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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-24
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BOSTON. MY %. 10o3.-This city, the
birthnlace al Ralph Waldo Emerson;
Harvard University, his alma mater: and
old Concord tile home OF his mature
vears sre NJ In state Of intellectual ex-
element lis morning over the much
hera1ded yherson centenary which is to
be formalt opened to-day by the laying
or the cohcrstone OF Emerson Hall. In
Cambridgl destined to be the home of
the Departments Of philosophy and edu.
cation inIIInrvard University. The sum
OF $4,000, rs announced In dispatches,
was Completed several days ago. and
though he building will still be greatly
improve for its purposes III an addi-
tlonal 5000 can be raised. the work on
1t is to begin very shortly. The building
will stand between Sever Hall and Quin-
cy Street, opposite the new Architectural
Building. Professor Slaler's house will
be moved along towards President Eliot's
to male room for It.
STATUE OF EMERSON.
within the hall vii stand bronze
statue of Emerson b. Frank Duvcneck,
of Cincinnati. This, curiously enough
Will be the first mem'rial statue that mas
as yet been erected to Emerson any
where in the Boston community. though
1t is reported tfatPne by Daniel Ches-
ter French. scuptf OF the celebrated
Minute Man" OF Concord, may some
day be placed In re court yard OF tho
Boston Public Lirary. However that
may be, 1t Is probply true that Emerson
himself would lat, wished for no more
fitting tribute tim that Of having his
sculptured likenes In such school OF
philosophy as harvard Is now erecting
in his honor. iIIarvards Interest In,
Emerson Is naarnlly keen. for. though
1t Is a curious fct that the future scholar
did not think enough OF his bachelors
degree to takeit and pay the customary
fee. his life ater 1921. the year his class
was eraduate was closely associated in
many ways with the College In Cam
bridge.
Indeed, AFR his fame as thinker had
once gone broad, he was probably the
most talked,f Harvard Administrative
cd by most hisliked by Dew AS slippos-
cdly dangerous radical, but with a dislike
that by ID by became steadily less as
his personality and teachings became
better uderstood.
us FAMOUS GRAFTON.
Beyonl doubt the two most famous
orationj ever delivered at Harvard were
by EIrrson: one. his magnificent ora
ton bfore the Phi Beta kappa--Har-
vard's literary society par excellence
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ish Girls Left IN the Matrimonial Markets. max oz

unless the wife brings that income with
Dor ut Least. he has to remain a bachelor,
II he Is gifted with a cents worth of
women dressed in cheaper materials In
tire summer they wore cotton gowns and
cheap untrimmed hats. and they looked
material is despsed that is not expensive
cloth. silk. satin. velvet or crepe de chine.
and every hat disrega rded .that is not
a monument Of birds. flowers and feath-
ers. Men will have their wise dressed
like the rest, OF course and MS they
cannot pay for the dresses. they remain
bills.
Formerly man married a companion. a
partner who shared his life of work and
helped him, Now he has to marry an
expensive doll. or idol. whom he will have
to spend his life In ornamenting for the
admiration OF the world Naturally, he
hesitates-and he Is WISE The man OF
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keeper. If he is a working man. while
he goes journeying as a Joiner. mason.
plumber his wife. will be, cook a a
scharwoman. laundress and she VII
maid will marry valet: both vii earn
wages and get along without one being
a charge to the other. Nay. the married
working man Is better on than the bach-
elor one. His clothes are better kept.
his meals are better and cheaper his linen
is washed at home. Even II his wife does
richer and much more comfortable with
her than without her.
Among the rich marriage Is also an an
easy matter, whether one of the two Is
wealthy, or, better still, IL both are.
But il a man Is a gentleman and has
to dress like one, how Is he TO marry on
whatevc source you like to name. Of
one to three thousand dollars? How
can he dress modern woman with mod,
ern fashions Oh less than one thousand
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NAL OF E111erson's Birth Being Celebrated Boston

an idea Of the broad scope OF the
school:
"The Philosophy of Emerson" by ]. O.
Schurman, president OF Cornell Univer-
sity; Emerson and the Concord School
of Philosophy" by Frank y. Sanborn, OF
Concord; "The Poetry of Emerson" by
Rev. S. NJ. Crothers; "Emerson's Aim and
Method in Social Reform" by William Nj.
Salter: Emerson the Puritan" by Rev.
Chas. f. Dole; The Religion of Emer-
SON. by DR.. Edward w. Emerson: Ems
erson and Harvard" by Rev, Samuel a.
Eliot; THE Sphinx" by Charles Malloy:
Emerson and the Anti-Slavery Move-
ment," by William Lloyd Garrison: Elm
erson and the Civil War" by Moorfleld
Story; Emerson and the Inner Light"
by Rev. p. f. Trueblood; THE Simpler
Emerson" by Rev. John w. Chadwick:
"Emerson's wit and Humor." by Henry
D. Lloyd: "Emersons Spiritual Leader
ship in England" by Percival Chubb:
"Emersons Debt to Germany and Ger
many's Debt to Emerson" by Prof Kuno
Francke: Emerson and the Transcend
entail Movement" by George Cooke: En-
ersons Gospel of lndividualistn." by
VIM. r. Thayer; "Emerson's Place In
American Literature" by Prof 9. r,
mocracy." by Rabbi Charles Fleischer;
Emerson and Carlyle" by Rev. c. e.
Jefferson; Emerson the Man." by Rev.
r. Heber Newton.
REL UVI1NAT1oN OF CONCORD.
One of the most interesting facts, GER
| tainly. in the whole centenary is the res
| 1uvenation Of quiet Concord--"a bard
| little place as a recent English visitor
wrote. yet redolent with memories of a
| rich past. AS 1t Is appropriate that Har-
| ward. Emerson's alma mater. should take
! the leading part in establishing new
| tribute to the mans persuasive influence.
| SO 1t Is probably fitting that the whitG
| nj OF r1rI T., 1,-1,t o1,
the sage lived so many fruitful years.
| cosmopolitan in thought and provincial
In habits. should be the especial Mecca OF
| literary plgrimages. In Concord the
| visitor finds himself in closer touch with
the past than almost anywhere else about
Boston. for changed to certain extent
as the village of to-day Is, with its largo
population OF well-to-do suburbanites,
1t stll presents not little Of the charm
| of Concord In the forties and fifties; and
| above all 1t retains the historic structures
| made famous by Emerson. Thoreau, the
Alcotts and Hawthorne. These regularly
attract a large number OF siglitseers am
nually. but the throngs In Concord during
this anniversary time "a ther suggest that &
Thoreau was right In believing-as Bron-
son Alcott once said he did--that he lived
lin the center Of the universe and pur-
posed to annex the planet to Concord. APP
parently the annexation Of the planet
is complete 1t might also be added that
most OF tho sightseers after few hours
Of wandering about the historic town
from theSOd Manse to Walden Pond and b
back again. and of observing the qulet
beauty of the meadows, field and woods,
come letter to appreciate the meaning
in Thoreau's witticism when he was as1-
ed If he had travelled extensively in Eu-
rope. mo. indeed."s he replied, "but
have Travelled extensively In Concord Vi
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HIS Experences IN the National Guard Winch He Joined
Copyright 1908 by Doubleday, Page s. Co.

chafed under the privations and hard
ships of a soldiers life.
] enlisted under misconceptions. I
was given to understand that, In the first
| place would acquire n military car
riage. A carriage was something had
always wanted.
When got into the awkward squad
and was started In on the "settng up"
drill In order to acquire my carriage I
began to lose my enthus iasm right away.
Touching my feet with the tips of my
fingers without bending my knees was
not only calling to my pride and severe
on my suspenders, but proved to, be ply
steal impossibiliy. owing to my PECULIAR
ly lofty fire-proof construction. My feet
were too far away.
1t did not comport, either. with my pre-
viously conceived notions OF military
career, Ind expected to begin at once
prancing about behind "a band playing
martial strains had an Idea, 100 mat
when nrrayed In uniform | would be a
dream OF martial pomp and splendor, and
that beautiful young ladies' would strew
flowers In my pathway.
This proved to DO erroneous. When
nrrayed In uniform ! was n sight. and
beautiful young ladies fled swiftly at my
approach,
/ will not pain you with recital of the
sickening details of my squad experience.
nor the barbarties to which was sub
tected, AT last ! was graduated, and
with fear and trembling fell In with tho
company,
/ was received with that sweet cour-
tesy and grace with which new squad
or detail Is always greeted, and as at
tempted to fall In among the men Of
my own height. was shouldered down the
line until finally landed at tho sawed
Off end. from whence l was ignomlnous-
ly dragged by the sergeant and placed
behind tall corporal. In whose grateful
shade I luxuriated for seven years
Never once did get into the front rank
in all that time. The amount OF pro-
family extracted from that corporal dur
Ing my career. however. was partial
recompenso,
1t was a habit OF mine when marching
or drilling to fall into brown studies. and
when my corporal. who would be serene
ly bowling along, would suddenly dis
cover himself In advance of tho short
legged end of the company, he would
naturally pause. and being Immediately
behind, would proceed to Ineander up his
person, to his great physical inc2nve-
nience. He would then make remarks
of nature calculated 10 pain tho re-
fined,
II was on rainy and muddy days, how
ever that made things particularly ,n7
teresting for him. BY means OF our
height we always marched In the gutter
and my corporal's white trousers when
4 got through with him were a sight cal
sculated TO wiring tears from the stoutest
washwoman,
L don't know how 1t Is now, but in my
time 1t was the favorlte practice OF the
commanding otllcer 10 bring UP 70 the 20,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-24
BY GEORGE AIDE.
oos, BY Robert Howard Russell.

his Clothes tit. II you jolly him up
nice Photograph of him and then he
will bone you for one in Return, and
nail 1t up in his Den and tell all the
other Johnnies that you are crazy
about him. The Trouble with the
Glad College Youth is that he has
been plucked little too soon. Be
sides, don't think n Man starts in to
be Good Company until he is past 25."
'And some OF them have n few
Points to pick up after they pass 55,''
added Mother. You seem to be wise
to the very Young Kind, How about
the Bachelor with the Tremolo Voice
who wants to sit about six inches
away from you all the time and look
you straight in the Eye and tell you
that Life was Desert until he bump
ed into you
That's the Time to hang out the
Red Light" replied Daughter. Tive
been out among em only two Seasons
but I've taken that Boys Measure all
right, all right. He's the kind that
wants you to lean on his Shoulder
and tell all your Troubles to True
Friend after he has known You about
twenty minutes and II you hang back
he is Hurt and seems to think that
you do him an Injustice. He has
got away with 1t so often that his
Nerve is up and as for the Hufty-
Duffy Talk that he has learned by
Heart, 1t Is the Kind calculated to
make a Girl ashamed of herself un-
less she starts right In and loves him
with her whole Soul lie Is pretty
dangerous Proposition, You can say
Scat to Ferdle the Freshman or else
send him on an Errand, but Mr., Ar
thur Fresh. who Is getting along to-
ward. 80. Is so accustomed to the
Throw Down that he arises, dusts
his Clothes and comes hack with
genial Smile and treat the whole in
cident as a Joke. Then, II you Repent,
and try to Square yourself the
Chances are that he will wait until
YOU begin to act real Friendly and
then he will give you the Toss and
hike off after some new Geraldine.
This kind likes to switch from a
blonde to Brunette about every
third Day"
"Merciful Mayonnaise,'' exclaimed
Mother 81 don't believe am quail
fled to sit on the Slde-lAnes and do
any Coaching for you. You seem
to be Next. Did they teach you all
this at Boarding SCHOOL,"
s,Don't give 1t away" said Isabelle.
"but I'll tell you on the @, T. that we
have what is known as the Protective
Order OF Buds. The Trifler who goes
up and down the Line springing the
Cuff about LoYe ut First Sight IA
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perhaps the stupid vanity of mani thai
when they do not marry. It is for want
of invitation. Besides. as l once said.
as long as It is men who propose. mar
riages will BIO promotion to women.
|. Women who do not marry. but who
the folly Of fashion for the reluctance
evinced by men to make them an offer
E of matrimony. Among the gentle classes
of society who are not wealthy.not even
few men can afford to treat themselves to
In France. where so many men. work IN
government offices at fixed salary that
Gently the thing is impossible.
The daughters of small shopkeepers, OF
working men. always find husbands with
out any difficulty. The reason Is that IN
marrying, a shopkeeper or n working
man does not load himself with burden.
His wife will help him in his shop. either
as an assistant or as cashier. or book
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cases. injury or shocks, In 800; to starva-
ton or poisoning, In $50: to ignorance.
bad Surroundings or Imitation, In So; and
In only 0 cases was the origin doubtful,
f, A better hygienic dust-collectlng vehicle
preferably driven by motor. Is being
sought by Paris authorities. II must open
and close readily, yet allow neither dust
nor refuse to escape.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS gun of DR., J..
Marcy. of the Institute OF France, Is an
ingenious form of moving picture camera,
and is so arranged that when It is aimed
and the trigger is pulled, a roll OF film
sixty feet long Is rapidly passed behind the
lens, while the shutter IN front winks,
With this apparatus number of inter-
estlng problems have been attacked Cur
rents of hot air In cold air give photo
graphs when illuminated BY the mag
nesium flash light, and When Wooden
objects of various shapes are placed in
the path of the air currents, the pictures
show how the wind circles about obstruc
stions, showing up and then increasing
Its velocity VThe motion of water be-
meath surface waves is shown by reflec-
tons from silyered pearls fioatlng In the
liquid In a plate-glass tank The human
voice Is photographed by speaking the
voWels into glass globe containing
slender ncetylene gas ilame, the Mhra-
ltions of the flame showing the shape of
the sounds Tho beating OF the heart aAG
the movements Of the eyes IN reading AN
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/, sition of Garry arms" and then go off
and quite forget us until his attention
was brought back by the thud OF some
debilitated warrior falling dead on thu
| floor. Garry arms" was never n ia
vorite position OF mine, owing possibly
to my Misunderstanding less than tho
gun and being only about half as thick.
| Support arms could not enjoy either.
| because the hammer resting on my fore
arm used to quickly bore Its way into my
vitals.
Order arms was my favorlte, There
was something restful and soothing
about that maneuver which always APP
penled to me,
Joined In 1876 so could go to the Cen
tennial with the regiment, went down
and got so "het up that ] haven't got
quite cooled off yet. Perhaps you re-
member that Philadelphia was quite sui
try that year
We marched from the army in heavy
marching order, Each man carried, IL
! recollect Alright. provisions for six
months. a complete set of bedroom fur
niture, parlor organ and Herring
safe. At least that's the way | felt.
BY the time we reached the ferry We
We're in quite a glow We camped In
Fnlrmount Park, a lovely spot replete
with verdue and mosquitoes. We enjoyed
the former and the latter enjoyed us,
ouelling riots was my specially. how
eyer. AS II rlOt Queller my reputation =
was excellent, especially In my immediate
| family. Perhaps my warlke and fero-
clous appearance had much TO do With
my success.
/ was not as feslly then as am now,
and when arrayed in my shad-bellled
coat and my Inverted flowerpot hat with
q blue sausage pompon, was sight cal
culated to freeze the blood. My figure
was such that near-sighted rioters had
difficulty In telling which was me and
which WAS the gun.
Once when | was quelling riot up tho
State, rude. burly rioters came and gazed
at me when l was on guard. and as they
gazed they came to realize that grim
visaged war with all Its horrors was in
their midst, and that We're they to at
tempt to monkey with me. was liable
at any moment to cry havoc and let slip
the dogs OF war" but never did.
was always relieved, however. when
they eleft mo unmolested, because was
inclined to be fastidious about tmbruing
my hands in gore, In fact, always
considered imbruing ones hands In gore
to be an untidy habit.
Still, / was ever ready at my country'sa{
CALI unless I had few hours start, and
am yet: and as / sat in my richly mort
gagged home last night, rocking the cradle
with one foot and writing this eNtempor- !
aneous address with the other, the
thought flashed through my mind that
perhaps soon again might prick up my I
ears like tile old war horse at the sound
of the bugle,. and like the old War horse.
/ might be tempted 70 answer With q
neigh, ,@, "a
& J. : = VI
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that particular class, so numerous in
Y ..Its .. as ii.tvc Already spid would DO
us foolish to marry Il woman withSttEei
tastes of the day and without any dowry.
instead of being satisfied with oats, would
feed on pearls. diamonds and Semeral.s,
This man withdraws from the matri-
more as long as, through the spreading
OF democratic ideas and of the principle
OF equality, women of the middle class
and of limited means will initiate the.
women of the wealthy classes and COM
pete with them in their dresses
s @oah imagine haf IN
simplicity OF taste. would be the order
Of the day; but It is just the contrary
SAY the men; III am MS GOOD as You.
say the men: IT am as well dressed as
you" say the women. And everybody
And things are going on pretty badly
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. d + Z f 6 +. E I
i, too. am n battle-scarred veteran.
For seven long years fought. bled and
died In the Twenty-third Regiment OF
Brooklyn. thus relieving myself OF the
possibility of serving a week every year
on the fury. ! calculate that II ! live
to the ripe old age of three hundred and
sixty-four years, / will have made by tho
operation. When ] joined however.
did not look at 1t in this cold, cynical
way.
1t was In the chill summer OF 1876 that
enlisted. The temperature that July
as indicated by the mercury, was above
the normal but nevertheless IL proved
to be cold summer for me,
was in the first flush OF early youth
then--about the only flush ever drew to
and caught-and had not yet reached
the age of consent; SO my parents con-
scented for me. Often aftcrward wished
they had been less anxious to gratlfy my
budding military warnings. for my proud
naughty en-dollar-a-wee1 spirit soon
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body was married and. hope. happy and
satisfied.
Now, this could not be done in modern
times. Men have become mercenary
brutes. II the Persian system were tried,
half OF It only would be successful: men
would not buy beautiful women with no
money. ,hey would only marry the ugly
ones that had some
It Is not Ireland only who complains
that her daughters cannot find husbands;
nearly the whole of the old world does.
cry for women--the far West OF America.
New Zealand. Australia and South Africa.
The reason is obvious: the men have
In the new. and they have left the wo-
men behind But this explains the dearth
OF ma-riageable men only among the
poorest classes OF society-those who en-
lgrate In search OF living which their
own country denies them.
How are we going to treat the question.
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spotted and tagged in Hurry. There
are two ways OF handling this Party.
One is to spring his Record on him
and kid him until he lets up. The
other Is to believe everything and
String him along. The Second Method
Is the one usually employed by all
True Artists. The older the Bachelor
the bigger the Cinch. Hold on to
one of his Coat Buttons and look up
ut him and ask him lot of feeble
minded Questions about the Wicked
World and he will talk for Hours Mt a
Time. But the Minute the Sun goes
down, you want to yell for a Chap
erone until you can be heard In the
next Township. That will lead him
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ciety and the reading of a poem by Prof.
George r. Woodbury.. Of Columbia Uni
versity will lend further attractiveness
to the event. The churches. too. will ma
turally enough resound with Emersonian
discourses. At, Appleton Chapel, Cam
bridge, a sermon on Emerson is to be de-
livered by Francis G. Peabody. dean of
the Harvard Divinity School, and the va
rious churches throughout the Boston
community will practically without re-
spect to denomination, vie with one an
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es are to be made by Senator George +.
Hoar, Professor Charles Eliot Norton,
Professor William James and Colonial
Thomas Wentworth Higglnson
TO REVIVE CONCORD SCHOOL.
The Emerson centennial celebration Will
not end, Of course. with the exercises of
the next few days. Nothing short of a re-.
vival of the famous Concord School OF
Philosophy" is scheduled for this sum
mer. It has happened very fortunately
that the Emerson birthday year has coin
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ton which are still to take place are
bound to excite further Interest through
out the country in this remarkable CEN
tenary. Tomorrow, for instance. in Boss
toms new symphony Hall erected large
ly through the mnnlflcence of Major
Henry Leo IIigginson. great conrne-
lucrative meeting is to be held at which
Senator George Frisbie Hoar will pre-
side. Rev. Edward Everett Hale will act
as chaplain. and President Eliot. Of Har-
ward, will be principal speaker Choral
music from the Handel and Haydn So
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EA1ERSON'S HOUSE AT CONCORD.
of His

The school Is announced as opening on
July 18th, Immediately after the close of
the Educational Associations meetings,
and will continue until August list. Thlr-
ty lectures In all have been planned for,
two each day, one of them being held
in Concord in the morning. the other In
Boston In the afternoon. Two OF the af-
ternoon sessions win he devoted to remin-
iscences OF Emerson by men who were
his personal friends. This partial list of
lectures and lecturers will serve to give
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cded with the first coming to Boston OF
the National Educational Association--the
greatest body of professional educators
in the world. Between 10000 to 10000 vls-
itors will report in Boston early in July
to attend this convention, and for the
benefit of these as we'll as of the regular
Emerson enthusiasts who have come to-
gether from every section of the country,
an Emerson Memorial School has been
arranged which will present by far the
most remarkable series of literary events
Boston has witnessed in many year.
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other In honoring this former Unitarian
minister, who gave UP the habit OF form
al discourse from the pulpit to preach to
the larger constituency which he could
reach from the lecture platform. I'm
doubtedly the most impressive OF all
these exercises Will he that held at old
Concord in the First Parish Church.
where Emerson used to preach and which
still stands, an impressive example OF
the simple dignity of old-fashioned New
England architecture. Here n memorial
service will be held at which address,