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The Washington times., 1901-08-06
Gold in the Far North.

The latest news from the Klondike
region is under date of July 13, and it
/ is to the effect that the Alaskan rivers
/ were still icebound. 1t is also stated
! that hundreds of Klondikers We're iso-
| lated in the dreary tundra, and perhaps
suffering from want of food. Just what
the conditions are we do not know, but
no fact is better understood than that
the goldseekers in the Far North
undergo frightful privations. and not
only brave death but meet it in almost
every cruel form.
In nothing is the old aphorism that
distance lends enchantment TO the
View more strikingly exemplified than
in the quest for gold. The farther away
ii is, the greater the difficulty of reach
ing the place where il is supposed to
be, the greater the hardships to be en-
countered, and the more absolute dan
ger TO be met, the more earnest and
frantic viii be the rush of the prospec-
tor and the miner. There is no indus
try that so appeals to the gambling in
stinct in man as that of gold mining.
The hope of suddenly acquiring wealth
by the discovery of great gold de-
post is one Of the most alluring that
ever finds lo1sment in the human
brain. The search for the precious
metals has a fascination to many that
blinds them to all danger and difficulty
And the more remote and inaccessible
the location of the supposed discovery,
the greater will be the enthusiasm.
There are several of our Western
States which present better opportuni-
ties and more of them for the practical
miner than are known to exist either
in Alaska or British North America
This has been true for years. Never
theless. the stampedes have all been
toward the Arctic Circle. A few rich
finds have been made. people jump at
the conclusion that the whole region is
full Of gold, and away they go with a
pell-mell rush
There IS some gold in nearly all parts
of the Pacific Slope, and in all such
movements a few men strike it rich
But where one succeeds a hundred.
perhaps a thousand, fail, and the re-
suit Is almost unspeakable suffering
among those whose hopes are not real
lied. To succeed in the Far North, ex-
cept in very rare ins stances, one must
go prepared for an arduous and eXpen-
sive campaign with the adverse forces
of nature. He cannot safely rely upon
the certainty of at once finding the OBJ
ject of his search. The chances are
hundred or a thousand TO one against
him. To guard against every contin-
gency he needs an outfit, the cost of
which, judiciously invested in milder
climate, would constitute the nucleus
at least, of a competence for life.
Undoubtedly there is gold both in J
The Washington times., 1901-08-06
Suffrage and Representation

It is not in the least strange that
some Republican newspapers should
urge tie reduction Of Southern repre-
sentation in Congress and the electoral
college because of the partial dis
franchisement Of the blacks through
the educational requirements Of the
election laws. The Fourteenth Amend
ment TO the Constitution was, in the
strictest sense, partisan, and it is nat
ural enough that a-Republican news
paper should consider the matter sole
ly with reference to the interests Of the
party TO which it belongs. It is, though.
passing strange when a newspaper
which assumes to he Democratic should
take that view. and even attack the
Mckinley Administration for its failure
TO urge Congress TO act in the matter
Fortunately there are not many such
We may grant the absurdity. the in
consistency, and the injustice of all
such provisions as those which came
under the head Of what is known as
the grandfather clause" The exemp-
tion Of whites from Acknowledgement
on the score of illiteracy merely be-
cause their ancestors were voters has
no principle Of right or reason to sus-
tain it But the spirit OF these cxcep-
tions is infinitely better than that
which prompted the adoption of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
The sole purpose of these amendments
was the perpetuation OF the power Of
the Republican party. and every stu
dent OF history knows it, What is
more, the ratification OF the amend
ments was. itself. procured in a most
Objectionable way-a way which, il
legal, was utterly at variance with
sound political morals. The method
was wrong and the principle was
wrong. Never before had an amend
ment been engrafted upon the Consti-
tuition as q mere partisan move; never
before had the Federal Government
undertaken to dictate TO the States
what particular portion of their people
should. or should not, be invested with
the right of suffrage. That matter had
always been determined by the States
themselves, and there had never been
q suggestion that restriction CT the
suffrage should reduce the States rep
resentation.
The very circumstance that the de-
sired end could only be reached through
IN amendment to the Constitution, ard
The Washington times., 1901-08-06
PERTINENT QUESTION.

Labor difficulties have crippled the Ha-
waiian sugar plantations the last year
or two, but We are now assured that the
difficulties viii soon be overcome. as sew
eral thousand Japanese are to be import
ed. Now what about cheap foreign la
Dor? Is this not matter that requires
attention from a Republican Administra-
ton. that has always been so anxious
about protecting American labor? OF
what use VIII our new possessions be to
the American people at large If syndicates
are permitted to exploit them for their
own use, employing slave labor to devel-
op their properties and unloading their
products upon the markets of the United
Stntes? These are questions for 'protec-
tionists. s.'-Indianapolis News.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06
PERSONAL.

Prof James Dewar. the eminent chem
list, has been elected president of the
British Association. He will preside at
the Belfast rHeeting of 1902
Prof Stewart Culin has returned from
Cuba where ne went in search of relics
of aboriginal Indian tribes. He is now
soiourning at Media and has in contem-
plation trip to the Indian countries of
the Northwest.
The German Emperor's chief passion
seems to be statuary. There are thirty
four sculptors in Berlin" he remarked
to a friend the other day, and he knows
them all personally, visits their studios
and likes to be photographed there among
the clay sketches
DR.. William ]. Ripley, of the Massachu-
setts School of Technology. has been in
vited to deliver the second Huxley memo
rial lecture before the Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain.
The statue of Frances +. Willard to be
presented by the State of Illinois to the
National Capitol at Washington will be
modelled by Helen +. Mtars. OF Oshkosh,
Wis.
Prof Ernest Haeckel is expected to give,
course of lectures in London on palaeon-
tology the coming winter.
The Russian Emperor does not believe
in the eight-hour day. far as he is con-
cerned. He works many more hours, and
seldom retires before / or o'clock in
the morning.
Lord Chesham, who has just returned
to England from South Africa, finds his
occupation gone He was the last master
of the royal buckhpunds. which have
been disbandcd fn his absence. His son
lies buried beneath the veidt. One day
last year. when. he and Lord Methuen
were talking together a despatch came
for the latter Gtanc:ng hurriedly through
it, and seeing that IL was n message of
victory from Lord Roberts. the general
handed 1t to Lord Chesham. The last line
read: Lieutenant Cayendish was killed
In action todayi'' aud IL was thus the
father heard of the death of the son.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06

Alaska and the Klondike. Much has
already been found, and there is known
to be more. But very few fortunes
have been made, and those who have
been unsuccessful have endured and
suffered in manner that would be i'm
possible anywhere in the United States
south of the Canadian boundary. The
desolate landscape is dotted with lone
ly. snow-mantled graves where the
lucliess prospectors and their blasted
hopes lie buried together. But such
rushes as those to the Klondike and
Cape Nome will continue as long as hui
man nature remains as it is. and gold
is believed to be the key to all happi-
ness on earth.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06
World Formation.

To TIE EDIToR OF The TIMES: TIL, Times
Of Sunday July Il. contained lengthy
article on DR.. T. ]. J. Sees observations
on the solar system. which 1 read with
much interest. He assails the Laplacc
theory of world formation. but only in
part. Twenty-four years ago | became
convinced that the whole theory is un-
tenable, and l have many times exposed
its failacy. DR.. See at the outset. states
the simple and well-known scientific fact
that gas, when compressed. generates
heat But does not the same law apply
to all condensible matter, even to the
rocky strata of the earth? The prodigious
pressure Of gravitation is the all-suffcient
cause of internal planetary heat: nor can
that heat escape by radiation into space.
1t is l believe, conceded that less than
one-sixtecnth of a degree of heat from
within reaches the earth's surface. Was
there ever any more? Down ten miles
deep are there not fossil remains of ami
mails and plants. which. when alive. could
not have endured Il temperature much
above 1C2 degrees Fahrenheit? But are
not these fossils now heated up to 1000
degrees? How, then. about your cooling
earth?
AS further refutation of the nebular
hypothesis. it is 4 dcmonstrable if not
q conceded. fact that our sun does not
radiate heat through interstellar space.
Consequently there is no necessary con-
traction of its volume. Only an jnfini-
tesimal quantity of heat from its rays is
required for its satellites The accretion
theory Of world formation is simple, hut
! ha:e-yet TO sec = geological text book
that more than hints at II. 1t solves the
problem of world formation Millions of
n:etcorS strike the earth every twenty
four hours. Consequently it has been
growing in size through the countless
ages of the past and is still growing,
thereby augnentins its internal heat.
The aebuiar theory postulates mira
Gle at the Imaginary beginning of crea-
ton But science repudiates miracles,
and there Is none III the accretion hy-
pothcsis of world formation.
w. Ii. EURR
The Washington times., 1901-08-06

The name OF the third member of the
Schley Court Of Enquiry has not yet been
announced. The selection, as Secretary
Long asserts, is within the discretion or
Mr.. Hackett. and We understand that it
has been made. Judging from the views
and practice of the acting head of the
Department. the successor to Admiral
Kimberly should be a rock-rooted Samp-
son man, and safe To carry his partisan
ship TO the bench of the tribunal. Hack
EFT would startle the country were he
to name a fair and impartial man.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06

Our Minister at Rio Janeiro reports a
serious riot in that city, resulting from
an increase of street car fare by the local
traction company. In this country we
have rather inclined to poor opinion OF
the Brazilians, but this episode is cal
culated to bring them to fame and honor.
Ii shows that the corporations engaged
in urban transportation do not own them,
which appears to be the case in some
American cities
The Washington times., 1901-08-06

Hanna, and then the Nicaragua Canal
viii become feasible and will be con-
structed. Every helpful word and deed
on the part of the authorities and peo-
pie of Nicaragua and Costa 4sica Will
be likely to promote the cause.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06
Intemperance In Exercise.

A member of a st. Louis golfing club
| recently died of tooC strenuous exercise
on the links, and while this is not ex-
actly a warming against golf, it Is a
warning against OVERRIDING the matter
was fifty years old, and inclined to
| stoutness: and he had been advised to
train down. He trained down too
suddenly, and the result WAS that it
| killed him. -
The chances are that had he been ac-
customed all his life to the same
amount of exercise the took in playing
golf, he worid now be alive and we'll
1t is particularly dangerous for men
past middle lifa to change their habits
radically in any such way as this. In
fact, there is one general rule which,
with few exceptions. governs human
capability for exertion. 1t is something
like this when reduced to a formula:
A child or young person can endure
great strain of one sort or another,
provided time enough is given for re-
covery. There is an elasticity about the
system, up to the age of twenty-five or
thirty, which admits of great shocks
and violent exertion without serious
damage. The dangerous course to pur-
sue with any growing creature is to
keep UP continual strain which is too
much for the strength. Routine work
which requires little more strength
than each day will supply is the worst
possible thing for anyone between
twelve and twenty. 1t is likely to
weaken the constitution for life. Be-
tween twenty and thirty the individual
still retains ability to endure sudden
and violent shocks, and is also able to
support a monotonous existence. But
after thirty or thirty five the habits be-
come more settled. 1t is after thirty
that the man who has '.sown his wild
oats" discovers that he cannot sit up all
night and drink unlimited champagne
as he used to; it is after thirty that the
strenuous housekeeper finds herself
in danger of nervous prostration after
an orgy of housecleaning During the
years between thirty and forty the con-
stit3tion is proved. and its weak points
are likely to be found. Then the indi-
vidual begins 10 pay for overwork or
excess of any kind of which he has been
guilty earlier in life; and he finds, to
his dismay or at least his surprise, that
while he can do a certain amount of
work each day and keep it up in
definitely, he cannot stand irregularity
as easily as he used to. By the time he
has reached the age of fifty his habits
are not only formed. but solidifed; and
then 1t will be simply suicidal for him
to attempt radical change of life. The |
only case in which this is admissible is
one in which the habits have in pre-
vious life been wholly contrary to the !
laws of nature. If man has spent all |
his youth and manhood bending over a |
desk, it may be good for him to live in |
the open air. But even then he should |
take care not to exercise too violently.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06

The death of the Empress Frederick re-
moves from the stage of life lady who
would have been notable and distinguished
if her station had been private instead
of royal and imperial. Victoria Adelaide,
Princess Royal of England, was stu
dent. an artist a woman of literary and
musical accomplishments and one of the
ablest diplomats in a family noted for
that kind of ability. She was even a
match for Bismarck in the zenith of his
power. and for long years he paid her
the honor of his bitter hatred. Empress
Frederick was the favorite sister of
King Edward VII. who has frequently
testified his respect for .er by declaring
that he thought her the c.everest woman
he ever had known. Her death will Gre
ate sad void in the family circle of Brit
ish royalty.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06

The British coronation chair, which
visitors to Westminster Abbey have seen.
is especially interesting as having under
meath it and constituting a part of it the
old Scotch coronation stone. called The
Stone of Destiny" which tradition says
was that on which the patriarch Jacob
laid his head on the plains of Luz. 1t
found its way into Spain. then TO Ireland
and Scotland, and ii was removed from
Scotland by Edward l during the war Of
independence. The promise was made
that 1t should be returned to Scone from
which it had been taken, but that was
rcVer carried out, and the Stone of Des-
tiny" has formed part of the chair of oak
in which every English sovereign has
been crowned since the time of Edward IL.
Special coronation medals were struck
when Queen Victoria was crowned, and
no doubt the same practice will be fol-
lowed on the coronation Of Edward VII.
These are given to peers, members of the
House Of Commons. and to foreign Ann
bassadOrs, and a certain number of them
are Scrambled for at Westminster during
the ceremony, an incident which Is said
to have been one of the most exciting of
that memorable day.
The Washington times., 1901-08-06
FOREIGN TOPICS.

In n recent number of the "Frankfurter
Heltung are given statistics of the stu
dents matriculated in Germany. both ac-
cording to the University and the depart
ments. study of these figures gives us
very interesting facts concerning the num-
Der OF medical students as compared with
those of other professions This GUNNER
semester there Were matriculated in Ger
man universities S5, ,552 students. a gain of
l,lb' over the summer semester Of last
year OF these 7,055 are medical students
a loss of IS from last summer. This
semester SO per cent of the total number
are law students. 1913 per cent are med
ical. the department of philology and his
tory stands third with 1i2 per cent. math-
ematics and natural philosophy fourth
with "a per cent, while but As per cent
are preparing themselves as Protestant
preachers and 3.4 per cent for the Catholic
Church. There are s20 students of phar-
macy. sec of finance and forestry, AIS
dental students. and l34 "a gain of % over
last summer students of veterinary med
icine. The remaining Is per cent of stu
dents are evidently not classified.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

1 faihtlng seems to be. We may add more profit
aoie than literature in Holland where maga-
zine articles command only half the lowest rate
paio TO American newspaper writer's Mr.
hough dlscourses pleasantly on all these and
many other things. He, like Mr.. Dawson, has
written very readable little volume
The book called "Old Dutch Towns and VII
lagos of the Zuider-Zee' forms a remarkably
interesting and artistic panorama of a certain
section OF Holland that is peculiarly picturesque
II is really picture book. The introduction and
lhe notes by Heer Tuyn are worth reading to
De sure, lnasmuch they contain more or less
opposite information But the drawings are the
lhlhg. They are executed in a style of marked
simplicity by two natives of the country who
not only possess keen sympathy for their sur
rouhdlngs, but are technically extremely clever
and know how to make their impressions of Hol-
land pictoray appealing. The illustrations Of
the towns are reproduced from pen drawings
made by Heer Nieuwenkamp. The illustrations
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
FITZGERALD'S LETTERS.
MORE SOUVENIRS OF THE TRANSLATOR OF
OMAR.

MORE SOUVENIRS OF The 4ltAEN9l'fIC ICI' Nt
OMAR.
In the new volume Of Edward tItZGeraId :
ever delightful letters there is an amusing
quotation from Carlyle'S response to FltZGeraId ;
question as to what he thought Of The Ring
and the Book" Il have read-inssted on read
ing-Browning's Book wrote the Scotchman-
1T is full of talent, energy, and effort; but
actually without Backbone or basis of Common
sense 1 think it among the absurdest books
ever written by a gifted Man"
Another letter mentions Tennyson's liking for
Thackeray: "Tennyson was great friend Of
Thackeray's, and admired the Man without q
suppose) having read any of his Books through
I remember his taking up a No. Of Pendennis
in my Lodging twenty years ago. reading
awhile and then saying-'How mature ii is!'-
perfectly ripe seasonable, and perfect, a produce
OF the Mans Wit and Experience of the
World"
Tennyson's early poetry was not to the taste
Of FitzGerald, who gives it a prod with
slap to Fanny Kemble) in one Of the early let
ters: why reprint the Norman, the Mermaid
and these everlasting Eleanores, Isabels, which
always were, and are. and must be, q nuisance
though Mrs. Butler (who recognized herself In
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

well known Greek family in London, who did
not enjoy the coincidence.
MI. r. r. Benson, in one Of a series of stories
entitled Some Social Criminals" appearing in
a weekly paper, had the bad luck to call his
leading lady by the good name Of Mrs. Arthur
Lewis. No doubt many a Mrs. Arthur Lewis
lives, and there should Toe safety for the novelist
in such numbers But the lady best known by
that name in London society felt the accidental
slur east upon il in the pure fiction; and the
paper in question has apologized for causing
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis. of West Cromwell
Road, and their relatives and friends, extreme
pain and annoyance" If this sort of sensitive
ness becomes epidemic. and is caught by whole
families assertive of kind of copyright in
names, noVelists likely 10 have a rather
troublOus time.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

the portrait of course) said that EIeanore Cwhat
bore was the finest thing he ever wrote. She
has sat for it ever since. l believe. Every
woman thinks herself the original of one of that
stupid Gallery of Beauties"
1t was not bad picture of the majestic
Fanny:
How may full-saird verse express
How may measured words adore
The full-fioWing harmony
OF thy sWan-like stateliness EIeanore?
The luXuriant symmetry
OF thy floating gracefulness. Eleanore?"
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
THE LAMB.
by KATHARINE lyman.


All in the April evening,
April airs We're abroad:
The sheep With their little lambs
Passed me by on the road.
The sheep with their little lambs
Passed me by on the road:
All in the April evening
| thought on the Lamb of God.
The lambs were weary. and crying
With a weak, human cry
| thought on the Lamb of God
Going mcekly TO die.
Up in the blue, blue mountains,
DeWy pastures are sweet;
Rest for the little bodies,
Rest for the little feet.
But for the Lamb of God,
Up on the hilltop green,
only a Cross of shame,
Two stark crosses between.
All in the April evening,
April airs were abroad;
] saw the sheep with their lambs,
And thought on the Lamb of God
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
N4HES IN NOVELS.
From The London Chronicle.

From The London Chronicle.
The increasing difficulty of getting a good
name for a novel that somebody has not already
appropriated is notorious. But the names of
the characters in rOmances not always
chosen without Ill effects. Everybody remem-
bers the suicide of a lady on whose mind had
preyed the similarity between her name
and that of a stage heroine. In one of Mr. NAL
locks novels the name Of a lady was that of a
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29

of the villages are from woodcuts designed and
executed bv Heer Veldheer The book is printed
on beautiful paper, and the black and whites
have been handled with such care in the press
that they leave a decidedly crisp and brilliant
irnpreSSiOn.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-29
GERMAN AND DUTCH
STUDIES AND PICTURES OF TWO Ma
TONS.

GEIAAN LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY Rv
h--Aafn Harbutt Dawson. Illustrated Octav9
PIP I'll, 81. G. p. Putnam's Sons
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DC LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. Bv p.
D. =. p. Putnan's Sons '' PIP VII