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New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

other fault to be noted is the authors curious
ro,6noes for the word "osseus." We are look
ing however not for faults but for signs OF
that power which, in some degree, Mr. Noili'
rossessed, and seek them lneFltapiy win
consciousness of his specific ambiuoh' INC 'oi,
position of a trilosy of novels Whlch "'uiu ~
..the story of a crop of wheat from li'e tilhe W
its sowing as seed in California TO the time OIL ITO
consumption as bread in a village OF "e''ti i'
Europe." The power is there. but not IN d ue
.-ro 70 iustifv the hypothesis that Mr. Norris
was a man of genius
To a certain extent he was handicapped "heii
he wrote the second volume in his series. ne
Octonus" gained a certain breadth ana force lioiii
..ho ,,or,- nature of the material out OF when II
,-,s composed 1t was written with sense VI
tho vast spaces and primitive freshness OF Tic
Californian wheat fields in the authof VI "'i'
Even his excessively Zoaesque desclip'N
method could not keep the SAVIOUR OF eie,n NC,
things out of his pages. and the passions ''e
e. ooIabrate possessed something of the raue
vitality belonging to their environment "
the scene of 1.-THE PITT all is changed ana huiii0
nature itself though at bottom AKIN 10 'n'
exploited in the earlier book, Is necesS@'iiiS
aned somewhat to the colors of the more arti-
fetal society in which it moves oiily III ''e
rreat crisis OF the tale. when JadWlns specu
1..;,,a fury is at its height does the sheer hesh
and blood of which Mr.. Norris was SO ioiiu
momentarily show through the fabric OF tue
novel We realize then, the difficulties Dy WHICH
he was confronted, yet we cannot but feel that'
after all allowance has been made, Inc Eli
is not in the least what it set out to BE- epic'I'
The surface storm and stress OF the Wheat iit'i
ket We are made to feel in fact no seem a'
times to be leaning over the gallery In the ooaAu
of Trade Building seeing and hearing the tumult
~ men fighting as the field or patue- IL
the spectacle were all wanted we "ouio po
we'll content with MIR. Norris. If the telnng oi
= story were all that was to be expected or hln
praise might be freely spoken. But we 'ahe
him at his word, looking to be neither amused
nor astonished but touched with an aoluihS
sense of the profound human interest running
through the development and disposition OF the
worlds supply of wheat. He makes oraFe
attempt to give US what we expect. Again anu
again he seeks to indicate the relation or the
Western farms to the Chicago market, and the
bearing which both have upon social conolliohs
throughout the civilized world He Is interest
ing so far as he goes, but as we close the oooh
we are convinced, reluctantly, that he has not
gone far enough that he lacked the creative
genius with which alone he might have hopeo
to achieve his aim.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

ness By his desire / telegraphed certain in
structions to Paris; and on going one day to the
country house where nv friend was staying,
with a letter which brought important news
about the Dreyfus case. saw him scan the mis-
siye hurriedy, then toss it aside. eXcIaInlng: II
does not interest me. There is not word in IL
about Pinpinp When. at last the news OF Pm
pins death arrived. Zola fell positively i'll An
attack of that angina of the heart. from which
he had suffered. and off. ever since 1919.
came upon him. and for some days was great
ly alarmed to the possible result
There is trouble in the Virginian Norfolk be-
cause on the cornice of the Carnegie library
to be the names of Virgil. Homer,
Emerson, Whittier. Lowell, Longfelow. Haw-
thorne Irving and Bryant. Where, asks the
citizens, the names of writers of the South
land?-an it is intimated that it will be better
to have library at all than to submit to this
exclusion.
volume of wit and Wisdom from Edgar
SaltuS" has just served to introduce English
reviewers to a New-YOrk writer. whose lam
guage one of them mentions as a thing of occa-
sional briance and invariable cIeverness-
Flora Annie Steel. the novelist has entered the
ranks of journalism, having become member
of the staff of The Saturday Review. of Lon
don She intends to contribute a weekly article
social matters-articles which, the first one
proves, will be worlds away from those in
which Mrs. Lynn Linton made a sudden repu-
tation for herself and the Saturday" Does
anybody in these days know the book in which
the Girl of the Period papers were printed?
1t is doubtful.
One man at least now lives who knew De
Quincey-and only one. 1t is believed This is
Professor Mason. who has lately celebrated his
eighty eighth birthday.
There could be no more striking testimony to
the folly of the biographical craze of the day
than the fact that two separate memoirs of the
late Lionel Johnson are in course of preparation.
This young man was a clever but not at all an
extraordinary critic; he wrote q good deal of
treSome verse and little that truly (but
not greatly poetic and various friends were
fond of him. But there be found in his
career and his work no possible reason for the
production of even one biography. Why. we
wonder mediocrities celebrated In this
fashion? Perhaps because other mediocrities
at loss for subject upon which they can
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

ing. in alphabetical order, thirty names OF the
sixty subscribers to the gift, and those of the
newspapers which they represent The statu-
cite is in pure silver. The partially draped
figure holds a pen in the right hand and a
lantern and sheet of paper in the left. She
stands on map of the world The bust is
nude but over the heart is a massive breast
plate. Indicating that she does not allow senti-
ment to interfere with duty. The lower part OF
the robe, which descends from the waist, is
entwined with telegraph wires. e. l. H.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
N4POLEON'S FIENDISH HAND

MR.. ANDREW Lang EXPLAINS WHY THE GREAT
MAN FAILED AT WATERLOO
From Longman's Magazine
Na,o1aon according to Alexandra Dumas, lost
such battles as he did lose because he wrote
such a fiendish hand. His generals could not
read his notes and letters typewrltlng htd not
hoen invented and the trembling Marshals,
afraid of disobeying, and striving to interpret
the indecipherabie commands, lotered wan
dered, and did not come up TO the scra'cH, VI
not to the right scratch. Thus Waterloo was
lost Cannot you fancy GrOuchy handing round
Napoleon's notes on that sanguinary Sunday /!
ct cav +" cries the Marshal 10 his aide -de-Camp,
.is that word CiembIoux Wavre? Is this
Bliicher or Bulow?" So probably Grouchy tossed
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
". DE BIO W1IZ.
THE TESTIMONIAL RECENTLY PRESENT
ED TO HIM.

Paris January 10.
On January 1, 1903. NJ. de Blowitz, who for
thirty wears has represented in Paris THE Lon
don Times retired TO private life. Sixty of his
colleagues on the foreign press in Paris cele-
brated the occasion by offering their still alert
and versatile dean a testimonial in the form OF
a silver statuette of Journalism Enlightening
the World" The sculptor Carabin to whom the
commission was given has produced a figure
which is strongly modelled and produces an ad-
mirabe impression
The pedestal, which is of onyx, has three sides.
On the front there is small tablet with the in
scription, in French: 'To Monsieur de Blowitz,
Paris Correspondent Of The Times 1S72-19O2"
On the other two sides are plates each contain
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
THOMPSON, H4STER OF TRINITY.

From Merivale's Recouections
He was walking with the author one day AZ
Kissingen when a befurred and most disttn-
guished looking parsonage passed them ana
saluted the Master with a courteous freedom
Just what / saying. DR. Thompson re-
marked when he was gone. "You and / couldn't
have done il like that. Superiority without pat
ronage. So thoroughly affable-" What Is he
/ said "a Russian nObIemanT' No: hes TuJ
courier
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Zola was particularly fond of dogs, and his
fayorfte THE Chevalier de Perlinpinpin,"
little Pomeranian, for nine years saw his master
write all his books. He delighted in lying on the
writing table watching the busy hand until ne
dropped off to sleep; and if he happened to lie
on a document which ZOla needed to consult 1t
was drawn from under him with the tenderest
care in order that the nap might not be short
ened Sad was the ending of the CheVaiier
When his master went to England during the
Drevfus case the dog had to stay in France
the stringent British regulations excluding for
eign dogs. WhereupOn, separated from his be
loved master poor little Pin2in sickened and
mined away ''Zola was greatly distressed" says
Mr.. VizeteIly, when he heard of the dogs ILL
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
A LAUREATES CLOTHES.
From M. A p.

From M. A p
One of the stories related by Mime. Moore IN
her interesting lecture is good enough to be
told and it also makes one ponder on the awful
possibility uggested-namely, an army of minor
poet laureates. Once, when TennysOn went to
dine with Sullivan, his wide-brmmed felt hat
and long, flowing cloak greatly impressed
servant at the composers house. At the end of
the evening" when TennySon had departed she
gave vent to her feelings. after asking whether
that was really the poet" in these words.
well! he do wear clothes"' Eyes, do most
poets." answered Sullivan. And then you
must remember that he is the Laureate" The
girl thought it over for few minu IS, doubt
cogitatng on his official position. b fore she
marked with sigh, What a uniform
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Mr. Kipling's home in South Africa during
some weeks to come will be the house which in
the past was lent to him by Cecil Rhodes NO
other modern author spends much time in
travel as Mr.. KipIing, and great should be his
stores of observation of human nature.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18
LITERARY NOTES.

IT is again reported that TOlstOy is very III
on Christmas night, indeed. it was thought that
he could not rally. The action of his heart Is
exceedingly weak.
His work in the fields, with bare feet and a
hoe, has not apparently added TO the noVelSt
strength 1t was picturesque thing-but what
earthly good did il do?
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

diIate and that kind Of writing Is the easiest os
all. IL advertises the biOgrapher and II mar
catch some pennies.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Joseph Chamberlain appreciates the fact that
caricature sometimes means for man IL pubic
life a not undesirable public attention. and he
once sent one of his most persistent caricaturSts
his photograph, with this inscription on the
back: From the real Chamberlain 10 the author
of the fictitious Chamberlain.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Among the forthcoming books of the Lippin-
colts is Mr.. Vance Thompson's novel called
"Spinners of Life" 1t is story of New-York
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Mrs. Wards new novel by the way. Is ia
course of publication in the Revue des Deux
Mondes" under the title, of course, OF La FTle
de Lady Rose Paul Bourgeois story, "Un-
Divorce is also announced by that periodical
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

THE persons who sneer at public success
said Mr.. Hall Caine not long ago. ARE wallow-
ing in the backwater of their own incom petence"
WhereupOn lively Master Punch" sang thi,
song "Of Critics
When carping critics preach and prate,
Ard when they try 70 tell US
That grea tness is not really great.
We know what's wrong: they re jealous.
Their sight is crossed; to men of sense
II must quite clearly follow
That in their Incompetence
They wallow-
And when I see such fellows write
Their vitriolC pages
All filed with Jealousy and spite,
The wrath within me RACES.
Their criticism is absurd,
And their pretensiOnS hollow.
They cannot judge us-in word
They waliOw.
What right have they to think they know
Real drama? Could they ever
Compose Eternal Cities2 No!
Or even Hamets? Never,
The sickly offspring of their brains
The public would not swallow.
And since they cannot be all Gaines.
They wallOw.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Mr. Robert Chambers. the author OF Car
dfgan,' is still pursuing his plan of writing
history of the American Revolution IN the form
of fiction He has calculated that his scheme
will be complete in four books. the first and see
ond of which already published-"Cardigan'
and "The Naid-at-ArTnS-'
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

Quncey-and only one. 1T is believed This is
Professor Masson. who has lately celebrated his
eighty eighth birthday.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-18

William Morris's "Red House at Bexley has
Just been sold for S14.250. 1t seems a small
price when one remembers that the house con-
tains wall paintings by Burne-Jones- and beau
tifuI stained glass windows and furniture de-
signed and made under Morris's own super
vision.
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&. S. HOLMES, Proprietor.
New and elegant IN ali its appoint
ments; 80 rooms. single and en- suite; y
rooms with bath.
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I
CAN FLOAT A
BATTLESHIP IN
ONE OF THEM

seven miles. the greatest breadth Of
Inc eastern portion four miles, and the
area ninety-one square miles The
surface is generally rocky and rough.
The highest point. Devils peak, is 2.407
feet above sea level.
The shores are irregular and indented
with a number Of small bays but gem
orally bold Either by some great up
heaval. or BY the wearing of the wa
ters for many ages. great caverns ex-
tending far into the bowels of the ISL
and have been formed. III lis said that
there are not fewer than fifty of these
caves.
One OF them is about a mile from
Lady's harbor. The enrasice is through
an arc perhaps twelve feet high and
scarcely ten feet wide. Not far from
the entrance the cave widens. and we
soon found ourselves i'm a great. ST
lent cavern, the walls of which, as
we could see for a short distance from
the archWay. presented variety Of
splendid and beautiful colOrs.
We continued on until we had TOWed
in some 200 feet The opening at the
entrance had then become hidden by
intervening walls. and we were I'm
darkness so intense that we could see
absolutely nothing. Having nothing but
matches with Which to produce light.
we then turned back.
The famous Blue Crotto Of Capri is
only 155 feet In length and 100 feet in
width. The cave above described
though one of the smaller ones Of San
Ia Cruz island. is much larger than
this most noted Of Capri's caverns.
Headquarters of Pirate.
Valdez's Cave is so called because it
was once, according to local tradition,
or a. -
and smuggier named Valdez. Long be-
fore the place was a favorite resort for
Indians. 1t is rumOred too, that in
recent years smugglers have made use
of this cave as a stOrehOuse and stop
ping place for their transportation
business. Cinnamon have also some
times found il a convenient stopping
place while seeking to evade the eX-
clusion law.
1t does not need tradition or romance.
however, to give interest to the place.
Just above the surface of the water
there is an opening cut far back into
the rock thus forming n broad, shell
tered retreat with a good landing
place in front. From this spacious
shelter in the rock a great archway
or tunnel extends entirely through a
projecting point of rock to the opposite
side, where it opens out again upon the
sea beside great, rough walls. Fisher
men often stay in the cave sleeping
on the smooth, sandy slope Of its floor.
No tent or other covering is needed.
The Arch Rock is another exhibition
Of natures carving that would be ia
NOUS were it generally known and
easily accessible to travellers. Like
great flying buttress nOtched at the
top. 1t projects into the sea, leaving an
open passage under it through which
a good sized vessel could sail.
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GOOD WORK OF REPORTERS.

IT is HARD for man to die without
leaving some thread which can be
followed IN such a manner as to dis
close his identity On the night Of Dec
a man was found in a hotel room in
Newark. y. J., with q bullet through
his brain. He had left nothing by
which he could be identified. All the
marks were cut Off his clothing and de-
stroyed. 10 letters or other papers
were found by the police when they
searched him. There seemed absolutely
aothing by which the suicide could be
raced.
After the police had given It up a
newspaper reporter took up the case.
tn a corner where they had escaped
observation. were found the fragments
of a photograph. The pieces We're very
small but at last they were all found
md pasted together. The result was
q likeness OF a young woman. But TO
show how thoroughly the suicide
worked out his plan OF conceaIment.
The name Of the photographer was
scratched or the patched-up photo
graph
with this as the sole clew the re-
porter started out. Newark is city
Of nearly 100000 inhabitants. 1t con
taiue number Of factories where
cards on which photographs are
mounted are made. The reporter be-
San round Of these factories. with
in twenty-four hours he found the
factory from which the carbon on
which this particular photograph had
been mounted. wac sent out. Then he
found the photographer who had gotten
the card. The photographer identified
the picture as that Of young woman
customer. The rest was easy.
Two days after the reporter began
his work the name Of the suicide and a
story of his life were published broad
cast. Through the energy and the
shrewdness OF the newspaper man the
desire 90 the suicide for secrecy was
frustrated. This sort of thing hap
pens very much oftener than many
people imagine. Police departments
have time and again, if the truth were
known, been given great public credit
when their work was done for them
by the newspaper men.
The name Of the reporter rarely be-
comes well known outside Of HE own
immediate circle, but he rs satisfied
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DING nrb beneath the rocky III But mos -1- =

II INTENDING far beneath the rocky
hills Of an island of the coast Of
California is a cave into which
the battleship Oregon could enter for
hundreds OF feet and still have ample
loom for her masts and beneath her
keel How far small boat could go
no man knows.
This big cavern is in santa Cruz
island, twenty-five miles out in the Pa
cifc ocean from Santa Barbara Few
persons visit the island. Tt is used to
posture sheep and its owners OBJECT 10
trespassers.
Once a year some Mexicans and In
dams are sent over from the mainland
10 shear the hocks ana care for the
wool, and nearly every year a little
party Of men goes over from Santa
Barbara to capture some OF the seals
which abound there for shipment 10
zoos. A few fishermen, mostly Jap
anese, make occasional grips 20 fish or
gather abalOne shells. Beyond these,
visitors are very rare. That explains
why the island and its wonders are
not better known.
About the island are remarkable
submarine gardens. The water is so
clear that when it is quiet and the
sun is bright, as it usually is, the bot
tom can be seen to a depth of fifty
feet or more The pictures that one
sees on looking down from the boat
are magnificent beyond description.
Where the water is deep one looks
down upon what seems like a forest
OF rare and curious trees of varying
cclors swaying 90 and fro, among
which are gliding beautiful and strange
fishes Of great variety. Brilliant gold
perch, emerald fishes, bass, aIbicore
yellowtail and many other varieties
varying in size from the tiny minnoW
to fish three or four feet in length
dart about or lie laziIy Tapping their
fins among the branches. The sun
shining down into this transparent wa
ter casts shadows from all these NOV
ings things, producing a Kaleidoscope
effect that is often almost bewiIder-
ing.
Beneath the water along the rocky
shores other equally splendid, but diff
ferent, pictures may be seen. Here
marine plants of most brilliant and
variegated cOlors-scarIet. purple. blue,
green, brOwn-cling to the rocks. while
mingled with the flowers are to be seen
great lazy Holsters, starishes, abalOnes.
sea cucumbers and occasionally an oc-
tOpus. 1t is doubtful whether at any
other place in the world, not except
ing even Santa Catalina island. can
views of such marvellous beauty be
obtained.
Of Volcanic Origin.
But nature did not lavish all her
wonders on the marine life of Santa
Cruz. Even more marvellous are the
wonders that she has wrought in the
domain Of geology.
Although no craters have been found
on the island it is evidently of vol
canic origin. It is one of the project
ing SUBMITS of a nearly submerged
range of mountains.
w. A. Goodyear made a somewhat
exhaustive survey of Santa Cruz IN
1889. He reported it TO be twenty three
and One-half miles long, the greatest
breadth Of the western portion being
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nomena of the phOsphOrescence Of the
diamond, Mr.. GuStave lie Bon discoy-
cred a new method, and he claims a
sure one, of differentiating these two
gems. In effect he has proved that all
Brazilian diamonds after being ex-
posed to the light Of a burning strip
of magnesium, become highly phOs-
phorescent, while the Cape diamond
either did not phosphoresce at all or
displayed very weak inclinations that
way.
Two principal factors determine the
value of a diamond-its beauty and it's
thickness. It's beauty depends on its
limpidity or sparkling transparency,
ION its water in technical parlance,
on its color-the nearer 1t approaches to
a steel-white the better and on it's
cut; all these qualities cOndUce to its
brilliancy.
Its thickness reflects upon its weight
of course, which is measured by a pc
culiar unit called a karat, sometimes
spelled carat and always signified by
K or KIT, from kouare, q seed Of a
bush growing in India, that, because of
its characteristic of invariable weight
has, from time immemOrial, we might
almost say, served as the medium for
weighing diamonds.
This karat weighs a tride more than
One-fifth of a gram; to be exact, it
weighs just 40 Au4loA ANS OF ABOUT o.
grains. Small as it IS, it is neverthe-
less subdivided into halves quarters.
eighths, sixteenths, thirty seconds, and
even siXty-fOurths. Hence we often see
a diamond described on a card as
Weighing /, y, lie, 1872, instead Of
1 1892 X; which goes to show with
what exactitude the commercial
weight of the diamond is calculated.
Stones Of less than 5 K. are called
current stones. those above X, not
exceeding 20 X, are large diamonds,
and those over 20 X. are exceptional
New York World.
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HOW TO TEST DIAMONDS

commonly denominated "off color, 3"
furnish the greatest variety Of shades,
and some of them exceed in beauty all
other stones OF that shade.
Specimens Of canary cOlored dia-
mOnds are by no means rare. They
may almost be said to be common. A
pink or rose-colored diamond is of
great value; and the red diamond, sur
passing the ruby in it's magnificent
colOring, is considered the most beau
tifuI Of all the precious stones, being
exceedingly rare. The one bought by
Paul, car of Russia, weighed ten kar-
ats and cost him $500, 900 francs. A
perfectly black diamond is almost as
rare as a red one.
For beauty the blue stones come di-
rectly after the red diamonds. Those
respect resembling the sapphire are in
deed most beautiful gems, differing
from the sapphire only in quality and
by the magnificent fiery cOlors peculiar
to the diamond. The only true blue
diamonds come from the mines in In
dia. The varieties of green are not so
rare as the blues, reds, blacks and
pinks. but those Of grass green hue Ike
the beautiful emerald are seldom found.
Where they do exist, however, they
surpass in brilliancy the finest emerald.
There are several specimens Of green
tinted diamonds in the Museum Of
Natural History at Paris. but the best
known specimen is safely guarded
among the Saxon treasures at Dresden,
where It is considered one Of the seven
wonders Of the world as regards
stones.
In place Of the Brazilian diamond
which Of late years has become quite
scarce, Cape diamonds Of much inferior
value and brilliancy are often sold. To
be able to distinguish between these
gems is an accomplishment possessed
by the few.
In his study upon the curious phe-