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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
A parted strand, a smothered Shrek,
A quick eclipse Of bliss;
The busted hammock on the ground
strewn
in Shreds
like


The following remarks on Tennyson were recently
handed IN on an examination paper by schoolboy
IN an English literature class: Lord Alfred Ten
nyson was a celebrated poet and he wrote a lot OF
beautiful PONIES with long hair. His greatest pone
is called the The Idle King He was made a lord
Out ne was good man and wrote many oads''
Early IN the history Of the electric telegraph
IN scotland a Highlander who had been to GIas-
gov was asked to explain its mysteries.
WeeL" said he, cts no easy to expIafn what
you VIII no be understanding. But I'll tell We
what it's like. If you could stretch nv collie dog
trae oban to Tobermory, and if you wass to clap
Its head in Oban, an it waggft its tail in Tober
mory' or if I wass to tread on its tail in Tober-
mory an 1t squaked in Oban-that's what the
telegraph is like"
What discontented, dissatisfied look Mrs.
Wen; what could you expect? She has a hus-
Topics. ''-i'S SHe wants crown
the mining camp at GoldAeId Now thew have
enough even to battle in Reno LAWYER who
was there inspecting some mining properties. no
ticed a sign a building proclaimine that baths
We're to be had within. He went in ard an
nounced that ne would like to get a bath The
clerk in charge handed him a ticket and took his
money.
We'll. see here" said the lawyer. ct don't want
a bath ticket. I want bath"
"Oh, you'll get a bath, all right" said the hath
3d. There about S2 people ahead Of Won
Come around in about three or four weeks
Costly Correspondence.-"I see that a letter SIM
posed to have been written by Henry VIII has
just brought $780,
:, That's nothing letter of mine Just brought
"Indeed?'
Yes 10 girl who sued me for breach OF prom
ise-"-CLouisvtlle Courter-Journal
1t is announced that the woman who purchased
Mommsen's library and presented It to Bonn Uni
versity is the wife OF DR.. Rottenburg rector
Of the university. She is an American. the daugh-
ter Of Professor Phelps, formerly United States
Minister 10 London.
strict'-iDressmaker-And would you have leg Of
Customer-Most certainly not am vegetarian!
punch.
An old churchyard near London Is famous for
the inscriptions on its tombstones. There Is one
the memorial OF Susannah Barford died 1852
et 10 years and Is weeks The concluding lines
beneath the skull and erossbones on her monument
Her stage was short. her thread was quickly
spunn.
Drawne out and outt got heaven. her worke was
done
This world to her was but TRACED play,
6hee came and azE@t disIhrt. and naassd aWaS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
EDUCATION AND MENTAL TRAINING
Why They Do Not Depend on the Individual
and His Makeup of Mind.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial OF the 10th inst on educa-
ton and courses Of instruction. I find much to
approve that am loath to even mention what
consider an error. upon the authority OF Mr..
Greeley. the distinguished founder of The Tribune
Though you cite Mr.. Gladstone for your statement
that training rather than stocking the mind is best
in a of instruction, still this is likely to
lead US to the ancient system that placed the
classical curriculum above all else for discipline.
Mr. Greeley held that the mind Is trained by use.
whatever that may be. Just the same our physi-
cal frame. The backsmith's is strengthened
by welding the hammer. but than the
choppers who yields the axe There is NEGRO
nancy about the kind Of work the kind OF
thought. so long as we work or think The whole
system of modern university education, which
places emphasis on scientific studies rather than.
as formerly the classics but In equal degree OF
work. is founded on Mr.. Greeley's doctrine He
was innocent of classical training. but who would
pretend that his use Of English or discussion Of
important questions or the day showed any sort or
MIR. Spencer calls attention how in '"Tristram
OF who was totally illiterate yet suffered
tell Of a gardener who left tangled corner in
Of nature TO show the fallacy OF letting the
or naturally, instead OF being trained But the
comparison Gla n9{ hel1 ZOE sS[9eS IS not eetti-
plants that are produced by cultivation. Just as
cidentaly in the course Of worthy conduct.
DR.. Samuel Johnson whom We have by no means
stock Of knowledge. or book learning was as great
s on ever proving Eon th OF o9 a.
maturity and reflection. 1t is the soul OF
the Baconian system with which Mr.. Greeley
fully in accord, place the stock
or content. the getting OF the facts foremost The
very process itself trains and disciplnes the mind
My point is that must not make training or
discipline Fetch. forgetting that the mind must
have some useful or profitable pabulum on which TO
grow and strengthen. Professor Goodwin Smith.
that prince OF scholars. declares that anything Is
profitable that does good.
But am not attempting to play the role OF one
: who knows for ] never much distrusted the
educational ground to-day May we not yet
come to that in this. in the pharmacopCeia,
what is one mans poison is another's food? May
II not after all almost wholly depend upon the in
divdual and his mental makeup?
The late Professor ThGrston. OF Cornell Uni
versity. who authority manual training
especially IN mechanic arts. Insisted that young
who found that line OF studies ais faVOrite
should not be turned loose into them but restrained
for other studies which came hard. His position
was that those OF his aptitude would take care OF
themselves az the proper time. but the Others
never without special attention When doctors
thus disagree. who shall decide?
Minneapolis, July y. IA b A. JACKSON.
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TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-A Russian regiment near Tihis
Killed ali Its officers and Joined the insurgents;
mutiny OF Cossscks near Lodz was reported;
the War once ordered that reserves should not
be used 70 Quei local disturbances. - There
was q rumoT In St Petersburg that M White
had found q complete lack OF accord between
himseif and the Emperor and that he might
refuse to accept the mission Of peace negotia-
for. 60 The Russian Emperor received M
Witte at Peterhof, and details OF the peace terms
were discussed; all Russian papers approve the
selection of 81. Wltte. == Employees Of the
Vienna. Lodz and Kalisz railways have agreed
90 use only the Polish language IN the service,
threatening strike II the government Furnishes
the tnfraction OF its rules. - King Christian
end the Danish Ministers are reported to ap-
King. 60 Secretary Taft and his party ar
rived az Honolulu after a pleasant voyage on
the Manchuria- and sailed for Manila
DoMEsTIC.-Kogoro Takahira. the Japanese
Minister called on President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay and discussed plans for the peace
convention - II was said at Albany that
resolutions asking Governor Higgins to submit
the whole insurance question 70 the legislature
would be introduced on Monday. - ]. W.
E8ui former chief Of the Philadelphia Filtration
Bureau. was indicted for alleged forgery and
Grain. whose skull was fractured by being
kicked by her pony, was stil alive 1t was re-
dered at Belmont, Mass identified as the
wife Of a Polish barber who is missing from
Braintres - Erwin Wardman. Editor OF
ssFhe Newly Press" was examined at the
legislative trial Of Justice Hooker at Albany.
CTTY.--StoclIs dull and irregular. - Eight
deaths and thirty-four prOstrations were re-
ported yesterday due to heat - race
riot OF such serious proportions that Commits
eioner McAdoo took personal charge Of the
police. ragged for hours near 62d-st and Amster-
dam-aVe. - The bodies Of two Of those
drowned with the Normandie were recovered,
that OF Miss Dodge being IN the cabin Of the
yacht which was raised. - The Board Of
Estimate passed the franchises long held up by
che Aldermen. but dispute over the method Of
apprsising new franchises delayed action on re-
cent applica tons. - Justice Gildersleeve
further modified the order Of Justice TruaX so
as 20 permit the Board Of Estimate 10 adopt any
route OF rapid transit il may think htS
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Showers. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
IS degrees; lowest, IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
QUE KorETARY EXPANSION.

According to a recent Treasury bulletin, the
general stock Of money In the United States on
July was s., s85, O79, 229 OF this 81 $780, 716471
a money In actual circulation. the Treasury it.
self holding 2Ss,362,759 as assets or reserve
funds. The population Of the United States on
July was estimated at SS,259,0OO; so that the
circulation per capita amounts to S31 IS. These
f0ures may at first glance convey no special
meaning: but looked at Ilore closely they tell
ne story Of an extraordinary expansion IN our
monetary resources and Of an extraordinary
broadening Of the basis on which our monetary
system rests.
For the last eight years-practcally from the
date Of our recovery from the panic Of 1693-we
have been expanding our circulation at a phe-
nonenal rate and at the same time wisely
equalizing the proportions In the circulating
medium OF credit moneys and moneys OF abso-
lutte redemption In those years we have in
creased the circulating volume by about 5s per
cent-from 81, $40, 100000 TO $2596OOoOOO; but
colncidently we have raised the ratio Of gold
coin and gold notes IN use TO all other moneys
rom 80 TO ~ per cent The changes In the vol
rnle Of the different kinds Of money outstanding
are worth noting. The stock Of gold coin-of
which we had in circulation In 1879 only $685.
O00OO0-stOod on July l, 1897, at S5l1OOOlOOO.
II has since been increased TO S655OOOOOO Gold
certificates, Of which we had only SS1.OOO.OOO
outstanding eight years ago, have now reached
a circulation Of s4S7. 100000. Our net gain IN
moneys Of final redemption has, therefore, been
s5es.OO0,O00.
The excess Of silver issues in our currency
which formerly threatened the Treasury's sol
vency, has been safely overcome. We have
now 100000 silver dollars in circulation and
s45e, 100000 in silver certificates The gain
since 1897 in these two forms Of currency has
been $3.50. 100000; but the Sherman act Treas
ury notes, based on uncoined silver bullion, are
rapidly going out Of use. They nave fallen IN
volume since 1897 TO S9.342OOO-a loss OF SI4'-
600 OOO-wbich leaves the net gain in silver cir
culafjon at S65,OOOOO0 Much OF the bullion
purchased under the Sherman act has also been
converted into subsidiary coins, which are not a
fuil legal tender The subsidiary coinage now
outstanding amounts to S1O0,OOoOOo, against
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
SOMETBING OF 4 SIEGE.

The most unusual trait Of the present period
Of hot weather is its continuance In July and
August it is to be expected that the mercury
will reach the sos often, but it seldom does
so for more than two or three days in sue
cession. Interruptions, even though short or
dinarily give suffering humanity a chance to
recover from the effects Of the heat No such
opportunity has been afforded in this city for
a week The present hot spell began last Sat
urday. when the highest temperature recorded
by the government observer was So degrees.
Since that time the thermometer has occasional
" evinced a slightly more ambitious disposition
than 1t did then, but at no time has the daily
maximum fallen short Of that which was noted
a week ago. To some extent the influence Of
such weather is cumulative. Persons who are
vigorous enough to withstand the first onset
not infrequently succumb after a prolonged
siege. This fact should serve as a warning to
those who are tempted to exercise actively or
to expose themselves needlessly to the sun
shine
Tie prevalence Of extreme humidity at this
time of year is, Of course to be expected. In
dog days and for a considerable interval pre-
vious thereto there is likely to be higher baro-
metric pressure over the ocean than over
continent. This contrast has been especially
noticeable during the last few days; and as
there is always q steady movement Of air from
a high pressure area to low one the breeze
on the Middle Atlantic Coast has come almost
steadily from the southeast. That great vapor
generator the Gulf Stream, is not so far away
that 1t cannot contribute to the store Of invisi-
bic moisture that is waited gently inland. It
has undoubtedly enhanced the discomfort Of
the residents of the metropolis and it's sub
urbs during the greater part of the current
week. Owing to a slight change in the direc
ton of the wind yesterday the air came of
the land and was a little drier than 1t had been.
simultaneously, however. there was a slight
rise in the temperature which offset the dimi-
mutton in humidity. So far as actual comfort
was concerned, therefore, there was no reason
for congratulation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
"GRAFTERs" AND TIE MERIT SYSTEM.

"GRAFTERS" AND THE NEXT SXSTEM.
Secretary Bonaparte's prominence as a Civil
Service reformer furnishes a pretext for the
gibe that he is repudiating his favorite princi-
pie of administration when he declares that 1.-The
underlying evil in the administration Of our
public affairs is simply dishonesty" Here
for twenty years we have been in increas-
ing measure selecting officials by competition
after tests. Yet In department after depart
ment we unearth 'grafters,' as we have fallen
into the habit OF calling them, who are, in plain
words, thieves and scoundrels If the merit
system is the safeguard Of good government how
can these things be?
In the first place, no Civil Service reformer
ever said that the merit system could change
human nature. If the society in which officials
dwell is tainted with the grating spirit, the
public service will have it's share. An Occa-
sional bank defalcatiOn does not tempt bank
directors from the application of careful tests
of fitness to applicants for employment or to
the abandonment Of their methods of promo
ton. No process Of selecting employees can
infalibly detect dishonesty or furnish safe
guards against yielding to temptation. Sur
round the civil servant with offers from bro
kers for crop estimates and the result win de-
pend on his character, not on his method Of
appointment
Moreover. while appointments are made large
u
tends that the spirit ruling government offices is
uniformly Civil Service reform spirit The re-
formers have for years had to contest every step
Of their progress with certain men admin
Istering the law in the departments. Machen
and Beavers and their associates were part Of
a machine which operated under Civil Service
rules. and some Of them may have entered the
service by passing examinations; but did they
carry out the merit system? The notorious VIC
lation Of Civil Service principles in the appoint
ments to rural offices of men and women who
were to be Immediately transferred to the
classified service-which was one Of their con-
spicuous offences-furnlshes the answer. These
men were in Office playing politics. They were
protected as long as possible by politicians, and
their abuses would long before have been
stopped if the voice Of those who were mere
~ demanding faithfulness to the merit system
had been needed.
When we look back and see what the de-
partments were in the days Of the spells sys-
tenn after the Civil War, and in the old Jackson
days Of defalcations Notwithstanding the preva-
Ience Of primitive virtues we can better appre-
ciate what our government would be if every
appointment were now handed out as patronage
without regard to fitness The merit system
has been the safeguard of the government from
thievery and scandal ten times worse than any
thing which has occurred.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
IN LIE RERKsHIREs.

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRiBCNE.l
Ienox. Mass. July 14-EgertOn L. Winthrop. o.
Nev--York is a guest OF Mr. and hrs. Edward
Wharton at the Mount
Miss Emily F. Brewer has gone to Thompaon's
Point VT to visit her brother. Justice David J.
Brewer. OF the United states Supreme Court.
Dr. David Gregg. president of the Western Theo-
logical Seminary; Mrs. David Gregg. jr-. Misr
Gregg and Miss Grant. Of New-York. are late ar
rivals in Great Darlington.
II IS reported that F. s Pearson. OF New-Xorz.
has bought fifteen hundred acres or land on
mountain range between Afford and the New-Tork
state boundary. and win create a deer park
Charles B. Barton president OF the Common
wealth Insurance Company. OF New-4oFS' has
leased a cottage in Great harrington for the re-
mainder OF the season.
meeting has been called for Monday 70 take
action on the closing OF certain roads IN LenoX 70
automobiles. There is considerable opposition to
trs Man TO close road between Lenox and Stock
bridge.
Mr. and Mrs Charles H Kerner. OF Freeport
Long Island have arrived IN Great harrington
Countess b de Lueppe. OF New-Tork. arrived al
the MaplewoOd IN Pittsheld. to-day
Count Rubido Itchy OF the Austrian EMBASSY
will sail on July q for Vienna He VIII be relieved
from duty FOR the summer months. returning 70
Washington IN the late autumn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15

it's work. We have heard of at least one
Institution which has consistently declined to
accept gifts Of new buildings unless accompa-
MED with endowments sufficient for their needs
Some universities put vast sums Into monu-
mental buildings, and then. pointing with
pride" to these, loudly appeal for funds with
which to make them useful 1t would at least
be interesting to see some worthy institution
make the contrary experiment Of housing ITSELF
In quarters as plain and inexpensive as cot
ton mill. putting the vast bulk Of its funds into
use for educational work Of the highest char
acter. and then making its appeal, If any. to
the public for means to provide more suitable
housing for SO efficient a work
The question may also be raised, as 1t IS by
some. whether in these latter days the costli-
ness Of college and university education has
not been unduIy increased. We mean the cost
to the institution, not to the student. There
has been much talk of 'fads" in the public
schools 1t is not impossible that there is
tendency toward fads in institutions of higher
learning 1t is necessary that there shall be
universities with postgraduate courses for orig
inaI research, which will cost a great deal and
which must be supported by endowments. 1t Is
not at all certain that every college, or every
institution that calls itself university ought to
attempt to initiate itself In that manner. 1t is
really possible for an institution to do admirable
work and to afford TO its students fine oppor-
tunlties for liberal culture without offering the
Phi. D. degree to every one who shall do two or
three years Of original research"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Nrav-York Is less deserted to-day than Is oTdina-
rfy the case on Saturday at this time OF 1he year
owing to the number arriving from Europe OF going
abroad There will be a large gathering about noon
TODAY at the Grand Central Station OF people
bound for Newport by the midday train Among
those sailing to-day is the Baroness Giskra the
American wife Of the Austrian charge anaireS
who has been until now with ner husoahu a
Ienox She was Miss Helen King. Of this CITY. anu
goes abroad to join her mother and her ehlloIeh
in the Island Of Jersey Mr.. and Mrs kredericA
Vanderbilt who arrived Gay or two ago Iroin
abroad. will go for a short cruise up the coast y"
board their new steam yacht Warrior before start
ing for their camp in the Adirondacks. and MIS-
Charles T Barney and Miss Katherine Barney
who came across on the same boat with them yes
terday went to Southampton. where they VIII
spend the remainder Of the summer
Yachting will occupy the attention OF many To-
day for there are special races at Oyster Bay
under the auspices Of the Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club and It is this morning too, that the
Larchmont Yacht Club begins its regatta Wees
Atlantic City is likewise the scene OF much soclai
activity in connection with its horse show, WHICH
opens to-day. and which has had the effect OF at
tracing to that seaside resort Mr.. and Mrs Alfred
G. Vanderbilt Mrs Burke Roche and others
Moncure Robinson. worthington whitehouse.
FranEl,n NJ Plummer. Sumner Gerald and Captain
Philip NJ. Lydig went to Newport yesterday 70
spend the week end.
Mr. and Mrs william Rhinelander are at Spring
Lake n J. for another week, ana will afterWard
go to the Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach
DR. Samuel G. Tracy sails to-day and viii be
abroad for several months
Mr. and Mrs. w. Emlen Roosevelt have opened
their country place at Oyster Bay for the season
] Pferpont Morgan and Miss Anne Morgan viii
sail to-day for New-York. They VIII De met on
their arrival here by his yacht Corsalr. winch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15

This is certainly country Of great resources.
A little time ago people were lanienting that
even at the national capital it might not be
possible to find a suitable meeting place for
the Japanese and Russian peace commissioners;
yet entirely satisfactory quarters are found
at one Of our minor navy yards. at a small
provincial city! Portsmouth is to be con-
graduated. and so are its guests. who will there
find themselves in a delightful summer resort
and within easy reach Of some Of the Ioveliest
and grandest scenery in the world. The one
drawback to their felicity Viii be that there will
be accomplished statesman and hospitable
host to welcome them on the shore Of Lake
Sunapee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15

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of the house In which its concert dwells. In
such spirit, concert and doctrine should be able
to exist amicably, and indeed. with mutual
benefceuce, side by side; and perhaps also side
by side with some concert or doctrine devel-
oped in the awakening regions Of the Asian con-
tiuent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
Amnsements.

AERIAL. GARDENS :sO-LiftinE the Lid and The
Whole Damn Family.
BRIGHTON BEACH PARK-3-5-T. SQ-o-Boar Wa,
COMFY ISLAND - Drtamlsnd Luna Park Bostock's
Animal Arena
EDEN MLSEE-World
HANMERETElN'S PARADISE ROOF GARDENS-6:iD-
Vaudeville.
HERALD 6oUARB-2u5-s;I5-Ih Roniolins Girl
IUDSOE-2:lb-s SO-The Heir 20 the Hoorah.
LYRIC-2-Sl 6-Fantane.
MANHATTAN BEAcH-S and e.30-Vaudevfle Caruivals
-s:l5-Pain's Port ATthur-GTand Fireworks.
NETWORK ROOF AND WISTARIA GROVE-S:sO-
81 NICHOLAS oARDEN-s:so-warrsn Concerts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
c. w. VANoERsILr cos no aAR HARaoR
y rELEaRAPn ID - rRrouvEI


AshevflIe. n. c.. July I4.-Mr. and Mrs George
W. Vanderbilt and Mss Cornelia Vanderbilt ave
years old. started for Bar Harbor to-day. reti-
nue. OF servants from Bftnore House went to
Bar HarbOr yesterday. The Vanderbilts are
pected to return IN September.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15

An Iowa swain. now defendant in q breach
of promise suit, offers as a defence that he must
have been talking In his sleep when he proposed
to the plaintiff. There is nothing like breach
Of promise suit to wake up wealthy bachelor
from Cupid's dream.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15

Laborers are said to find it hard work boring
through snowdrifts on Pixies Peak. They must
not expect much sympathy however. from New
Workers who ride in the subway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-15
SPANISH MINISTER or FINANCE.

Madrid July Navarro Rsverter has been ap-
pointed Minister OF Finance in succession 70 Senior
UrZaiz, resigned