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New-York tribune., 1901-12-15

semblance. love and harmony with the true
beauty of reason
What ghastly satire are these old Athenian
words the sights and sounds that now pursue
our distracted city race from earliest child
hood through life that Is in its externals like
one long journey by the Underground!
Fifty years ago a majority of those who
could read were In some real educated.
Therefore the press, following the law of sup
ply and demand, used as to appeal to an
educated public. Even those readers who were
essentially vulgar then read books and news
papers a little above their intellectual level.
since these came most easily to hand. Now
ber of people who read Is enormous; the
proportion of those who educated is small
The printing press, following the law of supply
and demand. now appeals to the uneducated
mass of all classes. Many even of the educated
too lazy to observe that book newspaper
of 1900 does not the thing
a book newspaper in 1880. join in the
universal nettle feast. and know not eating
DEATH Bad Indifferent literature is thrust
into mems hands, the noise of 1t is dinned into
their with persstency against which the
fewest are proof Not only does the vulgar read
nothing hut vulgarty. so sacrificing the chance
but the man with better capa bilities reads so
constantly below the true level of his taste and
intellect that his ideals gradually debased
and he takes pains to recommend good books
and journals to his children. Until the reading
of nonsense comes to be regarded by reSpecta-
BILE families in the same light dram drinking,
the press will do more universal harm than the
public house.-(George' Macauiay Trevelyan, in
The Nineteenth Century.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
BURMESE RUBY MINES.

In King Thebaw's time the whole of the
produce of the mines sent to the treasury
at Mandaiay. Any person found guilty OF
smuggling ruby doomed, together With
every member OF his family, to long term Of
rigorous imprisonment. This harsh penalty,
coupled with the difficulty Of disposing Of
stones, effectual deterrent against
robbery.
the British Empire the government took over
NAH Ruby Mine Company, for seven years, the
lease being renewed in 1896 for a further term
of fourteen years. Until the year 1899 the COM
pany failed 20 pay expenses. but in that year,
owing TO the successful development of their
mining operations and a favorable alteration
in the terms of its agreement with the gov
eminent. ii was able to pay dividend and have
every prospect of a prosperous future. II has
recently been turning cut rubies the value
Of about a lakh of rupees a month. / saw an
uncut ruby weighing over seventy carats which
had recently been found. 1t was elongated in
shape and, though in its raw state. was of a
wonderfully deep color. This ruby proved when
cut, to be a very fine stone of 2S 27-:}2 carats
and was valued at $4,000. Besides mining itself
the company issues licenses to mine by native
methods For these licenses a fee of 20 rupees
month is paid for each man employed in the
mines. The receipt from the licenses formed at
one time the main source of the company's in
come, but since the development of its system
OF mining and the extension of its workings the
area available for native mines is greatly re-
duced.-(drs. Henry Clarence Paget in The
Cornhill Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
THE WHITE PERIL"

How population living wholly artificial
living in country cottages and small towns?
How can population in which every daily
soaks his mind in modern journalism be the
same a population of whom some read the
Bible and few sound books, and the rest moth
ing at all? Before the Industrial revolution, the
ordinary working Of economic law left the ma
jority of manual laborers unenlightened indeed
but natural in mind, habits and emotion; de-
lighting in sports in which they themselves took
part, and cheered by songs ballads and stories
OF their countryside that were never vul-
gar and often exquisite. Meanwhile that large
minority on whom education then bestowed
had religion, imagination, intellect. But all seem
to have possessed natural taste in arts and
crafts (as all their surviving houses, furniture
and utensils show). And these qualities, "in wild
est commonalty spread, were the general condi-
tions that produced in individual cases the high
triumphs of English literature. So long as man
minded his business in cottage, farm, mansion
and shop English life was vigorous and beauti-
full. But how can il now be beautiful, and how
ends? For 1t is the common sights and sounds
OF daily life which stimulate or deaden the imag-
ination, awaken stife the aesthetic and the
moral qualities. No one has attempted to
deny this principle since Plato laid il down as
the reason why the artists in his republic should
by the power Of genius trace out the nature
OF the fair and the graceful. that our young
men, dwelling as IL were in healthful region
may drink In good from every quarter, whence
any emanetton from noble works may strike
upon their eye, or their ear. like a gale waiting
health from salubrious lands and win them i'm
perceptioly from their earliest childhood into re-
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
GOSPEL RIOTS" IN ATHENS.

How oid they contrive to turn their language
back on its course? They revived old words
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FELoN.

If the annals of crime should ever come to be
compiled by an historian with a catholic mind
and an eye to the picturesque, the eighteenth
century would probably be described as the
golden age of felony. and the London of the
same period .he happy hunting ground of
the habitual criminal With telegraphs, no
railways. gas lamps police (in the mod
understanding of the word). scientific
means of Identification, no laws of extradition
and efficient communication between the
thorities of ward, borough or district, it seems
a miracle that a felon should ever have been
apprehended except through his reckless
ness the treachery of one OF his associates
His position might be compared to that of the
cunning old fox who. inhabiting a country rid
died with earths, rather enjoys the excitement
of the chase. we'll knowing that as soon as 1t
becomes too hot for pleasure he can dive down
a friendly drain and lie perdu till the danger is
over.
In the case of the willy criminal conviction by
no means necessarily followed capture The
anomalous condition and cumbrous machinery
of the penal laws gave clever Old Bailey
lawyer every opportunity to bubble his client
out of scrape; false witnesses could be bought
cheap at Westminster Hall, where they daily
walked up and down with straws in their shoes
to denote their profession; while, If the offence
We're not too serious. benefit OF clergy, that
primitive form of the First Offenders act might
be allowed and burnt hand substituted for
dislocated neck Again. the ferocity of the pun
ishments for small crimes. anachronsm in
age of growing humanity deferred injured
persons from prosecuting and iuries from
victing criminals. It is true that throughout
the century felons were hanged by scores and
transported by hundreds; but still the convic-
tions represented so small a percentage of the
crimes committed that the immunity of the
habitual criminal became a reproach to the leg
islature and byword in the land.
But the dawn of the nineteenth century
ushered in a new era in the history of the felon.
and from this time forth everything seems to
have gone against him. In 1908 Sir Samuel
Ronlilly got a bill through Parliament abolish
ing capital punishment for small thefts. with
the result that there a great and sudden
increase in the number of prosecutions and con-
victions As time went on the machinery of the
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
Numbers English Monthly best Worth Reading

Of cooperative benefit societies from empty
fear of political designs or at the bidding of
rival shopkeepers.-(Boton King in The Con-
temporary Review
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
Ii HUNG CHANG.

Among the criticisms Of the life of Ii Hung
Chang, 1t is said to his dispara cement that he
looked through Chinese spectacIes-that his
ideas his prejudces, and his superstitions
were Chinese. What else would the ingenious
critic expect Of graduate of the Hanlin Col
after seventy, and how would he describe his
own prejudices? In spite of all temptations to
belong to other nations" Ii could not help being
one of the people who number the earth's
surface anything from 200 100000 to 400 O00,-
600, according to the oral rotundty of the
speaker. Notwithstanding his heredity and sur
roundings, however, Ii Hung Chang through
out his career eVinced consistent appreciation
OF foreign manners and ideas. Not alone in the
importation and construction of machinery and
the application CT physical science, and iii mat
ters generally external to himself, was his be-
lief in things foreign demonstrated, but where
his own person was concerned his faith was no
less robust. The public medical services which
of the treatment which he had embraced for
himself and his family, many of them as
were disposed to follow his lead. AS during the
last scenes in Peking, in the only dangerous
illness he had previously gone through, just ten
years ago, his half enlightened family made
strenuous efforts to dissuade him from employ
ing foreign doctor. But though prostrated
and almost in the article of death, his conf
dence in foreign medicine remained unSi.a aken.
He will die if he continues the foreign treat
ment' the lamentation daily and hourly
howled at the bedside of the patient: and even
the day of his death fixed for the winter
solstice. then only a few days distant. day of
omen for the sick in China, the ebbing of
the tide is among coast population AS Dr.
Frazer, genial Ulsterman, entered. the sick
looked up and asked the question.
Shall l die the 22G?" a CHEEKY "No-o-o!"
reassured the patient. who began at once to
acting public business-from his bed.-(Alex-
ander Michie in Blackwood's Magazine
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23

been made by the United States District Court in
the Western District OF Missouri. that where the
creditor of bankrupt has received preferential
payment and fails to pay over to the trustee the
money or property received such preference
until he is compelled to do so in suit by the
trustee will not thereafter be allowed to prove his
claim at all against the bankrupt's estate.
The decision is made by Judge Philips in a case
in which the Citizens Bank, of Sturgeon. Mo. had
obtained possession of the stock of goods. notes
and accounts of partnership, which afterward
became bankrupt The trustee brought an action
aside the transfer as being Illegal prefer
ence on the ground that the bank officials had
sonabe to believe that they were being pre-
ferred. In that suit the trustee successful.
After giving up the property. pursuant TO the de
cree, the bank tried to prove its claim against the
estate of the bankrupt firm. but the court decided
that this could not be allowed. The court remarks
that where the assignee or the trustee ia com
PEELED to resort to action to invalidate and set
aside the preference and recovers judgment therein
subsequent payment of that judgment by the
preferred creditor. and no subsequent compliance
by him with its terms. can be considered
render of the preference allowing the creditor to
prove his claim. (The is reported in 109
Federal Reporter, 623.)
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
YACHTING.
Co1J-NBIA IN DRYDoCK FOR LAST CLEAN
ING BEFORE FIRST RACE-CRo"DS
SEE SHAMROCK.

SaIuted by scores of vessels as she was toWeo
through the East River yesterday by the tug wal
lace B. Flint the Cup defender Columbia, hy1ns
the penant Of the New-York Yacht Cluo at her
masthead. looked every inch the racing crait tiat
she is The Columbia reached the Morse iron
Works Brooklyn. at noon. and at O'CLOCK she
was fioated into the sectional dock. astern OF the
steamer Old Dominion. In two hours the yacht
was high and dry, and blocked up in position for
her last cleaning before the great international
race Stages were slung all around her before dark
and early this morning a gang of men will be put
TO work furnishing her bronze hull. The yacht had
many visitors in the afternoon. among them several
yachtsmen from yachts lying at anchor OF Bay
Ridge 1t was learned that the Columbia Is using
the old Defenders main boom-a handsome steer
spar-and the mansail with which she won the
trial races at Newport. 1t is not likely that any
change will be made in either the boom or the
sail until after the first Thursday.
1t is safe to say that fully five thousand persons
visited the Shamrock at the Erie Basin drydock
They stood in rows two and three deep, all around
the edge of the big stone dock admiring the yellow
shining body OF the yacht and her wonderful sky
reaching masts Sir Thomas Upton, painfully limp
ing looked over his challenger early In the morn,
ing in company with Charles Russell, David
Barrie and some friends; then he went back to the
steam yacht Erin, which took them up the Hudson
for few hours and returned about p. m.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
YACHT SOLD AT SACRIFICE.
THE YANKEE, PUT UP AT AUCTION IN CHI
CAGo. BROUGHT ONLY s225.

Toronto Sept % (SpeciaD.-The yacht Yankee.
built for the trial races for the defence of the
Canada's Cup, which sailed at Chicago this
summer, sold at auction on Saturday night
at the Columbia Yacht Club Chicago. for s225. The
Yankee is a racing craft Of about so feet over all
OF So feet racing length. and there was surprise
the low figure she realized on sale, as she
was completed this summer at a cost OF $500.
and the lead ballast in her cost $780, the new
and rigging costing s425. Until the auction
she was owned by the syndicate headed by William
Hale Thompson. who thought that $500 would br
paid for her when he gave orders to sell her for
what she would bring.
This sacrifice Of money. and there were seven
boats built Yankee for the defence, will be
remedied before the challenge for the
Cup. The committee selected by the Royal Cana
dian Yacht Club to look after the conditions and
challenge of the next for the cup Is to
hold its meeting, and it is assured fact that
the boats which compete for this trophy will in
future be of different size The conditions for the
40-foot racing length will be selected as the size
contest for the cup. This will enable all those
who build yachts for the defence or challenge trial
find ready sale for their craft when they
not chosen. The 4o-footer can be turned into
a cruiser, the original Canada was. but the
35-footer is useless except for racing purposes.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
SAT DEAD IN A RESTAURANT.
WAITER RETURNED TO FIND A MAN WHO
HAD GIVEN HIM AN ORDER LIFELEss

An unidentified man, about forty-three years
old, died suddenly while sitting in chair in a
restaurant at Park Row and Janes-st yester-
day. The man had given an order for small
steak and bowl of coffee. When the waiter
returned with the order he found the man ap-
parently asleep in the chair. The waiter SHOOK
him and found that he was dead
A card was found in the dead mans pocket
which had the name and address, Hans c..
Hansen No. Chatham Square" written on It,.
That address is a cheap lodging house, ano IL
was said there that the man had been staylng
there for some time No knew anything
al,out him The man was about five feet eight
inches tall of light complexion and hair; mao
sandy mustache, weighed 40 pounds. ana was
dressed in a black coat. light vest ana trouSei'
and a striped outing shirt.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
LEGAL CASES OF INTEREST.
PRECEDENT NOT EVERYTHING.

Two Justices Of the New-York Supreme Court
acting independently. have recently in judicial
writings vigorously protested against the savish
following of precedents in deciding legal contro-
versies. Justice Marean. of Brooklyn. in a in
volving the damages to agricultural lands Long
Island by reason Of the draining OF water there
from by the pumping system employed in Brooklyn
the of the public water supply,
castcally remarked that he did not what basis
the plaintiff could have for asking for damages in
the of s75050 when 1t conceded that the
farm from which the water was taken worth
only $500 In reply to the contention of the
plaintiffs counsel that there were certain legal
precedents which. IL followed, would allow the
plaintiff to recover such sum. Justice Marean
marks:
in support of the specific views which I have ex-
pressed. 1t is enough that they must commend
considered In some quarters that judges should not
hR any sd more re-. on s tne own that they
libraries in search of what other judges in a less
mediate question in hand but upon some me matter
more or less distantly related 1t is thought be
living well of reason. instead of being content to
lick lick up from the muddy trampled earth around it
so the science of law. which was once deemed the
perfection Of human reason. is being left behind by
every other science.
Instead /, damages In the sum of $4,000 as
claimed. Justice Marean gives the plaintiff nominal
damages only. (see Reisert agt. City of New
1oTR, 80 MISC report, 4l3)
Presiding Justice Van Brunt, Of the Appellate
Division Of the First Department. has expressed
somewhat similar views. in a less direct manner,
however In determining the suficiency of the
affidavit to procure an attachment where the dam
ages which the plaintiff claimed were unliquid ted
Justice Van Brunt remarks that the Code of Civil
Procedure distinctly requires the affidavit to show
the damages. and that this means merely that
the plaintiff must alege he has suffered damages
but must state such facts will allow the court to
determine from the affidavit itself whether not
on afe b pant f is entitled & to The language
be clear and explicit but. In these days case
law, when no statute seems to have obligatory
force until some court has decided that il means
what IL says. ii may be proper cite authority
| IN support or the construction OF the language of
the code which 1t manifestly demands" (See 62
Appellate Division 262)
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
HONE NEWS.


PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.
ALBEMARLE-J. J. ,Windward, United States
Naval Beard of Inspection of Washington. CAM
BRIDGE-Professor j. II. Howard Bes of Glas-
cow. GRAND-Coonel w. C. Garges. U. S. A.
MANHATTAN = Captain Lewis Bayly, r. N,
British Embassy. NAVARRE-Captain l.. S. Up
ton u PARK ca,nt J. ans Nc
SAVOY-The Rev. Hugh Black of Edinburgh.
WAI.DORF-The Duke OF Moatellano IF Paris;
Captain w r. Blindloss. of England.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23

| in London. Samuel Cowan being the au
| thor He points out, among other Things tha'
Elizabeth had little to complain or IL mary
| did plot TO put her out Of the world; ne oe-
! clares that there is reason to suppose that the
English Queen and Moray had all but conciuoeo
terms for privately numbering the queen OF
Scots The scheme is referred to In letter
in the Record Office by Sir Francis Ensieneio
to the Duchess of Feria an Engllsh woiiiai'
The scope of the letter is that Mary was 10 pe
handed over to Moray; that during the night
she was to be put on board ship at brisloi'
and that when they got out to sea the snip
was to be scuttled and the Queen droWheo'
means of escape being provided for the olheiS-
Mr. Andrew Lang's book on queen Mary
is nearly ready for publication. 1t is SAID
that he has found materials hitherto unknown
to historians which throw an entirely ne"
light on the case against her. These consist
of the manuscript used by her accusers IN get
ting this
NJ Othon Guerlac, who has been In this couh-
try for several years as American correspondent
of the Temps" Of Paris, is translating Booker
T Washington's autobiography into french.
Though the translation is not yet finished, the
publishing rights in France have been placed
with the house OF Plon. of Paris The pub
Usher and translator express a belief that the
story of Mr.. Washingtons remarkable lie VIII
arouse as much interest in France as 1t mas III
England where it has attracted conslderaoie
attention
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
Notice of dissolution.

STATE OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE
- SECRETARY OF STATE This Certificate is
duplicate hereby certihes that the Broadway The
ntre Company domestic corporation has filed In
this Once eleventh OF September 1901
for voluntary dissolution OF such corporation under
Section - q Stock Corporation Law. that IL
thereom that such orporaon has complied with
said section in order be dissolved.
Witness the seal Of office OF the Secre-
tary OF State the city of Albany. this eleventh
(SealD day or September. thousand nine hundred
JOHN T. MDoNoUGH. Secretary State.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY.

Antirammany conference county and borough offices
IL a.
Medical Society. No II West Forty-third st.
evening.
Republican club No. 45o ETfth-ave.. s p. m.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
NENy-YORK CITY.

John Bradley, forty-five years DID, of No 747
Washing gton-st.. thrown from light wagon
while driving in Central Park yesterday. and re-
ceived severe scalp wound. His horse took fright
at automobile and away. throwing him out
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
new YORK CENTRAL

HARLEM DIVISION.
eOS A. as p SUNDAYS. m
PittsheId and North Adams Saturdays only. 2a5
p. NJ; Sundays only at Q ~ A. NJ.
Pullman Cars az through
Trains illuminated with Ptntsch Light
Ticket Offices I1o. .st, AZ and '21S Broadway =
Union So w. 2z5 Columbus Ave. ISS West 125th 81.
I25th ST and iSSrh Stations York: sSS and 1c3
Fulton St. and 1oS Broadway z d. Brooklyn.
Telephone 200 3sfh Street. for New York Central
Service. B-egage checked from hotel residence
Westcott Exnress Company.
p. s RLODGF,TT GEORGE H. DANrErs
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
ERIE RAILROAD.

Through trains New York foot Of Chambers 81.
as follows and minutes earlier from W 23d ST.:
900 a. m Dqily.-Sod train FOR Buffalo Art. D. N
Binghamton. Waveriy, Enira and Bradford Coaehss
parlor car and cafs dining 20 Buffalo
a m--Daily except sundays. 10 Bingharnton.
OweGo. Waverly. Eimfra and Delaware Valley Points
Pullman Car Daily Port Jervts and Moneeo
Pullman ParlOr Cars
train Chicago arriving 20 p m ART Ceveand ~ ga
m SIeepers Chicago Cleveland Cincinnati Dnirg Ca
80 . m Daily Buffalo and Cleveland Express-Ar.
Buffalo Bradford 90. Jamestown 200 own
m Cleveland 12Sn Sleepers 10 buIlaIo
or cry and Cleveland Cafe
o.IS Daily Solid train for Bingharnton Naverls'
Emira Seepers Buffalo. Chicago Cincinnati
Dining Car .~--> r,-rr,,,y
= ACCOMMODATIONS At III. us: 26l SSs and LOS
broadway I5T Fast r25th St and 2lS West l2ltn .;
chanoberS and 3Sd ST ferries New York SSs ana
Fulton 9S Broadway. BROOKLYN; u RIver -.
TTo5oken Jersey Citv Station New YORK transfer
Co calls and checks baggage TO destination
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23

ADVERTISEMENTS and suescripSns io5 30 me donn'
"a door of 3lsts until o'clock q m: advetss
following branch onces at regaar
nniee rates until viz "a sth-avs: e
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ard Columbusave. near West ooth-st: loo
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Sth 159 East 11th-st. 1aS
Sd-ay, hs<ween 7Sth and 77th sta: 1.02s ad-AvA
New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
The HilICrest
IN r5a,thed Cathedral 10TH ST.
Columbia University
Apartments of 9, 10 and II large Sunny
Rooms and Baths.

beautiful light foyer nth handsome fireplace IS at
the entrance of each apartment The paflors prares
and dining be thrown into SUITE thus az
fording for the entertainment OF guests
hardly eqnaled by the private house no DARK OF
The libraries deliberately finished in rich
mahogany, parquet floors Louis XIV mantels' and
have large bay Window..
The dnirg finished in dark quartered OAK
with oak floors and beamed ceilings In the wainscotnS
large pictures inserted which, with
sive mantes and leadeo glass easement windows make
the in rich. harmonious effects
The bedrooms large corner rooms
walnut and have open hre-
places. closets abundant mirrors
An especially attractivn feature is the bathrooms,
which completely equipped in solid porcelain. all the
fixtures plur1bing being Cf the most modern type
The servants rooms, bath~ and toilets are larger and
better than the -esdence
An sterd2m within Few ieet OF the
building.
Rents s1.4lo o 81, 200.
SLAWSON q HOBBS. Agents. 2S4 Columbus av
REPRESENTATIVE PREMISES.