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Low PRICES FOR PICTURES:
Rare " orks OF Art knocked Down at Far.
gain Counter Rates.

WASHINGTON. June l5-Rsra works NJ
art were sacrificed under the hammer this
afternoon in this city. The life siz,. full
length portrait Of Abraham Lincoln and
two canvases, life size fguras ri Charles
Sumner. said TO he striking likenesses
all painted by tho late William T. Mathews,
went for mere trihe'
The Lincoln was purchased by James
Fay Of New York for Si25 and the two pic.
lures Of Sumner we're bought by the Rev
Frank Bristol pastor nj the Metropolitan
NJ. F.. Church Of this city for $3.50 each
The life size portrait al tho late President
Mckinley lifelong friend Of the artist
was withdrawn from the sale because it
was bid only to sls5.
Two portraits of William Cullen Bryant,
also an old friend Of the artist were sold
for SIP so and S. A magnificent picture
Of Pixies Peak from Wet Mountain Valley
sold for SO so.
Mr. Mathews was n chorister in s..
Paul's Cathedral in London and a musician
of much ability, His early artistic sue
cesses were made in New York. where he
was the friend and contemporary Of Elliott,
Huntin gton and others OF the same class
His pictures at that time brought large
prices He came to Washington TO paint
Lincoln and Sumner. and after the pictures
we're finished they were left on his hands
because Of the large price he asked FOR
them He spent the rest of his winters
here. He painted the portraits Of more
Presidents than any other artist.
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The Real Feminine Aristocracy Of
America.

The question whether a woman swore,
to the extent Of using the word damn, /"
came up in a lawsuit which was decided
Yesterday Whether this woman used
damn" or not. there is no doubt that
many women occupying decent social
places are more or less free in its use
Nor is it remarka BILE that they should
relieve their surcharged feelings with
the damnatory expletive. They simply
follow fashion set them by the men
with whom they associate. They pick up
objurgatory words as they have picked
up cigarette smoking Mrs. EDITH
WHARToNs novels of polite society,
more especially smart" society, record
the observations Of writer who is inside
that sphere and an authority on its tone
and habits. Mrs. WHARTON makes her
women characters smoke cigarettes as a
matter Of course. She treats the practise
as obviously usual in that society.
The tone and customs Of those women,
however, are of no considerable impor-
lance az compared with those Of much
larger and much superior body of women
just now brought particularly into notice,
These are the hundreds, nay, thousands,
of young women who are receiving
academic degrees at college and uni
versity commencements, both those in
course and honorary degrees.
All the large colleges for women are
crowded with students, for example,
vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr;
and the total number of such colleges.
of varying scholastic standards, Ia some
where about $50 in this country. In
these institutions are now many more
students than there were in all the COL
leges Of the Union at the time when the
demand that women should be admitted
to the higher education was first made
All the more important of these wom-
ems colleges are embarrassed to afford
accommodations for the great and in
creasing number of students applying
for admission. Here in New York the
Normal College and Barnard College,
the women's department Of Columbia
University, are crowded with eager
students. On Wednesday the Medical
College of Cornell University gave to
eight women the degree Of Doctor of
Medicine On the same day a woman
was elevated to the post Of assistant
professor Of anatomy in Johns Hopkins
University, at Baltimore, and Union COL
lege gave the honorary degree Of Doctor
of Literature to Miss ELIZABETH MARCH
of Bryn Mawr College. Tufts College
is to confer the honorary degree Of LII. D.
on Miss CAROLINE HAZARD, the president
of Wellesley College.
Probably it was this manifestation Of
feminine zeal for knowledge. scholastic
requirement and general intelkctr.
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need be diversion on Germanys east
ern frontier. When French statesman
opens his eyes to his nations actual
predicament-it money gone, its Sc
curity crumbling--he justly feels that
France has been buncoed by the Car.
Having paid itssl in advance for
prospective cooperation by inordinate
drafts on the French treasury, it is high
time for the Russian autocracy to make
good. The pretended ally of France can
only begin to make good by relieving
as promptly as possible what is left OF
its military strength from the risk OF
annihilation with which it is threatened
in Manchuria Even "a the iervid APP
peals of the French Premier scorch the
wires running to St Petersburg, the
lines of the implacable japanese are
being vigorously drawn Ground the Tor
lorn Russian commanded While the
Russian Foreign Office is paltering over
the phraseology of its assent TO Mr..
RoosEvELT's suggestion OF peace. and
striving to mimic its old attitude Of ar
rogance and bluff, the doom Of Russa's
last great army, massed under the gal
liant LIN1EvITCH, may be already written
on the wall.
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The Girl Astride tho Horse.

All the newspapers printed yesterday
an ingenious report from Denver that
the Federal Government had ordered the
destruction Of negatives and prints Of
certain snapshot pictures in which
the Presidents cavalcade at Glenwood
Springs was spoiled for purposes OF
dignity by the proximity OF young
woman in short skirts and cooked hat,
straddling her horse.
This story, II true, involves an exercise
Of a power OF search and seizure which
might possibly receive the approval Of
Mr.. CHARLES A. GARDINER on his general
theory of Executive supremacy and ire
sponsibiity; but it is not likely to be
credited in any other quarter.
Section 1924 Of the Revised Statutes
authorizes the President ITO instruct
the commanders of the public armed
vessels Of the United States to subdue,
seize, take and send into any port Of the
United States any armed vessel or boat
the crew whereof shall be armed. and
which shall have attempted or COM
mtted any piratical aggression"
This law manifestly does not apply to
such piratical aggressions upon Presi-
dental cavalcades as Miss GERTRUDE
DUNN is reported to have committed at
Glenwood Springs at least the law does
not authorize the seizure and destnlc-
ton of pictorial representations of the
bifurcate aggressor.
Yet what other Federal statute really
comes any nearer than Section 4?94--
the pirate suppressing statute-to afford
ing the warrant of law for such a Gov
eminent order and such an Executive
act? The report is ridiculous, and. We
have no doubt, untrue.
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To THE Erlr"E or IRE StS SIR In"
treatment BY some Of The newspapers Of
the allegation that a woman, the wife Of A
rich man. used damn" IN her speech to an
architect hetraNs ignorance or hypocrisy.
This woman denied that she used the damn
and she was sustained in h"r denial by her
husband who was present Al tho interview
in question,
Those deniais may dismiss this particular
woman from consideration as a feminine
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TIE DUMB SPEAK.
Comm ncen,ent OratOry At the School mas
Teaches Them How.

The star graduates OF this year at tho
Institution for the Improved Instruction
of Deaf Mutes on Lexington avenue, spoke
pieces Yesterday, and the rest OF the school
listened to them.
They had the usual stunts: class history,
class prophecy. class everything. But all
the speech required to express their ideas
with they acquired at this institution.
Edwin Darrell, the class historian. got
a most perfect hearing and normal speech
in two years. He says he Is going to be
an artist.
Edwin Mes, the drophet. became totally
deaf and dumb when he was years old,
but he delivered his prophecy 80 clearly
that people at the other end Of the room
heard him.
1T was in 1910. said he, Il saw masher
raise his hat to lady. She seized him by
the collar and rolled him into the gutter.
It. was Emma FGure. she S,,l had ID learned
This. uttered in the thick, labored speech
OF organs made to speak whether they
would or no. was more brilliant than wit 10
the sympathetic audience:
Lille Lndhotf, the belle OF the class,
said in her valedictory speech, OF which she
herself couldn't hear. word, that those
were pleasant days she and her classmates
had spent at the institution.
And when Principal E. a.. Gruver told
them to be good they watched his lips closely
and nodded their heads reassuringly.
Frank rot ono for articulation, and other
prizes were awarded
Some former pupils came back to the
school ON a visit. One Of the old boys"
entered the boys playground. The little
fellows, still in bondage, clustered arouna
him.
Hello, old boyevitch!" they cried. -and
how is your healthsky?" only they said it
with their hands. in sign language Their
faces were all grin and enthusiasm; their
not a word Of speech was heard as they
hung about the odd boy
Speech is only for the classroom and
working hours. In play hours they prefer
their soundless language Of the hands.
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Van WAITS GrAye Again.

To THE EDITOR or THE SrS-.Sr' an wholly
at a loss 70 understand the motive of recent cor
respondent OF The SIN who disputes my state.
ment that the grave OF Isaac Van War, at Fins.
ford is neglected. and describes tho place as well
cared for. on Saturday. June N, again visited
Elmsford 10 ser II any change had been made. !
found the grave as have already described II
in my former letter to 'THR SIN, In a neglected
little square. enclosed with an iron fence, the plot
oyerprown with weeds and brush, and rubbish
from the other parts OF the yard thrown upon II.
This Is the condition In which found 1t Sunday.
May "a, and again on SATURDAY.. June IN. The
situation IL so contrary to what Il ought 10 hc that
| have 10 day requested the authorities In the
ltoh Reformed Church. In whose cemetery the
grave Il situated, TO allow me at my own expense
to put the place In proper condition and to hold a
patriotic service thcre on the Fourth Of July.
WILLIAM r. p. FERGUSON.
YoRE, June
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term as County Judge OF Chautauqua
county. Mr. LESTER is the Surrogate OF
Saratoga county, and was member OF
the Constitutional Convention OF 1894
A. JUDD NoRTHRUP was County Judge
Of Onondaga county for twelve years.
FREDERICK T. WADHAMs is the Secre-
tary of the New York State Bar Associa-
ton. WILLIAM A. KEENER was for many
years Professor OF Law in Columbia
University, and served for a short time
on the Supreme Court Bench in this city
under an appointment from the Cover
nor. LEROY PARKER was formerly a
State Senator in Michigan, and has been
for many years identified with the Buff
falo Law School CYRUS w. PHILLIPS
has been doing editorial work for many
wears in the service of the West Publish
ing Company of st. Paul, one OF the
largest law publishing concerns in the
world
Twenty-three Justices Of the Appel
late Division can participate in the
election of the Supreme Court Reporter,
so that twelve votes will suffice to elect.
Only five of these Judges are Democrats;
hence, if political considerations have
anything to do with the choice, the
chances of a Democratic candidate
would appear to be rather slight. We
are not acquainted with the political
predictions Of all the candidates; the
probability s that most of them are Re-
publicans. Mr.. Hun, we believe, is q
Democrat, although of Mugwumpian
tendencies. To the present time there
has been no manifestation on the part Of
the Republican State organization Of a
preference for any particular aspirant;
but it will be fortunate thing for the
public if the convention of Judges is
able to select a man who shall do the
work Of the Supreme Court Reporter
for the next twenty years as we'll as it
has been done for more than thirty years
past by MARCUS T. Hun.
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Turn OF the Eastern SchuetZen Corps to DO
Him Honor.

George B. Mcclellan, Ii. D.. and Incl
dentally Mayor Of New York, received
yesterday scores Of congratulations by
mail and telegraph on the honor which
was conferred upon him on Wednesday
by Princeton University. The Mayor is
the youngest man who ever received on
honorary degree from Princeton. and he
remarked yesterday. Il am as proud Of
this honor as was of being elect ed Mayor
Another compliment was paid to him
yesterday when delegation of the Brook
lyn Eastern Schuetzen Corps brought
him silver loving cup topped with a
gilded crown The corps is holding it's
annual shooting festiva al Glend le
According to custom the opening OF tho
gathering is marked by three shots at a
wooden kite The first shot is called the
Presidents. the second the Governors
and the third the Mayors. 1t was the
third that bit the kite. and the annual silver
cup and gilt crown went to the Mayor.
While the presentation was being made
to the Mayor one Of the delegation in the
enthusiasm of the moment, suggested that
the Mayor he crowned With wave OF
his hand the Mayor deprecated the slgges-
ton. II was well he did so. for the crown
was fastened to the cup and he would have
had to put on the cup. 100.
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The Convention OF Judges at Albany.

On Monday next the Justices of the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court
of this State will meet in convention at
the Capitol in Albany for the purpose OF
choosing new Supreme Court Reporter
1t is the function of this official to prepare
for publication, and cause to be published
from time to time as they are handed
down, the opinions Of the appellate
branch of the Supreme Court. Mr.
MARCUS T. Hun Of Albany has been the
Supreme Court Reporter since 1874, and
1872 volumes of law reports have been
published under his supervision The
term of office is five years. When last
defeated by A. JUDD NoRTHRUP of SYRIA
cuse, formerly one Of the Commissioners
of Statutory Revision. Mr.. NoRTHRuP
was beaten by one vote, that of Judge
MILTON H. MERwIN of Utica, who voted
with the Democrats in favor of Mr. Hun,
and in consequence of his action in SO
doing failed of reappontment to the
Appellate Division in the Third Judicial
Department.
:; The candidates now in the field to sue
coed Mr.. Hun, so far as we have been
able to ascertain their names up to the
present time are as follows
JEROME b. FISHER Of chautauqua,
CHARLES c. LESTER Of Saratoga.
A. Jupp NoRTHRuP OF Syracuse.
FREDERICK f. WApHAMs OF Albany.
WILLIAM a, KEESER OF New York.
CYRUS ". PHILLIPS OF Rochester.
LEROY PAMBa OF Buffalo.
JEROME B. FIsRA4 ia serving his second
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ANOTHER BOAT 70 PANAMA.
Government Fleet Not En- oug GIL Architect
.Iohnsons BndA BroIght Back.

The Savannah Line steamship City OF
Savannah. has been chartered by the Gov
eminent TO augment the feet plying be-
tween this port and Colon, which is made
Guate to carry supplies, rnen and machinery
TO the Canal Zone fast enough TO suit tho
Isthmian Canal Commission. The City
Of Savannah will sail on her first trip on
June 20,
The steamship ALBANIA, which arrived
Yesterday from Colon. brought the body
Of ". o. Johnson, 'a,e supervising archl-
tect of he Isthmian Canal Commission.
who died at Ancon on April 20 Of yellov
fever The body is enclosed in an alright
casket
On the VOYAGE Of the Alliance to this
port J, F. Cearr, second cabin passenger.
died of acute alcoholism and the body vas
hurled at sra. Ceary was q laborer on
the canal line, His home was in this CITY
There were fourteen canal EMPLOYEES
on the Allan who had resigned owing
to the tropical climate and the high cost
of living
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Poor Jewish farmers OF Europe are not
to be the pioneer agriculturists in the lofty
region which Great Britain offered them in
equatorial Africa The Zionist COMMITTEES
has acted wisely in declining the offer with
thanks.
There Is nothing the ma tier with the
country. The three experts. headed by
Major GIBBONS. whom the Zionist com
mittee sent to Africa to report on the land
were most favorably impressed with 1t.
They confirmed all that has been said OF
It's fertility, abundant water, noble forests
and climate healthful for Europeans.
But 1t ia perfectly wild, without markets
or any kind Of civilization, tenantless
Eden. Few natives have lived at this cool
altitude 1t is region for which every
thing is still to be done. 1t takes men made
Of stern stuff to plant order, system and
civilization in such tangled wilderness
Cnfortuna.e Hebrews deserve better
chance, where men may more easily lend
helping hand and nature doesn't need 30
much tanning.
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SARASOHN WILL VOID.
Estate to He Divided ns II There Had Been
No VIII

Surrogate Thomas refused yesterday
to admit to probate the will of Kasryel II
Sarasofn, the Jewish newspaper publisher,
who died In January last, leaving an estate
valued at over half million dollars. The
Surrogate found that the laws relating to
the atteeta ton of the will were not COM
piled with by the testator. as the witnesses
did not even know the nature Of the docu-
ment they were signing. The will was
drawn in the Hebrew language and accord.
ing to the Hebrew FORMS which. however,
do not conform with the laws OF this State
The will was contested by one Of the
sons Ezekiel Sarasohn, who alleged thst
his father had failed to carry out an agree
ment by which this son vas to share equally
with the other children In the estate provided
he would please the father by marrying
The property will now he divided as II
there had been no will The Jeuish Dairy
Neus property is to be sold In partition.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-16
THE Sc 4GDE RS.
Sir Edward Elgar and Lady E.G1r ArrriTe
on the Deutscha7i

Among the passenger; who arrived -,s-
tarlay on thu st,anslio D"l:s1alsn1. tro'l
Hamburg. D,v,r and Che-oourg. wa-a
j. c. Aver, F. D,itso1, II j. Maynard, NJ.
F. Muns,y. j. S. P,1rs,1. U. Por,'l Re-,
Richard Wilson, Waiter 3 s.,we.. Soeac,r
Bordan, ]r., 4, {. Colso-,,i. s. "a var!
Elgar, the English composer, and Lidy
Elgar, T, W, Hamilton, a. u. Aoyt, Y. T.
Peters. W. r. Richards. 6 II Sra Fb-ii-'.
Marquis Alfred DaSne. d. s lo-.3. NJ =
qiis' Edith DI5Tet de S Nolrs, .Ipi a
Henry Steinert. j. ". Stewart, V II Jla;sn
and j. d. Williams
Among the passengers on the stears'ii,
koanis Albert, from Genoa, Naples and Glib
raltar were Count Re-bsudi Ma ssic!!a,
Scovel. c. Russell Hewlett c. A. Grassoli.
George II, En- crson. j. W. Donnelly tie
Rev DR. Walling Clark, W f. Babcock a..i
|. 7. Arms
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Impressions Of the United States by
Scotch sojourner, JAMES DALRyMPLE Of
Glasgow, will be an interesting book If
written on the return Of Mr.. DALRYMPLE
to Scotland. 1t may make substantial
amends for many other books on the United
States written by other British tourists.
Only few weeks ago MIR. DALRrMPLE
came here upon the invitation OF the
Mayor Of Chicago, and the cordially of his
reception at the Hoffman House was such as
completely to overpower the guest by its
vigor and heartiness. This sedate student
of the economics OF street transportation
was greeted by a committee of long haired
persons, some OF them accompanied by
bands and others by paraders burning red
fire The righ, hand Of Mr.. DALRYMPLE
was violently and effusively shaken, he
was bosterously cheerecl, and at ore point
of the proceedings he was nearly upset by
the enthusiasm of the self-apponted COM
mittee on reception" The modest Scotch
man found himself suddenly man of note.
His simplest words we're listened to with
the hush OF Difference and his quiet ac-
nowledgments were drowned in cheers.
Whatever illusions Mr.. DALErMpLE may
have had as the result of this first greeting.
they must have entirely disappeared. When
he takes his leave from the United States
after a really valuable service to the people
of the cities he visited the probabilities are
that he will leave as a stranger in strange
land so far AZ the public utility" men who
greeted him are concerned.
There are none so deaf "a those who do
not wish to hear. When JAMES nAI.RYM-
PIES views did not meet the hopes of the
enthusiastic Political Socialists they turned
from him.
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Appcal TO Save the Sc. Birds.

The National Association of Audubon
Societies. through its president William
butcher Of 525 Manhattan avenue. has
sent out an appeal for funds to help in
the work of preserving sea birds from
determination. 1t says that there are
yet small colonies OF sea birds on the coasts
and large inland lakes which have thus
far escaped the plume hunters and which
with care and watchfulness may be pre-
served. The association in the last breed
ing season had forty wardens guarding
the colonies, The appeal says that the
number should be increased to at least 800.
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Improvement which induced Justice
BREWER of the Federal Supreme Court
to make this suggestion in his Phi Beta
Kappa address at Nassar College on
Monday evening:
Who shall say that before gray hair shall cover
the heads OF the women here 10 night there may
not sit 10 tho White House woman who. Ike queen
VICTORIA, Will shed usier upon this couh'r? as
VICTORIA shed luster upon England
However that may be. there is no qtes-
ton that the thousands Of women study
ing sedulously in colleges, and not the
swearing and cigarette smoking women
in, fine clothes, represent the type OF
American womanhood which is most
usual and the only type worthy or
commentator and Of imitation. They
are the real feminine aristccracy OF
America.
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NEW CLASS AT VEST POINT.
There Are Four Foreigners Am Ong the las
Successful Candidates.

ful candidates for cadetships reported to-
day to the Academy and were admitted
The new class contains l45 men, of whom
four are from foreign countries and will
receive instruction at West Point by spe-
cial act of Congress. Among the foreigners
are two Cinnamon, Ying Hsing Wen and
Ecuador and Luis Bogran of Honduras.
Albert Lyman. brother of Cadet LYMAN.
who graduated with the 1908 class, entered
to-day, being appointed from Honolulu to
succeed his brother from that district.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-16
ADDICkS KICKSIN VAIN.
Protests Against Boston Gas Console al on
hut IL G. cs Thr Oush

BosToN, June l5.-The consolidation ot
the Boston gas companies was accom-
plished this afternoon in a private room
at the National Shawmut Bank.
The only ripple on the surface Of denl
involving more than sl5 900 600, was tho
appearance on the scene Of j. Edward
Addicks. once the most important man in
Boston gas, but to-day a minority stock
holder In some OF the corporations involved.
Mr.. Addicks's temperance in the loca
gas situation was short and Ineffective
He protested, voted his stock against the
deal. and threatened to get ont an Injunction
not naterialize. however, though he de-
parted before the final scene in the transac-
ton had been enacted. The terms on
which the eight companies sold their entire
properties to the Boston Conso lidated Gas
Company are not to be made public.
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Hasbr ouek's Forty.ninth Anniversary.

The commencement exercises Of Has
brouck Institute were held last evening in
the Institute building at Crescent and
Harrison avenues. jersey City. Miss
Frances d.. Spengeman was valedictorian
and Miss Julia W. Forrest salutatorian.
Spencer Weart, '72, made an address to
the eighteen graduates and ex-Supreme
Court Justice Gilbert Collins presented the
diplomas. The commencement marked the
forty-ninth Anniversary Of the founding OF
the institute.