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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11

his dislike for writing causing him to postpone
the task of preparation until after much of his
material had been borrowed and used by other
authors. The unstudied account of his expert
ences, edited for this volume from his private
letters and diaries, is, If less valuable In the
archaeological sense. uncommonly entertaining
in its pictures of life and travel In Greece and
Turkey at the beginning Of the nineteenth CEN
fury.
IL was then difficult and dangerous thing to
Journey In Turkish territory. The Christian was
continually exposed TO suspicion and outrageous
insult. and often to violence Cockorau r,oda
iiiahy shetcheS or palaces in Constantinople
and never in any certainty of safety He ad-
mired the marble fountains and the summer
residences-the Turks seemed to him to be the
only people who properly Appreciated 49,,
sunshine and fine view: but he found ,bo,, h,,
little characteristic architecture and no soo-,o,
their interior decoration "in the old Erao,
crinkum-crankum style" AS for the neo,,
they were not without their virtues i'm his evas
At the end of n day passed in entertaining :,
Turkish gentleman the EngIishman SET aor
these reflections:
/ cannot help feeling that as n contra,, .,
what L am accustomed to. there was sometbino
very fascinating about him. 1 have been usaS
to see men slaves to their affairs ill waarirr
themselves with work when they possess evars,
requisite OF life. and not knowing how to enjoy
the blessings their exertio1s have procured for
them, whereas here a " no calmly on
joyed what he had, doing his best to- make him
self and those around him happy. With any
hut absolute pauperS, contentment is the com
mon frame Cf mind in this country. The moor
tradesman I'm the bazaar works his hours of
business and then sits cr0ss-legged on his shop-
hoard and enjoys his pipe like an emperor.
There is no mean Cringins for patronage. The
very porters in their services have an air of
cundescension and never seem TO feel infe-
Iiority. The climate, of course. has "A great
deal to do with it, one may sleep In the open
air most OF the year. and If one does little work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11

q hit OF watermelon and slice OF bread dipped
in salt and water is an excellent repast-
The traveller soon passed over into Greece
and there gave free rein to boyish delight IN
its romantic scenes and classic ruins. His son
tells us that when the tomb Of Patrocius was
pointed out to the young architect he DOTTED MS
garments in his enthusiasm. and in imitation Of
Achilles ran three times round it in the guise
Of his natal day. From place to place he wan
dered with divers companies of congenial tSstes,
digging, sketching and measuring everything
ne could see in the way Of architectural re-
mains. a visit to the ancient temple OF <Eg1na,
a three hours sail from Athens through waters
infested with pirates. resulted in startling
discovery: ION the second day one Of the ex-
cavators working in the interior pcrtico struck
on piece of Parian marble which. as the
building itself is of stone. arrested lis atten-
ton 1t turned out to be the head Of helmeted
warrior perfect in every feature IL lay with
the face turned upward, and, as the features
came out by degrees. you can imagine nothing
like the state of rapture and excitement TO
which we were wrought" Continued effort
brought to light sixteen statues ard a great
many fragments, all in excellent preservation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11
PROSPER MERINEE.
anecdotes ApropOs of His Centenary.


Paris correspondence. The Pail Mall Gazette.
When in Southern Spain. about three "eeAS
ago. L happened TO be travelling with a naval
officer who knew that part OF the country "r-.,
and he drew my attention 10 a small vllA5e' h'I
very far away from KOnda. at which. II Appears
was born the ex-Empress Eugene. 10 vas
wild sort of place, most UnintereStinS. and the
only things that seemed to be in abundance were
olive trees. The castle where the Empress vas
born. and which is a mass OF ruins. was
situated at the top of steep hill. and for mines
around there seemed to be no sign OF any grass
or fruit trees. which are so plentiful IN th't
country IL was at this place that Prosper
Merimee Is first supposed 10 have become 1c-
quainted with the eX-empresS. her sister and
father. The story goes that the acQuairtInce
was made on the top of a diligence. when the
COmte de Teba and de MOntijo was accom-
pdnyinS his two young daughters Plc. and
Eugene, on i return journey from the neishcor-
ing village
The cOmts and MerirnSe soon became friends
and as there was no good hotel in the district
the author was invited to the castle. where be
stayed for several weeks. After this encounter
Merimee for ever remained the friend Of the
house." and il is said that it was he who dc
tated to Eugene all those ardent love letters
which she wrote to Napoleon Ill
With the exception OF the MOntffo family
Merimee had few real friends. Henri BeyIe once
said of him that he impertinent and alto
sether unpleasant. and had a menacing and
cruel expression George Sand. on the other
hand. while acknowledging that he had a GER
tain "sans-gene'' disposition declares that at
the same time he was OF such n jOvial character
,nat ne made her feel ten years younger each
time she him.
Undoubtedly Prosper Nerinse was one OF the
most renowned men at the court OF the Second
Empire Every day ne was to be seen at the
Tulleries. and the Franco Prussian War was
such shock 10 him that he died from its et-
fectS n very sad incident is related in Connec-
ton with his illness. The day before he died
ne insisted on being carried 10 the house of NJ
IhlerS, before HON he fell on his knees inn
piortnS him To save the Empress. M6rimSe nat
urally received but little consolation from NJ
Thiers. and was taken home unconscious. Seven
hOurS atterward he was dead. and the Empress
Eugene was flying to England escorted BY Dr.
Evans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11

Ali Pacha Of Janina was one OF the famous
personages to whom the EngHshrnan devoted
some interesting pages Blood-curdIing stories
were told Of the tyrant's crimes. but COckerel
found him to be a pleasant wretch-"he laughed
with so much bonhonie, his manner was 50
mild and Daternal. and charming In its air OK
kindness and perfect openness-' The report that
Ali was accustomed to see fifteen or twenty
heads cut off every day before breakfast the
traveller stoutly contradicts. and he recalls IN
praise of it's ruler the chaotic state Of the coua-
try before he conquered it:
No stranger could travel in IT. nor could The
inhabitants themselves get about Every valley
was at war with it's neighbor, and al were
professional brigands. All this Ali has reduced
to order There is law-fOr every one admits
his impartiaIity as compared with that OF rulers
in other parts OF Turkey-and there Is CON-
merce- He has made roads. fortified the Oor-
ders, put down brigandage and raised ALBANIA
into power of some Importance IN Europe
\ much less fortunate province was that OF
Veil Pacha, where the poverty was so great
and the taxes so heavy that villages were Aa~.s
to become bankrupt and pass into the hands of
the vizier-the land as his private property. tAe
people his slaves
-Four years the Englishuan spent in Greece
and the adjacent regions. and he began 70 long
for Italy. where he might pursue the studies
specially desirable for practical architect The
=
travellers and CockereH speedily found himself
in Rome and a disting Uished figure IN the arts
tic world The discOverer Of the 1kIsina Io-- ---s
was sought by princes and pOtentates, his ceal-
tiful drawings were the objects Of learned en-
thusiasm. Greece. as he tells US, was the fash
ion, and in those days her antiquities were now
elites. During a visit IN Florence, ne, WIN
BarthoIdy, the PrussiaH cOnsUl-general, deter
mined the proper relations Of the figures q The
''Nio5e." then regarded as 4 marvel. and q e.
vorite puzzle for art lovers to wrangle over
1T was Cockeren who measured the statues.
arranged them. proved the case and made the
etching which hangs to this day in the Nlooe
room in the UfHzi Gallery. showing the o.
rangement which he proposed"
A lion in Italy. COckeren shook in his after
life in England 4 more or less ambrOsial name
His drawing of the Forum ROmanum is one OK
his monuments. What his studies Of the noble
sculptures of Greece had done for his taste IS
vividly shown by this paragraph on CaHoy-,
penned in Rome in 1S14:
hope he will not be made too much OF il
England. 1t is true that nobody ever WOrN-i
the marble as he does. and it is this finish Of rs
which has deceived and captivated the Woril,
but it is nothing but artidclality and there Is
nature about it, When he attempts the
sublime he is IudicrOus. In seeking grace he IS
more successful: but after all. his Terpsichore
headdress is exactly the latest hair-dreSSe1s
fashion
Wise words. and the more TO be commended
written
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11

The new edition OF Hakluyt's Principal Ndvi-
cations. which Maclehose. OF Glasgow. recently
undertook To bring out. is IN press u nc
hfSt and second volumes will appear this month";
and the remaining ten will be published az IN
tervalS OF two months. This Is the eii,t'''
about which the publishers had some rather olt-
ter correspondence with the Hakluyt Society,
ending in an agreement To supply copies -
members of the society by special arrangements
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11
I'm OLD DIARY.
Greece IN the Last Century.

TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE
LEVANT. 1Sl0-1Sl7. The Journal of c. r. Cock
erell, r.: A. Edited by his son. Samuel Pepys
cockerell. Svo, PIP. 2S6. Longmans. Green & co.
Charles Robert Cockerell. the Of a sue
cessful English architect. himself an &C
complshed student of architecture and the kim
dred arts. His fathers belief in the developing
influences of travel led to the journey described
in this journal. A very small part of the Con-
tnent was open to the English tourist in the
period of Napoeonic warfare Travel in Greece
was, however, possible, and a current craze for
Greek architecture in England naturally carried
the young in that direction. An official
friend of the family sent him out as Kings mes
sengeT with dispatches for the fleet at Cadz,
Malta and Constantinople, and he did not see
England again for more than seven years. In
the course of his archaeological explorations he
discovered the we'll known AIgina marbles and
the Phigalian marbles, and forty years later he
published a book concerning these discoveries,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11
IN SORROWS HOUSE.
BY ETHEL CLIFFORD.

BY ETHEL CLIFFORD.
Borrow why is il dark within your house.
When grief is borne of love that is a name!
Light torches. Sorrow. Love will lose the way
And see not who shall call upon his name.
~Alas, What need have Love and 1 of light?
My heart holds darkness that no loren can
find.
Alas What need have Love and of light?
What torch can show the way when Love Is
blnd?"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
The Cocaine Habit.

Two important statements regarding
the use of cocaine have appeared with
IN the past few Gays. The first was n
note relative 70 the recently exploited
use or the drug as an anesthetic by
means OF spinal injection. The per
centage OF fatalities attending surgical
operations performed after this appli-
cation OF cocaine is reported such as
TO stamp the practice virtual failure
Following this report has come the de.
hunciation or cocainism as n growing
vice to be grouped with morphinism
ana alcoholism among the scourges of
humanity. DR.. Thomas ID. Crothers
mas mus proclaimed 1t TO the New
York School OF Clinical Medicine.
Cocaine is now to be obtained very
cheaply. Seventy-five cents will buy
an ounce in New York city. Five cent
packages are sold In the south and
west, according to DIR. Crothers. But
inexpensive as the drug is in packages,
the habit which calls for it is costly be.
yond compare. Health, mind and final
~ Ike Itself go to pay for the indul-
gence.
Like morphine, cocaine begins its
work with pleasant influences. Spirits
are made buoyant. faculties are bright
ened, imagination is stimulated. 1t
tnus becomes special tempter to writ
ers ana speakers. But there is an In
evitabie reaction, and at last there is
rum. The cocaine subject invites at
tention and an earnest search for ways
ana means to put an end to the seduc-
tive drugs destructive infuence.-New
York World.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
stolen caucro I.n,,,

THE sale of camera lenses is n com.
paratively new branch of the pawn
brokers' trade" said dealer in photo
graphic supplies, but q large number
from that source come to the trade to
be rehtted with shutters and flanges.
A good lens costs anywhere from 500
to $50, and is rs easy TO raise money
on as good watch. But you will no.
hce that the lenses you see in pawn.
brokers' windows are without the
hanges. That IL sure sign they have
been stolen. Very few sneak thieves
know enough to lift out shutter and
all, but they can get the lens and make
away with 1t by simple turn of the
wrist II man who owned camera
were to take his naked lens to n pawn
shop and say he owned II he would not
be believed, and would have to be con-
tent with the extremely small loan
usually made upon stolen lens.
Pawnbrokcrs are willing to take
chances with them, because the risk of
detection is almost nil and the profits
great when they make a sale. ANA
teur photographers who know their
business can pick up d good many
bargains In the New York pawn
shops. New York Times.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29

Lillian Whiting touches the marriage
question Of the hour with no uncertain
note when i'm "The World Beautiful In
Books" she says:
NOW, IL marriage were q matter OF
gain or loss in the outward world of
affairs this might be set down as n
fine bit Of self sacrifice and delicate
generosity. But marriage is a sacra-
ment or it Is nothing, and II is only n
sacrament when mutual love. that asks
nothing that this world could either
give or take away, consecrates ii and
makes 1T holy. AS a mere legal con.
tract 1t is no moro sacred than any 9th
er legal contract. and the marriage
devoid OF that mutual trust and ten
derness and spiritual response that
would enable the two to take up their
lie together on barren island I'm
midocean and call 1t all Joy, that is
wholly independent OF the things of
this world because IL is OF the divine
realm and exists In another atmos-
phere than that OF trade or traffic or
society-tlle marriage not based on
this feeling is not sacrament, nor can
church or state make it So"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
rne FIrst GOOD F-ia.x

Inc Tour evangelists, it is pointed
OUT py Professor Hans Achelis OF Ko-
nigsDerg, agree that our Lord died on
FRIDAY, and according to st. John the
gay was the 18th of the month Nissan.
when the Passover lamb was being
prepared; but according to the three
other evangelists Christ had already
partaken of the Passover meal and
was cruciied on the first day of tbe
Fassoyer-that is. the 18th of the
month Nisan. The year is nowhere
mentioned, but it was during the gov
ernorship Of Pontius Plate. who was
appointed In the year 26 and removed
just before Easter in the year SO.
from the material supplied to him nv
the Astronomical Institute Prorossnr
Acneiis found that during these ten
years the 10Th OF Nissan never fell! on
q Friday, but that the 18th of Nissan
fell on Friday twice-namely. accord
Ing to our reckoning, on April g. in the
year 30, and April 3, in the year ar
The precise data given In Luke III and
the fact that the stateInent In John II.
~, could only have been made in the
year 27-2S prove that our Lords minis
try ended In the year 80.
from this agreement of astronomical
calculations with the Bible record wo
nave, concludes Professor Achelis. Good
grounds for accepting April 6 of the
year 50 or our era as the date of the
nrst Good Fridav.-London Chronicle.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
A WAITER ON TIPS.
Grutuities, He Says, Arc Taken Out
of sheer Necessity.

Grutuities, He Says, Are Taken Out
of sheer Necessity.
The bitter cry OF the victims of the
Tip nuisance" is loud in the land, but
the recipients of tips have usually
maintained naughty silence. Now
Mr.. James s. Stemons, a colored wait
or, explains their point of view in the
Independent:
Walters wages have everywhere been
reduced with the growth of tips, so
that the Upper is merely making good
the deficiencies OF the employer. But
or late there has also been a great de-
cline in the volume OF tips, so that the
waiter, underpaid and confronted with
the loss of his perquisite at the same
time, is flattened between the two rolls
of wringer.
In number OF representative hotels
and restaurants in different cities the
tips received by colored walters vary
from nothing at one place in Cleveland
to $1.50 day in New York. At the
best hotel in New Orleans they aver
age IS cents day. In Memphis they
are Z cents day, in Louisville 10 and
in Philadelphia from 40 cents to 81,
The usual range In the south Is low.
In the north the tendency is for the
best hotels and restaurants to employ
white walters. Where colored men are
employed they get much lower wages.
AS rule, colored walters draw from
$lS TO SD month In wages. and they
are lucky when they can get SIS more
in tips. In most restaurants the bulk
OF the business is compressed within
two or three hours, and 10 cents is the
prevailing fee. "In fact, it is only the
most aggressive waiter who manages
to average so much as so cents a day
in tips"
The recipient of this tip takes IL as a
matter of hard necessity-not because
he likes to. The author of the article
quoted worked for three years before
he consented to accept one, and then It
was forced upon him. But the tip will
stay until the patrons of hotels and
restaurants induce proprietors to pay
living wages. Such a movement, il
Mr.. Stemons may be credited, will have
the enthusiastic support OF the walters,
whose supposed exactions inspired the
virtuous resolves of the Antitipping
league.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
Pufcrinr Sermons

Frequenters OF the reading room OF
the British museum would be doing the
authorities favor IL they contrived to
keep quiet lookout for INSCRIPTIONS
persons who have recently been cutting
extracts from valuable books, says the
London Express.
This bad practice has been revived
after the officials had been congratu-
lating themselves upon stamping il
out. The books mutilated are In most
instances volumes OF sermons. Usually
whole discourses are pluclSed out. this
being apparently easier than the proc
ess OF cutting extracts, which would
bring knife or scissors into view.
On one occasion the text of a stolen
sermon Is said to have been Thou
shalt not steal" The sermons of
Beecher. Spurgeon, Stopford, Brooke
and Parker have been most in demand
by these thieving vandals.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
THE OPERATING MANIA.
Protest by N Medical Paper Against
Too Much surxerx

Too Much Surgery.
The Introduction OF ansesthetics, by
aid OF which the horrors OF an opera.
ton are reduced Go mere discomfort
or breathing a few times into a bag:
the extended use of hospitals and nurs-
ing homes, which has the result of re-
heving relatives and friends Of all the
trouble and all the disagreeabIe incl
dents OF an operation, and finally the
TACT that with modern aseptic methods
the scar left by it is often quite trivial.
have conspired TO make people regard
the ordeal with curious Indifference
and enter with light heart into ad-
ventures from which they would per-
maps have shrunk had they known a
little more. And where operations are
necessary all this is good 1t has to
be admitted. however, that there is an.
other side to the question
Partly owing TO the publicity given
10 operative work. partly to the fact
that the successful case Is apt to be by
no means retfcent about the adyan-
tages or getting the Thug over" and
partly to the fact that dead men tell no
tales. the public at large has come TO
look With unlimited and undue conf.
dence upon operations as way out of
every difficulty. deus ex machina
which can always be invoked to hurry
matters up should the treatment of n
malady prove little tedious. curl
Gus sort OF demand for operative treat
ment has arisen. People urge each 9th
er not to allow their doctors to daily"
with their cases, but 10 do something
radical and IL is to be feared that
sometimes, III the doctor does not adopt
this radical policy. or at least do some
thing that requires an annsthetic. they
regard him as "old fashioned" (the very
hardest thing that one can nowadays
say of any doctor and run Off to some
one else. This rs a kind of public sen.
timent which ii is by no means easy to
combat. The irresponsible chatter OF
the patients friends condemns the eau
tlous surgeon, while the unmeasured
praise bestowed by the same irresponsi-
bic authorities upon the occasional sue
cess of an adventurous operator leads
TO undeserved fame. AS we need hard.
ly say, the effect of all this must react
nJuriously upon the medical profession.
Some medical men, indeed. assert that
the evil consequences OF this mania for
operating have already attained con-
siderable dimensions. - London Hospi.
tai.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-05-29
BIG SANK NOTES.
Thousand Dollar nils Are Piept,fui,
but seldom sccn.

u
but seldom seen.
a New Yorker recently ,iropped n
$1,000 bill in the cabin OF = ferryboat
and had difficulty in attempting to re-
cover it because he could ROT remember
what its number was nor when it had
been issued.
This unusual case induced man
who is fond Of statistics 10 ascertain
just how many notes of such large de-
nomination there are I'm the United
States. What lie learned will doubt
less surprise his fellow citizens, most
Of whom have never seen anything
larger than 500 bill off the stage.
From figures compiled by the treas
ury department IL appears that there
was outstanding in the month of jan
uary of the present year S26,O35, 900 in
notes of 81 900 denomination.
Or the treasury notes of 1890 S564. 900
was outstanding in 81 600 bills, So, 600
was outstanding in national bank
notes In such bills, $40, 500 in gold
certificates and $156,OOO i'm silver GER
tificates, making the grand total 3d.
515,5oO. This would seem to prove
that there were outstanding, according
to the treasury estimates, on Jan. 81
last 73,515lA $1,000 bills.
How to account for the fraction at
the end is difficult except on the sup
position that one of the valuable notes
was accidentally torn in half by some
one who was in a great hurry to pos
sess it.
Most of tho paper money Issued by
Uncle Sam Is In the comparatively
modest $40 notes, and there are enough
OF these floating around through the
country to foot up the magnificent sum
of $40, 556,992.
Bills of the 50 size come next in point
of numbers, and OF them the treasury
returns give S349, 1904, 204 rs outstapd.
Ing. Coming next are the $50 notes.
and these amount to 1886, 53I ,566.
Silver certificates comprise n majority
or the smaller bills such as the ones.
the twos and the fives.
The treasury goes as high as $4,000
notes at times, but according TO the
latest returns there is only one issue of
these outstanding, while two issues of
notes for $1,000 are in existence.
More than half the tens are United
Suites notes, while national bank notes
and gold certificates make up the bulk
OF the twenties. Beyond the $1,000
limit there is practically nothing but
gold tes.-Philadelphia North
American.