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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
WINTER IN NEW-zEALAND.

The winters were short and delicious. except
for occasional week OF wet weather, which
however, were always regarded by the sheep
farmer excellent for filling up the creeks
making the grass grow and being everything
that was natural and desira BILE When IL did not
rain, the winter weather was simply enchanting,
although one had to be prepared for it's sudden
caprices. for weather is weather even at the
antipodes. and consequently unreliable.
Sometimes started ideally exquisite
morning for a long ride station bust
ness. The air would be still and delicious, fresh
and exhlaratinG to degree hardly to be I'M
derstood: the sun brilliant and just sufficiently
warming. All would go well for four five
hours. until. perhaps. had crossed low
saddle in the mountains and were coming home
by the gorge OF river. In ten minutes every
thing might have changed \ sou'-weSter
would have sprung UP though let out OF a
bag. heavy drops OF rain would be succeeded by
a snow furry. il which IL was not always easy
rcsks. and the riders who set forth gayly
at 10 OF the clock that same morning would
return in the fast gathering darkness wet to
the skin. or, rather. frozen to the bone. have
often found Il difficult to get out OF my habit
stiff with frozen snow was its bodice.
No dreamed OF catching cold. how
ever. from the meteorological changes and
chances. an immunity which doubt he owed
to the fact that We led. whether liked it or
house. with its canvas apered lining did not
have often found n heap OF feathery snow on
a chair near nv closed bedroom window which
had di1ftni In through the Ill fitting frame. Still
these snow showers and even hard frosts (Which
usually melted by midday did no harm to man
or beast--(Lady Broome in The Cornhil
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
THE SECESSION OF PANAMA

The construction OF waterway across Ce"
trail America Is a matter not only OF lnteriia-
tional commercial Importance, but also ono
which promised to be Of permanent advantage
TO Colombia OF course. II the inha bitants or
the Isthmus of Panama objected to any foreign
power having even leasehold tenure In thelr
territory the rejection OF the contract would
have been justifabIe. But the people OF Panama
did not object on the contrary, they desired
the arrangement most ardently-
What then was the real cause OF the rejection
Of Colombia? Patriotism only the blind. for
Immediately after the rejection of the treaty
a new one was drafted at Bogota providing tor
more liberal payments by the United states,
and since the secession of Panama COLOMBIA
has practically offered TO accept a repetition OK
the treaty II America would compel Panama 10
return TO the Colombian fold. The real cause
is TO be found in the rvaries OF the two bitterly
opposing factions into which the country IL d.
vidod and in the desire for power and wealth
that governs one Of these factions. Colombia,
with all its bountiful natural resources, its won
drous latent wealth. and it's reInarka BILE variety
OF climates is simply torn by the contentious or
the Clericals who would keep the people IN
ignorance and In blind submission 20 the
Church and the ProSrcsSives, who want UNI
versaI education and freedom from the thrall or
the priesthood. The money that the United
States was TO pay Colombia for the right 10
build the canal was not considered enough by
orders to strengthen the hold OF the Church
upon the people. They wanted more money IN
order to enable them to perpetuate their uledl-
aval autocracy And in striving for more they
have lost aIL-(BenjaInin Taylor. In The FORT
nightly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
THE YOUNG FISHER.

There IS variety OF sportsman who gets 30
much Joy for SO little slaughter the Juvenile
angler. | have seen small boy at the end OF
six weeks pertinacious fishing. cxultant over
his total OF a hundred trout But OF these at
least two-thirds went back to the stream for
he had been properly educated. and scorned to
take understood fish Nothing under two
ounces would satisfy his standard But whether
he kept them or not the capture of each indi-
vidual pinkeen was a triumph. and he would
come In deploring with fine mastery OF tech
ncalities, that the salmon fry were rising very
short Doubtless In few he will be
deploring. with equal earnestness the same per-
verse behavior In the adult salmon. and, doubt
less. IN the light OF pure reason. he Is no more
ridiculous than he will be then
Yet although IL will not then be quite 30 ex-
hflarating TO command the terms OF art. to call
flies by their proper names, and know the Writ
OF orange grouse a bluebottle still
the spirit Of the thing will be the same for love
OF detailed discussion is of the anglers chief
characteristics In the Juvenile sportsman il
figures with that touch OF extravaganza which
makes the essence Of caricature. Scales are al
ready his delight, and. II the cook permits he
viii weigh meticulousy every single fish In a
basket of two Dozen and will strain his arith-
metic to construct ayerages-sometimes with
surprising results. but, after ALL how little un-
Like his nstructorsE(Stephen Gwynn In The
Cornhill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
SPENCER AND HEGEI.

$3.50 system was transcendental but Sp.n-
seI system aSnostic and empirical The known
iedity was TO the one thought but the Other
inter preted the reality he did not know Tn the
Tins Tins Vi matter motion and force, which he
,iiidsileo ne dId know. Hegers absolute is the
bosom that enfolds all that is ever unfoIded il
10 the nome OF all difference and the ground of
al relation, II Is the idea, il is thought which
oy articulation of itself makes nature and
spirit But Spencers ultimate entity is not only
unknown II Is the unknowable which though
MANIFESTED everywhere. is yet nowhere revealed
not even in the Consciousness from which II
cannot De separated. HegeTs method was but
the apphcaton to the universe of the principle
that Kant had applied to experience Were il
not for thought. its forms and categories no
RATIONAL experience would be possible,
would any rational universe But Spencer
strued his ultimate in terms that destroyed the
reallty or knowledge. and produced, If sub1ec-
lively applied, sceptcism. II obtectiveiy,
nescience- The methods the men took to work out
tnelr respective principles were characteristic.
Hegel loved history. analysed its great periods
and forces, communed with its master minds,
made the spirit that lived in the states and
igions, the arts and PHILOSOPHERS of the past
live concrete life before the imagination and
reason of the student But Spencer found his
main interest in the customs of savage peoples,
and may say that he almost completely neg
lected the history OF civilized man. our human
further II retreated from the savage state This
latter may seem, in the face of his later
books to be either entirely false or largely ex-
aggerated but IL do so only TO one VINO
has studied the principles OF sociology withous
reference to the descriptive sociology upon
which the former work is built History had TO
develop according to Spencers own Idea 10 nave
any interest for him. Where II did not 80 De-
velop II was SO much the worse for the history.
Or A N. Fairbairn. In The Contemporary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
A VISIT TO NJ. CURE.

After We had been in the darkness for some
time NJ Curie wrapped the raGum tube in
thick paper and put ii in my hand
NOW. said he, shut your eyes and press
this against your right eyelid"
i did as he bade me, and straightway had the
sensation OF a strange diffuSed light outside my
eye. M Curie assured me- however. that the
light was not outside. but inside the eve the
radium rays having the property OF making the
liquids Of the eyeball self-luminous a sort Of
internal phosphOrescence being produced He
warned me that il would be dangerous to leave
the radium against the eyelid very long as a
serious disturbance to the eyesght or even
blindness might result
Another experiment consisted IN placing the
radium against the bone at the side Of the fore
head. and even in this position, with the eyes
closed, light was perceptible, although faint
er. Here the radium rays had acted upon the
eyeball through the bones OF the head
1T is possible" said NJ Curie that this prop
erty or radIum may be utilized in certain dis
eases or the eye. DR.. Emile laval one OF our
distinguished physicians who is blind himself
has given this matter particular attention and
he thinks that radium may offer a precious
means OF diagnosis in cases of cataract by
showing whether the retna is or is not intact
and whether an operation will succeed If a
person blind from cataract see the radiurn
light as you have just seen IT, then the eyesight
OF that person may be restored by removing the
cataract Otherwise IL cannot be restored
-(CleVeland Aonett. in The Strand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
BRITISH MANNERS.

The defects In our social system must remain
characteristic OF US as long men remain
as Indifferent as they are to society-in fact. as
long as they are still only partially civilized
The French nation has undoubtedly put women
on 4 higher platform than has the British and
the greater refinement Of their social conception
is no less indisputably due to this fact. The
position of a wife and mother in French fam
lily is legally and instinctively a more honorable
one, and the mother-in-law. though aften the
subject of ridicule the stage. enjoys an
authority and consideration which that relation
ship is totally deprived Of with US. Wife beat
ing is unknown among our Gallo friends, ex-
citable though they are; and. every one
knows at home that pastime Is commonly in
dulged in by our lower classes at the expense CT
IS. Cd. fine.
In England many little things testify to the
accepted "superiority" of the male sex. A
woman bows first, to her lord and master;
in France 4 man salutes his idol. whether
noticed unnoticed. and stands with his head
uncovered if she stops to speak to him. while
the younger men never omit to kiss a lady's
hand. to shake which would seem imperti-
hence, To assert that all these formalities
meaningless is the abrupt conclusion OF most
''se!f-respeCting'' Englishmen. but they are
nevertheless the evidences of n refined civiliza-
tiOn and have their value If life in society is de-
sirable and usefuL-(The National
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

nv IHNHA<Ao1i VIEW OF PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia-the City OF Brotheriy Love-
1ouhoec by william Penn in a spirit of philan-
thropy, the birthplace of the Declaration of In
dependence, the memorable spot where was
drafted and adopted the Constitution Of the
united states, now holds beyond possibility OF
dispute the lSnoble palm OF being the most
rupt city in the world. All other American
cities have made distinct progress toward some
thing approaching higher civic ideals
II was only because Of a fatuously divided
opposition that five years ago Tammany Hall
was restored TO mastery. Though between 1898
ana 1901 this organization reduced political
brlgandase to elaborate system more cum
ningly scientific than ever before, discarding
the clulnsy methods OF remoter years. and
though its blackmail eXtortionS alone have aver
aged upward OF 900 a year II no longer
has been able TO avail itself of oldtime facilities
Tor the rolling up of enormous fraudulent plu-
ralties. Stricter laws ara vigilance have tend
cd TO minimize that evil, and popular temper.
constantly alert, has been abundantly able to
check many schemes OF plumber coming 10 pub
lie notice. Chicago, San Francisco Minneap-
OILS, and some other boss ridden cities of d
lew years ago, have risen from the muck of
political theft until now, still far removed as
they are from that fairly idealistic state which
come only from the slow maturing elevat-
ing processes of gradually developing finer
moral standards, they have ceased to present
their former scenes of outright spoliation-
Until 1902 ST. Louis. il thought, deserved
to be listed among fairly well governed Ameri-
can cities. This belief has been shattered by
recent proceedings in the st. Louis criminal
courts. so clearly was il shown that the Mu-
ncipal Assembly for years had regularly traf-
licked In public franchises for yenal ends that
a number of its members, together with rich
promoters" have been convicted of bribery and
sentenced to prison. while other persons incul-
pated are under indictment awaiting trial The
details OF this mass of corruption are disgust
Ing enough: yet the very fact that summary and
condign punishment has been inflicted Upon
those so far proven guilty shows that the people
OF st Louis are quick to resent rascality, and
at once precludes the placing OF that city on the
low plane Of Philadelphia where VIGOROUSLY
corrupt dignitaries rule and thrive unmolested
NGustavus Myers. In The National
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
LORD CURzoN AND THIBEr.

II is impossible 10 Judge OF or even to deal
with the great Thibetan question that IS now
being reopened by Lord CurZon. who is skilfully
insisting the old and indeed forfeited Six
kim treaty. without being prepared to treat all
the public information and official measures on
the subject mere trickery and not the
actual basis or development of policy And
this simple statement may exempt me from dis
cussing the innumerable comments-very able.
very European and unfortunately. very useless
that have been evoked by the strange very
Asiatc and very important Thbetan puzzle
Lord CurZon-I venture TO say II without any
ironical intention--is the most Asiatic gentle
man who has ever been intrusted with the gov
eminent of England's Asiatic Empire He has
the courage deliberately to oppose the moral
tendencies which reign in these times In Europe,
and TO employ against the awful expansion OF
Russian influence throughout Asia the very
means that have secured to Russia her brilliant
successes He is putting forward political de-
signs the publication of which can do no harm.
In order to have a free hand with respect to
enterprises that only succeed In perfect
secrecy In Asia the fait accompli Is the sole
diplomatic wea pom OF any value. and all the re-
fnements Of Oriental method consist merely In
the art of bringing about fats accomplis with
ont giving the adversary any opportunity or re-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ular. In The Contempt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
THE YELLOW PERIL

The Yellow Peril expounded on the Con-
tinent has no practical meaning for US II Is
a will o. the isp that may divert US from our
nath and lead us far astray. Even II the worst
according TO the Russian prophecies were 10
happen II must be remembered that Japan the
motive power according NJ. de Lanessan. ts
an island State which would always be liable to
the moral and naval pressure that the English
speaking States, England, America ana Aus
tralasia could bring to bear upon it
But if we substitute Russia for Japan the
Yellow Peril assumes a totally different aspect
Russia is not an island State. She Is a vast
land empire stretching from the Baltic to the
Pacific She has few vulnerable points. and
once she is secure in Manchuria there VIII be
fewer still open to attack Naval reVerses VIII
not bring her to her knees. when her land COM
munica lions across Siberia have been perfected
She will be able deride the terrors or block
ade These may be serious matters for all her
neighbors but for British interests in Asia,
commercial well political. they must Sig
nifty a heavy and perhaps n deadly blow. While
we afford to look on the development or the
so-called Yellow Peril under Japanese auspices
with calmness, and even to encourage Its prog
ress with clear reservation as to our sphere in
the YangtSe Valley. such tolerance Cstt g
safely extended to the realization OF Russia's
schemes for obtaining the control OF the des-
TIMES of China Her success would mean the
creation OF that formidable militant power that
is described in such impressive language as
threatening Europe with a return TO the days
OF the "scourges OF God" But whereas thu
peril under the direction of the Japanese would
never be more than phantom for any State
except Russia, il might become in the hands Of
Russia a menace to the peace of the world, and
the means of overthrowns the British Empire
in Asia and of laying the whole fabric OF British
commercial prosperity level with the ground
1.-THE Nineteenth Century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
RAHEL VARNHACEN

The story OF her life interesting as a ,-oso-
don OF the times in which she lived She w :.
born on Whitsunday I'LL. the eldest daughter
or the Jewish banker. Marcus Levin child
OF delicate nervous organization, she suffered
acutely under the household tyranny of her
father. who cherished the old Jewish idea Of
the fathers absolute rule and kept his family
trembling before his outbursts of wrath Rahel
suffered intensely. a sensitive child would.
under this regime In letter written when
che was about sixteen. she says: IF our
mother were 10 die, death would certainly be
the best thing for /. at least. should pre-
fer IT She describes her lonely hours spent
In a little room at the top Of the house. which
she was allowed to as her study:
MY attic. where ] lived. loved. suffered. re-
belled. Learned to know Goethei Grew up
with him. adored him unspeakabIy." Her po-
sition Jewess was the source Of many hu-
Mutations. although il brought her exceptional
advantages in the way OF education and inter-
course. The Jews were bitterly hated. ever.
by the Germans. and even the richest Jewish
families were seldom received In German cir
cles They formed a society apart and to this
very circumstance Rahel Levin owed the ex-
ceptional position she took as a leader or
salon both before and after her marriage.
Henriette Herr has described how the Jewish
women In their rich. luxurious dwellings. while
their husbands and tathsrs we're busy In shops
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
NOT 4 STEM WINDER.

Little Willie. who is q Philadelphia boy, had
been watching dog chasing his tail for TIRES
minutes
Papa" he asked, what kind of dog Is
thatT"
THAT" said the father. IS watch dog
Willie silent moment WELL" he final
ly said from the time he takes to wind himself
up, l guess he must be Waterbury watch dog
philadelphia Ledger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
SCOUTS AND SCOUTING

Scout" scouts" and scouting are -hree
words which were used more loosely perhaps
than any others during the whole OF the la te
assurances In South Africa Regiment after
regiment Of irregulars was raised nnda, ~.
name or this. that, and t'other Scouts" which
yet from first TO last did stroke of scouting
Dut renamed purely and simply the invaluable
mounted Infantry such regiments proved ~ no
II ionowed that thousands OF men rode about
win the title Scout" big and bold upon their
mats VINO yet knew little of real scouting
VOTE as II they were straight from AIdershot
ana as 10 scouting" ] remember that a daily
pduoi over the same three miles Of road start
.hs az oa"h every morning. called Scout
.g py the commandment OF a most importa nt
oepot point Ny suggestion that I should he
away for four or Eve days into the Free Ststa
was called idiotic talk by the same Command
ant: but that was the first month of the var
-tCaptain A O. Vaughan, in Longrnan'a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
rarY.
IBSEN'S APPRENTICESHIP.

~ The French determined TO claim some
share in the making OF Ibsen. they must shift
their ground a little. He did not get his Ideas
from George Sand. but he got good deal OF his
stagecraft from Eugene Scribe, and the play
wrights of his school. Ideas he could not posi-
bly get from Scribe. for the best OF all reasons.
but he be proved to have been famlllar at
the outset of hi career with the works of that
great inventor and manipulation OF situations.
from whom, there be little doubt, he
acquired the rudiments OF dramatic construc-
tion He ultimately outgrew his teacher even
in technical SKILL and his later plays. from
Ghosts onward. show the influence OF Scribe
mainly In the careful avoidance of his methods
Nevertheless 1t was In the Scribe gymnasium.
so to speak, that he trained himself for his
subsequent feats as a Standardization
Archer in The Fortnishtly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17
THE MANCHESTER school.

The worst OF the Manchester School was that
II despised the elegance and the arnenity of life
The distribution OF calicoes was. in its eyes a
far higher aim than beauty happiness The
responsibility OF great empire as nothing
compared TO smoking chimneys and a roaring
trade The energy which could not show a.
quick and tangible return was misapplied. The
duty OF good government began and ended at
home and if the colonies were not profitable. let
them GO Tradition, history. association were
Insignificant beside the profit of factory.
Many men have held this sordid doctrine; no
one has ever preached II with fine lack of
humor Richard Golden. The Pyramids filled
him with ve1ation as monuments Of wasted la
bor six millions OF tons Of stone, all shaped
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

About hundred years ago struggling Ba-
varian printer. Alois Senefelder by name, having
no paper at hand with which to indite his
washing bill, used for the purpose fiat slab
of peculiarly soft stone which he had in his
workshop. The ink he used was a rude and
greasy mixture The appearance Of the writing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

and fitted with skin. here piled IN q use
less form The third of this weight Of material
and less than tenth part of the labor sufficed
to construct the most useful public work In
England-the Plymouth Breakwater" Is ii not
magnificent? But happily the ancient Egyp-
tians were not wholly engrossed by utility:
they had also a sense of grandeur and state
illness. and they have left us monuments which
will outlast all the bales of calico that ever were
sent out of the warehouses OF Manchester
lBlackWood'S
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on the stone suggested to him the possibility 81
reproducing the writing His exnerimeDts -
took Its place among the great industr,aI At. -
the world.-(The Strand
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Major Indignantly What do you
mean, sentinel, by sleeping at your
post? If the enemy should appear you
would be lost" Sentinel-"Don't worry.
major. I haven't an enemy in the whole
Fliegende Batter.
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Applicant (for position as cook)-
How many afternoons out durin' the
wake, MIN? ?" Mrs. Highmore-"Well,
of course, you can have every Thursday,
and Applicant-'I'm askin' We,
MIN, how many AFTERNOONS out we
want yersilf Chicago Tribune.
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ENYoAS COUNTY RECORD,

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