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Court sustains Foot-Esse Trade-Mark.

Court sustains Foot-Esse Trade-Mark.
Buffalo, X, July 25th.-Justice Laughffns
In Supreme Court has granted 9 permanent
injunction with costs against certain New
York City dealers, restraining them from,
making or selling q powder which Is an imi-3
tation and mfr ngement on "Foot-EaseM j.
now 80 largely advertised and sold. The;
owne. OF "Foot-Ease" Is Allen 8. 0imsted,
Of LIE Roy, N. Y, and the decision upholds bis
trademark and makes liable those attempt
ing to profit by "Foot Ease" advertising BY.
marketing similar-sppearins preparation.
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Placerville, Cal.-According to re-
port received here, fight between the
escaped convicts from Folsom and a
posse took place near Pilot HILL. in
which Fred Howard was killed and A.
Sea bis wounded. Both men are con-
victs. Before the fight took place the
convicts, who had picked up q number
of citizens en- route and had compelled
them to join their party. had plundered
a general merchandise store at Pilot
Hill.
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A General Strike,at Baku, Russia.
A general strike has been declared
at Baku, Russia. which involves 40,-
I00n nnrSnnS
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The man who knows it all Is generally
looking for some one to try and convince
him that he doesn't. s-s.Js 81 qs, ~
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An Eulosy Read While Brazier Sent
Sparks Toward the Ceiling-Diplomats
Accredited to the Vatican Make For
NAL Call on the CardinaIs-The Fisher
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colleagues at the death of the Pope
and offered their condolences. He also
delivered a eulogy Of the late Pontiff.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
DIR. ". J. LONG.
II Talk zcith the Writer Of Some
Popular Nature Books.

IT is now generally known that w. J. Long,
the author of several charming books on the
ways of birds and animals, is clergyman
Until he resigned a short time ago, because OF
threatened injury to his eyesight, he was pas
tor of the Congregational Church at Stam-
ford, Conn., He has aroused antagonism and
attracted attention in other fields than that of
natural history. In New-England, among those
Of his denomination although he ordained
only three and one-half years ago, he has be-
come known as a theologian bound by no set
form of theology. Before he was called to the
church at Stamford, which was his first and
oplv pastorate he was obliged to defend his
belief before a church council at Cambridge.
Mass. Conventions have little hold upon him,
his individuality impressing itself upon every
thing he undertakes. He has crowded a great
deal of observation and study into thirty
five years of his life. Besides the many days
and nights spent in the fields, the Maine woods
and among the Indians he has found time to
earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Hell
delberg and to prepare rendition of the Bible
for his use. He speaks five or six lam
guages and reads as many more and is at home
il philosophy and history.
Apropos of the charge that DR.. Long was
"dra wing the long bow" mixing fiction and the
facts of nature with little regard for the latter,
is something which he said lately to friend in
his study.
~ have never published anything regarding
the ways of Il bird an animal which have
not confirmed myself, or which has not been
confirmed by a hunter or guide whose state
ments were entirely to be depended upon 1
have often been obliged to wait years for yeri-
ffcation, and in my notebooks have recorded
many observations which L have not dared
print because l had not fully confirmed them.
This summer, when 1 go to Newfoundland, I
expect to go fifty miles out of my course to
visit an old guide of whom know, for the sake
of the possibility of confirming some of my OBJ
servations. I expect that of them will
be corroborated by him.
The study of the ways of birds and animals
Is only recreation. 1t is not my work. but
my play 1 have been watching them since I
can remember. 1 used to go into the woods
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

out OF the schools because it contained a state
ment that frog which I watched caught and
swallowed a sparrow. The probability of this
was debated for an hour or more, and II was
then decided that frog could choke down
sparrow. and the book was withdrawn. They
did not happen to know that frogs sometimes
grow to a length of sixteen inches. There is
a man in the upper part of Connecticut who has
a number of frogs as long as that" he said
spreading his hands to indicate the length. He
often feeds them with mice and sparrows, and
have photograph showing one of these frogs
MANY years ago I noticed a woodcock in a
clay bank at the edge of a stream. carefully
smearing the clay over one of its legs, about
which it had placed same blades of grass. The
leg had been broken. and apparently the bird
had set it and plastered clay around the fracture
to protect it until it was healed. l had never
written this, and hardly dared to mention it. for
no one could be expected to believe it. Only
people who live in the woods know that animals
and birds often practise rude kind of surgery.
But recently after a lecture in Bridgeport a gen
tleman who in the audience told me that
more than once he had found humps of clay
about the legs of woodcOck which he had shot.
In the clay were spears Of grass. He had won
dered at it and had taken off the clay Inyari-
ably he found, he said, that the leg had been
broken. There was the cOrrObOratiOn of another
obSerya ton"
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

when I was four years old. I was very mucn
afraid of the woods, but there was always some
thing there which fascinated me. When was
missing it was in the woods that would De
sought L remember observing in those Gays
the way in which a pair of orioles oVercame
difficulty in constructing their nest They haa
chosen a crotch from which to suspend it, Wnlch
they apparently deemed too wide for the nest 10
hang safely. A short stick was found and tled
across the crotch with pieces of string, FORMING
a triangle. Then they went ahead with their
nest Recently d pair of orioles were driven
from the swinging branches of an elm tree They
chose a buttonwood, the branches of which are
stiff and very unyiedng Look at that nest
hanging over my desk. That is the next they
constructed. With the exception of cutting the
string from which 1t suspended 1t is just
as they built it They made a framework OF
twigs. tying the ends together, and then built
the nest from it. In order to make it a swing
ing nest they took piece of marlin, as you see
there. one end of which they tied to the branch,
and to make it doubly secure, tied it again be-
low to itself. In that framework are five d1frer-
ent kinds of knots, some of which sailors use.
and not one of which will slip. That nest was
the confirmation of what observed thirty years
ago.
of the Middle West one of my books was taken
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

character and the book is to be taken as fiction
Nevertheless it has really the interest of a col
lection of observations life as it is seen
from within the walls of the Ghetto, and 1t mas
a certain engaging actuality. These discourseS
run on all manner of themes. on the padhesS
of a good man and the goodness of bad man.
on home on social reformers, on Zlonls1n, on
plays poetry and fiction. Perhaps the most
significant passage occurs in the Chapter OH
Zionism, wherein the author says:
The Jew must not be relegated to obscure
corner of the world, to a little platform where
upon he will recite a piece IN IN uhhho"n
tongue l want a big stage for him-the world
want a great play for hinl-all its multtud1-
nous activities For he is a wonderful actor tie
has versatility, illusion, imagination ana dIl-
in the world drama So let the play go on, ana
do not ask him to waste his energies and par
gain with the Sultan for bit Of barren lanu
that has been taken from him so long ago he
has bigger task to perform, larger MISSION
10 fulfil. He must live among the nations ana
help them in their upward struggle for hlSher
ciyxdzatOn and a nobler life.
This shows that the talker put through his
pa rs by Mr. Richards is independent in his
thought, with a wholesome outlook upon HE.
He is better when he is talking about life than
when he is talking about art. ''Tostoi has
theories of art" ne says. Personally L am
rather sorry for this, because if he did not
have them he would be greater artist. Even
as theories of life often mar existence. so the
ories of art impair the artist" We are sorry for
Keidansky and not with reference to this de-
liyerance alone. Too often his sayings have a
kind of paradoxical smartness-and nothing
more. But the book is not to be taken too
seriously. It is to be read rather for the side
lights it throws the Ghetto point of view.
very mildly luminous, to be sure. but genuine
sdelights, just the
The anonymous author of "Ezabeth's Chill
dren," writing apparently with one eye on the
favoring gale supplied by the success Of Mrs.
Glyn's book, comes too many days after the
fair We are getting little tired of all these
Elzabeths, with their intensely modern humor
and their rather mechanical vivacity, and 'Eliz-
abeths Children" is not short enough or clever
enough to win a warm welcome. The young
sters sketched in these pages are amusing now
and then, and the romance at which they assist
is to a certain extent beguiling, but, when all
is said, we find the volume falls fat.
More Irish stories presented to US in
DARBY O'Gill and the Good People," this
occasion stories in which the fairies have
large share. They are deftly contrived and
they have atmosphere. Very tangible types OF
Tipperary move through the book and. though
they use dialect, they are not obscure. On the
contrary, these narratives are clear and bright
little productions, in which the author shows a
true feeling for fairy lore.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Mr. A. B. Walkley, the dramatic critic of The
London Times" has been reading d book
John Forster, by ''One of His Friends who is
said to be Mr.. Percy Fitzgerald and lit has
OF plays and players as il written in Eng
land in the thirtieS and fOrties. That criticism
strikes him as having been nothing
less than a kind of POdSnappery. Mr. FITZGERALD
says that Forster had q perfect instinct for
Judging, even when not present" and he reCOI-
Iects that when the town was comparing SaIvini
with Irving Forster remarked. Though l have
not seen either MIR. SalVlni or Mr. Irving, I have
perfect conviction that SaIYini is an actor and
Mr.. Irving is not" Not otherwise, as Mr.
Walkley reminds us. did Podsnap flourish his
right arm and settle that whatever he put be-
hlnd him he put out of existence" Mr.. Walkley
describes Forster as not much a dramatic as
a histrionic critic, like Leigh Hunt and HazIitt
before him, and adds:
They could not help themselves. poor fellows
for there was no live drama To criticise: there
was only acting-hambOyant acting. Roman
nosed massive and concrete acting above all
sublime acting. Sublime indeed, was the cant
after-suffering of Othell0. and as late as 1851
TennySOn addressed a sonnet to 'NIacreadv
moral grave, sublime Hence criticism had TO
be sublime. too. Forster writes of Macreadv's
Moor: There was a swelling grandeur i'm his
passion that seemed to lift him occasionally 10
the stature of a giant. and he swept across the
stage an agitated and fearful Formr In the
intervals of sUblimity the critic had to deal in
mint and anise and cumrlin. He remarked the
Subtiety of Macready in raising only one eve-
brow where John Kembe had elevated two or
The few words at the conclusion of this Scars
were given with profoundly beautiful e1-nreS
sion, and the mode in which he left the STAGE
at its close with his wife was one of the DecuIi3r
triumphs of his art 1t fell into natural and
lof coursel sublime contrast with etc Or else
while 'kean'S OthellO is now only tho rerpav,
brance OF an amazing picture of sublinitv and
Woe MIR. Macready's OtheHo the rising race
OF piayS"erS VIII probably come to consider as
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
MISCONCEPTIONS.
From The London Morning Post.
observation

A correspondent sends the following popular
misquOtatiOnS, whci he thinks might he added
TO the few eXampi| S o. spurious quotations given
in our issue of the 20ii. March: The absurd tau
toIogy Like angels visits few Gnstead of SHORTY
and far between; Money is the root of all
evil" for THE love of money" a very different
thing He remarks that it is curious that The
late DR.. Patteson himself in his monograph on
Milton falls into the snare Of quoting Fresh
fields and pastures new" He suggests also
that the use of the Italian phrase in petto as
if equivalent to in miniature, is another snare
into which many authors fail
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Apropos CT Mr.. FitZgerald's book. we nav not.
an amusing illustration OF the danger OF +-,Tv.'
ing to ones memory where matters OF res
are concerned. He talks Of a certain reading -
FOrster'S of an unpublished play by Lord w.
ton, called "WalpOle," and says that eau ~.
characters spoke and carried on conversation n
hexameters. The effect was ridiculous" In tbs
current number Of The Academy it fs pointed
cut that "WaIpOle," published in 1863 "cer
tainIy contained no hexameters."
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

the most astonishing elevation OF anguishat 49,.
sion into a fixed and sublime despair tbat - -
have ever been permitted 70 behold such ~ ~
the criticism of the sublime period the go
cism learned Ia the school OF Macready and -
old comedies" TIC
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

&C K S. in The Sphere says that he be-
Iieves that Mr.. Maurice Hewlett is quite cult
with a great many people Indeed he Is, anu
one testimony To the fact is offered by the book
sellers, who. when they are lucky enough 10
secure a copy of the first edition OF any OF Mr.
HeWlettS books, hold il at q high figure We
have recently a collection of first editions
of the eight volumes he has published offered at
S120. The increase in the value Of these books
has been rapid. When "Earthwork Out OF TuS-
cany" was hailed in The Tribune work or
genius, some six seven years ago. the author
was unknown and copies of that beautiful little
book were easily prOcurabIe at the original price
Now they are excessively difficult to find, and
when found must be paid for at a considerable
advance.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

MIR E. F. Bensous next novel is 10 be a pct.
ure of life in a cathedral town. called AN act
in a BackWater." 1t will be interesting to sec
il Mr. Benson's cleyerneSS is equal to the trans
terrence to paper of an atmosphere pecuilaIly
difficult to catch. An English cathedrai Tow II
differs In a thousand and one little ways ToIi
all other towns in the world Countess mover
lists have endeavOred to reproduce pS specIdi
note and few have succeeded
There is to be a new volume in the well known
Highways and Byways" series, pubLshed Dy
the MacmiIlans. 1t is to deal with South wares
and will be written by Mr.. A. G. Bradley, the
author of the books North Wales and the
Lake District in the same series Another VOL
urne is in preparation. on the highways ana py-
ways of Sussex by Mr. E. V. Lucas, VINO mas
won repute as student Of and commentator on
Charles Lamb
Mr. Lucas, by the way, is the editor of the new
edition of Lambs works which Dent. in London
has announced, and il is expected that he VIII
make that edition one of great value. In MI
Bertram Dobers 'Sidelights on Charles Lamb.
which the Scribners have just published. there
is a bit of Eliana unearthed by this industrious
Investigator, 1.-THE Confession of H. F. V. H.
Delamore, Esq.," in which the writer says:
These legs with Kent iii the play. though for
far less ennobiing considerations. did wear cruel
garters'" 1t appears that evidence that Lamb
was once really put in the stocks is in the pos
session of Mr Lucas. The incident is so quaint
that we are impatient to know al about 1t. but
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
DIR. LONG IN HIS STUDY.
(F'rom a Photography

We must wait for the edition aforesaid.
"Mr. Lucas knows" says THE London Times"
but like Herodotus, will not tell"
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

We referred last week to the difficulty in
which Mr.. GOllancZ and his publisher became
involved with Mr.. Parry over their edition az
Dorothy OsbOrne's Letters, which Mr. PAR,
considered to be infringement upon an edi-
ton Of his own of the same correspondence. Dr
F'urnivaH sympathiZes with Mr. GOllancz and
he has announced that he will in due course
bring out an edition of the letters from the MSS
in the British Museum. so that Mr. Parry can
test the value of his claim. and the point may
be settled whether any one Of the public can
or cannot edit one of the atoms MSS Mr.
Parry does not like what DIR. FuTnival has been
saying and relieves himself in a letter to The
Times in this fashion:
when. however the learned doctor abuses
me and nv work and NJ SkeaI Joins in with
his words of dispraise-theTe was Mr. Skest
by-the-bye who helped GOlancz In his work
when these two scholars contend that I am
an ass utterly unfit to edit anything, So great
is nv respect for schOlars'-On their literary. not
on their moral, side-that can only bow my
head in silence. Agreed that my book is what
the modern schoolgirl calls a TOtter.' Why
appropriate it? Why not do a better? Why
crib its text and it's arrangement and some OF
its worst notes? Why not take of your coat and
do the work for yourself? / did several months
honest work at my edition. I am a careless
fellow says DR.. Furnivall- So be 1t; but that
does not allow a more careful fellow to appro-
pirate my work
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Mr. Bodley has sent to the printers the book
on the coronation of Edward VII which he was
commanded by the King to write. IL has taken
eight months to complete the work. which j.
entitled The Coronation of Edward VII \
chapter of European and Imperial flSto'|-
An appendix is to contain list Of eight tl'u-
sand names OF persons invited to the cor"na''D-
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

The latest volume by K. and III. Prichard,
which will soon be brought out in this country,
is entitled Rowing Hearts" 1t is a book Of
short stories, devoted to the exploits of certain
empire builders"
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Mr.. George StrOnach writes from EdlnDurSh %
''The Academy to say that Mr.. Sidney Lee is
perfectly correct in his contention, noted in The
Tribune last Sunday that America is the land
in which the Baconian delusiOn first came into
being and has been chiefly nurtured-' He con
tinues:
'The first known publication questioning the
right of Shakespeare to the authorship OF the
Shakespearian dramas The Ancient
Lethe' published by Harper & Bros in New
York in 1913, and written by Joseph C. Hart, a
yachtsman, the friend and associate of Willis
and Poe and a colonel in the NatIOnz7 17-@zF7T-~
He contrasted Shakespeare with the other Eliz-
abethan writer's, and argued that the facts
known in the life of Shakespeare. so far as they
are known, are Incompatible with tne aulhoT-
ship taking up the plays in review and claim
ing that Shakespeare had very little part m
them. Hart suggested no author, however
Mr. Stronach recalls, by the way, that Byron
once stated that he expected to wake Up some
morning to find that Shakespeare had never
written Shakespeare" and. turning to certain
words in the ''Venetfa' of Lord BeacOnsfed. he
argues that they suggest that that writer and
statesman might fairly be regarded as Shakes
pearian doubter. Mr. Charles A Herpch. writ
ing to US about our recent paragraph on this
subject says: "As between MIR. W II. Smith
and Della Bacon, the following extracts from
letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. dated
June 5, 1851 to Mr.. Smith. would seem 10 settle
beyond question that Miss Bacon was first in
the field: But as / knew that a rumOr Of her
theory had been widely though vaguely clreu-
lated for some years past, on both sides OF the
Atlantic and also that she had preceded You IN
publication etc" Somehow the question does
not seem to us to be a very thrilling one
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

There is an amusing tale in The London out
look of "a well known lady novelist. whose
enemies accuse her OF taking herself SOmeW nat
too seriously" She was entertaining party
of her friends and conversation ran largely
upon her book One young man III the
circle had not read the work
Accordingly, on rising from the table. ana
by way of abstTacting himself from the takers
who were still worrying their converse tlona!
bone. he fixed his eyes on female portrait
which adorned the drawing room wall Coming
softly behind him. the lady novelist Significantly
said. ! think I know what you are thinking
that that picture reminds you of Frederic6a-'
of Fredericka.' replied the young man bankly.
what Fredericka2' My FTedericka. returned
the novelist. with surprise for her latest hero
inc bore that name Then the uubeleVer pulled
himself together No said he with a judicial
head shake, that is not my notion Of your Fred
ericka.' And he plumed himself on having Sot
well out OF the hObble. But il was Yet early for
self graduation Come. then returned his
hostess. seductiveIy. come and sit down here
beside me. and YOU shall tell me what y'ur
notion of my FTederiCka is
New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Subscriptions to the Sir Walter Eesaut me-
mortal fund come in steadily. but slowly some
thing over 81 600 is stated by The Author" 10
have thus far been received.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-10-01
Brother to the Goat.

The small boy drank the contents OF
bottle of listerne. The effects were
not particularly disastrous, but they,
might have been if the bottle had held
corrosive sublimate or carbolic acid,
and so it was decreed by the powers
that he must be punished to discourage
any further experiments with walls tnat
contain fascinating liquids.
1t was rather meanly decided that MS
mother should administer the chaS-.
tisement, for the father OF this small
boy like the fathers OF most small boys
is very free to say that the youngstcr
must be punished, but he is extremely
disinclincd to administer the PUNISH
mcnt himself :,
The mother of the thrceyear-old
thcreupon gathered together her dig,
nifty. She looked at him sternly and
said
Don't you dare ever again to
drink anything mother or NURSE;
doesn't give YOU" Then she slapped
his hands.
The small boy stood the punishment
manfrlly. He didn't even whlmpcr as
he promised to be good. Five minutes
later MS ulCle Cdiic " |"i' a.
house. The youngstcr was dcllghted
to see him.
81 didn't know you were tomlng'
Uncle Dom" said he. And then III TN,
extberance OF his JOY he capcred out
OF the room,
1t is always the part Of prudence to
follow him up when he is hapnv, and so
the nurse went after him almost direct
". She found him swallowing the last
OF small cake of watcr-color pants,
Her cries brought the father to the
scene. ., -,
Make him drink a glass OF MILK
said he, cxcitcdly.
When the nurse returned with TINS
remedy the small boy was sitting UP
blinking from the operation OF nav
ing his mouth washed out with soap
and hot water. ;,
Il don't want the milk, papa SAID
he. Cows drink milk; boys don't,
But this boy did, and he was none
the worse for his feast the nest morn
ing, which leads his worried parents 10
believe that he is some relation TO a.,
ostrich or a goat and not to be injured
by lunching on strange substances
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An ArtiC Railway.

The most northerly railway i'll the
world was opened few weeks ago.
For its whole length it lies within the
Arctic regions. The greater part OF 1t
is in Swedish territory, and only i
small part cuts through the narroWcSt
portion OF Norway until it reaches the
Norwegian harbor OF Narvlk. The
Chief object oi the line, which now CON
meets the northern Baltic with the At
lantic, is to open up the rich mjncra
resources OF North Sweden and t.
carry them cheapiy to NarviE The
new railway which will be known a
the Ototcn line, is about one hundred
and forty miles long, and costs about