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THE HEALTH OF THE CAR.

The brief but positive statement concerning
the health Of the Emperor and Empress of
Russia, which in press dispatches is attributed
to the American Ambassador at st. Petersburg,
will be received with general and unfeigned
pleasure in the United States, where rumors
OF a different character have recently been
much in circulation. The latter reports, most
painful and ominous, have been clrcumstantial
and persistent, so that it has been difficult for
even the most conservative readers TO reject
them altogether, while at the same time it has
been impossible for even the most sensational
to demonstrate their entire truth. That is be-
cause Russia is, of all countries in contact with
the civilized world, the most difficult from which
to get the truth The limitations of the press the
exceptional hedging about of the imperial
court, the secrecy and the interestedness Of
those in authority. all contribute to maintain a
veil of mystery before the doings in the north
ern capital. In such circumstances a positive
and authoritative statement like that of Mr.
Towers is peculiarly informing and reassuring
1t is the more agreeable to know that the
Car is in good health because OF the deplorable
frequency of physical and mental ailments
among the sovereigns of Russia. DeplorabIe
but not surprising. Indeed, when we consider
the conditions of the imperial Office in Russia it
seems matter Of surprise that any one is able
10 enuuTe Iueul lot even year or tWo he
sponsibilities Of empire are burdensome in all
cases. Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown is truth of amplest confirmation. Es-
pecially is it true in Russia, because Of the
vastness OF the empire. and because of the alb
soluteness of the Emperors rule. We may add
that that absoluteness is the worse since it Is
nominal rather than real. It involves immeas-
urable responsibility without anything like
equal power. For, as we have often observed,
the Car is largely the slave of the traditional
Russian system" against which he struggles
in vain Alexander II strove to break that sys-
TEN, but was himself broken in the attempt
Alexander III chafed aud struggled against it,
but was crushed by il. Nicholas II doubtless
feels its letters keenly He knows that he is
blamed for things that are done and that he is
powerless 10 prevent or 10 modify. The gno-
rance and squalor Of scores of millions of his
subjects, the myriads that yearly die of famine
and plague like flies in a frost the sitting of
free speech and Of aspirations toward higher
civilization the betrayal and spolation of loyal
Finland. are all things which must soreIy af-
nict the mind and heart of that enlightened
monarch and kindly man, yet which he can no
more control TO his liking than he can control
the Neva in food time
Inc solitude of a super-civilized court in n
vast uhcivilized land must strongly tend tow
ara dark melancholy The incessant obses-
sion OF the remorseless Russian System must
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-28
At THE WHITE HOUSE.

Washington. Nov y CSpeciaD.-The White House
executive offices were deserted to-day. and every
thing quiet around the Presidents oHiciai
quarters that one of the White House cats was
tempted to spend the day watching holes and crew
ices in different rooms. Although the building Is
new. mice hate appeared. and the cat on duty TO-
day has caught several of the bothersome ittie ro
dents various times. President Roosevelt ala
not go near his Office but instead went with Mrs
Roosevelt and party of friends and relatives FOR
a long ride outside the city They left the WHITE
House in carriages before II o'clock and mounted
their horses in the suburbs, The party consisted OF
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, General Leonard
Wood, John Elicit, the Presidents cousin; Douglas
Robinson, the Presidents brother-in-law. and Rob
ert H NJ. Ferguson, who served with the President
in the Rough Riders. Another party for horse
back ride left the White House just before 1850
O'clock This consisted of Civil Service Commits
sioner John r. Proctor, Archie Roosevelt and Ethel
Roosevelt Archie rode his calico Shetland pony and
big sombrero, which gave him the appear
ance of a miniature cowboy. The little pony Is d
fine and Archie is accomplished rider.
The Thanksgiving dinner at the White House was
served at 72O this evening Those present were the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Senator and Mrs
Lodge. Mr. and Mrs Brooks Adams. Mrs c. Fl.
Davis and Miss Davis. Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Rob
RoBinso5ip Helen Roosevelt Miss roosevelt Miss
Robinson, j. h Oracle, Robert HI n. Fers IsSi
R 6eeeSgif Roosevelt IT, 'oHh r''''o'' anu '-
Mr. strachey. the Editor of The Spectator" of
London. and Mrs Strachey. who have been guests
of the President for several days. and Baron anu
Baroness Speck Won Sternburg left the White
The White House improvements are making such
satisfactory progress that there will be no nerfeE-
ence with the social programme or the winter.
done after January l. but the contractors expect to
have the work finished within another month A
Poro Of the Me Ronss Rthn last two
days The electric lghi Is OF sixteen eahTie ppTe'
which is hung from the ceili9g by huge eron NE
is of white ground glass. framed in copper bronze
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-28
TINE TO STOP.

Undoubtedly queer things happen in and come
out of Chicago, but in our opinion the time has
arrived for judicious persons to attempt to
draw the line and at least refuse to believe
statements which would be dismissed as utterly
ridiculous if they related to any other city of
the habitable globe. The fact is, there has been
for a good while considerable evidence of the
existence in Chicago of an establishment for the
manufacture of fantastic falsehoods about more
or less conspicuous residents of the Western
metropolis, and it is a curious feature of the
business that the line Of goods thus offered for
sale, and we regret TO say, snapped up at ex-
orbitant prices by the newspaper press of the
country, is largely educational. It is not sur
prising that centre of instruction should at
tract some eccentric practitioners of the art of
teaching but it has yet to be proved that the
proportion of such characters is greater in Chi
cago than it is elsewhere. Certain it is that
many Of the weird tales which have passed into
general circulation from that source have been
fatty contradicted on the highest authority,
while others have refuted themselves to the
satisfaction of every sane mind
Hereafter, therefore, in case Chicago pro-
fessor of literature is reported to have informed
his pupils that any woman who has divorced
her third husband because he insisted on wear
ing his wooden leg hind side in front can make
an enormous fortune in six months by raising
bricks on strawberry vines, advise the pub
lie TO reject the story at once. Or when 1t is
announced that the gentleman occupying the
chair of homiletics and the pastoral charge in
one of Chicago's educational institutions is will
ing TO bet all Corners that he can shoe a horse
and battle a baby at the same time without
turning hair. it will be entirely safe and emf
nenty proper to assume that he has been mis-
quoted. Or, again. If newspaper readers are
asked to believe that n professor OF medical
Jurisprudence, emeritus. has insisted on visiting
his old lecture room for the purpose of assuring
the class there assembled that he knows the
circle can be squared because a bareback circus
rider told him she had often done it with the
greatest ease between the acts, they will do
well 10 give him something more than the hene-
1T OF the doubt
These are mere examples Of the kind Of stuff
which the inventors and purveyors Of scandal
have been sending out from Chicago for several
years. That city is by no means above
proach. and people who live in glass houses
themselves are occasionally. justified In throw
ing stone or two toward the setting sun; but
it is time to stop giving encouragement to non
sense which has become stupid and looks ma
Iipio
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MUSIC
AIDA" UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

The first of Mr.. Graus extra performances at the
Metropolitan Opera House last night suffered from
a whole chapter Of accidents. First came the in
disposition Of Nine Louise Homer who was to
have sung and acted the part of Amnerts. but that
difficulty seemed TO have been overcome about noon
when Miss BrideweIl. who had learned the music
of the part and rs Nine. Home-s natural substi-
tue. undertook to sing il. notice that she would
do placed in the lobby. and it also
considerably announced that she would assume
this part for the first time. That the first sig
nal OF distress
Before the opera began Mr. Hirsch. who is Mr..
Grau's herald-at-arms in all emergencies. pro-
claimed that Miss BrideweI would require the in
diligence OF the audience. since she suffering
from a cold. Before the second act he appeared
again and announced that the ladys cold had
grown worse and that there would he excisons
in the scenes that were to follow. The excisons
were heroic. but they were necessary. for Miss
Bridewells effort to sing her first phrase showed
that the cold had brought with it all but total
tincton of voice The result to the drama was
dolefu in the extreme. There were evidences from
the beginning that the opera had been preclptated
upon the stage. but now lassitude and indifference
seemed seize upon all concerned. even the usual
" interchangeable Mancinelh. who was conducting.
There ominous lull in the proceedings.
for it was becoming apparent that Aida" without
Amners was about impossible Hamlet
without Hamlet
fourth announcement became necessary and
when Il made it obvious that the incubus
had been lifted. Nine. ManteI had been found.
and with her help the opera concluded-almost
triumphantly, indeed. The audience. than
fairly numerous, ready for anything that
would lift IL out of the dumps. and with Nine.
Eames. Signor Scott and Signor de march, filed
with fire in the so-called Nile scene. the dasco
transformed into an ovation. Thereafter all went
well. There the JOY which greets the re-
pentant sinner. and is greater than that over the
ninety and nine just persons who need repent
The excellent ability OF Nine. Eames Man
tell. De march,, Scott. De Reszke ami Gourmet In
Aida is known and under the circumstances this
record sufficient for the day.
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aenpDork DsliIu 9ribm,se
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER rs, 1902.
TEE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The German Chancellor has sue.
ceeded in effecting compromise on the 1dL ,I
bill by which prolongation or TIE CONNER Idi
treaties viii probably be secured. - lLS-Lss !
giving Day was celebrated by Americans ABROAD
BY dinners and various entertainments IN Lon
don Berlin and other capitals. - Inc genera
strike in Havana will PROBABLY be resumed 70
dsy: editors Of Ell Reconcentrado" are being
arrested for alleged sedition- - AmDassadol
White had his farewell audience OF 5iH 3Pe5oI
William, who presented to him the Goo MeoaL
Of the Empire for Science and Art - 1 ne
minis of Siam have been closed TO the free com
&c OF silver.
DOMFSTIC-Presdent Roosevelt. in a letter
70 q citizen of Charleston, S. C, regarding the
case OF DR.. Crum, the negro selected Tor COL
lsctor Of that port, announces that ne VIII i NOT
consider color q bar TO appointments 10 once
- Secretary Wilson ordered a quarantine
on cattle sheep and hogs in New-England. and
prohibited exports from Boston on account or
The prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease. -
Congress will be urged TO take early action 10
establish the gold standard in the philippines
- a statement was made public by Booker
T Washington to the effect that he was work
ing for the advancement of his race solely as
an educator, and not as politician -
Bloodhounds were put on the track OF burglars
who used dynamite on the safe OF MN IN
South Carolina, and got away with S5OOo ana
valuable papers. - Nothing was learned OF
the steamer Bannockburn, supposed to be lost
on Lake Superior and tugs went in search OF
her. - The University of Pennsylvania foot
ball eleven defeated Cornells team on Franklin
Field by score of u TO IL, after magnificent
rally in the second half; numerous other foot
ball games were played, the principal ones De-
ing in the West, where the University of Michi-
gan won from the University Of Minnesota, and
Chicago beat Wisconsin.
CITY.-The divorced wife OF Malcolm W. Ford
who killed himself and his brother Leicester, the
novelist. married to Joseph B. LeaVey,
sutton for her hand before her marriage. -
J. @. Phelps Stokes, the son of Arson Phelps
Stokes, said that he had decided to make an
East Side Settlement his home to quit being
selfish - Financiers asserted that George
J. Gould would become one Of the dominant fac
tors in marlborough as the result Of the Man
haitian merger, and expected that the new New
York and Port Chester road would also be ab-
sorbed. - An Austrian, after shooting
woman who refused his advances, jumped from
q seventh story window and was instantly
killed. 60 Food was offered 10 q starving man
IL the home Of Edwin Gould. in Fifth-ave., but
the sight Of il sickened him and caused him to
collapse - At the Grace Church Thanks
giving service the Rev. DR.. William r. Hunt
irgton said ne had sympathy with those who
rallied at the rich for not giving away their
fortunes in aims
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 40
degrees; lowest 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-28
NTCARAGEA.

There are many ways out Of the apparent
deadlock over the Panama Canal There are
only two which seem to be acceptable. The
United States might, Of course yield to all of
Colombias demands; it might let some Euro.
pean nation construct and control the canal; it
might abandon and abolish the whole canal
project; it might compel Colombia, with force
and arms, to submit to its terms. But not one
Of these courses is seriously to be considered.
Any one Of them would If adopted, prove per-
petual source of either embarrassment or re-
preach TO this country. There remain two hon
Orable practical and acceptable courses. One
is for Colombia 10 accept the just and reason
able offer of the United States, an offer which
we were given 10 understand Colombia was a
little while ago eager TO accept The other is
10 turn away from Panama altogether and con-
struct the canal AT Nicaragua.
Colombians will do well to understand that
proposition TO adopt the latter course would not
be what is called bluff but would be in
earnest, and they should also take into account
what il would mean TO them and to their coun-
try. The Nicaragua scheme is as old and as
practicable as that Of Panama. 1t has some
decided advantages over the latter 1t would
be little if any hardship for this country to go
10 Nicaragua, instead OF 10 Panama. Moreover
under existing legislation the President is fully
authorized. even directed, 10 adopt the Mica
ragua route if he finds the Panama route for any
reason unacceptable. Talk of Nicaragua is
therefore not idle. And the adoption Of the
Nicaragua route would be disastrous TO Colon
bia. AS a simple business proposition, to say
nothing OF diplomatic considerations, it is not
supposable that any one would undertake the
building Of a canal at Panama when the United
States was officially constructing one at Mica
ragua. The canal which the United States
builds viii be the only canal across any of the
American isthmuses, and if the United States
builds at Nicaragua, Colombia viii have no
canal at Panama or elsewhere on her territory
and viii have forever diverted away from her
the rich tide OF travel and OF commerce that
viii how through that highway.
There is some talk about Colombia's building
the canal herself, or selling the franchise 10
some other country. Considering the condition
Of Colombia's finances and the current rate of
exchange, we do not think she is likely 10 nm
dertske the job herself Nor, since France the
great canal cutter has twice In vain essaved
the task, does it seem probable that any other
European country will make a third attempt
In connection with any such ideas il is well IN
remember the legal relationship of the United
States TO the Isthmus of Panama and TO what
ever routes Of travel there may be across IT
The treaty Of 1916. under which this country
recently interviewed for the protection of the
Panama Railroad and its terminals, does not
apply merely to that railroad It would be
~-Eally applicable 10 any canal that might be
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be little short of maddening. However much
we may condemn the system, the world must
feel much sympathy with its VICTIM whether he
be moUjik or Car. The weary Titan" of Ar
nold's fancy is a fitting image of this individual
sovereign as we'll of an empire. Between
the Russian and the American systems of gov
eminent and social organization there is fixed
the widest of CULTS which not even sympathy
can span. But between the Russian Car and
every other chief Of state even the Presi-
dent of the United States, there is a close and
intimate bond of sympathy, so that all people
who Loyalty sustain their own chief. be he pres-
dent or king, must have regard and concern for
the welfare of the Gar He is a good and true
man, bearing burden almost too great to be
borne and altogether too great to be laid down
He is the supreme representative of law and
order in one of the most populous countries of
the world AS such he is an object of universal
interest and benevolent soicitude. and the news
of his good health is good news to all.
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TREAT TIE JUDGES FAIRLY.

The occupants of the bench in this borough
justly find fault with the unsatisfactory con-
ditions in many OF the coCrTooms. In the
white marble building in City Hall Park a
Tweed ring monument which cost the taxpay-
ers at least half score Of millions OF dollars
which were stolen outright the defects in
ventilation and In other provisions for health
and comfort are so serious that the wearers
Of the ermine have been compelled repeatedly
to make emphatic complaints, and year after
year it is found that the Supreme Court judges
suffer grievously in impaired health.
The Criminal Courts structure in Centre-st
is deplorable botch in many ways. Some Of
the jobs and schemes which were carried out
when the building was raised were fragrant in
the extreme. a committee OF magistrates has
plloried the Essex Market trial room as prac-
tically a public nuisance. and there are other
buildings in which the majesty of the law is
supposed to be upheld amid surroundings Of
meanness and squalor which are disgraceful
to county so wealthy this. The dignity Of
the administration of justice should never be
diminished. Manhattan should treat its Judges
with due consideration.
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provides, nothing could have prevented the
Democrats from sweeping New-Jersey. And so
now, while the legislative plans for the incom-
ing session are being discussed, it is timely and
seasonable TO give n thought to the possible
consequences-to take a glance ahead. Two
years from now New-Jersey will take part in
the Presidential election; it will elect Il Gov
ernOr and will choose a legislature to name the
successor of John Kean in the United States
Senate. To make easy and certain Republican
triumph all along the line in 1904 it is only nee
essary that the legislature of 1908 and 1904 shall
be governed and directed by firm, unfaltering
purpose to serve the interests of the whole peO-
pie in the most conscientious manner. There
must be no scandals, no deals, no buying or
selling of legislators 1t is during these two
sessions of the legislature that the platform
will be written on which the voters will pass
two years hence. Blunders may be prevented
now. but they cannot be mended then. And one
method of prevention is to put the best and
strongest men on guard; that accomplished the
rest should not be so difficult.
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amusrments-

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-sI0-The Ninety and Nine
AMERICAN TEEATRE-2-s-kIonappeo-
EEI.AsCo THEATRE-S-Du Barry
EIJOU THEATRE-S-I5-fhe MocslrE bre
BROADWAY THEATRE-S-The Silver shipper.
rAsINO-s:Is-A Chinese Honeymoon
CRITERION THEATRE-s-lris
CIRCLE THEATRE-s-AFtstocTacy.
rAIY's THEATRE-3-Ptsno Rectal-s;lo-A Country
rDFS NT-SEE-2-s-The World IN Wax
EMPIRE THEATRES 2o-Lmpr1denee
CARRIER THEATRE-S:2 5-The Stuboornness a ScF-
fzARnFN THEATRES :20-Anlong Those Present
HARIEM OPERA HOUSE-S-Ile second MIS- ian
HERkLD SQUARE THEATRE-s;l5-A Cigarette Max
er's r, nance and Rouget de Llse-
IRVING PLACE THEATRES :2e--Alt FelceioeIg. -
KEITH s. 1890 &. m. 20 1870 Q m-Conrhuous FeF
Torrance, -.,- = e,..,..,. rY,t-,es
MADTSoN SoUA ARE THEATRE-S:3 o--Avdrey:
NANHATTAN TEEATRE-s-Iary OF MaeoaIs
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE--o--LohensTlrl
sTFS-r1E-r SS7FTN TIAI.L--3-FTiawatha.
WFS 5SBOFNE'S LAYHOUSE-s:45-Fad ana Folly-
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-s-Merfy wives OF
KEW Savoy rHEATRE-2Io-s:2o-caTF and A
Country House. - A..
acknowledgements Performance -, ~.
PRINCESS THEATIsE-S.a1 ne Nlghl OF l+S +o''''
PROCTOR s-Continuous Performance. ,,.--,.-
NICHOLAS GARDEN-l and p uh'--oDS'DSr >
Great Animal Arena
1-JCTpRT IS l5-The Eternal City.
u-AIJ.ACF[-S THEATRES $0-The Crisis
VEST END THEATRE-s-Are You Mason.
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constructed there. no matter by whom. France
might build it, Colombia herself might build it,
the AkhO0nd Of Swat might build it; but the
guarantee of its neutrality would be vested in
the United States, and in the United States
alone. That was fully provided for half
century ago, and repeatedly since then this
country has declined, in the most positive man
ner TO admit any other nation to partnership in
that guarantee The policy Of this country, as
officially formulated long ago and always con-
sistently maintained is IAN American canal IN
der American control" It rests with Colombia
TO determine whether that canal shall be at
Panama or at Nicaragua