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New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
SOME oLDTIME SCHOOL BOOKS.

The information in the old books was varied
and peculiar. 1t is just little hard to find the
cheek bones." with no diversions accomplish
ments but "goff and curling" The description
Of "goff' is delicious, especially the end: "and
the party which strikes the ball with feweSt
strokes into a hole prepared for the purpose
wins the game" Even if lean and raw boned,
we had two national games. The Irish come off
very badly; they have no characteristics and
only two customs: bowling at funerals and quar-
rellingI AS for Poland its animals are wolves,
deer" This sounds rather sweeping till we dis
cover 1t was written in primer during the
Commonwealth. For the lesson books followed
politics, and changed their teaching to suit the
times in much the same way as the Vicar Oh
Bray.
Whatever happened in the outside world
pointed moral and adorned tale in the class
room. For, like Mr.. Squeerss. an Old World
school the right shop for morals" Even
sons. Always powder in the most seductive
looking jam, generally great deal of powder
with very thin jarnmy coating. Swift retrl-
button fell upon wrongdoers You played with
matches and were nromptlv burned to cinders.
You climbed upon chair or table, and. to Judge
from the pictures, the whole house collapsed
about your head. The slightest vanity or devia-
tion from the paths of strict truth and virtue
met with terrible punishment.
Indeed the ways of transgressors were so ex
tremely hard that 1t is wonder to me any child
ever anything but perfectly good and We'll
behaved. Sometimes child might be very bad,
and with superhuman efforts become good; as,
for example, ELLEN, the naughty girl re-
claimed; but more often the unfortunate sinners
had no second chance. One step on the down.
ward path of crime and all was over. The very
good children naturally suffered from priggish
ness. Who can forget the conversation of those
superlatively excellent young gentlemen Tom
and Charles. Tom even went so far as:
And l." said Tom. won't play with SAM
Although he has a top"
Could self-sacrifce in the pursuit of virtuous
companionship go further? Probably naughty
little Sam" existed quite we'll without the pat
ronage of "the superior boys; anyway, he had
his top! However, even the very good had their
failings: they were not proof against rewards.
Think Of those we'll brought up children who
spent all their money books and scorned the
pastry cooks shop. Did they not in the end
receive the very pastry they affected to de-
spse?
For when we've learnt each book by heart
Mamma will treat US with tart.
-Katherine BurriI. in Chambers's Journal
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
PEACE ON EARTH"

There is, Of course. question of the identity
OF Bethlehem itself with Christs birthplace, and
large church stands over the alleged locality
OF the Nativity. On this point we need not be
skeptical. for consecutive records and evidence
dating as far back as the second century con-
cur with singular unanincity In localizing the
mas given rise to some VapOring about the
grand simplicity Of the structure, We take
the liberty Of suggesting that prosaic impartial
ity will pronounce the architecture mean, the
interior ornamentation tawdry and ugly, and
the various shrines on par with those of the
Holy Sepulchre. In details we have once more
10 face the fables OF local lore, which has many
a time shifted reputed sites. Under the altar
ness, is recess in the pavement. surrounded
With the different colored lamps belonging TO
the Greeks, Latins and Armenans. and here it
Is alleged our Saviour was born-"IIic de Vir-
gine Maria Jesus Christus natus est" Oppo-
site and close by. is the nanger cradle of dirty
marble clumsily hewn out unduly large. and re-
pugnant to view; in subterranean passage is
round hole whence water is said to have
gushed out for the use Of the Holy Family with
the puerile fiction that the guiding star which
ied the Mag1 plunged into the spring; elsewhere
Is the spot where Joseph stood when he received
the command TO flee into Egypt; IN another side
chapel several Of the innocents were slain-and
so on, and so on. All these places are in the
JOINT custody OF the Armenian, Greek and Latin
one another with all the venom of two Jealous
women. What is the meaning Of yonder
boarded compartment" I ask Roman Catho-
lie priest My night Matchbox was the reply.
You see those Greek priests are such black
guards that II do not keep a sharp lookout,
Iney creep UP and blow out our shrine lamps
The Greek priests bring precisely the same
charge against the Latin Church. why are
you hereE' / inquired Of a Mahometan SEN
try, armed with a rife and bayonet ITO keep
the Christians from killing each other-there
is great deal OF stabbng going on at times."-
Colonel Henry Knollys. in Blackwood's Maga-
zine
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15

was not No man was so fond of making
presents, but at the same time no man bestowed
SO much thought beforehand on the presents he
made and the persons he assisted. The perusal
of his diaries viii convince any one who had
previously entertained contrary opinion that
IN the usual sense of the term-there was moth
ing Bohemian about the life of Arthur Sullivan
His accounts were kept most carefully; we'll
nigh every incident of his daily life for some
thirty years is recorded in his DIARIES every i'm
portant letter he wrote and every application he
received are mentioned therein. Even here in
these private annals the names of his corre-
spondents alluded to by initials Altogether
if You were TO judge of Sullivan solely by his
diaries. without any eXtraneous knowledge, you
would come inevitably TO the conclusion that
he was singularly careful, level headed man of
business.-(Edward Dicey. c. B.. in The Fort
nightly Review.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
MENTAL ABILITY OF AUSTRALIAN ABo
REGIMES.

The mental degradation Of the autochthones
OF Australia has been generally and unhesl-
tatingly asserted that with the average writer
on ethnology it has become an accepted phrase
In addition to others that I have not time to
look up, two instances have recently come
under my notice which show how carelessly as
sertions to this effect are made.
One occurs at page ITO in THE American
Negro" by William Hannibal Thomas, who says:
The Australian negro, the zero, so to speak,
of all anthropological analysis who is Of such
low development as 10 be incapable OF dealing
with other than units Of ideas, as We'll as OF
numbers" The other is in Asia and Europe,
by Meredith Townsend, which speaks Of the
Australian blacks as being the lowest Of saw
ages" Both books were published in 1901.
To show how little foundation there justly is
for such perfunctory statements I will support
my own experiences as before related with quo
tations from good authorities. the first being
from The Aborigines of Australia" by Bishop
Hale of Perth, w. A, and subsequently of
Brisbane. Queensland, who says: "A shepherd,
Adams. has taken to wife native woman, who
had been brought up at some settlers station
and was partially educated. Adams could not
read. and the black wife taught the white hus-
Again, Mr. James Dawson, in Australian
Aborigines," published in Melbourne in 1881,
records the following very remarkable evidence:
The inspection of the aboriginal school at Rama
gives pertentage of results higher than the
Other state schools in Victoria; and wkile no
ity with which the children attend school and to
the skin raT and zeal a Of tbS {he ThS au m
at least equal to others in power of learning those
branches of education which are taught in the
state schools OF Victoria. On several occasions of
examination by a government inspector the per-
centage Of the Ramahyuck School was hundred.
a result unparalleled by any other school in the
colony.
Other Instances of the mental capacity of the
Australian aborgines might be collected, but
submit that they would add but little to the
evidence which I have endeavored to set forth
in this paper.
Should enough interest be aroused in any
reader to make the effort appear worth while
would suggest that he should inspect the i'm
p,ements and weapons of this race in some large
museum Careful examination will show them
to possess design and finish indicative of great
ability in the makers-(J. Mildred Greed, in The
Nineteenth Century
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
NATTER IN MOTION.

Long before the Christian Era the atomic
theorists Of Greece and Rome, from Leucippus
matter, seemingly still, was in reality, in rapid
motion. An eternal hail of coIorless corpuscles
DETECTED into whirling Vortices-how without
divine agency, DETECTED was not clear-this begot
all things, live and dead, so they imagined
these corpuscles being too small for sight and
a-toma, or indivisibles. In place of the seeing
gods they enthroned blind chance and hueless
matter, immoral their gods, but how far less
picturesque!
The last years have seen the dawn of a revo-
luton in science as great as that which in the
sphere Of religion overthrew the many gods and
crowned the One Matter, as we have under
stood fl, there is none, nor probably anywhere
the ndVisible atom. The so-called elements are
systems of electronic corpuscles bound together
by their mutual forces too firmly for any human
contrIvance completely to sunder thein-alike,
nevertheless, in their electric composition diff
fering only in the rhythms OF their motion.
Electricity is all things, and all things are cleo
tricity prefer the last; it is vvacious 1t loves
and hates flashes, burns, leaps and SleepS-in
the tick of your watch ii will fly round the
earth Like Ariel it is quick as thought; nay,
perhaps it is Thought itself-thought which
conjures up this insubstantial pageant'-"such
stuff as dreams are made Of" yet not in the
least likely to fade and leave not wrack be-
hind. 1t cheats US into the dream Of solid sub
stance by whirling in furious battalons, and by
its sheer energy holding that space that once
called the atom 4 drop of water may contain
as many atoms as the world contains drops Of
water; and If the atom were magnified into
cathedral. each electron would be crumb In
the cathedral But those crumbs themselves
are probably each a universe with its worlds and
its atoms.
Such is the force of these electrons that few
of them, If harnessed to the task, would in q
short time lift a battleship onto Ben Nevis.
Imagine, then. the importance of a stable line of
motion, q path in which they do not jostle or
collide-no conflict of angles, space untitled.
Newman Howard, in The HILBERT Journal
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIAN Off
GERS AND MEN.

GERS AND MEN.
False alarms at times OF international crises
ere nnrneasura bly, worse than grounoless cries
n 'g-fre," in a crowded theatre. Libels on the
ssr fame OF a foreign nation. be II friendly or
t-stile are also worthy OF condemnation. The
staternerts recently made in q widely circulated
FnClish monthly review about the Russian army
and the had treatment OF the men by their Off
GERS come under the latter category II ought
" be wholly unnecessary 10 say that they are
utterly false. Whatever defects an unfriendly
critic may discern in the Russian military sys-
feu1 cruelty 10 the men is certainly NOT one of
them. ] have seen q good deal Of the Russian
sru1v Of the regiments OF the line we'll
NJ the guards, in peace tine and in war, in Eu-
Tone and IN Asia. under three Cars, and I can
affirm categOrically that the officers treat the
men NOT only without actual cruelty or con-
tempt but with far more positive kindliness
fbsn I have seen displayed toward priyates in
any other army in the world. And I may add
his suggestive fact. that these admirable rela-
lions long subsiSUng between the officers and
The rank and file have become such g matter of
course that the men would not brook acts OF
eruslty or az humiliation, the silent endurance
az which Is IN some States regarded almost as
mart Of the days work. one Of the brightest
characteristics Of the Russian army is the ad-
mrabe one might say the ideal spirit which
regulates the intercourse between officers and
nea-lE. J. Dillon. in The Contemporary Re-
view
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
FOR MONDAY WE ANNOUNCE
The january Sale of Ribbons.
At ExTRAoRDINARY PRICE CONCESSIONS

1t event of extreme Importance The very with
which contemporaries will herald the advent of the Spring
ribbons month hence concerned And the coors
With each there issued in Paris official color chart
which is universally accepted the standard Most of the
shades which advocates be found this sale and
radical price concessions Does it the right be
termed "of extreme Importance?
Double Faced Liberty Satin Ribbon inches wide, At
in pink, blue turquoise, cardinal, old rose black,
white or cream Value 33c 19c
Imported Gros de Naples, inches wide of the At
newest weaves in all the authoritative spring coors,
for millinery and dress elaboration. Value 39c 27c
Crepe de Chine Ribbon, inches wide, finest quality,
in pink blue maize turquoise Nile cardinal, lilac, AT
black, white or cream. Also, Double Faced Liberty
Satin Ribbon inches wide in pink old rose maize, soc
turquoise or black Value 55c to 75c
Double Faced Satin Sash Ribbon, inches wide, in At
white pink, cream blue and green Value $I.65 60c
The sale will be conducted special tables the main floor
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
0be British Poinf Of Vies0.
from the English Reviews Magazines Januarv
on Matters Current nd Historic Interest
TIE FARM woslANs WINTER

TIE FARM wosfAN's WINTER
I
II seasons were all summers.
And leaves would never fall
And hopping casement-comeTs
Were foodless not at all.
And fragile folk might be here
That white winds bid depart;
Then one J used 10 see here
Would warm my wasted heart.
IL
one frail, who. hravely tilling
Long hours IN gripping gusts,
Was mastered by Their chilling;
And now his ploughshare rusts.
50 savage winter catches
The breath Of timber things.
and what love be snatches,
And what I love not. brings.
Thomas Hardy, in Tbs Pail Mall MagaZin
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
JACOB oMNIUM" on. ]. HIGGINS.

What a variety Of subjects he graspedl We
owe 10 him the introduction of steam rollers in
the London streets, brought about by his sym
patny with the sufferings of the horses under
his window. Administrative reform of
his hobbies. The Public Schools Commission
followed upon his articles in The Cornhill
Magazine" Only yesterday sitting in Surrey
garden, with an horizon of autumn hills and
foreground of Towering lawns, l heard some
thing I had never known before from friend
with whom l have many memories in common.
This is what the lady told me. One day Mr..
Higgins descended the steps Of his club and
found the road wet and impossible after
cent shower. His intention had been to cross
over TO great store on the opposite side of
the street, and to y some soda for bath,
antidote for gout which had been recon-
mended by his doctor. Not caring to walk
through the mud. he called to a barefooted boy.
and, putting a shilling into his hand, desired
him to cross the road and to make the pur
chase. The boy returned with the soda and
handful of change, and Mr. Higgins asked him
ed 70 pay for the goods. The boy declared that
he had paid all that had been asked. with the
result that Mr.. Higgins. his return home.
sent for the household books, and found that
the sum usually charged for soda was many
times in excess of that which had been asked
from the little sweeper. This was the origin of
the first start Of cooperative stores, so Vigor-
ously advocated by Jacob Omnium" in the col
umns OF THE Pail Mall Gazette" So much my
friend told me- and she smiled as she added
with a remembrance OF those past days the
trades resented this correspondence and with
drew their advertisements in consequence. The
public certainly benefited, but "The Pail Mall
Gazette" suffered-(AIrs. Richmond Ritchie in
The Cornhil Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
PATENTS

INVENTORS. PROTECT YOUR IDEAss
Patents promptly secured; consnlraNoa
ana ADVICE tree. Highest references.
SHEPHERD & PARKER. S1o AAdissn-
ave. corner 42d-st-
THOMAS DREW 81 ETSoN, fos yuitonr
at. patent SOLICITOR expert. estAolishsa
fSh5' real service. tele2aone t2Ss Jooa
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
WESTERN CULTURE ~ INDIA AND
JAPAN


The natural defect of the Indian student al
ways has been his excessive reliance on his pow
ers Of memory. special term-"to by-heart'-
is current among the students in Calcutta TO
express the normal process of studying sub
ject. The usual method OF getting up text
book, whether philosophy, logic English
literature. is TO "by-heart" either the textbook
Itself or the lecturers notes upon it.
And this defect OF Indian thought is greatly
aggravated by the necessity OF learning in Eng
lfsh. The power Of independent thought and
judgment, weak TO begin with, is crushed under
the oppressive weight OF a foreign language
no doubt the best men in the university rise
above the disability, and think, speak and write
in English extraordinarily well; but TO the ma
jority the double effect Of acquiring new knowl-
edge and expressing ideas in a new language is
quite overwhelming The result is that the gen
eral body Of the students tend 10 acquire mass
of undigested information. which they never
really assirnilate or make their own. A few
years ago ] visited a mission college in South
India In honor OF my visit and TO display their
powers Of original thought, the senior students
got up debate. at which was asked 10 pre-
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
'lA ARTHUR sULL1vAN's BENEvoLENcE.

N'AfUR R SCLLIVAN7S BENEVOLENCE.
bsfte. FleW was that the world would be a far
oesses pace than II is now If every individual
% TsS- - concern himself about futile attempts
Sc,rrsssS wholesale evils. such poverty and
hs a,,oss oy private beneVOlence. and devoted
knones A 70 assisting. relieving and showing
fisnSs 70 ms own people. TO his personal
sld - - - ms fellow workers 10 his household
seDse - - - me persons VINO IN the ScripturSl
Dents - - ,e ,le word "neighbOT' were by the acci-
Ole - - 4!ie more Of neighbors TO him than any
ber-5o7s many OF us-I myself amidst the num-
Frips - - uls view, but j fear very few of US
iscoliee4 ect Up 10 IL fully as did Sullivan. /
Ras =. ,soine years ago, when ''The Mikado"
eosrs-St.sss S.ss helght Of its success. ogerhearing a
fese ee4on between some chorus girls who
Rsjr.S. Ing from The Savoy by the District
. teueysts ei-u we're discussing the merits and
hesfrs~ - tne actors and managers of the
lsrb. ,NIe Of them concluded with the re-
ehers zen, whatever you may say about the
NJ H.. -s!e Is one person we are all fond of
ne M -, y arthur Sullivan. he never passes
e ne,,er sHs without saying a kind word; and
acrIieI hesrs Of any one of rs being fIl or fr
l4esf.sH .t,s.-out doing something TO help us /
d re,rs,S Us saying atterwaTd 10 Sullivan, and
low tss. az. Il am glad you told me. This
m ne - ZIG Ike ali who come into relations
ne e % feel toward me-
>ersIi.g De said that this sort Of openhanded
- oirro,.,-es ,.-es easy 20 any man OF kindly, care
ga ~ .tloh, who gives freely 10 all who ask
e'tt ~ e1aities which make a man spend
u desli~. nm also liberal and even lavish fn
"'h others But with Sullivan this
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15


nv D1,lhg ing my second year IN Edinburgh it was
~ ~ eood fortune to become acquainted with
n. ela Mrs. Wyndham, the lessees OF the
v5fS y hoy a, and my subsequent intercourse
~. - mem ana some OF the pleasant people I
Tisca'- '--l4i mouse is one Of my brightest renaf-
bs-, ess 80 2! lhe el er romantic city. Mr. WIND
NJ ,,.-seA -l'-seA was an easy going, debonair sort
ro-I- ser ana the greater part Of the active
Ne -. y running" the theatre devolved upon
~ s1le SI ana energetic wife and her brother
srs 1s .so lAe double position Of stage manager
FrssSSeoeIs need not be reminded of Mrs
~ sLllaIn s striking inpersonation of I.adv
lsr-, lse'. anu belen Macgregor, or of Mr.. Wynd-
rs-, ,liilIilllaply airy aud delicately shaded
p,SeNc' neither viii they have forgotten
49, n ~ hoD Roy Boucicault in the Col
w. Sa"h' or Talbot, the popular tragedian
Is urea SO often and SO acceptablv in
Bo,rssg gSeL4sh leading parts, with the late ] B.
nors = 9cOlAe as aoratio, Macduh and Rich
hss-sSto y .Ls ute roles. 7 attended several re-
srs a4s 4. CONDUCTED by the spirited manageress
- y was q scene 10 be long remembered to
~ rs.- -ef experimenting the mounting Of such
~ g macbeth" with Lockes music; from
s.dE himself down TO the greenest
ibs - 4loln the witches (male) on the moor to
tpl,, s-SS-s IN the orchestra, all fell unresist-
tsrs ellaef tne force Of a sway whose tension
W.. aeAened Til the controlling spirit Of ii
tser,eet--'y sausned- Mrs. Wyndham was eX-
ne,1Ss neSSs pslnstaking IN teaching the younger
icieer u her company 10 read their lines
clert sIeseht while she was drilling a young
Arso.ei sioIh he War Office turned actor mamed
Or i, siv @ Lor & long half hour. ia rendering five
srs = important lines in the way she wanted,
nan, 'SL was way polished TO the very finger
-sShambers's Journal
New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
LAW AND ORDER on THE IsTHMUs.

We stopped At a large struggling village, mis-
nsned Empire" and Immediately became
aware OF "a new and entirely desirable human
element Mlngllng nonchalantly with the slouch-
ilg fTtiye crowd Of parti-cOlored people were
several keen looking. we'll set up youths. whose
faces were as fun of intelligence as their move
msnis were Of self-coufidence. They wore an
eminently buslnesslike rig; l felt thankful TO
be unable 10 call il a uniform, remembering as
iid. the hideous travesty Of clothing that SOL
diars have so long been called upon TO wear 4
garb seemingly designed to prevent the wearers
from doing those violent acts and deeds which
they were Intended 10 perform. They wore blue
Ehirls open ar the neck and with sleeves rolled
up to the elbow, khaki pants and CATERS. and
sery1ceable yet not heavy looking boots Round
their waists We're ban6oier belts at one side
Of which hung a revolver. A khaki celored hat
with briIn turned up at one side completed this
smart costume, making the Wearers look emil
nently II and workmanlike. These were Aueri-
can soldiers sent by the great Republic 10 pre-
serve the peace Of the isthuus under the new
agreement by virtue Of which the United States
has contracted 10 finish the Panama Canal. They
We're the visible signs of Northern law and
order, the only thing needed in this distracted
country 70 make II wealthy and steadily pros
peroTS
TIE reason for their presence was explained
ne TACT that the negotiations between the
5spuohc OF Panama and the government Of the
uMteo States had just been COMPLETED and
one Of the clauses in the compact gave the after
me Tght 10 maintain order along the line of
a-H pFoperty-lf i am not wrong in describing
M Ie cana and its adjacent land for a certain
sSAl1hce on either side their property 1
Know II IS not sc called in official documents but
nc as olnefence N my name and theirs is only
e.aeteace II phraseology-we both mean the
= ~ lnlng When people like the Americans
" u me United States purchase a concession like
IA o. the Panama waterway and owing TO
" incompetence Of its nominal owners ara
ooleee 10 send troops there 10 protect the
aOf7ily' tnere can be no question Of the restora-
~, of retrocessiOn rather, of the reclaimed
soi.- So.nug 70 us original seni-savagery And in
spl'e OF my distrust of the ArnerjcaDe a-d Nv ~,
- --sl uelesJation Of their business methods 7
M ,I, heartily glad 10 see them in Panama They
- 80 Leei sure. make an amazing change for
90 ~ ystIer IN that hitherto unsavory land
V'@AA !. bullen, in the CornhiIl Magazine.