New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-21
LECTURES AT CHAUTA UQUA.
IT is A BIG YEAR." WITH MORE VISITORS
THAN EVER.
SOME OF THE COURSES OF TIE LAST WEEK
SOCIAL NOTES.

SOME OF THE COURSES OF TIE LAST WEEK
SOCIAL NOTES.
Chautauqua ~ y July % (spcciaD-The Chau-
tauaua season is amply fulfilling its early promise
OF big year" for there are more people on the
grounds now than are usually here in August. and
they are still coming in by every boat and train
Among the principal lecturers OF the week JUST
closed was Professor W. H. Mace OF Syracuse tni-
versity, who gave course or The American
and British Constitutions" In the Introductory
lecture ne described the fundamental differences ana
resemblances. The greatest contrast in these two
nations. he SAID Is found in the written Constitution
OF the one and the unwfitten Of the other study
ing the resemblance between the two" continued
Professor Mace the first parallel lies in the fact
that both are a growth and an evolution. England
believes hers be such; 1t looks on the face OF
things. II ours were a garment ready made a
manufactured article, made by certain men. at a
certain time. at certain place but TINS Is not me
truth. 1t is growth and a development. You can
md in IL Anglo-Saxon. you can find In IL the BIZ
Of Rights for these men who met in Philadelphia
more than a century ago and framed this magnif-
iccnt document were Englishmen. with whom inc
laws OF England were familiar. 50 many parts OF
It existed before the Magma Charta 1t has been
growing ever since and always Will for in the
English sense our unwrlten Constitution Is almost
as large as theirs" Capitalization Of sovereignty
dominates the British Constitution. diffusion OF
sovereignty controls America. said the speaker,
and this marks the difference between the CONSOLE
dated and federal forms OF government but In
poin, Of fact England has passed from the one 20
the other and - moving back 10 the old Anglo
Saxon idea. and when Home Rule comes into Ire
land and Scotland she will be watching American
local rule.
An interesting and instructive course OF lectures
was given during the week by Garrett p. Serviss.
OF Brooklyn. His subjects were scientific; per-
haps the most delightful was "A Journey to the
Planets" Mr.. Servss first explained that only a
few OF the stars are Planets, and then started on
the journey through the solar system beginning
with Saturn This beautiful planet. with her beauii-
full rings, not a solid globe. but vaporous mass
not yet cooled down. and though 40 times as large
is probably younger than the earth Jupiter came
next The lecturer showed photograph taken
through telescope.
Concerning Mars, Mr.. Serviss said Here we
find moons also which go round fast that between
the rising and the setting all OF moons phases
have been completed three times. The landscape OF
Mars is red; II is not an atmospheric condition.
but the land Itself this peculiar coloring and OF
all the planets bears the greatest analogy TO our
own Around what we would naturally consider the
polar region find a large white area at time
when We know II must be coolest. which. as We
watch 1t from week TO week. breaks up into spots
patches until 1t almost disappears az would the
snow at the vernal breath OF spring. and uncovers
follow the course OF what astronomers have de
cided be the water lines on this planet and which
the lines that cross and recross each other. The
latest picture taken from the observatory IN
That this Is system Of irrigation xnoihef
aiogy he continues between Mars ana f, me earth ,i
Of the land is the northern hemisphere the water
The -. and shIws or Ho rsd With III
the south blue with water. As 10 It's habiaton
there are all the conditions Of lie except atfnOs-
Dhere nd A q that this iS lacking.
| Venus and Mercury were next discussed Other
lectures were The origin of the World" and
AmOns other recent in,s,rsstng ec@ses was one
H.'H sy Re so nsy MI sdfS
said Mr.. Dodge, is that II adapts itself to the
soashern SIAM and that o. southern Siam equally
the same country where live the Lao people Bud
dh.sm among the Laos Is a negative kind Of teach
itself as are set up for it in this and other lands
Their books gay that IT was perpetr9Sted BY fraud
so it dlsclaims all nna,y and then expects 70
s%er nj OF OF God Buddhism sarisd out as
tlcism. but this was TOO eod theory Tor such
%res so ded into doary then Into poySe
| ISM and now has become demonoogy. or fetch
Professor c. T. Winchester. Of Wesleyan Unver-
sity Middetown Conn., was an, another nteresiins
cd x Castle ns S e adns fS o. he
day and invested it with the asseciaons Of the last
half OF the fifteenth century An Evening In the
London OF 1880" pictured turbulent streets, the
slowly gliding Thames. Vauxhall Gardens. St
James Palace In the reign OF George III. and Turks
Head Tavern. where great men In the world Of sci
ence. letters and politics often met Equally pleas
ing his dcn cations OF the lie and character
| OF the poets Robert Burns and Walter Scott. He
also spoke Memories OF the English Lakes
| Among social affairs was a large reception held IN
the hall for the Ohio Christian Endeavor delegates
about 800 Of whom stopped here on their return
| from trip to Boston
A number OF Chautauquans attended n hop given
| at Point Chautauqua 4 few nights since. where the
University OF Pennsylvania H. represented by a
party OF young men. who making the place
/ lively
Mr. Young assistant secretary at the White House
| is on the grounds aud a reception at the Al1Ins
was given him
| President Miller. OF Akron. Ohio returned here
from his home rather Unexpectedly, and spent mos
| OF the week. lie IL contemplating trip TO Europe
| and did not expect 10 visit Chartauqua again this
season.
BIBLES FOR JAPANESE SOLDIERS AND POLICE
The Rev. Mr.. Loomis agent OF the American Bib,
Society In japan. has sent word that the officials OF
| Toxic now permit the distribution o! Bibles among
the police force and the prison guard Copies OF
the Bible and the New Testament put into tn,
hands OF the rank and file Of the army and navy
and In the hospitals after the outbreak II The
| recent war. This done with the approval OF
| the comma nder -in-chef OF the japanese Army
Prince komAtsu, cousin of the Emperor d.1 Oi