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New-York tribune., 1906-12-02
NEw-YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY DECEMBER 2 1906

treasurer and Of the Controller Of the House
mold, as we'll of several minor officials, and
derives Its name from the green cloth on the
table at which the officials sit on the occasion OF
their meetings. 1t has charge not only Of the
accounts and of the victualling Of the royal
household, but likewise of the exercise of a num-
Der of legal prerogatives and immunities per-
tanning to the residences OF the sovereign The
Board of Green Cloth is In fact the council of the
Lord High Steward. who in ancient days bore
the title OF Seneschal and who. subject Of course
TO the sovereign. enjoys jurisdiction. independent
Of the ordinary tribunals of the land, over all
the inmates OF the royal palaces and royal parks
end over the people connected Herewith In
deed, the Lord Steward. in conjunction with his
Board of Green Cloth has the rights of life and
death over offenders. and the power Of selecting
jury from among the servants OF the SOW
eregn. In these modern times 1t Is doubtful
whether the Lord High Steward would be will
ing to exercise this prerogative Of sitting in
Judgment upon of felony, such as, for In
stance, a murder committed within the pre-
cincts of buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle,
and he would probably delegate his authority to
of the judges of the High Court of Justice
to deal with the case In fact, he does some
thing of the kind at the Ascot races. The Ascot
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HOW CoRoT BECAME A PEASANT


His father was a little. dry, thin old man,
whose correct appearance, precise gestures and
short speech were in singular contrast TO the
geniality and jovial ways of Camille. He was
the typical business man. He wished his son
to go into business and apprentced him TO a
wholesale cloth merchant. Camille, who dreamed
only of painting, conceived a violent aversion TO
commerce, and seized every opportunity TO
escape from the shop and go UP 10 his room TO
copy drawings His employer was very DIS
satisfied with him, and complained TO his father,
who reprimanded him severely. At last, one
day the young man did not go to business, and
told his father that he must follow his vocation
even If it brought him misery. Seeing tnat
nothing could alter this decision. Very We'll
annually-not a centime more-and you Will
make the best you can Of IT.
Camille leaped for Joy. He Immediately made
prepara tions for departure, left home, and In
stalled himself in the little hamlet of Morvan
at a farrier's whose numerous family We're
crowded into the only room, which was the
forge Corot there contracted the habits or the
peasantry which he retained ever after he hao
needs, lived only for his art, and FOUND COM
plete happiness in it.
For a long time Corot remained at the 1ar-
rier's, satisfied with the coarse food, happy IN
his liberty and feeling rich with his modest al
lowance Endowed with robust health and oelng
Jovial by nature. ne always sang Wnhe ne
worked and his gayety never deserted him.
At his fathers death Corot found htmselr pos
sessed Of a revenue Of 10000 francs; but this
opulence did not change his rustic habits lie
continued his simple and laborious life. Always
up before dawn, he put on the peasants clothes
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A PROPHECY FULFILLED

It Is difficult TO imagine how the Russian En-
pire as IL is now (1s00l. from Poland to eastern
most Siberia. could be kept together and
governed by anything else than an autocratlc
Capitalization of power. constantly self-assert-
ing and directing central authority with tre-
mendous organization of force behind it This
rigid central despotisn cannot fail 20 create op-
pressye abuses in the government Of the vari-
territories and diverse populations compos-
ing the empire When this burden OF oppression
becomes too calling, efforts, raw. rude, more or
less inarticulate and confused, viii be made IN
quest Of relief, with a slim chance OF success.
Discomfort with the inexorable autocracy will
spread and seize upon the superior intelligence
of the country. which will be inspired with a
restless ambition TO have share in the govern
ment
AT the moment when the autocrat yields to the
demands Of that popular intelligence, ana as
sents to constitutional limitations Of his power,
or TO anything that VIII give authoritative,
official voice TO the people. the real revolution
ary crisis will begin The popular discomfort
Will not be appeased. but will be sharpened by
the concession Ali the social forces VIII then be
thrown into spasmodic commotion; and. when
those forces in their native wildness break
through their traditional restraint. the world
may have TO witness a spectacle OF revolutionary
chaos without example in history. The chaos
NAV ultimately bring forth new conceptions OF
freedom. right, and justice. new forms or or
ganized society. Developments OF civtliza-
ton But what the sweep Of those volcanic dis
turbances will be and what their final outcome
is mystery battling the irnagination-a mystery
that can be approached only with awe and
dread.-Carl Schurz. IN McClure's Magazine
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racecourse. as everybody knows. forms part or
the royal domain OF Windsor. and since IL mas
become so popular as race meeting during the
Ascot week in midsummer 1t has been found
necessary to devise some means Of administering
summary justice the spot
Accordingly. the Lord Steward or the HOUSE
hold each year secures the services OF the senior
police magistrate of the metropolis for the Ascot
week, and the magistrate In question, by virtue
OF the authority delegated to him by the LORD
Steward. holds court IN his name In a room pro-
vided for the purpose beneath the grandstano
and infiicts penalties the thieves and tougns
who are brought before him charged with Of
fences committed upon the racecourse.
The Lord High Steward receives his charge
Immediately from the sovereign. and by virtue
Of his office takes precedence of all dukes who
do not happen TO be princes of the reignng
house. The immediate direction of the royal
household below stairs"-that is, the kitchens
the domestic servants, etc.-is in his hands and
in those Of the Board of Green Cloth. He and
the latter are responsible for the expenditures
and for the supplies. But virtually his authority
extends over the entire court the chamber
The chapel and the stables. The Lord Stewards
insignia OF office is white wand or staff, which
he carries in the presence OF the sovereign but
which on state occasions when the monarch ia
not present is borne before him by a foOtInan.
bareheaded. On the death of the sovereign from
whom he has received the white staff he breaks
ii over the royal bier at the close of the OBJ
sequies, to indicate that his office has ceased and
that there is no longer any Board OF Green
Cloth. EX-ATTACHE-
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6be Cbrisfrnas Magazines.
How Corot Beca Peasant-A Pen Picture of Thaddeu
Stevens-How the kaisers Family Spends Christmas

there were good reasons for making such an
innovation.
Then there is medium sized tree for the
Kaiser and the Kaisertn. and a small one for
each of their children-aU in a row. with
plethora Of gifts beneath. For days previous
the Muscheisaal has been forbidden ground for
the children, for the darling of the family.
Princess Victoria Louise. tall, slender
girl of thirteen. They the brothers and sisters.
have been playing hide and seek with their own
gifts Gall purchased out Of their by no means
extravagant allowance Of pocket money!, and
now the happy moment has arrived TO bring
them out
The Kaiser makes it a rule always to include
in his gifts to his family some (generally of
slight intrinsic value) which contain lesson
or adorn tale; often these are whimsical and
give rise afterward to pleaSdntrteS within the
imperial family. The of the Kaiser are
Crown Prince William. born May s, 1882; Eitel
Fritz, born July (, 1888; Adelbert, born July II.
1884; Augustus William. born January %. 1887;
Oscar, born July 81. 1888; Joachim. born De-
cenber II. 1890, and the only daughter, Victoria
Louise was born September 13. 1892; thus all
of them fast getting beyond the childish
stage. to the intense vexation of their mother.
Nevertheless. the Christmas traditions of their
childhood are still kept up. and even the crown
prince, though now young benedict. at the
Bescheerung is treated and behaves like a
youngster.-Wof Won Schierbrand, In Lippin-
colts Magazine
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by Appofnf,7er,f.''
official Warrants Granted Various Purvevors
nv
to Royalty,

DAY, and he is likewise furnished with some IN
FORMATION as TO the nature of the goods which
ne is expected to bring with him On the day
IN question the things are taken TO the palace
ana are placed on exhibition in rooms prepared
Tor the purpose, it being strict rule that every
article shall be labelled with the price Some
times the Queen Immediately makes selection
OF what she wants. But quite often she prefers
10 hnger over it, and several days eIapse before
the purveyor is summoned to remove the wares
1hat she has declined TO retain The King
MAKES his purchases in the same manner and
So too, do the Prince and Princess of Wales
though Princess Christian and the Duchess of
Argyll. sisters OF the King his nieces Princess
Patricia of Connaught and Princess Victoria of
scnleswig-Holstein. and his eldest daughter
the Duchess OF Fife. are quite often TO be met
shopping in Bond street. Regent street and Pic
cadihy without being recognized by any save
their personal friends and acquaintances.
1t IS said that Queen Victoria never visited a
London shop from the time of her accession TO
the throne. in 1887, until her death at the close
Of the nineteenth century. The London shops
indeed, were to her a terra incognita. and when
one considers how devoted women are to the
pastime of shopping it will be apprecs ted that
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queens and expresses are forced TO forego, by
reason Of their rank, pleasures that are within
the reach of women of inferior clay. Both the
Kaiser and his consort were In the habit Of
visiting the various stores IN Berlin for their
after their accession TO the throne. But on one
memorable occasion the Empress was subjected
to such dsgracefuI mobbing by the crowd
that had been attracted by the presence of her
carriage before the door Of OF the leading
stores Of the apital. people hustling her, finger
ing her clothes to ascertain the character Of
the material, almost tearing them off her back
and actually pulling open the carriage door 10
stare at her after she had sought refuge in the
eouipage that the Kaiser Indignantly directed
that thenceforth she should never visit
shops unless they were cleared before her ar
rival and barred 10 strangers while she
manned Realizing that this is apt 10 incon-
yenience not only the shopkeeper but also the
public around Christmas time, the Kaiserin
with that consideration which characterizes
evervthtne she does, follows the example
OF her uncle and aunt. the King and Queen OF
England in having all the wares displayed at
the palace for her selection. The King and
Queen OF Italy. the King and Queen OF Spain
the Austrian Emperor. the Czar and Czarina
and I'm fact nearly all the crowned heads OF
Fyrope now make their Christmas purchases in
the same wav and avoid the shops
With regard 10 the Board of Green Cloth. of
which mention has been made above, it is one
Of the most ancient institutions of the English
court. is composed of the Lord Steward. OF the
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A GERMAN BUGABOO.

OF all the bugaboos IN this world of political
ghosts perhaps the most shadowy is the con-
stantly repeated warning against Germany's alb
sorption OF BraZili
The German Inhabitants Of Brazil number
about 250,000 in a total population OF something
like 1900. .000 and Brazil Is about large as
the United States minus Alaska. There are
three Italians for one German in Brazil. and so
Of British capital for every German dollar in
vested.
In the two southern states Of Brazil there was
considerable German immigration about 1s40,
and the descendants Of the original immigrants
have multiplied amazingly. But they have not
been reinforced to any considerable extent by
subsequent immigration, and they have inter
Brazilians.
I believe I am very near the correct figures in
stating that in the last ten years less than ten
thousand Germans have immigrated into Brazil.
Their principal centres the cities of Rio
Janeiro, Sac Paulo. and Santos; and the three
southern states of Parana, Sta Catharina. and
Rio Grande do Su1-Caspar whitney, in The
Outing Maya zine.
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TILE kA1sER,s CHRISTMAS.

Christmas is always celebrated by the Kaiser
etrictIv en- faniIle. The empress keeps a special
rsarroTandum book, in which, year after year.
are noted down the presents made TO every
T1er,ber of the imperial household, no matter
- IL - bigh or humble as well as 10 friends and
reIatiVes The careful study of this little hooS
-,Isas her ma iesty, for weeks before the actual
stS'-aI % season no little thought and anxiety
for duplication must be avoided at all hazards
and the special wishes Of each CONSUMED d. as
90 CO. . ooesihIe while valued old serVltors must
Ia lsI cnI,rse @s be specially considered In her sln2
darl brougham the empress rearN eNe'f ~
aa itHas from store to store, making iF". iduai
purchases. szit- ot,+t,-as etc iawelry
- va - eieeve links and other trinkets serN-
NC fnr nersonal adofnnent are presented Tor
he Kaiser believes in things of permanent vains
IN. ~ D>abIa ~ constant use In this connection
anu a. "a n said that II has occasioned some sar-
aetfc comment that OF late years ne mas quasl
thittad a rule by which a large percentage
es' = aI t--s named category Of gifts mas taken
the form of 20 mark gold pieces set III 4laSGs am, ~
~ te goId nieces similarly ncrusted for sleeve
INK ffor mem, but Il is TO DC presumed thal
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GROWTH IN REST.

Growth is predominantly function of rest.
Work is chiefly energy-expending and tear
tng-down process. Rest following work is
chiefly building-up and growing process Work
may furnish the conditions under which subse
quent growth may occur. but in itself it Is de-
structtve. BY work do things in the world.
but we do not grow by work. We grow during
rest. Rest is not the only condition Of growth.
but il is one of the essential conditions
The best work that most of US do is not begun
in our offices or at desks, but when are
wandering in the woods or sitting quietly with
undirected thoughts From somewhere at such
times there flash into our minds those ideas that
direct and control our lives. visions of how 10 do
that which previously had seemed impossible
new aspirations, hopes and desires. Work is the
process of realization. The careful balance and
the great ideas come largely during quiet, and
without being sought. The who never takes
time TO do nothing will hardly do great things
He will hardly have epoch-naktng ideas or
stimulating ideas.-World's Work.
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SNAPDRAGON.

Don't you know what snapdrason ts7 Well.
that's n pity. For your benefit let me tell YOU
A large dish. the larger the better, Ia filled with
raisins Over these a glass or two Of brandy is
poured. Then large spoon is filed with brandy
and warmed that IL Will ignite the more
readily, and while blazing 1T IS poured over the
raisins, and instantly the whole dish is mass
of flames Then the fun begins: every one tries
with more less success to take out the burn
ing raisins and eat them. And. strange TO say. the
BOYS usually get most OF them for II takes cour-
age to put ones hand into the fiery mass. though
really and truly 1t doesn't burn very badly II
you are quick One may easily flip out a lot OF
nice hot raisins on TO the table and eat them
comfortably, only that Is not very manly deed
Country Life in America.
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MI Stevens at this time man OF sew
enty sombre and gaunt, with rugged features
deep set eyes and a splendid brow. he was
lame a club foot, and at this time his health
was much broken. But never had his wit oeen
keener his eloquence greater, his will more in
dOmitable his sarcasm more biting he under
stood Congressional tactics as few men ever
have. and he was a filibuster Of the first order.
He was frequently unscrupulOus in getting what
he wanted If he wanted II, 1t must be right
and the means were a secondary consideration
Stevens always stood by his own. right or
wrong, not that he entertained Illusions about
his Republican colleagues. Which one is our
damned rascal" he asked one day when called
IIpon TO vote In a contested election case, and
our damned rascal" got his vote. The last thing
Stevens would allow was delay over revenue
bills If a member took TO questions he con-
sidered immaterial in the debate he hauled him
hack sharply TO his muttons, and it was rash
man indeed who objected. There was only one
thing that would send him of on a tangent, and
that was an effort to secure some advantage
over a man Of another race or color. In the
dabate on the present bill. for instance he broke
ont in a fiery denunciation of California be-
cause the REPRESENTATIVES were trying to secure
a high duty on cleaned rice. which the Chinese
used almost exclusively. The Californians frank
" ayowed that the duty intended was a dis
elimination against the Chinaman- Stevens was
at them in an instant. the engineering or the
biT quite forgotten, in hot speech against the
intustice of their attitude.-From The Iarin
In orr Times by Ida NJ Tarbell. In The Amer
ican Magazine.
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THE JEW TO JESUS.

Q man of my people, I alone
Among these alien ones can know thy face,
who have felt the kinship of our race
Burn in me as I sit where they intone
Thy praises-those who, striving to make known
A God for sacrifice, have missed the grace
OF thy sweet human meaning in its place,
Thou who art of our blood bond and our own
Are we not sharers Of thy Passion? Yea,
In spirit anguish closely by thy side
We have drained the bitter cup. and tort
ured. felt
with thee the bruising OF each heavy welt.
In every land Is our Gethsenlane.
A thousand times have we been cr1clheo
Florence Kiper In The Century Magazine.
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FLOWERS IN THREE wEEKA

Quite late last fall. when the price had been
reduced to the low figure Of 10 cents a Dozen
invested 20 cents IN narcissus (paper white)
bulbs. They were not planted until the first Of
December, when some stones were put in the
dishes. the bulbs set in. and water poured on
them. Even the usual precaution Of starting
them in the dark was not taken In just three
weeks the first blossom burst from the stalk Of
buds, and one single stalk had eleven pure white
blossoms, almost overpowering with their fra
GRANGE. Some grew more slowly than the others
and January 6-inch dish having ten
bulbs had six stalks of expanded blossoms and
two others yet 10 open--Gardeu Magazine
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MY GODCHILD.

Rosemary! could give you
Remembrance" with your name.
Ere long you'd tell US something
OF Heaven whence you came-
OF those enchanted meadows
Where through the ceaseless day,
The children waiting to be born
Wonder, and sing. and play,
And where you wandered carolling
Until the angels hand
Closed down your eyes-then opened them
To light this earthly Land
This Land whereto they'vel sent you
To share its joy. its strife.
It's love and learn through Womanhood
How rich. how deep. is Life.
Edmund Clarence Stednan. In the Atlantic
Monthly.
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Foreign Resorts.
first buds. 1t was the sweet and happy Arden Of

first buds II was the sweet and happy Arden OF
the sweet and happy comedy.
duldebooks and aliases use the term AT
dennes" with somewhat of unavoidable vague
ness Originally this forest extended not only
over great part of Belgium but stretched also
into France and toward the eastward. Clumps
of its woodland still break the levels OF Cnanl-
pagne; there are remains of il in Luxembourg
and there are still great forest masses In Central
Belgium, dotted with cities and intersected oy
railways. But the present centre OF Ardennes
is in the southern part of Belgium along the line
of the Semois. and comprises wide area OF HILL
of river valley, of undulating plateau. of upland
heath. And 1t is this part. isolated as ii Is
with which most of the great names that are
connected with the forest have had their as
sociation--Robert Shackleton. in Sortbners
Magazine
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JUDGE JEFFREYS.

II is for his conduct of his high Office that
Jeffreys has been most hercely condemned. and
if he be judged by the standard Of to-day little
can be said in his defence. Though as prOsecut-
ing counsel he eagerly sought convictions, he
sought them with infinitely greater passion as
Judge. Already proficient in the art OF cross
examination, he practised It from the bench
with a skill and ferocity which. in the opinion
of experts entitle him TO the glory of having
perfected that not too aLniable method OF JUS
tice. Worse still, he took for granted the guilt
of every prisoner brought before him, and.
temptuous in his certitude, he did not scruple to
relieve his sombre duty with flashes OF rough
humor and coarse repartee for which, perhaps
a. court of Justice is not the best place But
ugly as his violence against a prisoner trial
for his life appears to our humaner minds we
must attempt 10 view Jeffreys in his
vIronrnent and we shall then have difficulty
in modifying our Judgment. In the first place
he was called 10 the bench less to administer
Justice than TO do the Kings business In the
second place. "a criminal trial in those days
as Sir James Stephen, the most eminent author
ity has pointed out, was not unlike be-
tween the King and the prisoner, in which the
King had a long start. and the prisoner was
heavily weighted" In truth, Jeffreys did but
adhere 10 the practice of his age; and he has
been held up TO obloquy ever since because
being incomparably better endowed in wits and
STYLE than his fellows, he has filed a larger
space in history and legend than they could
ever hope 10 ill.-Charles whitley. in Harper's
Magazine.
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Mrs. Harden Lake Crawford and Mrs. Ever
EFT Lake Crawford viii bs at houls on T,as-
days. December and IL, from until o'olocA
at No. Al West 57th street Manhattan.
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Mrs. Cornelius Zabrishie and Miss Zabr .
OF No SAG Carroll street win receive Friday.
December IS. instead OF the day befors Mn, IA
briskie has cards out for a luncheon on wednss-
day, December Il. IN honor OF Mss Elizabeth
Emerson. whose engagement 10 DIR. Judson p.
Pendleton was recently announced
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Mrs. Seymour lie Grand Cromwell will give
reception on Tuesday afternoon at her home, No.
s East SD street to Introduce her twin sisters
in-law Miss Dorothea and Miss Gladys Crorn-
WELL daughters of Mr.. and Mrs Frederick CroIn-
well formerly Of this borough
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COOL.

that he wore all his life, ate his soup. lit his
pipe and. with his box in his hand and his easel
on his shoulder. started for his work, his sonor-
Gus voice ringing out joyously.-G. Chardin, in
PutnaTn's Monthly.
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Mrs Edward Gilbert Dickson and Mrs. Will
lam Livingston viii be ar home No. Spsn-
Ger Place, on Fridays IN December.
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parties followed for the receiving parties both
evenings.
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European 4dUertisemcnts.

ter-in-law Mrs Edward 7. HorsnAu- jr. Tho
three daughters Of the hostess Mrs. Harold NJ
Wilcox. Mrs. Arthur Van Sicien and Mrs R
Wllnarth Appleton. will receive with hs<-
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BROOKLYN SOCIAL CHAT

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