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nasium and tho corporation did moi
know what to do with It. II 1t had only
been a hundred-year-old elm 1t would
have been chopped down, for trees are
mere ornaments and are sometimes
dangerous; but brick and mortar is some
thing sacred for which use must be
found.
The Old Gymnasium was made store
house; then it was turned over to the
Cooperative Society in Its teeshing years;
then 1t was a storehouse again for old
furniture to be distributed to needy
undergraduates; then it was handed over
to the engineering and architectural
departments till better quarters could
be found for them. At last it was passed
over, with apologies, to Prof. FRANcKE
for his Germanic Museum. Its position
on triangular bit Of ground, too small
for large building, and the awe for brick
construction had saved it.
The Germanio Museum began humbly
and unpretentiously. 1t had collected
what plaster casts it could and was glad
to show them under any shelter. This
was before Kaiser WILHELM's million
dollar gift of casts What things the
museum had 1t exhibited last Christmas,
and then the discovery Of the Old Gym
nasium's secret was made.
1t has wonderful light for sculpture.
1t is an ideal glyptothek. Casts and cary
ings are seen as they can be seen nowhere
else around Boston. The optics OF a
building seem to be still as much matter
of guesswork for architects as the acous-
tics. The light in the expensive Fogg
Art Building cannot compare with that
of the Old Gymnasium, neither can that
of the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts.
So the Fine Arts Museum has sent out its
experts, and architects and artists are
measuring and studying to see how the
light effects Of the windy Old Gymnasium
may be reproduced.
queer turn in the wheel Of fortune
or Of fashion. The Kaiser's generous
present we'll housed in Harvard's most
despised edifice and the gas-house type
of the early flfties the model, perhaps,
for future museum architecture.
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Art in Harvard's Old Gymna SUM


Harvard graduates when they go out
to Cambridge next Wednesday will gaze
wide-eyed at the new glory that adorns
long familiar building, and teleologists
will have modern instance to adduce Of
the eternal fitness of things. The ulti-
mate purpose and use of the Old Gym
nasium-the Rogers Building, they call
it now offically-has been discovered
after fifty years, by accident, as usual.
1t is an architectural model, surprising
in importance Prof. NoRToN's beloved
Holden Chapel, and architects are flock
ing from all sides to study its proper
tions.
The university has taken but a step
motherly interest hitherto in the Old
Gymnasium. 1t was put up by the long
concealed benefactor whose name it
now bears-his many modest gifts have
proved wiser and more fruitful than
most-in the days Of plain living and
simple buildings. A little, squat, octag-
onal, brick gas house fastened to a
narrow rectangle for the bowling alley;
open to all the winds OF heaven and pro-
vided with the simplest appliances,
dumbbels, Indian clubs, chest weights,
rude rowing weights, bars and little else,
and with instructors innocent Of science,
old MoLINEux and Gen. LISTER.
There was little talk of scientific gym
nastics in those primitive days, but
somehow the Harvard baseball nine
used to lick all the professional clubs, if
we remember right, and there is ira
dition of Harvard second crew beating
Yale on Lake Quinsigamond while the
first crew was in England. The college
boys felt squeamsh about taking in
gate money, too, and there was no talk
of professionalism or of faculty inter-
ference with sports,
Then came the Hemenway Gymna-
stun with its scientific apparatus and
DR., SARGENT with his measurements.
The gymnasium became the Old Gym
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to this matter is bad augury for tho
ultimate success of the bill. There are
other features OF the measure to which
the Irish Nationalists object with equal
vehemenoe. For instance, there is no
provision for penalizing landlords who
refuse to sell, whereas II three-fourths
OF the tenants on a given estate agree to
purchase the other fourth must purchase
also, or forfeit their right to have their
rents readjusted by the Land Courts
thereafter. Nor is this all. The bill
gives the Lord Lieutenant the right to
dispense with the prescribed number OF
three-fourths, and to penalize the mi
nority Of the tenants in the manner just
described, provided a bare majority
shall agree to purchase their holdings
1t is obviously unjust to coerce tenants
into buying when no landlord is coerced
into selling, except to this extent, that
il he refuses to sell when three-fourths
OF his tenants want to buy he may be
toleraby sure that the Land Courts will
cut down his rents considerably at the
next revision. We add that, as We have
formerly noted, the bill fails to do any
thing for the agricultural laborer, the
landless man. and deals most made
quately with tho burning question of
the congested districts on the west coast
of Ireland.
If Mr.. WYNDHAM will make no con-
cession to the Irish Nationalists in the
matter OF the minimum price, he can
scarcely be expected to meet them half
way with regard to other and even more
difficult questions.
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Is tho Irish Land Purchase Bill in
Danger?

II will have been noted that the House
Of Commons, by vote of PIT to 17e. up
held Mr.. WYNpHAM, Chief Secretary to
the Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, in re-
jecting the amendment to the Irish Land
bill proposed by Mr.. JOHN E. REDMOND,
which aimed to lower the minimum
price of land purchasable under the bill
Tho incident Is serious one, because
Mr.. REDMOND declared that, unless thus
amended, the bill would be unaccept-
able to the Irish people, and Mr.. WIND
HAM intimated in reply that, if the Irish
people did not want it, the Government
certainly would not trouble itself to pass
q measure dstasteful to many Of it's
own adherents.
Az the kilograms on the subject have
been somewhat vague, it may be we'll
to point out the grounds on which the
amendment was so earnestly advocated.
The bill provides, first, that in the case
OF purchase of First-Term Rents. that
is to say. rents fixed by the Land Courts
for the first statutory period OF fifteen
years, the terminable annuity to be
paid by the tenant purchaser to the Gov
eminent, which advances the purchase
money, shall be at least 20, but not more
than 40, per cent below the rent; and,
secondly, that in the case OF purchases
of Second-Term Rents the terminable
annuity to be paid by the tenant pur-
chaser shall be at least 10, and not more
than 30, per cent below the rent. That
is to say, the Government fixed in each
case minimum price, below which a
landlord should not be permitted to sell,
no matter how much inclined thereto
he might be, owing to the pressure
of pecuniary necessities. Down to that
point, the price was to be a matter Of
negotiation and arrangement between
landlord and tenant, or, in other words,
between the vender and the purchaser.
1t was pointed out by Mr.. T. w. RUSSELL.
however, soon after the text Of the meas
ure was made public, that II the price
was to be a matter Of bargain between
landlord and tenant, there was no logical
reason for limiting the bargaining power
Of vender and purchaser. Inasmuch
as there is infinite variety in Irish land
and in the circumstances Of Irish land
owners, it seems unreasonable to en-
force vigorously a minimum price. II
there should be landlords willing, under
all the conditions Of the case, to give
larger abatement than 40 per cent. on
First-Term, or 80 per cent. on Second
Term rents, why should they be re-
strained?
1t may be that before the Land bill
is again brought up Mr.. REDMOND, Mr..
WILLIAM O'BRIEN and Mr. RUSSELL will
deem it expedient to waive their OPPOSE
ton to this clause of the measure. In
fortunately the infexible attitude main
tanned by Mr.. WYNDHAM with reference
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DR.. Harper and Prof. MssAaae

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: ms
editorial In this mornings SrN entitled The
Harper and tho Wolverines" may have enter
tanned your readers. but 1t would have been
more to the point II IL had had any founda-
ton In fact. II Is obvious that no official
publication issued by the University Of Chi
cago. or, for that matter. by any university,
would make. with regard to any member OF
the faculty. euloglstic statements Of the
kind attributed to the Law School circular
Beyond printing Prof. Mechem's name ns
one Of the members Of the Law School faculty
for next year. the circular made no refer
ence to him whatever The scurrilous conf
ment OF the Detroit Free Press. which YOU
very properly rebuked. was therefore based
upon invention pure and simple.
ERNST FR1uNp.
Professor Of Law in Chicago University.
NEW YORK, June IS.
Will the Detroit Free Press justify or
plead guilty?
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Troubles of a Whole President"

Troubles OF a Whole President"
From time to time incidents occur
which indicate that the pathway OF the
Cuban Executive is not always over
rose leaves. Notwithstanding his ex-
pressed determination to carry out his
own plans for the salvation OF his country,
he finds it necessary at times to bow to
the pressure exerted by his Congress
and the people. This finds illustration
in his recent approval Of the Amnesty
bill, passed by both Houses Of the Cuban
Congress, for the relief Of those who
were arrested In consequence OF the
labor strike OF last November in the city
Of Havana.
President PALMA, with entire pro-
priety, has persistently refused to inter-
fere in the matter He took firm stand
in declaring that 1t was entirely mat
ter for the courts, and that the law
should take it's course On June II he
yielded and signed the Amnesty bill.
The offenders were released and the
deposed Mayor Of Havana was rein
stated by the Civil Governor Of the Prov
ince. The President has unquestion-
ably lost prestige by his concession,
from the very firmness Of his previous
attitude and assertions. 1t is probable
that he is beginning to wonder whether
he is the individual arbiter Of national
destinies or the executive OF the will of
the people as expressed by their duly
chosen Congress.
President PALMA's action in this mat
ter has bearing upon various other
matters, for instance, the establishment
Of a national lottery. The proposal
for such an institution has found many
advocates from the opening days OF the
Cuban Government, and has a strong
il not a majority support in Congress.
Don TOMAS has declared that he would
cut his hand of before he would sign
approval of a Lottery bill. He did not
90 quite so far in his rejection Of the
Amnesty bill, but he maintained. a very
positive attitude for nearly six months,
and then yielded. This has greatly
encouraged the advocates Of the Lot
terry bill, and some Of them are saying
that retraction having been forced in
one case 1t can be forced in another.
The President, very rightly, regards
the lottery as an immoral institution,
detrimental to the welfare Of his country
He also fears that its establishment
would have an effect in the United States
which would be prejudical to Cuba
To this the reply is made that country
which will saddle upon them. beyond
their ready power Of removal SO de-
moralizing a gambling institution as
the Jai Alai has no proper ground OF
complaint if they establish lottery.
The Cuban people are exceedingly
quick to recognize any weakness in their
leaders, and while Gen. PALMA may
have acted wisely in thus yielding tc
the pressure brought to bear upon him
his prestige has been weakened by the
contrast with the determination mani
tested in his earlier position.
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subueties Of Londen Engllsk


A. the Southwark Coroner's Court, the Coroner
having concluded the evidence In IN inquest sug.
gested that tho Jury should return verdict Of
"Death by misndyenturc.s Tho Foreman-We
agree to q verdict Of accidental death The
coroner-wen that's tho Same thing. The Fore
man--Oh. no. Mr.. Coroner. The Coroner-Whn'
IL tho dinerenccf The Foreman-Well. you see
these shlngs get into the newspaper. and when
people read verdict OF "misadventurs- they WIZ
conclude that the deceased killed in souabole,
seeing that II happened at public house. Tho
Coroner--And docs accidental death mean any
thing different In the minds Of the people you refer
TOT The Foreman-Yes, sir. An accident Ia an &C
cident, and one touched the deceased. but mis-
adventure makes people think he got allowed over
Wen have II accidental death, MIS- all tho same to
you. Mr.. Coroner. Eventually the Coroner salo
that he did not where the misunde rstand'ns
could arise but doubtless tho jury knew best In the
pnatteY
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gonquin Ollendorff. Turning away from
the delights Of Volapdk and Esperanto
take up this telephone dialogue, spoken
one Of the days Of tho June flood, by j.
8. Of Deal and NoAKBs Of Navesink:
~. s.-Tockcttaunchim. kutchissu' tWhati
the news. old mann
"N.-Moekinnon. mishinnon. (Muoh rain, biz
RAIN.
-. S-Sv,p sookenoni (Doss II rainD
N.-Hobbamock. Hobbamoco. Abbamochol
Chequnspsh asuh pokshadtau kenayeu u,uskesuk
tDevl. divii. duyvili Shut up or III break your
faceD
u. s.-wunantsshi wuttatashi toh. forget n
Have . drink"
Natick is elastic enough to express &C.
curately and felicitously the finest phrase
OF Pumpish,
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U.favorabls Impressions Of Returned
Traveller,

TO THE EprroR OF THE suN-.Nr: l arrived on
tho cedrio last Sunday. after one year and hairs
residence In London. The Custom House ofncial
boarded our vsssel at Quarantine. and the DECLARE
ton papers were presented With tho same sort OF
poll.eness that one might use TO convict about TO
be hanged.
The disagresAble experience with Custom House
ofhcals being over. ones exit from the wharf Is i'm
peded by a host Of cabdrvers and porters. who not
only obstruct free passage. but shout and scream
e your isss 70 take CAB or 70 carry your esrs
should be left for the traveller 70 solicit his needs
rather than be tormened BY the bosterous. uncouth
solicitations of cAbdrivers.
AZ every station wharf in London line OF cabs,
hAnsoms and omnibuses stands In readiness for the
use Of travellers, but not sound oomea from them,
Is 1t Impossible for US to follow such good ex-
amplcs,
eien cities, especially among people Of moderate
means; and why' Because ,hey can get more ease
IN their own country. Every traveller il England.
especially. will acknowledge that the civtnty o. ON
oials, Of tfadespeople, and employees Of all kinds
puts 70 shame the rough and indecorous behavior OF
the same class with Us. (MsJ V. T. X.
NEW YORK. Juno IS.
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Mans Socks, Toe {?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: Observing In
tho window of fashionable hosiery shop In 1fsh
avenue q sign which read. Half Hose for Ladies'
and the Carriers That Go With Them. I am moved
to make modest inquiry Of THE Sum 10 the effect
30 real ladies wear half ose." lam not aware how
THE SUN should know any more about this delicate
matter than do. and almost hope that II docs not,
Yet am anxious to know, not from curiosity, but
making further inroads upon mans prerogatives
and viii he have to give up his socks also 10 the
stronger seXi Thus far he has Kicked occasionally
blu, not with bare feet II his socks are taken from
him It viii be OF avail 70 kick further for sock.
less he Is helpless:
o woman. in your other days,
We never named you but % praise:
Advancing most too p. d. o.
NAV YORK, June TO- EvEnYnAN.
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OUR PHILIPPINE OBSERVATORY
Its Jesuit Director Coming to Arr,txe
an Exhibit ut the II. IIoutA tr.

an Exhibit ut the ". Lou'A tr.
Father jose Algue, the J~shs =. - lo4er-
who is the director OF the Governmendob.
servatory In the Philippines, Is coming iere
to arrange for the scientific exhibit f(om
the archipelago at the St. Louis Exposition.
Father Ague, with the aid Of some Filipino
draughtsmen, will erect a birdseye vteWof
the Philippine Islands 1ooxloo feetin size.
Father Algue will also have charge Of tbe
chronological, geological, botanical aAt
scientific charts which will be used in tfts
future by the United States Geodetic any
Coast Survey. They will deal with the clf-
matology. seismology and terrestrial mag
and collections represent half century's
work Of Jesuit scholars and missionaries
in the islands. Father Algue was the
founder of the original Manila observa-
tory under the Spanish regime, and one Of
the first acts Of Congress after the United
States acquired possession OF the Philip
pines was to authorize him to establish
Government observatory at Manila.
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Miss Solomon.

woman was walking In a palm grove when
man saw her and FASTENED after her. When she
asked him WAY he followed her. he replied;
because am In love with YOU"
And why are you In love with mc'" she asked.
my sister who comes after me yonder is far more
beautiful than I: go and fall In love with her In
stead"
The man compiled aud went back but only 10
look upon woman as ugly as sin. He was vexed
and returned TO the nrst woman and said 10 her:
why did you deceive me!-
And she made answer:
Did you not also tell me an untru,h, For II
you were really in love with me why did you turn
back to the other womsnt-
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The slmmer Birds.

Tho biuebird no Is sneeEtng
Upon the apple tree:
Tbe bobolink Is freezing
Somewhere out on the lee:
Bob Whites got influenza
His voice Is out OF tuno-
Oh. there Is nothing rarcf
Than this old month Of June-
The melancholy robin
Il Quaking with unrest.
Hes hunting through the woodland
For a steam heated nest:
The hooking birds got chiiblAlns
He cheeps hoarsish croou-
Oh. there Is nothing rarer
Than this old month Of June.
The nightingale Ia eroupy.
The skylark DER the void
Is skimming like dupe. he
Has got an awful cold
The cuckoo's got la grippe"
Tho sparrows In swoon-
Oh. there Is nothing rarer
Than this old month OF June.
Ftp. p
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Out OF the dark backward and abysm Of

Out OF the dark backward and abysm Of
time rises the Hon. LAWRENCE 7. NEAL Of
Ohio, so long the drum major Of the free
trade corps, Representative in Congress Of
the Chillicothe district, candidate for Gov
ernor against WILLIAM MCKINLEY in 1893
Never has there been q holder baster Of
protection than LARRY NEAL. irrepressible,
indefatigable and a hopeless old batch. y
Not much has been heard of him in the last
ten years. Now something excellent Is
heard OF him. He Is turning to protection
at last. Next week LARRY will marry .one
Of the most popular young ladies in the
social circles OF central Ohio" Unlucky
in politics, lucky in love.
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rKnYnAM.
A. sh. IL spok. en- u E,sv...A.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfr: had an
experience similar to that Of Sad Eyes" a few da, .
ago. On leaving the Fifty ninth street station OF
the Third avenue elevated the guard put Ids head
In the door and called sixty seven eggsi"
gentleman sitting opposite 10 me hmm etil ately
dived under the seats. and refused 10 out until
his mistake was explained to him. j. E. D.
NEW York, June u.
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Captain Amund.en'. Quest.

The purpose OF the expedition from
Christiania in search of the magnetic
North Pole is much more important to
mankind than the discovery Of the geo.
graphical pole. To be surg, by the aid
of the now pretty generally discarded
declinometer and the more widely used
magnetometer ard magnetograph the
discrepancies between the directions OF
the lines of terrestrial magnetism and
the situation of the true North Pole are
ascertainable, but they are subject to
continual change, and the exact location
of the magnetic North Pole would give
great assistance in the study OF this
change and its causes.
The importance Of the latter lies in
the fact that the difference between the
true or geographical North Pole and the
magnetic pole is what causes variation
of the compass. Only at few places
on the earth's surface, known as on the
agonic lines, where there is no variation,
or where it changes from easterly to
westerly, does the mariners compass,
when not affected by the local magnet
ism of an iron ship, point directly at the
North Pole. 1t always points straight
at the magnetic pole, and an agonic line
exists only where the magnetic pole
is due south of the geographic. The
further the compass is from the agonic
line the greater is the angle between the
geographical and the magnetic poles,
and consequently the larger the needles
variation.
COLUMBUS is credited with the dis
covery Of variation, and the phenomenon
put his hardy sailors in what our British
cousins call blue funk In his days
and for centuries later rough-and-ready
knowledge Of the variation was suff-
Gent for the purposes OF navigation.
But as the speed of ocean travel increased,
and as metal came to play more and
more important part in the structure
Of vessels, the necessity Of a perfect es-
Enlistment Of the lines of variation
grew greater. Our Government has
done its share in providing information
on this matter, and its coast survey charts
cannot be excelled for the assistance
they offer the navigator.
He, however, has enough to do in these
days with taking care Of the deviation
Of his compass-the error caused by
iron or steel in the ship-and too much
cannot be done to eliminate all possible
errors in shaping the course which might
be due to insufficient knowledge OF the
variation or its changes. The expedi-
ton sent out from Chrstiania will doubt
less accomplish much, especially as
the magnetic pole is somewhere in the
neighborhood Of 1900 miles south Of
the geographic pole.
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Tho Count OF Monte Crsto was sulktng.
Dumas may think he Is etven me enough money
he muttered. "out how about Carnegie and Rookie
feller'" -
Still grumblng. he debated whether 81 ses 70
strike.
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Readers Of THE SUN leaving the city can nave the
Daily and Sunday editions mailed TO their addresses
(which may be changed when necessary for 10
cents a month. order through your newsdealer
or THE SUN, 40 Nassau street
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come to light in The Picket, winner OF the
American Derby Of 1903. This son of
Falsetto and Voltaro. one Of the nineteen
starters, led his field from beginning to
end and won handily. Considering the
fact tnat the colt had never before won a
race, III. performance is regarded as little
short OF remarkable AS two-year-old
The Picket had revealed, in the few races
he ran, only fair ability.
This years Derby, as 1t was run. afforded
comparatively little interest to the East
ern horsemen. The withdrawal. at almost
the twelfth hour, Of Irish Lad, hero OF the
Brooklyn Handicap, left the field composed
of distinctvely Western horses, unless we
except Flocarlne. who has been seon few
times this year on the metropolitan courses.
There were no conspicuous representatives
Of the Eastern stables like Heno and Her
mis- and Pentecost, who were shipped West
in 1902 In the firm belief that one Of them
would capture this rich Western classic.
In 1901 the metropolitan turf was repre-
sented in the Derby by such well-known
champions as Bonnibert, Beau Gallant and
The Parader-the strongest trio which had
ever carried the Eastern colors in the race
up to that time.
Some observers are OF the opinion that
had Irish Lad started last Saturday, as was
the original intention, he would have won,
notwithstanding that The Picket broke
the Derby record by four-fifths Of second,
his time being 233. But Irish Lad is likely
to have ample opportunities to distinguish
himself further here in the East.
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From Elizabeth Anxious About Her Garden.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUH-Sfr: Why not get
the ofnclal rainmakcr to send up few sponges
on his next team Of kites' elizabeth.