davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
PERSONAL.
no graft"

M, ,r. .,,bassadors of the German Empire in
Madrid Rome. Washington. ConstantnOpie. FaIS'
London. St. Petersburg and Vienna are all mem mem
bers of the nobility. Their enlolumer5s o are ~ 5s
next three and sS7 500 in the last two
One of the most remarkable instances OF heredi-
tary office solicitors Is tnat 0. 'ne @-S
Under Sheriff for the City OF London. TuIneh
F3urchell sits in his Sheriffs court in Red Lioh
square on the bench that his father. grandiather
and greats grandfather successfully occupied
The French Academy of Medicine has just elected
to its membership in the person OF Prolessos
Poirier one of the youngest men ever incluoeo
within its ranks his career has oeen one % tE
most brilliantly rapid among his conIenpOr % g Isss
and since 1851 he has taught anatomy at the prac-
tsing school of rhe Paris faculty ne IS fSS aS0 S of
many treatises on osteoogy the muscles cancerous
affections and other surgical SUBJECTS
Professor F. G. Peabody, Of Harvard. Is presidihg
at the meetings Of the Religious Educational AS
sociation Convention now being held in Boston
The Dutch are forming committees throughout
the South African colonies for the purpose OF pre-
senting Mr. Steyn with a national testmoniai On
his arrival on February ID.
C. A Orr. tho American consul at Barranouiila'
Colombia, reports to the government that Amer'-
can money is now the basis for nearly all trans
actions IN Colombia
About $500 has been pledged on SloVO statue VI
John G. Whittier, to be erected by the Wnituer
IIoroa Association The society held Its annuaI
mined to secure the money as soon as posSloIe'
The plan is TO erect the statue IN d puOi40 pan
A memorial TO the late Senator Hoar has oeeh
suggested by the State House Committee OF the
,rossao obusetts LEGISLATURE The details have not
-n1 Saen made public but it is thought that large
and suitable monument will be erecteo
General Greely. chief signal officer. u 5 A.. VIII
-or+ the Omaha CIeb) barracks into signal
corns most. where experiments will be made with
airshps and dirfgibIe balloons
Emperor William some days ago asked KING Eo-
ward TO send delegate from the Chnrch ot Ems
rUa 20 ottend the conservation OF the new Luz
+beran catberaI in Berlin. on February "a KING
Edward has inquired IL the Bishop OF Rpon %oIG 9t
fa eccenfab HE and that prelate, who Vlsiued llis
citv last summer Will undoubtedly be CHOSEN.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

put of the wells, or it may buy crude oil at a
higher price than the State refinery can aHord
TO pay and sell the refined product at less thah
the cost Of production. 1t may, in woru'
treat the State refinery In exactly the way III
which individual competitors are driven OUT oi
business by more powerful rivals. Inc otate
rushes IN where private capital fears TO treat
With sympathy for the well owners OF Nam
sas, who see in the large dividends OF me OIL
trust profits they feel should be theirs, we
think that they are urging Kansas to perlions
undertaking. In the words of "Ihe Iopeka
Herald" they are using the State treasury 10
try TO beat a trust" The State of Kansas mas
no more terrors for the Standard Oil Company
as rival than has any other equal aggregation
of capital in private hands. The troubles OF
Kansas are probabIy only just beginning If 1t
persists in building its State refinery. states
are small things relatively, with which TO enter
the economic arena to-day. Some State must
learn this lesson for the benefit of all legislators
1t looks now as if Kansas has elected TO MI
that altruistic role.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
AUTOMOBILE WONDERS.

In more than one respect the automobile is
fairly entitled to rank as just about the Tore
most wonder of the world in the twentieth cen
ury IT is doing so many things that would be
impossible to anything else in the world IL Is
changing the natural conditions of the earth,
setting altitude and latitude at naught, and men
acing even the procession of the equlnoXes WIN
reversal or transformation.
Thus it was only few days ago that we had
ndubitable reports to the effect that one of them
had crossed the Andes by way of mountain
pass the summit Of which was about mile
higher than the tiptop Of the loftest peak in the
whole range We did not know before that the
automobile was a bird, but from that achieve
ment it seems to be a triumphant rival of the
condor of the Andes that can soar through
"heavens unfdthOmable depths, etc. Or else
it must be that all our. measurements of Andean
peaks and passes have been monstrously inaccu-
rate.
Now comes another gasolene perfumed tale
that somebody has ridden In automobile to
the southern end of New-Zealand, which, we
are infallibly informed, is the southernmost
point in the world that can be thus reached
Now, in the dim, distant past when we studied
geography in little red schoolhOuse, we were
Informed in Olneys geography that the southern
extremity of New-Zealand was in about AZ de-
grees 16 minutes south latitude, while the South
American continent extended 10 somewhere
about Sc degrees south. Reference to some re-
cent maps of good repute confirms that early
impression. According to the geographers, then
it would be possible for an automobile to go
some hundreds of miles further south than this
one has DONE and that without leaving the con-
tinent on n long ocean voyage. But, Of course,
the geographers must be wrong. New-Zealand
must really be further south than Terra del
Fuego
These be great triumphs for the machine.
Two of the three dimensions of physics have
already been overcome, and the third will doubt
less be knocked galley west before we go to
press. But, really, wouldn't it be. just as we'll
to give less attention to remodelling the uni
verse and little more to devisng machines
that will not "skid" and will not break down in
awkward places? Yesterday, for example, was
not a pleasant day on which to lie on the fat
of your back under the starboard bow Of a
Crimson Corker" manipulating a monkey
wrenchi
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
TEAcRENG 4 STATE 4 LESSON.

Private monopoly and State socialism have
come to a clash in Kansas. That State has
long history of POpulism, and so it is not sur
prising that its Senate has passed bill for the
creation of a State oil refinery, that the lower
house viii probably acquiesce in the measure,
and that Governor Hoch will sign it. Recent
occurrences show how the biggest monopoly in
the country. the Standard Oil Trust is prepared
TO meet such competition. There is some nov
city in the idea Of a State as competitor.
Smith, Jones and Robinson competitors,
either individually or as a corporation, are, or
were familiar enough, but "the State Of Kan
sas refiner Of crude petroleum." is novelty.
The oil fields of Kansas are of comparatively
recent development but it is said by the State
papers that the wells are now producing six
million barrels Of oil a year. These wells are
mostly in the possession Of private owners.
The Standard Oil Company, through its repre-
sentative, the Prairie Oil Company, buys the
oil at a trffe more than a cent gallon, reines
ST at a cost believed by the friends of the State
refinery 10 be about cent q gallon, and sells
the product at a handsome profit The owners
Of the wells want another market for their
petroleum, but capital refuses TO enter the re-
1ning business in competition with the trust
1t is one of those well learned lessons of capital
The administration Of Governor Hoch is COM
mitted 10 a State refinery by ante-election prom
ises Of reform in the oil situation and by the
Governors message. The Senate bill provides
for the expenditure of 100000 on a refinery,
hut il was expected the lower house would cut
that down TO $4,000 or 100000 for an expert
mental plant. Now, however, the action of the
Standard Oil Company in closing its operations
In the Kansas oil fields is reported to have
ended opposition to the State venture.
The practical boycott on the Kansas wells
declared by the trust is a shrewd measure for
should it be maintained It would end oil pro-
ducing in Kansas for many months 1t will take
considerable time TO erect a State refinery and
when it is finished it will have, according to
estimates, a capacity Of only about five thou
sand barrels day. about one-fourth of the
total production OF Kansas. The trust probably
does not intend that the closing of operations
there shall be permanent That action was
meant, as President Young of the Prairie Oil
Company is quoted in yesterdays papers as
saying ito teach the State OF Kansas a les
son" II is vigorous intimation that the Stand
ard OIL Company means business, and if, as one
OF the legislators says, Kansas is not going to
treat the trust "in q gentle and ladylike way" :"
neither is the trust going 10 treat Kansas "in
a gentle and ladylike way" There are many
things that the trust may do for the further
education Of Kansas. 1t may paralyze oil pro
ducfion there until the State refinery comes into
existence; fl may then leave to the State re.
nnerv tha impossibiBty Of handling all the out
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
OUR NATIONAL EXPLETIVEP

There has recently been, in English literary
journals and elsewhere, some more or less aca-
demic discussion of the origin and significance
of the common expletve Great Scottr' We are
not sure that any conclusion has been agreed
upon, though the weight of evidence and Opin-
ion seems to confirm the widely accepted theory
that it Is Of German origin and is simply an
Anglicization of German words meaning Great
God!' At any rate, it is certainly not an Amer
icanism and has nothing to do with General
Scott but so far as it is used here, was bor-
rowed from England. Perhaps, if the origin and
meaning Of 1t which we have mentioned were
more generally understood, 1t would not be SO
commonly used as an expletive by people to
whom its pristine FORM Great Godw would
sound like blasphemy.
1t might be well, by the way to consider If It
would not be desirable to invent or to adoDt
some phrase as a national expletive" other than
that which is coming to be generally regarded as
such. Every nation has a traditional character
istic eXpletiye. The Englishman insists that tho
Frenchman's is "Sacrer' or 'Parbleum while
the Frenchman is equally ready TO ascribe what
he frames as "Goddam! to the EngIishman. OF
course the German has his "Gott in Himmel,'
and various others, and the Spaniard his month";
filling "Carr-ramba" while the italian vents
his emotions In "Cospettow or "Corpo di
Bacco" Well they are none of them particular
ly edifying. But we are inclined to think that
the worst of the lot the most offensive, not only
to religious susceptibities, but to the sense Of
courteous decency, is that which our transatlan-
tic friends are now regarding and are enshrIn-
ing in their literature, with quotation marks as
our national expletive.
For, while the pTofane use of any of the titles
or the Deity is more or less offensive. by COM
mon consent the worst is such use of the name
of the Second Person of the Christian Trinity
. H.
especial reverence the name OF that
- soft, meek, patient, humble TRANQUIL snirtt
The first true gentleman that ever breathed
Yet we must know that one of the most familiar
expletives the lips of women and children
as well as of men, is profane vulgarization OF
His name. Whatever the origin of Great
scott" there is no question that the "Geep'
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
HER DILEMMA.

Mrs. NGbPide (excitedly}-oh. John. please send
OF a tsegram for me. quick!
MIS- Mrs. Nubride-Why, I'm taking CORRESPONDENCE
CO course & IN cooking and the cake made Is running
to hnd out what to do-(Brooklyn Life
The Hon Jehlah Nebuchadnezzar Foote. formerly,
Of Knobnoster. now of Protein. Mo- writes to The
st. Louis Republic authorizing the public To cali
him Jim" Mr.. Foote has been known until re-
Gently as j. N. modostly keeping TO himself what
those initials stood for. He writes: "JTpon con-
sultinS the various newspapers OF this State
find that much unssemly levty has been created
by the publication OF my full name Numerous ed
itors, never before suspected OF seeing the point
OF anything else. have apparently gone long way
out OF their way 70 attach a false and Disagree
able significance TO my name or names in some
cases making comments quite painful 10 one who
has never come before the public with any other
but the most serious purpose and earnest desire
TO bestow such humble benefits as he could and
certainly not for the amusement Of foolish or
vicious persons"
What's the matter?' asked tho optimst: ..1
thought your uncle had left you sIOO O06?''
II. he provides in his will that I've got TO use $40
Herald.
remarkable Alpine mountaineering feat has
been performed on Mont Blanc-this time on skees
party of four men, among whom was an English
man named DIR. Fontaine. accompanied by the two
ChamOunix guides. Jean and Joseph Ravenel. have
traversed the whole chain of Mont Blanc on skees
They started from ST. Gervals and descended at
Courmayeur. Here they took days rest and then
skeed back 10 Chamounix doing the return journey
In ten hours.
Most Unfortunate Mother Cwho wants to hs
very nice 10 bachelor uncle. understood TO have
@Iaaue @ MS pile IN Australial-Now. Charlie you've
Chariie-oh. yes mother have seen bin, ns,or.
A Aufe-at 1ast years pantomtms!-tPunch.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
GERMAN CANALS AND RAILROADS.

There is significant suggestion iii the coinc1-
dence of two current items of news. One is
that the Prussian Diet is passing by over
whelming majorties bills for the construction
of an elaborate system of canals connecting
the navigable rivers of the kingdom and con-
Meeting with the canal and river systems of
the empire and of Austria Hungary. The other
is that the government is considering the con-
struction of an electric railroad from Berlin to
Hamburg the trains on which shall make more
than a hundred miles an hour.
The coincidence and the whole example of
Germany count heavily against the anticanal
contention that canals are obsolete and must
give way to railroads as lneans of transporta-
ton. There is no country in the world more
strictly up to date in engineering than is Ger
many. The experiments between Berlin and
Zossen in rapid electric traction have attract
ed the admiring attention of the world Yet
now, just as the building of n long stretch of
high speed railroad is contemplated practically,
the government commits itself to a scheme of
canal construction and extension of the most
elaborate kind far surprising anything pro-
posed in this country. Evidently our German
cousins and rivals do not consider canals to be
obsolete.
1t is also TO be noted that canals are not con-
structed there for the sake OF competition, Dut
purely upon their own merits. The government
owns rDe ra1IrOdQS, ana 1t alSO ONllS tIe
OF course it does not build its own canals to
compete with its own railroads. 1t builds the
one system as the complement of the other, be-
cause it believes there is need of both and
profitable use for both, side by side. There is
a railroad from Hamburg or from Harburg to
Bremen yet the government insists upon hav-
ing a canal from the Elbe to the Weser There
is more than one railroad from Bremen to the
Rhine, yet there must also be Weser-Rhine
canal There is a railroad ON each bank of
the Rhine but that river must be canalized.
There are railroads in plenty from the Rhine
to the Danube but there must also be canal
between those rivers. Such is the policy OF
Germany 1t is policy from which there are
no signs of receding, but which, on the con-
trary. is being maintained and even advanced
If NAV be that the example of that great COM
mercial and industrial empire is worth consid-
ering, even in this great commercial and indus
trial republic.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
4maSenlenfS.


ACADEMY OF MusIC-2-s:i5-Sweet Kitty Beiairs-
AMERICAN -Cohen's Luck
REcI.ASCO- 2-S-Adres-
BIJOU-2-S.I5-The Music Master
BRoApwAY- 2:J5-s: s:2O-Grofe- e-Girona
CARNEGIE HAII1-s:l5-Re Recital
COLONIAL MUSIC HAlII-2-S-Nau auoeNhe
20--C'ousin Biiiy
DkE,Ys-2-S-The Duchess Of Dantzio
E-TsKN MUSEE-WoTld IN Wax 10 :, A..
EMPIRE-2-S: :l0-The Little Minister hho oP q nv
cARDFN-2-s:2o- college Widow
CARRTCK-2:I s:1o--You Never can iS.l z,r.
fIAMNERSTEIN'S NICToRIA-2--s;lo--Fa
I3ARLEN-2.I5-s:i5-1h usurper. =, 49,. ~sx.
HERALD SQEARE-2:15-S:lo-Ih woman III AAe N'
HUDSON: 10 S:30-Strongheart =,
IRVING PI.ACE-2:l5-s: :20-I)e liebesschule-
TsSICK F,R RReCKER-2-S-The MiddleTnah
f.Fcyy FTET TsDS's-2-S-It Happened IN Norolahu'
ITsFFRT'y.--2-e:I5--Th School for scandal
ryC-F5TrN- -2:l5-s:sO-Airs Lefhngwelfs Boots
NADIsoN soTTaRE-2-ssso-Afrs Temples TelesTsn-
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-S 10 LOG SHN"'
MAJESTIC :l3-Bustor Brown
NANIEAT'TAN-2:15-S :l5--Leah Nieschfa. ,y-.,.,.,s
METROPOLITAN OPERA ioISE--s--,Les ausueil0's'
-AAfSTE2DAM-2--S:lb lb--tunlptS Duhp's'
NFKy- -YORK-2-S-A Pair OF Pinks
pfsINCFSS-2 :s0-The Passport
sAVOY-2:I lHriquet- -
TT NICHOLAS RISK-S:i5--Iee Skstins
TAII.ACR's-s-2 20 he Yankee Consul
WFRER MUSIC HATJr-2-S--NacoeViii
WEST FND-2-S-Sfheria
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

which we hear dozen times an hour is SIMPLY
a corruption OF "Jesus!" and that "Huiiy Gee
dear to tough boys and to would-oe Wi'S' S
like treatment of Holy Jesus!
rf these too common expressions were uttered
in their original form. they would sound snock-
ing 70 most of those who now use tnem ana
would quickly be abandoned. MASKING tne
Divine Name behind mispronunciaton or con-
traction does not lessen the offence IL rather
increases it, adding insult to injury 1t would
be to our present credit If that particular ex-
pletive were at once eliminated from our vo-
cabulary, even from the vocabulary or oD1ur-
satory slang, and it would be for our lastIh9
credit if the rest of the world were dissuaded
from the notion that the use of it is the invari-
able hallmark of American speech.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
LINCOLN.

A young backwoodsman, tall and strong OF limb'
We find him in the wilds of Illinois,
So brave so faithful oft men said or him,
"a man while yet boy -
A man. indeed while moving upward still,
They gazed at his advance with wondering eyes
And saw his lofty aims, his steadtast Will.
With glad surprise
He reached the summit in a crucial hour,
When clouds and darkness hung above the land
And proved himself TO all man of power,
Who could command
He loved his country, not some special part
More dear than others but the glorious whole.
He gave to the Union all his heart,
His brain. his soul
In one brief respite from the awful strain.
The foul assassins bullet~then the end
And all the wide world mourned. and mourned In
vain.
The nations friend.
But was il all in vain. when proudly waves
The flag he loved-ful starred-from shore to
When North and South clasp hands DER heroes
graves
Would he ask more?
-QIary Isabella Forsyth. in The Christian In
telhgencer.
For the first time since 1852 the annual meeting
OF the Society of Friends. the Quakers will be
held this year outside of London The allure
ments of London have. it appears, proved too
much for the degenerate delegates of the present
day. why said a Quaker of high standing
Friends. members of old Quaker families have
been known TO drive UP to the meeting house In
motor carsr'
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

as they have usually been to former govern
ments In four years his majority in the Com
mons has been reduced by about 35. But it still
remains at nearly 100. If the same ratio of
losses should prevail. the end of even six years
would still find him with majority of more
than so, and that would be ample for all pur
poses, even for a dissolution.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Brahn1ins' clocks divide the day into sixty
hours of twenty-four minutes each. called gnuree'
according to THE Indianapolis News. occasion
o1Ix tvventv-four-rniuute sandglass is used, but
rooro commonly a copper bowl with very small
hole in the bottom OF it, this bowl being placed on
the surface of the water and gradually filed. IL
the hole in the bottom correctly sized the bowl
sinks in twenty-four minutes: this registers the
duration of the ghuree. An attendant thereupon
ernpties the basin and strikes the hour Of the day
or night on the gong
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

The omission of not by an error OF the
type in an article on irremovable civil servants
yesterday caused The Tribune to saw. ..,rba
ideal of the merit system is tenure dependant
ION actual fitness-tenure practically termina bIa
"only on conviction of crime" What we meapt
TO say. as we hope our readers inferred from
the context was: The ideal of the merit sys
item is tenure dependent on actual atnass- -,o+
tenure practically terminable only ON con,,,o-
"tion Of crime"
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13
NEv-YoRK DA1r51 TRIBUNE, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 49, 1905

lice force although there has been no strenuous
effort so to arrange the details that the wearers
of the uniform shall be used to the pest au-
vantage EIany patrolmen are protected OS
powerful leaders in Tammany Hall. anu aie
continued in comfortable places in which tney
have little to do. The police force VIII never
be a credit to New-York until it's members are
convinced that they have lost the power prac-
tically TO arrange a great number OF patrols IN
the way that suits them best.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

The Board of Estimate and Apportionment
had busy meeting last Friday. and authorized
appropriations amounting 10 several millions Of
dollars Tammany influence in city grants may
speedily result In adding four hundred 10 the M
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

'See Paris and die" is n saying that neeos re-
vision. 1t appears that 1t is very costly 10 ore
in Paris. owing 10 the high price of ofnciai reu
tape of various kinds and hence the American
Consul General in Paris has sent the foho"lhs
advice to his fellow countrymen: Whatever else
you attempt in Paris, never try to die here"
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

The organization of a commission for 1uoi-
cially condernning lands needed for the Panama
Canal marks the beginning of a rational era
in that undertaking. In the old days the Co
lombian authorities gave some fearJui ana
wonderful awards when Frenchnen "ah'eu
land for canal purposes. Any bit OF swamp OF
hill that lay in the path of the cana4 was Oe'-
ter than a gold mine to it's happy possessor
Now there is a prospect of fair dealing. with
no graft"
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

There is no reason now why the inausuid
March 4 should not be a joyous occasioii
Governor Vardaman has refused to attend
New-York tribune., 1905-02-13

The Hon. George Washington Plunkitt sees
anarchy ahead unless go back to posses
and the spois system. The ex-senator talks IKE
a man who isn't thoroughly enjoying lie out
side the breastworks"
The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1905-07-08
GOLD IN THE SAN MATEOS.
a New Discovery That Promises to
Add Much TO the Wealth of So
corro County

The Chieftain gladly gives
space TO the following contribu-
ton:
a few months ago p. c, Bell,
known TO most people in the coun-
ty as the Iron King of the Oscu-
ras, was grub-staked by Fred II a..
Smith and NJ. Cooney, and hied
himself to the Cuchillo mountains,
where he spent two months with
ont finding any thing. Returning
to Canada Alamosa, he went up
towards San Mateo peak, where
he found a buried gold lead which
panned gold without crushing,
the quartz being disintegrated.
Being out of money and provi-
sions, he came into Rosedale and
wrote Mr.. Coouey for supplies
and asked him to name a date
when he could meet him and
pilot him to the camp. June 2sth
was agreed upon, and Mr.. Cooney
met Mr.. Bell and visited the
camp. The formation is andesite
and phonelite, the main lead,
which is covered with the
disintegrated country rock,
wherever uncovered pans gold,
although no free gold is visible in
the quartz. Messrs. Cooney and
Smith intend to push develop
ment at once and prove up the
value of the discovery. The
formation and character of the
ore strongly resemble Cripple
Creek. There is an abundance
of wood, water, and grass in the
new district, and it is to be hoped
taut lther producing camp is
added 10 Socorro county.