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New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

Mr.. Bertram Dobell writes to "Notes and
Queries" that he has in his possession booklet
Of sixty-seven pages, entitled Original Prol-
sgTzes, Epilogues and Other Pieces Never Be
lore Printed . London 1856" and
containing d number of poems in praise of
Shakespeare. AT the end of poem, "On Shake
speare's Monument" is the following note:
There is no genuine picture of Shakespeare That
:alled his was taken long after his death from a
perSon supposed extremely like him, at the direc-
Hon of Sir Thomas Charges.
Mr.. Dobell does not think that any Of the edi-
tors biographers of the dramatfst have taken
notice of the above statement. He supposes that
the writer meant a painted portrait, and sug-
gests that the matter be looked into.
In Extracts from Letters and Journals of
William Cory. Author of Tonica.'" another cor
respondent of Notes and Queries" has found
this mention of Shakespeare in a letter ad-
dressed to Cory from Wilton:
The House. Lady Herbert said, is full of interest
Above US is Wolseys room We have letter never
printed from Lady Pembroke to her son, telling
hin to bring James l from Salisbury to see '.As
You Like It" we have the man Shakespeare
with US" She wanted to cajole the King on Ra-
egh's behalf-he came.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
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but these are not the main considerations which
have Influenced them in their decision The
rates have become intolerably heavy where
they have an area of twelve acres under their
control, with an expensive plant for the con-
struction of boilers engines. destroyers and
torpedo craft, gunboats and shallow draught
vessels. They compelled to remove their
works when taxes are three times as high in
Poplar the Tyne or in other shipbuilding
centres in the North. Local taxation in Poplar
IS the highest known in London-twelve shill-
ings L the pound-and the Yarrows are con-
vinced that it will be ru'nous for them to re-
main where they have been for thirty years
and that it will be true economy for them to
invest S1.OOOOOO in a new yard and plant
where they can knock off eight of the twelve
shillings. One great firm after another is leav-
ing the Thames district for the same reason
and not only is there less work for the swarm
ing hives of population, but the ratable valua-
tions are rapidly declining and the burdens OF
taxation are increasing for those remaining on
the ground.
Why is it, then. that local elections in Eng
land have become humdrum affairs when the
question of taxation is one of paramount i'm
portance to all classes? The reason without
doubt. is that under the English municipal sys-
tenn public control cannot be effectively exer-
cised in an annual election. 1 am not now
speaking of the London County Council. but of
the ordinary annual election outside the metrop-
oils. 1t affects only one-third of the members
Of the Council and leaves two-t thirds of the re-
sponsible administrators where they are. No
important reform can be authorized, no change
Of municipal policy can be introduced unless
at least three elections in as many years are
successfully carried: and when zeal has to be
exercised with such self restraint and patience
it loses its energy and initiative force More
over electors not called upon to make
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
MUNICIPAL ENGLAND.
Retrenchment NeUer az Issue an
Elections.
London, November 4.

London, November 4.
The municipal elections in England and Wales
have been quiet and uneventful that in
New-York is exciting and highly significant. In
as many thirty boroughs there have been no
contests; in a large number of towns there has
been change in the balance of parties and
while the Liberals and labor section have gained
three times many seats as the Conservatives,
this advantage is not greater than might have
been looked for when the by-elections have been
going heavily against the government of the day.
Apart from unexpected Conservative gains in
West Yorkshire and some notable labor victo
ries in Lancashire, the results are normal and
have been accomplished with light vote and
with little excitement Apparently, ratepayers
have not been impressed with the Importance of
a choice between Radicals and Conservatives as
members of municipal councils. Possibly they
have known from experience that taxes will rise
whether one or the other set of local politicians
be at the head of the polling, and have not con-
sidered it worth while to be greatly concerned
the issue Yet, whether Radicals are some
times sluggish and old fashioned or Conserva-
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

he writes In "The Times" this week, 'is taking
e130000,000, or after making certain deduc-
tions say over f100000000, out Of our pockets
more than were paying ten years ago. we
have therefore, over E100, 900 less to spend.
Who can wonder if our home trades decline?
Unless the government and local authorities
reduce their present enormous expenditure, we
must be prepared for even more suffering ana
depression in the future These are two
among hundreds of pOrtentous warnings
against the destructive effect of taxation IN
killing off industries; yet municipal elections
pass without a furry OF excitement nor any
sign of reaction against growing expendi-
lures. The compact ma 'orty' does not care
Employers moreover. enforce these warnings
in communities where distress from lack of
work is greatest The Yarrows, for example,
have a shipyard in Poplar, where in the busiest
times more than 200 workers have been en-
ployed. About 600 men are working in
the yard on unfinished contracts. and when
these are out of the way the firm will abandon
their London business and resume operations in
the North. The threat has been heard before,
but this time it is likely 20 be carried out, and
the Yarrows explain why the change of base is
necessary. They have been taxed out of
Poplar. The rates have risen their prop
erty until it is runous for them to remain
there. Coal and iron will be more accessible
in the North and labor will be more manageable,
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

tives are as frequently progressive as they are
reactionary in local administration the munich
pal councils as a body are responsible for an in
debtedness exceeding $2,000,O 100000. and they
are expending not less than $685., 100000 a year.
They managing local government at time
when taxpayers are overwhelmed with national
and imperial levies of unprecedented magnitude
during a period of unbroken peace and when
the rates steadily and rapidly increasing
with the introduction of municipal industries in
volving costly plant and an immense outlay Of
capital. There might naturally have been re-
action against municipal extravaganza, but
when the elections were held there was general
Indifference and apathy.
If there be lack Of public interest in these
municipal contests it is not because vigilant
monitors silent. Warnings against the
crushing and disastrous effects of local taxa
ton constantly heard. These are sounded
not merely by the paid agents of capitalists
organizations, which are eager 20 control cleo
trio and other business now under municipal
management, but also by statesmen and finan-
cers Of the highest character for disinterested-
ness and capacity. Lord Rosebery has empha-
sized the fact that during a single decade the
municipalities have expended S6.OO0 900 900 in
the United Kingdom, only a billion dollars
less than the national government Lord Ave
bury is convinced free trader. who will not ad-
NIT that there is anything wrong with the fiscal
system introduced by Sir Robert Peel and Mr..
Golden; yet while he SCOTS at the idea that Eng
land is not holding her own against Germany in
India, China Argentina, Continental Europe or
any neutral market, he blurts out the fact that
national industries are not prospering. The
fact would seem indisputable when the horde
of unemployed both in London and in the prov
inces is recruited from all trades; and the
cause appears to him equally obvious. 'The
portentous increase in rates and taxation"
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

eutfon, yet touched by the sound draughtsman-
ship and humorous sensblity of the artist
Dealing with the expensive recreations Of amia-
BILE miIIionaires there is an undercurrent of
common sense Americanism in the story that re-
Hsyes 1t from even suspicion of snobbishness.
1t is enjoyable in every page.
Quaint and strongly individualized types of
character inhabit the little seacoast villages of
Maine Mr. Day has lived among them studied
them and knows them, and in Squire Phn
his first long story. he reproduces them with
fidelity and kindly humorous appreciation. The
Squire" himself is lawyer, with a strength of
character and legal ability that in a wider field
would have landed him on the Supreme Court
bench but long deferred love affair has per-
manently attached him to his native town.
Wise, bighearted and, under sufficient provo
cation, hotheaded, he is the recognized oracle
and deus ex machina in all local affairs, when
his authority and influence suddenly threat
ened by the arrival of his scapegrace brother
with many greenbacks in his wallet and the odd
remnants of q circus trailing at his heels, Ig-
norant adventurous, well meaning, but misdi-
rected; determined to right the wrongs he had
responsible, he is delightfully."- picturesque con-
ception and a persistent source of trouble.
While the story is mainly humorous, it is not
without its dramatic situations There is no
lack of incident indeed there is more action in
the tale than one is wont to find in such an out
of the-way locality. The story might be de-
scribed as a truthful transcript of Down East
life seen under exceptional circumstances
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

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New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

choice between rival leaders of marked indi-
viduaIty, with ideas and policies of their own
Mayors are elected by the Councils not by the
people; and when they are chosen they are
figureheads, without special qualifications for
their work The Town Clerk is less impress
sive official than the Mayor on ceremonial oc
casons, but all the year round he is the real
administrative chief: and he cannot be placed
in office, or removed from it by popular vote.
What the electors can do is to choose one-third
of the Council every year. and when their work
is done the system of government by committee
and subcommittee goes before. 1t may
be a highly efficient SYSTEM conducted pro-
gressive lines, with more or less caution and
conservatism, but it canot be restricted either
in cost in scope by direct action of the elect
ors Checks upon municipal expenditure
urgently required but one election follows
other without any effective method of enforcing
the salutary policy of municipal retrenchment
Conservatives may come Radicals may 60
but the rates are ever rising. Economy is a
faint voice in the municipal playing fields.
Possibly it not without touch of irony
that Mr.. Tree invited a considerable number of
local politicians to admirable performance of
Ibsen's Enemy of the People" this week at His
pomps, vanities and hypocrisies of provincial
politics, which metropolitan legislators could
joy without feeling that they themselves were
scourged with home truths. They could laugh
heartily over the vagaries of time serving jour
nalists whose influence and space were at the
service of a powerful corporation; they could
dismiss the pompous and solemn burgomaster as .
a Caricature of a Continental subject, and they
could wag their h eads sagely when the irrepres-
sible DR.. StOckmann compared political party
to a sausage machine that ground all heads to-
gether in mash, and proclaimed the folly of
putting on ones best trousers when going out
TO fight the battle of truth and justice. Yet.
there was salt in the polemical satire that had
not lost its SAVIOR. Asaksen the representa-
tive Of the compact majority and the champion
Of the moderation of the middle class, was little
less than average member of a municipal
council, and while the aphorisms that old
truths become lies after eighteen or twenty
years. and that "a minority may be right-a
majority is always wrong could be flung aside
as whimsical paradoXes the final declarations
that the strongest man is he who stands most
alone could not be resented as an unfair skit at
the economical reformer, who in every
munty, great small, is crying aloud for a
reduction of municipal expendi-
lures. That is the poor, unhappy idealiSt, who,
n unique isolation, is Knocked and deSpiSed by
the compact majority of helpless voters.
/ N T.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
An EARLY ELEVATOR
rom Notes and Queries.

From Notes and Queries
In the "Greyille Memoirs Genoa March Is
1870, evening" there is a reference to the King
Ind Queen, who for the comfort of their bodies
had machine made like a car, which is drawn
np by chain from the bottom to the top of the
house; it holds about six people, who can be at
pleasure elevated to any story, and at each land
ng place there is a cOntrivance to let them in
Ind out"
Is this the first mention of anything approach
ng our modern lift?
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
NOT so GOOD Il BARGAIN.

Peter Minuit had just paid $2S for the island
of Manhattan
HUH sneered his wife. I'll bet NJ. Witte
would have got it for nothing"
Herewith the earlier DUtchman ceased to brag
of his bargain
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

There is to be another volume of Lord Acton's
ietters-letters which are Of a more serious char
acter than those addressed to Mary Gladstone.
I'm the new series,' 1.-The AthenRun" tells us,
''the essential Acton win be presented, a stu
dent of history unrestingly alert to apply his
endless erudition to the defence and elucidation
of contemporary Christianity
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
ONE DIFFICULTY OBTI4TED.

Mariana was explaining the Moated Grange.
Its perfectly lovely she said you see the
cook can't leave us.
Thus do observe the advantages of med
RVal architecture.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

About nine thousand topics, it is said, will be
covered by the Standard Bible Dictionary
10 be issued some time next year. 1t will have
many foreign contributors and will contain
Illustrations and maps
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
LITERARY NOTES.

The late George Macdona1ds works Of Fancy
and Imagination to be brought out soon
IN pocket edition of ten volumes.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
EXCLUDED.

Into the Charnel Hall of Fame
The dead alone should go;
Then write not there the living name
OF Edgar Allan Poe.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

Mr. John B. Tabb, poet sends to "The Lon
don Academy this quatrain, suggested by the
exclusion of Poe from the New-York Hall of
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

Mr. Hugh Thomson, the illustrator of types
Sf the eighteenth century and of the early nine
teenth century has been preparing sketches for
new edition of Thackeray's "Esmond." Mr..
Thomson has done charming things in
tho course of his artistic caTeer-hs illustrations
bf Crawford" were particularly good-but we
doubtful Of his ability to interpret so great
book ''Esmond." For that it is not suffi-
.ent that pictures should be pretty, quaint and
hnny.
Mr.. Austin Dobson, note, has written an
Introduction for this edition.
New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

The latest "reminiscences of Sir Horace Rum
bold include this account Of a meeting with
Empress Frederick in one of her years of acute
Borrow:
made upon me during the long audience she granted
the royal yacht. The Sufferings she had
passed through, the wrongs she had endured We're
btnl recent that she spoke of them with exceed
fny bitterness. emphasizing what she said with
elenched hands. and betraying emotion which
speedily gained me, and than explained the
prosecuted daughter
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thing . Sprup oDn Wilionen BON
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4auft nidts anoeres, als
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1905-03-27

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madte Doer gemadt baben iol. unb
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bic Soee tomnten, Die 6erren sci.
hitter bitten Die @elegenbeit abiibts
lid b~erbeigefibrt, UNI iib eiun,al
iiber Die Observation-Disclosures aus
sulprehen urb bic ourb Die Sen1aa
tiDnsbaibetei Heterogeneous Nufres
aurg Elm menig ST. bGtnpfen. Denn
unaueifelbaft tuaren bic Neoen, bic
tie bielten, peniaer an Die 3iberaien,
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@un. man fam in Berlin imnerbin
NIT ben M%euBerunaen aufrieben fem.
Das en9liibe &abtnet bat pdbs
reno oer lebten Gage mieber einmal
feline 8dbigteit bemielen. SIN 0auie,
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reft gegen bic TinanspDlitit Der Ste
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-07

which the so-called ascetics have on the
imagination of the people, 1t being much
less easy than it was formerly for the men,
bers of the various begging communities to
unloose the pursestrings of the people,
There is, happily, reason to believe that
the changed feeling among the educated
classes is filtering down to the lower levels.
This evil is not confined to one particular
community religion. 1t is as rampant
among the Mahometans as among the Hin
docs. The Sar Jadid, an ably conducted
vernacular paper, published in upper India.
dealing with questions of social reform
among Mahometans, has been forcibly CALI
ing the attention of its 'co-religiouists to the
necessity of reform in their notions of
charity. Our contemporary shows by a
reference to the Police Gazette that the
number of Mahometan beggars under sur
VIGILANCE has been rising every week. L cite
instances from the records of the criminal
courts to prove that some of the men who
pass for religious teachers have been con-
victed on charges of fraud and immortality
committed on the property and persons of
men and women who have been misled by
their religious appearance. ..........,. ..5.. ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-07
FORCING FLOWERS BY FIRE.
Remarkable Result of Confagration
in French Town.

From Chambers Journal
That flowers can be forced by heat such
as is usually supplied to glass houses Is, Of
course an old story; but that the direct ac-
ton of fire heat can have any effect in
Fastening the blooming of plants is fresh
suggestion, but one that In these days. when
flowers are demanded In season. out of sea-
son, at all times and of every kind and
country, is worth consideration. Great
events have frequently sprung from the
smallest of the most. apparently Indirect
causes and a serious fire that broke out
last September at Chenseesur- Marine, be-
tween Chalons and Vitry-ieFrancois. in
France, while it destroyed the greater part
OF populous village, running many of Its
inhabitants, may yet have a result the
even greater development of an Industry
that gives employment to thousands of
people. = f-- --s -.a--.s-.-
The fire. which ragged on one side of the
village made a clean sweep of everything
before Ii in the way of buildings, and only
paused when there nothing to lick up
except the orchards that once formed
hedge between, the homesteads and the open
country. Even then it was hardly satiated
for it greedily devoured the first two rows
of apple and pear trees, leaving nothing but
cinderS; the next three rows though badly
scorched were not quite destroyed the
furthest away being naturally the least
affected. Some of the boughs escaped all
hurt, and it was with these that the very
curious phenomenon observed which
merits attention second lowering COM
menced at once, and by the end of Ostober
all the trees furthest from the scene of the
fire were in full bloom. as though called to
renewed life by the fresh voice of May In
stead of hushing to slumber with the lullaby
OF October. At another point the danes
had swept close to large lilac, and this
as we'll as some plum trees. bewildered by
what must have seemed to it a sudden re-
turn or summer, put once more its bril-
dial robes.
1t must be mentioned that the fire lasted
only four hours. 1t will be noticed there
fore that there was no eseYnblance be-
tween this sudden blast of heat and the or
binary gradual forcing TO which plants are
submitted ..,.-,