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New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

different clergymen go about interesting the
undergraduates is a perennial source of study
| to them. The young minister often chooses an
athletic subject or illustrates his remarks by
reference to the football field or the diamond.
Nothing receives a stonier stare or falls quite
so fiat at Yale as this sort Of thing. Any at
tempt to cajole them into appreciation Of the
points made in the address is at once met with
refusal to do so. The uninitiated clergyman
who leans over his pulpit and draws thrilling
parallel between his text and some heroic action
the athletic field looks into a sea of faces,
not of which lights up with the gleam Of
intelligent sympathy which he expected. The
freshman listens but the upper class man, who
has heard a hundred sermons in which athletics
referred to, looks in silence, and some
times in pity. This is partly due to the thin
ness of the parallel and partly to the fact that
the majority of the class are not athletes.
Next to the athletic preacher the under
graduate disIikes the with the illusions
to college life" If a clergyman is unlucky
he gets himself into all kinds of trouble through
this innocent means. He sketches rapidly the
career Of some young man who finally, at the
end of a black list of backslidings, turns over
a new leaf He gets more and more interested
in the story, and his audience, more by concerted
effort than by actual enthusiasm. works up with
him, until, the climax is reached and the
young man In the story chooses the right
course in burst of eIoquenCe on the part of
the preacher, the undergraduates spontaneously
break into a muf1ed "Yea-a-a!" which is so
amusingly innocent on their part that a general
laugh follows all the chapel, and the point
of the story is lost.
But preachers do not often fortunately go
to the lengths that young clergyman did who
recently filled the BatteIl pulpit at Yale. He
not of the sturdy sort that college men take to
at the first glance and he had a lisp in his voice
that the audience tried politely to forget. Al
though he did not have a particularly strong
sermon it would have passed by" in campus
language, if he had not chosen some particularly
childish stories with which to illustrate his text
During the rendition Of these the undergrad
uates grew more and more restless, until the
climax came. He finished his sermon with the
point that weak human beings have to be as
sisted to climb the ladder of life point that
would not have had the effect on the audience
that it did had it not been accompanied by the
Illustration This illustration was of a boy
whom the preacher named Willie" which was
enough to focus all the eyes in the chapel on
him at once. Willie" said the preacher, had
to climb the stairs to get a paper of pins for
mamma. and mamma was At the bottom of the
stairs to encourage him. Now, Willie said
count for you
The undergraduates squrmed in their seats at
this, and looked at each other out of the cor
ners Of their eyes.
Nov, Willie said mamma, count the steps
One-two-three,' and Willie counted 'One-two
three 'Four-lve' - The students had
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08
COMPULSORY CHAPEL At YALE UNIVERSITY.
NOT PROBABLE THAT IT WILL BE DROPPED
PRE4CHERS EXPERIENCES WITH STUDENTS

New-Haven, Conn, March (speciaD.-The
question as to whether compulsory chapel
should be abolished has come up again at Yale.
The steady going old yale Literary Maya
zine" which has taken the lead in Yale under
graduate discussions for three generations re-
Gently printed a leader by Pemberton Berman'
of New-York City, one Of its editors, contain
ing a severe criticism of the compulsory re-
Iigious service tradition while THE Yale Daily
News" an equally potent leader among the
students, has unhesitatingly criticised the critic
and supported the old custom. In the mean
while much campus argument the matter
has formulated itself, and the faculty have mad
another opportunity of learning how the stu
dent body looks on the present chapel regula-
tions. but compulsory chapel at Yale will
without doubt be continued for some time to
come.
To the uninitiated' attendance at a college
chapel is something to be remembered. A well
known preacher who has conducted religious
services in all parts of the country, when asked,
after coming to New-Haven, what was the most
difficult pulpit to FILL said: Il never feel the
slightest hesitation about ascending any pulpit
in the country till I come to one Of the large
colleges. There am afraid of the sophomores."
His experience has probably been duplicated
by almost all of the noted preachers who have
occupied the platform in BatteH Chapel, at
Yale IN recent years. They nearly all
afraid of the sophomores. While the under
graduates nowadays do not start out to give
preacher an experience, they generally succeed
in doing so if the least occasion is given to
them to do it, If the boys like a preachers
sermon they show it frankly. If they do not
like it, they use just as frank methods Of
showing their dispeasure. Some ministers have
gone away from Battell Chapel, on the Yale
campus, with an entirely new idea about preach
ing.
AS rule, at least at Yale, the preachers who
are chosen to fill the college pulpit are men Oh
enough varied and wide experience to give them
the command of the situation. clergyman
who has been the honored preacher at Yale
now and then for some years once SAID 10 d
group of graduates: "A man receives sort OF
electric shock in talking to an audience IKE
that at Yale He doesn't want any secondly
and thirdly. He wants TO get r5ht at HIS
subject and present it in vivid and lorclOle
way Before 1 found this out l had great
d,aI of trouble interesting the boys. Later on
l knew at once when 1 had their attention.
When l caught their minds with what l was
irving to say, 1 could feel it in the very air OF
the DIsce There is no church audience that IS
so electric and magnetic as college one II
Won lose your grip they become at once dis
organizad: if you hold their minds, they urge
YOU to your very best l have never preached
so we'll as when I have talked to a university
audience"
A man who graduates from four years in the
Yale Chapel and who does not understand some
thing about preachers has not made the best
use of his opportunities. The way in which the
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08
rHAwING FROZEN PIPES.

One OF the uses To which electricity is pat az
SauIt Ste Marie Ont. is to melt the ice 10 water
pines 1t is "a regular business. and has been going
on for five or six years. The locality q question
IS favored with a good supply uf c.syyricfty. the
ON almost as large a scale at NiaS IRA. sault
Ste Marie is 50 TAR north. moreover. Lhtt winters
are much mort severe in that vicinity than around
Sev--York city and hence there is "a greater neess-
sfty for an industry OF the kind here described
The thaWiag trade is practised ay slectric1Rn
named William Gorby. With a waEou and a palr
~ horses he takes around from place % place q
bip instrument called transformer. a well knoWn
device for raising or lowering the voltage % an
alternating current This particular transfoFmss
may have been made to order. but its special duty
Is greatly to reduce the pressure OF the power
company's current. which is 200 volts. For seaaa
kinds OF electrical wOrk-makng Hertz waves. foe
.instance-hIgh voltage and low volume are prsEar-
able. Fer other service. EOtaby heating q iQH
voltage and considerable volume NeApfeased n Ak~
DeFeSb wanted.
Most OF the trouble at Sault Ste Marie arbess
from supply pipes leading from the street mains
into the houses OF consumers. II the mains tGa11a
selves are frozen, the water company Is e&p@a49l&
foot the BIN Before beginning. Mr.. Gorby mskaA
an agreement that he shall have S. immediately On
Anshfng the lob IL 70 proved that the Consumer
pine Is the one that stopped. Then be tapA
the nearest power circuit in town with oHs EsE og
wires which lead into his transforme=, and con-
meets another set. which lead out oE that appar-
atuE with the barred water pipe. Usually be re-
stores the circulation OF water In a few ENfnnksz
His Ion gest piece OF work, thaWtng cat kWo hmgrad
feet Of four-inch pipe, took half an hp9Es
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

graduates ideas as to the abolition CL -
custom. He put this idea into erect Lls - -
day that he met a senior class LHODS--A
expected that he would make any chan8s, -
Il appeared that ne desired to drop ths -
custom as Il had nearly degenerdted INTO 2 -
scramble each morning the moment after -
benedCtiOn said. This morning NJ -
the service as usual and descended rom - -
pulpit, the new seniors facing about IN tieli
seats to have their first experience or Oo#ill5
to the "Prex." To their utter cOnster1attO3 - >
however, instead Of turning into the Trllo91Li
aisle the president hastily withdrew % N
street by a side door near the pulpit rOf
moment there was silence in the chapel -
then with a wild whOOp, the entire senior class
Of three hundred bOlted for the oOOts
followed enthusiastically by the rest OF tns
college. Running ahead OF the president aH1
forming a double row IN front Of MIN Is
seniors bowed him the distance OF one Wnoi7
block to his residence, running around % th7
front OF the procession as ne passed them
This ovation pleased the president immensely
and It was noticed that the next morning - Is
smiled quietly and took up his accustomed WaIs
down the senior aisle
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08
rrcHAEICAL BRAIEs.

Most machines improve upon nano laDos oii.y y
,t atsr uniformity OF product and cheap
a-,ys, che Tatter once in a Wbile though, mech
,il snism Is invented which seems to think also OF
course f. doesn't but 1t will perform work Which
has hitherto been done only by human s1s :
t,Iat 60, machine In use at the Census B1-
: rosn = n washington. It draws important lessons
80 gato mai are first recorded by the punching
"a :. LD4l al of This preliminary work be done
oL caLJs c9 "a Cor a time ths cards hed in ccu-
srkssnt ~ cases or drawers. subsequently, log ot
t Sed into the machine misceHanee&slyp
d osrtsfn ones will be automatically sorted out.
These on examination viii tell an in1porSanL sLoFy;
that Is if the proper aoJusSiASL4'@ @'3'@ OA @-
for selection - e. a %s- .ro4un ep~%arvy
ts1 Ss1nsbtng would Tun something ltkS thlas Cns
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

than S6 81, and, in fact, no rate is quoted The
Wabash Railroad which is now building into PITTS
burg showed its frendIiness to the river re-
Gently. 1t necessary for them to throw a
bridge across the Monongahela, anG without a WORD
from the river men they planned for channel or
800 feet.
The dams used on the Ohio are Of interesting
construction. They are the first Of the Chanoine
type a dam of French design to be built in this
country. Those already completed are giving great
satisfaction. The dam rests on props which can
to the bottom of the river. When the water falls
the dam is raised again and the props ran into
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

hole would indicate, by its place in possible col
umn the year. A second would record the month,
and third the day. There would be several more
imaginary columns. in each OF when AT some some
point one hole would be punched the position being
dictated by circumstances; These additonai NOES
would tell the number the job, the nuTnoer OF.
particular operative who worked on It. tne hours ne
spent on it. and his wages. 1t would. also be pos
sibe to show whether this was piece work or not,
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

whether it was FOR a customer for the house,
and other facts that might be of Importance.
Suppose, year or two after the punching was
done that the manufacturer wanted to know why
one engine which he had turned out cost less than
an earlier His machine could then be made
to pick out from a large number of cards the very
which registered the facts he wished to learn.
In a few minutes he could get what 1t might take
a bookkeeper several weeks to find.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

Heavy rains this week have fallen in all parts
of the State. and have done great good to grain
and fruit. With these rains, the wheat and
barley crop is fairly assured, and the moisture
will cause fruit trees to blossom. From all the
reports received the acreage in grain this sea-
Will be larger than ever known before and
the acreage of orchards in bearing Will also
break the record,
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

From the reports received, 1t is evident that
fully fifty thousand visitors from the East will
attend the Grand Army encampment in San
Francisco next August. This big crowd can
be handled by the railways and hotel people,
but there is some doubt about the sleeping car
accommodations.
New-York tribune., 1903-03-08

Commander Schroeder returned from Guam
80, and gave a statement of favorable
t,sginn,nq in paying attention to sanitary laws
and showing that great adTance in intelli-
rence may be expected as ths result OF the
0peratinR of the public school, =
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-06
THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

Vermont has abandoned prohibition,
aftcr trial Of fifty years. Last year
the State Legislature enacted q local op-
ton and high license law, but under n
promise of the Republican party the law
was submitted to vote of the people
for rejection or ratification. The law
carried by majority OF about one thou
sand. which, according to the New York
Sun, was about the same MS the majority
for prohibition in 1852.
In the same connection the Sun says
that the Raines law In New York has
given the greatest impetus to the high
license movement that 1t has yet re-
ccived, and adds.
That law having proved to be rich
reyenue-produc!nE measure, and having
at the same time diminished tho num-
Der Of saloons, 1t is probable that II
will remain In New York. so far as its
principle Is concerned, whatever may be
tho poIi.ical changes In the State. Since
It's enactment the temperance agitation
has ceased to disturb politics, as il had
done before. The prohibition vote in
the State has fallen off actually and
relatively to the Increase OF tho popu-
lation. very decidedly For example. tho
prohibition votes for Governor which in
ls0l had been over 10000, out of a total
Of about 10000. fell in 1902 to about 20.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-06

tion OF his family and frlends--in the
language OF tho novellst-may be more
easily imagined than descrlbcd.'
II IN tho supreme moment Of their In
dignation and anxiety tho p. +. had APP
peared he might have been dealt with
summarly. But Mr.. Eaklo recovered
after sone hours illness and an cxplana-
ton was made to him, convincing NIL
that there was no Intention to destroy
his life.
No It was all meant I'm fun" The,
practical Joker supposed that his VIC
tim would detect tho tobacco In HIS first
taste Of cofres and that no great harm
would be done him. It did not occur
to him that tho taste Of tobacco might
be very Objectionable to Mr.. Eakle.
Tobacco taken internally Is a very
powerful drug. It has been known 10
kill people. On the other hand. tho late
General Clingman, of North Carolina. cs-
teeIned 1t highly as curative agent,
and he lived to great age. However,
It may have been that his rccon1mcndn-
ton Of 1t was for external application In
such diseases MS rheumatism, neuralgia,
etc. We do not remember as to that.
No doubt tobacco has its good as we'll
as Its bad points and therein 1t differs
from tho practical joker, who is wholly
mischievous, often dangerous and some.
times deadly in his tricks.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-06
The Beauties Of Socialism.

Editor Of tho Tmes-Dispatch:
Sir,-ln your article on Socialism Re-
)ected," ! noticed an error on your part
which should be corrected before the
general public is aware OF It, namely:
You speak Of independent worklngmen;
should you discharge your force OF en-
ployes tomorrow. and close your office
doors. what could they dor Are they
Independent enough to live without
work? / say no! There are no indepen-
dent working people. Slaves OF Govern-
ment? Why do SO many people fairly
wish to take the civil service examina-
ton, they are all very willing to become
slaves. Do You know that II the Govern
ment were able to operate the railroads,
that there would be no deficit In the Pos
tai Department? Do you know that we,
the people, pay these railroad companies
$S9 900 900 to carry the United States mail
for one year? Do you know that tho
railroads charge the Government eight
cents per pound to carry the mail2 TAX.
ing all things into consideration. tho
Postal Service Is doing remarkably we'll
Every sensible workingman knows that
In such q situation, there would be poll
teal corruption" You never hear OF cor
ruption these days. Oh. no. people arc
all honest, For instance, St Louis. New
York, Philadelphia and even Richmond,
yes go farther still. our National Halls.
! w SoAi1loS ACbty StAss JOd Sd1'uOS lVOl
the people any longer, you must come out
square and fair. either for ownership by
and for the people. (Socialism). or owner
ship by the and for the capitalists,
democracy and Republicansm)
But suppose In such a situation the
worklngmen should control" The Gov
eminent under Socialism consists OF tho
workingmen, and do you think that there
would be much trouble to decide, not
compel, but decide about more wages and
less hours? The Government should re-
celve oil tho revenue, In other words, tho
people would receive 1t, not the few as
we have It now, but all of the people,
not equally but as each one Is able to
produce wealth.
The strong shall take care Of the weak.
Insurance by tho Government for this
aged, or PENSIONS.
Doctors and other professional men enn-
ployed by the people ut q salary. certain
hours, certain pay.
Study Socialism, think over 1t, reason,
weigh, consider
You cannot fuse with the Republicans,
tho negro question Is too delicate; the
Democrats are weak; study Socialism,
help to take away from humanity the
curse of gain, let us live for one another.
not for ourselves. Let US follow in the
footsteps of Him who saves all.
c. w HOK,
Lynchburg. Va. February 4.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-06
Observation-Disclosures
! IN Hou,. Nli1A
Nlyg1n1a 6ayyo,s.
Observation-Disclosures.

Observation-Disclosures
Tho soutrside virgininn. published In
Appomattox county, says:
Eve believe we voice tho sentiment Of
a large majority Of the best colored pep
pie Of this county when wc Jay that
they agree with this representative coll
ored mon OF Richmond In conde1nning
the i1oendlary utterances Of tho negro
lawyer Hayes, who recently spoke In
Washington, advising the colorcd race
to use the sword and torch to obtain re.
dress for their political grlevances.'
The Norfolk Ledger ventures this opin-
ion;
Nothing has happened in recent
years that is 80 gratifying to William II.
the first hole through the Monroe Doc
trine-and wc are not surprised that he
holds tho present President Of the United
States In such high csteem.'
Tho staunton News Is watching the
new boss in the orchard and concludes:
As Superintendent slemp hasn't shaken
the Virginia plum tree recently, It is
presumed that he is quietly spreading a
net to catch some of the choice fruit
from the topmost branches.
The Petersburg 1ndex-Appeal wearies
OF much law and walls US follows:
Whether It was Jefferson or somebody
else who first said that the world ls
governed too much. tho snyer was pro-
found statesman. Every year-every
day that a Congress- or Legislature is In
sesston--shows his wisdom. The worst
enemy that law and order have Is the
law maker; the man who attempted to
make laws, and falls, is less an enemy
only because less successful.
The Charlotte Gazette, speaking OF
the bad roads Of Its own county, says:
Those who only use tho roads for
driving purposes. and then only or main
ly In good and dry weather. do not
realize the actual condition to the farmer,
who In good weather is at work on his
land, but In winter or early spring uses
the road to haul his tobacco to the sta
tion or his wood for fires. The time
when the great body Of the people have
most pressing need for inc use OF the
roads Is the very time when. as now,
they are well-nlgh impossible,
The Norfolk virginian-PGot makes this
point:
There can be no question that there Is
an inslstent demand in Virginia that our
politics shall be put upon higher plane;
that ballot-box stuffing shall cease; that
the expenditure OF money In elections
shall be confined to legitimate purposes:
and that, generally serious effort shall
BIO made to realize the better conditions
promised In the Acknowledgement OF the
negro.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-06
AN UPHEAYAL OF SPITE.

at meeting the other night Of Kear-
ny Post No. IS, G. A. r., Of New York
city, q resolution was adopted protesting
against the erection of a statue to Gem
eral Lee at Gettysburg. The resolution
declares that such statue would be a
"desecration of the hallowed ground and
would be a reward for treason" IF
we raise monuments to those who have
been guilty OF treason" it Is added. I'VE
teach a bad lesson to posterity."
In the same connection we not a let
from Union veteran, also protesting
against the statue, In which the writer
refers to General Lee as n traitor to
his country and especially to the State
Of Pennsylvania" 1T was he who raid
ed our free State" adds the correspon-
dent, "and it was he and his rebel hordes
who destroyed both life and property In
tho State of Pennsylvania and upon the
very spot at which it is proposed to erect
this monument to honor his name and
cause"
We do not propose to go into any de-
Tense OF General Lee and the Confederate
cause against these SANDERS, nor shall
we even take the trouble to quote from
General Lees famous order at Gettys-
burg against the destruction Of private
property and the killing Of the Innocent.
We reproduce these protests from the
North in order to show the feeling that
still exists. and particularly to show the
unwisiom OF any movement. especially
on the part of the people of the South to
force General Leo upon the people OF the
North. Every such movement simp' y
gives the rantankerous element at the
North the opportunity to yentilate Their
| spite and malice and to SANDER the man
| and the cause that are sacred to us
General Lee does not need to be hon
ored" at the North His fame is estab,
lished, his memory is sacred. and we who
know him and appreciate him md love
his memory can well afford to leave him
alone In his glory.