New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-04


ent. that we wear ourselves out prematurely
According to Professor Metchnikoff, old age is
merely the consequence of an hypertrophy OF
the phagocytes. or white corpuscles. which haV-
ing vanqushed and devoured their natural enc
mics the microbes. are obliged to batten at last
for lack of food, upon the nobler organs or the
human frame" He would take issue sharply
with the psalmist on the question Of threescore
years and ter
From twenty to fifty a should live for
himself and his family; from fifty to one hun
bred for science and humanity and after hun
dred for the State. Honored, useful, in full pos
session Of all his faculties at six-score years and
ten. the graybeard of the approaching future
will be among the most enviabe of mankind.
For the fear of death is an alteration The
fact is that only one man in a million at pres
ent dies natural death. We should i've I'LL
40 years of age. A man who expires at seventy
eighty is the victim Of accident cut off in the
flower Of his days, and he unconsciously resents
being deprived of the fifty years which
Nature owes him. Leave him a little longer
and in due time he will desire to die, as a child
at dusk desires to sleep. The sandman Will
pass.
neat if odd and fearsome, little machine
has been sent us for inspection by the Ameri-
can Biogram Company. 1t is protected with a
ia BILE Of patents as long Homers catalogue
of ships, and as it appears, moreover, to be ex-
tremely complex in it's construction have
view 1t presents something Of the appearance
of a small barrel organ, cash register and stock
ticker rolled into one It is compactly arranged,
and with it's dress Of japanned metal and brass
nountings, with several nickel plated small
levers electric switches and ratchet adjust
nents looks fit to stand considerable wear and
tear.
BY the copious and exutant directions which
accompany this machine we are invited to col
lect a mass of letters, family records and memo
randa from some obliging friend, together with
any poems, plays, stories, essays and frag-
mentary notes of which he may chance to be
author, and put the invention to the test. "If
the directions be carefully followed" we read,
I'VE guarantee that salable biography can be
produced within twenty-four hours, Of any re-
quired number Of words. and in any one Of the
following styles; authoritative, exhaustive
gosspy, familiar, intimate anecdotic. philo-
sophie controversial For special kinds Of
work other attachments can be supplied to
order" The material is fed into a receiving
slot sheet by sheet and wound on a roller OPP
Grated by small dynamo, after which it passes
on into the unknowable inside The resulting
biography energies from the ticker after the
fashion of market quotations a tape. The de-
sired number of words and chapters set
dials at each side. and the style attachment
chosen is brought into action by making an
electric contact. After this the biogram requires
nothing from the operator but ordinary care in
watching proper feeding in supplying the
terial in chronological order. and the adjustment
of the period stops for infancy, childhood,
early literary efforts. love affairs full maturity
of genius, etc
The company says that these kilograms are
achieving great popularity among literary peo-
pie, and are in use in numerous publishing Of
fees in this country and abroad. We are dis
posed to take the company at its word.
James Lane Aliens long delayed novel, THE
Mettle of the Pasture" will be published next
Wednesday by the Macmillan Company It will
not be illustrated.
The Neale Publishing Company will transfer
their editorial and publication departments from
Washington TO this city next month Their
Washington building is at present being altered
but their engraving and stationery departments
will remain there. Most of the manufacturing
will still be done IN Baltimore and Washington
The New-York interests will be in charge of
Walter Neale. president, and the Washington
interests will be- in charge of the secretary, H.
S. Neale.
George Moore's untitled Field" we are told
was originally published in the Irish language
and afterward written in English. Mr. Moore
is at present at work upon a series of critical
studies in literature which will shortly begin
publication in Lippincott's
John Lanes Pocket Library Series. which al
ready contains The Warden" 'Barchester
Towers" and DIR. Thorne," has now had added
to it Trollope's "Framley Parsonage" Mr.. Lane
intends 10 publish more of TrolIope's novels OF
which there is a bountiful supply. and is now
selecting those he considers best adapted to re-
production in this series.
The Scribners have issued a rose mama,
called Roses for English Gardens" by Miss
Gertrude Jekyn and Mr.. E Mawley. The old
roses common in English gardens are described
and the new varieties for free pictorial use
The treatment of arbors is set forth, of bow
ers and pergolas and there is some discussion
OF disposition and arrangement, formally in
gardens and beds and free on houses and over
walls The book is illustrated
Paul Meurice pointed out the other day in
Paris that the gift to the city by the grandchtl-
dren and kin Of Victor Hugo of the house in the
Place des Vosges where he spent the most ac-
tive years Of his life designed to give
France a memorial similar to England's homo
Of Shakespeare and Germany's home OF Goethe
Allowances must be made, of course for the
requirements of formal presentation oratory.
But one cannot well help recalling Moliere.
and the fact that Paris boasts two houses un-
derstood TO be his birthplace!
Mrs. Van Worst. author of The Woman Who
Tolls" has added a successor to the old tale
Of the signpost which read so and SO MANY
miles 10 Such-and-such-W ick-if you can't read
the sign ask the blacksmith" Once upon a
time Mrs. Van Worst travelling along New