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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
SOCIETY NOTES FROM WASHINGTON

IFrom The Tribune Bureaul
Washington, Dec, AIRS. Taft, wife of the Sec
rotary Of War; Mrs Chandler, Mrs Richard Clio
yer. Mrs Richey and other prominent women
interesting themselves in carrying to success a
bridge tournament for the benefit of homeless dogs
The games will take place on December H. and
society people generally helping.
Representative and Mrs. Herbert Parsons of
New-York. have arrived in town for the winter,
and have opened their residence at 18th and sts.
owned by Miss Anna Spaldng. niece of Senator
Depew and recently occupied by Commander and
Mrs. Winslow, who will remain at their Newport
estate for the winter.
Miss Mary E. Patten. Miss Josephine Patten and
Miss Helen Patten have returned to Washington,
after summer spent abroad They were with the
Washington party whose luggage was ransacked
by officers in New-York.
Former Ambassador to italy and Mrs William F.
Draper will arrive in Washington on December g.
and will open their house, in Farragut Square for
the winter
Mrs. Clarence Edward, who has spent some
months abroad in search Of health, has Joined
residence. No. LIS Massachusetts for the
winter.
General and Mrs. Greedy have been entertaining for
several days The Rev. Charles Lawrence Adams.
whose engagement to their second daughter, Miss
Ado!a Greedy, was announced short time ago. Mr..
Adams left the city to-day for East Hampton,
Mass, where he has charge. He pre-
vous to this assistant to the bishop IN the diocese
OF Salfna- Miss Greely's wedding will probably be
affair Of the spring
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third Is to be held next March in Hornellsv1lie,
and the work has resulted I'm several hundred
miles OF highway either already improved or pc
titioned for along the proposed route
The argument is now advanced that the WORK
in the southern tier is deserving of recognition
and help and that as the valley region is blessed
with comparatively level ground, fine railway
service and the additional advantage of trans
povtation by canal between the towns along us
banks it would be a graceful thing for the IN
terror counties to let the southern tier reap the
advantage of enterprise without making light
over it. especially as the latter section is cheer
fully paying its quota toward improving the
canal from which, It is asserted, no direct benent
TO the southern counties will result, This argu-
ment while like ell others open to discussion,
hears on its face the merit of fairness and is
entitled to open-minded consideration by the
State Engineer There is plenty of room for
both plans and the state needs them both; but
from the point of view Of expediency, encourage
ment of effort and fair play the plan of the
New-York and Chicago Road Association, on
which so much work has already been accom-
plished in the southern tier. should be the first
to receive financial support from the bond issue,
so far as the counties interested have applied
for such support
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THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
From The Tribune Bureau.l


Washington, Dec. 2-Baron Rosen ana f9aIOii
Rosen of the Russian Embassy. were the guests
for whom Mrs. Hope Slater entertained ui ,
party tonight. Her other guests were heF Sis.oI
Mrs. H. M. Slater OF Boston; Senator anu MS
Hale Arthur Hale. of Baltimore: MI ana Mrs
DuneIlon. Mrs John C. Fremont. Theodore h@hH'
Of the Russian Embassy. and Mr. Adosslues.
Lady Susan Townley wife of waiter Dedup-o
TowuIey, counsellor OF the British Embassy "'S
hostess at a luncheon yesterday for Sir Cheh'uiis
LANG Cheng the Chinese Minister, and his oaush-
ter; Mr. and Mrs. Lowe. Ernest Rennie, Oh tno
British Embassy staff; Miss Sizmore and MISS NidA
ine Elliott The latter. Mrs. Nat c. GOODWIN ID d
friend of Lady Susan Townley. who has seen Her
act at several performances during the last week.
going for the last time tonight when she gave a
box party. Lady Susan will give a luncheon party
tomorrow when again her guests will meet Miss
Elliott
General Morteza, the Persian Minister, has re-
turned to Washington. and, beginning with the
middle Of December will observe Friday at homo
from to Z. These affairs at the Persian Legation
were popular last season. when tea was poured
from quaint metal pots. drunk from dainty porce-
lain cups and served with imported dainties.
Sehor Calderon. the Minister from Bolivia, has
bought house at No. 1633 16th-st.. which will be
remodelled and used as a legation. At present the
Minister and Senora Calderon have charming
home at No. 1900 17th-st., and will probably not
remove to the new residence until late next fall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
TIL. NEBULAB HYPOTHESIS

Professor T. @. Chamberlain who fills the
chair of geology in the University of Chicago,
does not believe in the nebular hypothesis; and
he outlined before an association Of teachers in
mathematics last week q theory which COM
mends itself more strongly than this to his judg-
ment Laplace, it will be remembered. held
that at some period in the remote past there
existed an enormously extended nebula which
had acquired a whirlinY movement By de-
grees 1t grew fatter and fatter and then one
ring after another was detached from what was
its outer edge. The rings broke up and con-
solidated into the planets, he thought, and the
central portion, greatly condensed, formed the
sun. Professor Chamberlain does not doubt
that the planets are true children of that BODY.
The spectroscope shows that the latter contains
more than half of the chemical elements found
in and on the earth. The presumption that the
whole solar system has the same composition
therefore, seems warrantab!e How the mate
rial came to be transferred from the parental
mass to the progeny, though, is the question in
dispute. The Chicago geologist believes that it
was elected by eruptive action which was ex-
cited by a near approach of another sun and
that, by a process of ''accretion," what were
widely separated and very numerous fragments
became associated into eight or more spheres.
Astronomers have long felt that the nebuIar
hypothesis vulnerable. 1t does not fully
SpIpn-
lists can see for instance, how such rings as
Laplace describes could be formed, but thew
cannot imagine what force could cause them to
break UP and change their shape; and many Of
them are particularly skeptical about the possI.
bility that the product of any such accident
would become q sphere. Then, the behavior of
the satellites Of some of the outer planets is
not in harmony with the doctrine of Laplace.
To these and further objections which have
long been recognized Professor Chamberlain
adds at least one more. He does not believe
that the rotatory power Of the sun was ever
equal TO throwing OFF the planets and causing
them to reVolve around it. Perhaps he has NOT
allowed sufficiently for the various retarding
influences which have operated upon the velocity
of the suns rotation; but at any rate the sug-
gestion deserves consideration. 1t is for exuerts
to say how far the case against Laplace is re-
inforced by The argument here adduced; and
they may conclude that Mr.. ChamberIains plea
is not unreasonable.
Still, when 1t comes TO a choice between the
nebular hypothesis and the accretion theory we
believe that the majority of astronomers win
find the former the more satisfactory, defective
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
CONTINUOUS HIGHWAYS.

Tho announcement from Albany that plans are
being perfected for building connecting roads
through the Mohawk Valley counties In sucn
xrav gs 10 form q continuous highway from Al
banv TO Buffalo calls attention to the fact that
4ba final action necessary to make the SoOUUO,UUU
bond issue for highway Improvement part OF
the states financial plan will come before the
legislature In January AS the people gave It an
overwhelming majority at the recent election,
there is no doubt of its passage Interest IN the
results of the bond issue is shown by the various
schernes already outlined or put on foot Tor the
disposition of the money, but it is just as wei at
she start to get rid of the idea Of sectional Jeal-
ousy having any effect in the advancement OF
the work Of improving the roads. The proposed
Improvement is too important TO the state at
large to admit of anything less than the broad
est treatment in a manner CONDUCIVE 10 the
widest general good.
So far as the operations Of the Higbie-Arm-
strong law enable counties applying for surveys
and putting up the necessary appropriations TO
have an advantage in point Of time over those
more backward in seeking state assistance no
fault Will be found, for that is a matter for the
counties themselves TO settle, and even at this
late day some counties need stirring up on the
highway question. The main question, however,
is that Of obtaining the largest useful mileage
of modern roads for the money expended, and If
4he state Engineer will avoid the wasteful and
almost useless method of building here few
miles and there few miles Of good highway,
beginning at ''any old place" and ending nowhere
in particular, with one county disregarding the
work Of that next to it and making no effort to
connect the improved roads, fair start toward
p complete system will have been made.
AS matter OF fact, the Albany Buffalo propo-
sition is second on the list, for three years ago
an association was formed IN this city having
for its object the building of q first class high
way from New-York 20 Chicago. running from
this city to Rhinecli6, the east bank of the
Hudson, and to Kingston, on the west bank, and
traversing the southern tier OF counties from
Kingston TO westfeId, Dunkirk and the Pennsyl
vania line, where it would meet the road cross
3ng that state to the Clio line. When this as
ISOLATION held a convention at Erie. Penn. two
years ago protests We're received from Syracuse
and Rochester against the proposed line, declar-
ing that the Mohawk Valley was the only proper
place TO lay out the road. Since then the associ
alton has held conventions at Elmira, In Che
mung County, and Lakewood, in Chautauqua; a
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pn1pLr PLEADING POWER.

The PRESBYTERIAN ministers of this city heard
recently decidedly breezy and suggestive con-
tribution to discussion which, however old and
worn, is yet full of vital Importance to the
, churches-namey, the causes of declining erect
iveness in pulpit pleading. 1t has become tru-
ism that preaching is not so powerful in Its sway
over either reason or emotion as It was genera
ton or two ago, and churches which depend for
their success chiefly upon the sermons of their
pastors are accordingly suffering a decline OF
influence. DR.. Russell, from the point of view OF
lawyer who is also familiar with the churches,
gave his hearers some pointers" which were
certainly explanatory and may prove helpful
There can be no question that the use and
power of oratorical rhetoric have materially de-
cIined elsewhere than in the pulpit Our parlia-
mentary and forensic eloquence is not now what
It was in the days of Daniel Webster and Rufus
Choate, and political stump speaking is far dlr-
ferent from what 1t was in the Lincoln Douglas
debate. Technical argument, such as may best
be expressed in printed brief, has largely super
seeded the minglngs of huInor, sarcasm and I'M
FASHIONED appeal to the emotions which In past
years used to impress judges as well as sway
popular audiences. If such changes have come
upon public speaking in these other departments,
how much more must pulpit oratory have sur"
fered from the process For the preacher mas
not the stimulus OF opposition in debate. There
are no uncertainties Of time incident There
are no possibilities of surprise The sermon is
prominently "set oratiOn, lacking spon-
taneity and conventional in the extreme. In the
days of Whtefeld and Edwards when there
was general belief in literal and physical he'll
fire, a preacher could move his hearers with the
awful thrill of tragedy, but with the widespread
passing of that belief that supreme source OF
rhetorical power is gone
It would seem to remain, then, for the pulpit
to adapt itself to the new conditions which con
front it. The question is whether an ADDRESS 70
the reason can be made as effective as an appear
TO the emotions whether message Of love can
be as potent as warning Of fear, and whether
the proclamation of the pure Gospel of Jesus
Christ, with its arguments IN favor OF simple
rectitude of life and the application OF morality
and benevoIence to daily vacations can be made
as powerful as were the oldtime imprisoned ex-
hortations to flee from the wrath to come" and
to escape the physical torrents of an everlast-
Ing hell That question must be answered In
the affirmative If pulpit pleading is to retain
commanding influence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

as it is. There are eight planets moving about
the sun and revolving on their own axes Iney
all travel in the same direction, they all rotate
in the same direction. and both movements cor
respond to the direction of the suns own rota-
ton. Finally, the paths of the planets lie In
practically the same plane, and this plaYe In
fersects the sun nearly at It's equator. These
phenomena are so familiar that their signiti-
canoe is likely to be underestimated. Taken
together they certainly constitute a most
weighty argument in favor Of the correctness
of Laplace's conception. Simon Newcomo mas
shown that the chance of such combination
having been brought about in any other way
than that here alluded to is only one in many
thousands Professor Chamberlafn's teachings
should not be rejected without examination
and he should have an opportunity to state his
case as completely as he likes. When he does,
the astronomer will ask himself If the marvel
Ious unity of the planetary movement can De
explained by the accretion theory easily. II IL
can. then the theory should be considered more
carefully. If it cannot the alternative hypoth-
esis should still be held tentatively until some
thing better can be found.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK

tBy Telegraph to The Tribunal
Tuxedo Park n. Y, Dec 2.-PleaSant W9AAn7F
to-day induced many Of those who cant oul
Thanksgiving to stay over Sunday In aeaiE.on
several arrived to-day to pass Sunday nTnons tns
cottagers and at the clubhouse There WeEs nOUS9
parties. followed tonight by dinners and orloso'
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Lorillard were host M
hostess to a party OF twenty at heeWayuln.
Among the guests were Miss spoIord. 4r, ana
Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Miss Mortimer SOu-N
Hoyt. Gordon Fellowes and I. Townsend lrvAn&
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt arrivsd %
day to pass Sunday at Tuxedo as guests eI -
and Mrs. Amos T. French. who have Just re'aiA'0
from Newport.
Mr. and Mrs Newbold Edgar gave a dinner -
their cottage tonight Among the guests w
Miss A. Sackvtlle West and Mr.. and Mrs. ". -
Edgar. ~.
Among Others who entertained at dinner 49,
were William MacM. Rodewald. hr' ana ~. ~,-,
3. Keech, Mr. and Mrs A. L. Norrie. Mr.. ara "a
William r. Garrison. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Rogers. jr.. Mr.. and Mrs Frederic De r EO''-
and Mr.. and Mrs William Kent.
At the club several parties also IN prosl'@..
Among those who entertained guests Il -
were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ IlIoro, F.
Mrs Morgan G. Barnwell. Mr.. and MS "
Dodge ana Mr.. and Mrs James Bowl - =.
Henry Smith also gave dinner at KING II 70
night r.-.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred r. Conkling. who W s,
staying at the club, started to-day for L~As ,'.s
Wnere they nave iedSeo a COS'oSO 49, 70
Mr.. and Mrs. Amory s Carhart "lo " o,,sr
have closed their villa last week reInaaeS .,--.-
THANKSGIVING entertaining large paFts q - ,n.
They will go abroad next Wednesday 70 p77'
winter in Paris. -, -
Mr ana Ms 49, % 'oH ,v, oecupyiag the
Barley cottage on Tower Hin. and MI 1ita -.
David B. ogden in the Davis eo''ase 10
winter. o.Lsr
Clarence Cary arrived at the club TO-DAY - -
arrivals lIcIas Va ~, md Mrs H. NJ III
ford Miss Katherine Tilford, J. H snhlAv ~ -.
wentworth Dixie. Of London, and NJ SEA ~
Louia J, Pooler.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
PANAnAN CITIZENSHIP.

The nartisan controversies in the Republic Of
Panama seem chiefly to be circlinS around DIT
Belisario Porras as q storm centre, and to De
inspired by the question whether he is or is not
entitled to citizenship. After disputes extend,
Ing through many months the Supreme Court
of the republic has decided that he IS not q
citizen. whereupon some Of his overzealous
friends rage against both the administration OF
President Amador and the Supreme Court It
seems somewhat unreasonable to blame the adj
ministration for the decision of the court, see
ing that the executive and the judiciary are
quite separate and independent of each other
and we must regard it as ominous for any
party to express unwillngness to accept in
good faith decree OF the supreme tribunal of
justice.
There Is, we believe, no doubt that DR.. Porras
was born in Panama. Therefore, it is argued
under Article g. Section J. of the Panaman
constitution, he is entitled to citizenship:
'.Panamanians are: all those who have been
lborn - in the territory of Panama" On
the other hand it is contended that he for
feited his citizenship by his action or attitude
at the time of the revolution, according to
Article z Section 3: "Panamanian citizenship
"wilI be lost: by being born a Panamanian and
mot accepting the movement for independence
"of the nation" The case turned, therefore
upon the question of DR.. Porras's conduct In
November, 1913 IL was charged mat ne was
not only absent from Panama, but also actually
hostile, then and for time afterward, to the
revolution; and his opponents seem to have
convinced the court that such was the fact
1t seems to us the Panamans would better
acquiesce in the decision of their Supreme
Court, and await action by the legislature.
Article 10, Section 1, of the constitution, says
that citizenship :. . is only lost by pen
"aIty, according to law, rehabilitation being
'obtainable from the National Assembly,
Again, in Article Z, Section 4: ''Nationality can
''only be regained by an Act OF the National
Assembly" If wrong has been done to Dr.
Poras his proper relief lies in an appeal to
the National Assembly, and not in ratings
against the Supreme Court or in intrigues
against the administration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
HARMLESS NECESSARY EVIL.
The Ladies' Field.

From The Ladies' Field
The bridegroom is generally the most depress-
ing feature OF tho modern wedding. II he Is
we'll off he is either bald with decided tendency
to adipose tissue. else of pale sandy type.
with equally pale eyes and a retreating chin. In
ordinary life he wears spectacles. which at the
request OF the bride he discards at the wedding
with the result that he stunbles over the last step
leading from the chancel To the altar rails and is
only saved from falling nat his face by desper-
atey clutching at the brides bouquet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
HAS HE GOT 1T?

From The St Louis Republic.
John Watkins, of Rochester, Ill attracted atten-
ton the Union Station recently by appearing
in the midway wearing the rim OF derby hat
No crown was IN evidence.
IT was In a railway wreck near Raymond, ILL., a
few weeks ago." said Watkins, land lost the crown
of my hat. I resolved that wouldn't wear any
thing but the rim until the railroad company had
given me hat"
Watkins had been to I4tchneld Mo-, with his
crownless hat rim. and was on his way to De-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
ONE MORE DANGER

-# a
n the 2e91 there viii be e92s 600 people 70 the
S a4 % ea9 I0dno about h
O. an gi,si ate oSta 20 tfa y ~ @ uao-Pd 80
win be increasing standard.I
Let's climb upon some friendly fence
And hearken to the danger call:
The population grows too dense,
The warning sounds note of doom
we soon shall have no standing room:
But let's not worry yet awhile.
The human masses surge and grow,
They throng the insufficient earth:
There's fear in every baby show,
There's menace grim in every birth;
To thus increase and multiply -
Ours is a gloomy by and by;
But Wen not worry yet awhile.
Complain no more of crowded cars,
OF fierce, illustrating bargain sales,
Impatient crowds at railway bars
And sidewalk panics. woes and walls.
IT'S practice for a sterner crush.
So don't you worry yet awhile.
Well cluster on each window ledge,
For sioping roofs s, fight Wen make.
Wen press upon the waters edge
Well climb upon each others heads
Or crawl like cats along the leads;
But let's forget it yet awhile.
Leave dire expectancy behind
This dread congestion Of mankind
Won't happen for thousand years
welcome the baby's and smile:
There's room enough for many day,
Chicago News.
A remarkable railway, Of the wonders OF
Peru is that which runs from Callao to the gold
fields Of Cerro de Paeco. Beginning in Callao it
ascends the narrow valley of the Rimao rising
nearly 200 feet in the first fortysix miles Thence
it goes through the intricate gorges the Serras
till it tunnels the Andes altitude 1865 feet
the highest point IN the world where piston rod is
moved by steam This astonishing elevation is
reached in seventy-eight miles.
why he Loved -Minister-Bobby do you love
your teacher?
Bobby (six years old)--Yes, sir
Minister-That's right Now tell mo why you love
Bobby-Because the Bible says we must love our
enemies Philadelphia Inquirer.
In the Boer War British private made gallant
rescue. He dashed across open space swept by
bullets and lifting a wounded comrade in his arms
carried him to shelter. The colonel who witnessed
the deed praised the soldier and told him he would
be recommended for Victoria Cross. Later on the
soldier was relating the incident to his comrades:
He said something about the Victoria Cross
didn't think anything about the Victoria Cross.
What know is that wasn't going to leave Rob
inson lying out there with all the company's to-
bacco in his haversack."
He Wasn't Acrobatic.-Aiss Prue Dent-Papa
says you are improvident, and that he will never
consent to my marrying a man that is unable TO
make both ends meet.
OrrviIe Harduppe-WelI, I'm afraid shall never
be able TO do I'm contorti0niSt. Good even
ing.-CPttsburg Dispatch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

Lord Roberts has resigned from the Committee
on Imperial Defence, a difference of opinion be-
tween him and the Premier to the number of
troops required for the defence Of India being
the supposed cause for his action. Taken In
connection with Lord Curzons speech at Bonn
bay. the resignation Of Lord Roberts shows
that Indian affairs are not in as harmonious a
state as is desirable and further complcate the
Premier's dffficuItier
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

Messrs Alexander and Torrey are said to
have made 100000 converts in their evangelistio
campaign ia England which has just como to
a close. If they had turned only one-tenth as
many persons from sin and vice to honesty and
cleanliness of life. they would have done work
Of inestimable nobility and benefcence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03
NEATLY PUT.

From The Conway Springs CKsn) Star.
II a man had been designed to wear such leather |
denominations toothpick shoes the Almighty :
would have given him feet more like q string /
bean than 4 summer squash
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-03

From the latest account Of the railway acct
dent near Penn Brook Thursday night an
important detail which appeared in the earliest
report is missing. The statement that the news
was brought from the wreck to the nearest tele-
graph station by 8 brakeman, both Of whose
arms had been broken. is not confirmed or
course, the story was somewhat dubious; but II
it had been true there would have been good
pretext for the bestowal Of Carnegie medal for
harni