anthony Ludden, Roman Catholic bishop of Syracuse since May 1887, died in that 

 city, August 6, 1912. He was born near Castlebar, Ireland, in 1836, studied at St. Jarlath's 

 College, Tuam, and at the Grande Seminaire, Montreal, and was ordained priest in 1864. 

 He was rector of the Albany cathedral and vicar-general, 1877-80, and after seven years at 

 St. Peter's, Troy, New York, was consecrated first bishop of Syracuse. In 1911 he urged the 

 election of William F. Sheehan as U.S. senator from New York and declared that the opposi- 

 tion to Sheehan was due to his being a Catholic and of Irish descent. 



Arthur MacArthur, army officer, died in Milwaukee, Wis., September 5, 1912. He was 

 born in Springfield, Mass., June 2, 1845, but was educated in Milwaukee. He served in 

 the volunteers in the Civil War, distinguished himself at Stone River, received a Congressional 

 medal for bravery at Missionary Ridge, and became major at 19 and colonel before he was 

 20. He continued in the regular army and reached the high rank of lieutenant-general in 

 1906. As brigadier-general of volunteers he went to the Philippines during the Spanish- 

 American War of 1898, and was made major-general of volunteers for his service at the cap- 

 ture of Manila. He was military governor of the islands in 1900-01, the most critical period 

 of American occupation. On his return he commanded different military departments in the 

 United States before he was retired in 1909. 



Robert Lee MacCameron, portrait painter, died December 29, 1912. He was born in 

 Chicago, January 14, 1866, and was brought up in Necedah, Wis., where he worked as a 

 lumber jack when he was 14 years old. He became a newspaper illustrator in Chicago and 

 later in New York and in London, on The Boys' Own, and in 1889 went to Paris, where he 

 studied under Gerome. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in July 1912. 

 Besides portraits of celebrities, English and American, his best-known pictures were "Ab- 

 sinthe Drinkers," "The Dancers" (honourable mention, Paris Salon), "The Daughter's 

 Return" (in the New York Metropolitan Museum), and in general scenes from the slums. 



Alexander Mackay-Smith, Protestant Episcopal bishop, died November 16, 1911. He 

 was born in New Haven, Conn., June 2, 1850, and was ordained priest in 1877, after studying 

 at the General Theological Seminary and in England and Germany. In 1902, after service 

 as rector in South Boston, New York (where he was first arch-deacon in 1887), and Wash- 

 ington, he was made coadjutor-bishop of Philadelphia, and bishop in 1910. 



Willard Francis Mallalieu, Methodist Episcopal bishop, died at Auburndale, Mass., 

 August i, 1911. He was born at Sutton, Mass., December u, 1828, and entered the min- 

 istry after graduation from Wesleyan University in 1857. He held several charges in 

 Massachusetts and in 1882 was made presiding elder of the Boston district. In 1884 he 

 was elected bishop. He was a prominent member of many church boards and commissions, 

 and advocated total abstinence and Sabbath observance. He wrote The Why, When, and 

 How of Revivals, The Fullness of the Blessing of the Gospel of Christ, etc. 



John William Mallet, chemist, died November 6, 1912. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, 

 October 10, 1832, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin and at Gottingen. He came to 

 the United States in 1853, and taught chemistry at Amherst, at the universities of Alabama, 

 Louisiana, Virginia, and Texas, and at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. During 

 the Civil War, he had charge of the ordnance laboratories of the Confederate States. 



