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Baron Pichon by law TO return the pyX to
the Spanish order. but the Baron won the
case.
"One day I met on the Boulevard one Of my
friends who 10 part Of the administration
Of our fine arts department and ! asked him
IL it wss true that that pyx had been offered
to the Louvre. He looked foolish and said
yes.
"'Hah! You deserve to be fioggsdv 1
cried at him."
From these accounts Of the true works
Of art which traverse the market Of
the antiquaries and OF the gentlemen
dealers the talk posses to the forgeries
OF all kinds which not only stun the ool-
lections Of amateurs but find their way into
great museums and even dot the modest
acquisition OF the occasional buyer.
There are. as is well known. not only
the great houses where reproductions
are openly made. but hidden chambers
where the fabrication Of false antiques is
industriously carried on and whence the
resultant work is carried surreptitiously
and planted for the future education Of
the innocent as well as the liberal remu-
neration Of the workman.
An interesting example Of the care and
pains which these quiet ~swindlers take
to land their fabricatiOns where generous
prices are likely to reward their cleverness
and their ingenuity is told by Pere X. One
Of Pere X.is friends on whom he was calling
n recent evening asked the antiquary
to look At some veritable finds which the
host was most proud 10 display.
Tho finds were Of copper and OF carved
wood, exOellently worked. They had an
ancicnt aspect, but they were, as Pere X.
promptly told his friend. altogether modern
The host declared IL impossible, until Pers
x. proved it to him.
HeartbrOken, he then exclaimed; why,
l found those In Brittany, In the homes OF
peasants and others, from whom / bought
them myself, snd the owners were cherish-
ing them al having been In their families
many years-yes, through generations.'
P&re x. and the saddened but wiser Paris
amateur made IN investiga tion. They
found that these fake antiques we're being
made by the dozen In q small room near tho
Place da-la Nation. hsrs In Paris, and that
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MOORS TREAT SLAVES BETTER
a CONTRAST TO EUROPEANS IN
DEALING WITH NEGROES.
slave Dealing I'm Morocco Respectable
Slaves Cheap and said to he COn-
tented-CrueltIes In the Congo and I'm
Portuguese West Africa slave Mart.

LONDON, Nov PA two hours journey
from England's greatest military post.
Gibraltar, brings one into n country where
slavery still flourishes as il has aOurished
for centuries.
In Morocco human beings are bought
and sold every week in the market place
like so many cattle or pieces OF merchan-
disc. There one can buy "a slave as easily
and inexI ensively as one can purchase
clothes in another country.
There is M infamy or degradation attached
to being engaged in the slave trade in Mo-
rocco. Some Of the most resi- ecJed citizens
have made their fortunes in this way. In
deed one Of the best known chiefs. a firm
adherent of Mulai Hafid n a man and
ing high among his fellow men for his I'M
failing integrity, courage and kindness, has
amassed a princely fortune by the COM
MERGE In slaves.
Each year AT the head of a band Of his
men he makes a voyage into the region
Of the Niger and secures two or three thou
sand negroes and negresses who are picked
out from their fellow countrymen with
greatest care, and these. he brings back
TO be sold at the auctions three times a week
at Fee Inc Marrakesh.
These auctions or slave markets are con-
Quoted In the most orderly and dignified
manner In n great court betWeen two
arcades are seated the buyers m q circle.
Beneath a central platform the slaves are
grouped, and a very sleek and haI ny look
ing crowd they are for the most : AFT;
The sale Is always OF ened by a'Govern-
ment official, who mounts the Platform and
with loud and fluent oratory calls for the
blessing OF heaven. 70 descend uTon the
days sales, and as Mohaumed considered
the buying and selling Ct slay es as legiti-
mate the ofiCial is prObably sure that they
will receive II. Then tho real business
OF the day begins.
One AZ a time tho slaves mount the plat
form, and scanning anxiously the faces
OF the buyers assist the auotioneer' in his
efforts to display them TO best advantage.
A would-be purchaser may go up on the
platform also and examine moro closely
the lave he IL considering. -
Ne .ieeis the texture Of the skin. the
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Ths iOresAs did shsir best 20 escape che
dilonma when Shey seethssC up on clogs.
covered his face with . mask, restricted hhs
gestures TO the simplest and most TYPICAL,
and made him declaim through q speA ring
trumpet. Evidently these were paIliatives,
but the bast use We cnn make of them IL 60
sea that they point smphAticaIly to the
elimination Of the actor.
On my asking what would become of the
drama when the actor had joined the Pha-
raohs. Mr.. Craig replied that the drama
would remain what IL always had been ex-
IL was already that TO those who appre-
dated IL at its true worth.
Critics, from those OF C0lcridgo's great
generation down, had questioned whether
any material representation Of q fine imngi-
native play we're not insvitAblyS v~ulgartza-
tion, and trained tastes had generally con-
firmed this opinion. When We are asked 60
accept the limelight for that which @sleeps
on yonder hank, /" when plays like THE Tenn
pest" and "A Midsummer Nights Dream
arc sO Ovsrdresssd that the spectacle siNaces
the poetry, when the very ART Of declalming
dramatic verse 10 lost in England and
America, IL 10 no wonder that q sensitive
appreciation prefers . good recital OIL play
20 any stage presentation, and possibly its
own silent reading 60 either. The drama. in
other words. I'm spite Of century long preCe-
dent, was really poor material for h stage.
for It was material that was inevitably
spoiled In the using.
Az to the real material Of the stage Mr..
Craig refused b commit himself definitely.
He was experimenting 10 flnd it. he said,
modestly. he surmised and hoped that IL
would be found In some rather simple and
abstract form Of motion and illumination,
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applications OF this stage to weak points
In the standard drama that | learned with
some regret that the rule OF silence was
TO obtain. The play flrss in hand is Romeo
and Juliet" and an argument will be read
Us a concession TO the un~imaginative. after
which no word will be spoken.
For the present we'll knOwnf fables will be
given. take it the ideal 10 a sseno indie
pendent not merely Of the drama but also
OF these wagner literary "reminiscences.
But oil such points MIR. Craig declines to
commit hi self. Sufficient n the day.
hesays. is lie experiment thereof.
Whether the innovation is n big thing,
destined TO supersede the present theatre.
or whether it is a little and precious thing.
delightful! in itself but leading nowhere.
10 the question Lhat criticism will sooner or
later have to answer. II evidently IL pre-
mature 20 raise the question In advance
Of a performance. TO answer is would be
simply impertinent.
Al Munich they have thought we'll enough
Of the venture to support a trial on a large
scale. In Florence we are looking forward
eagerly to the rehearsal which must soon
come on the smaller stage. BavaTianS and
TusOans. We are both right. for whatever
VIC usteTior importance OF inc oAporth1ohb
the decorator Of The vikings" n Of
Bethlehem" will not fail to give ms m
thing to delight the eye and the mind
I should be surprised also IL these minia-
ture performances should not afford valu-
able hints TO the moribund stage of to-day.
And this. | reminded Mr.. Craig in parting,
would be only fair; the Cruellest pagans
rave never failed first to adorn the victim
they destined for the immolating knife.
FRANCIS CoTToN.
A LETTER TO DUsE, FROM
GORDON CRAIG.
~TO save the theGtrg The theatre must be
destroyed. The actors and actresses must all
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die of the plague. They poison the air. they
make art impossible. IL IL not drama that
they play. but pieces for he theatre"
You nave said this and more. You have
spoken ever greater truths. however bitter
they may be. about the theatre and its art,
revealing by inspired flashes that you I'M
derstand what is i'll with the theatre.
But it is not enough to see. to speak. nor
even to destroy; one must reconstruct. IL
is nOt,enough to say the actors and actresses
must all die of the plague; one must show
what j. TO take their place. The entire
world Of intelligence is with you in your
statement and expectant for the result.
They know hat when you say the actors
and actresses must all die Of the plague you
do not mean individuals. but you mean
the entire family, and the entire family in
cludes yourself, You say you all poison
the air and you all make art impossible.
Well. then. you would exterminate your
profession. those only would survive who
we're more than professionals; those who
have the spirit would live, those who are
without a grain Of selhshness and those who
desire nothing but the triumph of beauty
and courage.
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on the ELEVATED.
Cars with Continuous Seats Last Co F1lI
DENNY They Are Not FnncIed.

On the Sixth and Ninth avenue elevated
roads there are in use a few cars with their
seats running straight along on either side
for the entire length of the car. Most OF
the elevated cars have seats arranged with
a bunch OF cross seats in the middle.
In a train in which one OF those cars with
the straightaway seats has been made up
that car 10 always the last to fill. People
don't shun that car, but they don't fancyit.
10 seems perhaps a palmer, cheaper car.
and then people apparently done like what
might be called the publicity Of L.: for in this
car they sit facing each other in two long
interminable rows extending the whole
length Of the car. while in the cross seat cars
there is. II not more seclusion. at least more
variety Afforded by the seating arrange
ment. the people are more broken up. and
30 there 10 not in ID the feeling OF conscious
ness that must come to two long lines Of
people sitting staring at each other as In
the straight seated car. As compared with
the cross seat cars the straight seated cars
might be hkened to the long dining table ut
which everybody sits to be found in some
dining rooms. as compared with the number
Of smaller tables OF the same aggregate
capacity to be found In some other dining
rooms5 n do not people commonly prefer
To SIT at the smaller tables2
But whatever the reason for &c in a train
in which one or those cars with the long M
broken seats 10 made up. the other oars all
before people begin 10 take much TO the
straight sider.
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considerate, 10 that makes his human
merchandise increase in value.
IL a negress has a child by her master
that child beoomes a legal citizen and eau
inherit his fathers Possessions n take
his name. as his legitimate children do.
Many tales are told OF slaves who have
been freed by kind masters n who ave
FASTENED to sell themselves again. so used
we're they TO ~subiugation. tits also said that
during the present crisis In Morocco terror
has prevailed non the slaves lest the
French should take the country and insist
upon setting them all free.
The time is indeed out OF joint when such
a state OF things 10 the case. But the ez-
PLANTATION In this: The Moor are about the
only white race who have no instructive and
unreasonable repulsion with respect to the
black
1t is true they make slaves OF the negro.
Srt That is only a case OF superior force.
They would enslave any weaker white race.
indeed have done 50. They have not the
least aversion to the color or racial charac-
tertstic OF the negro. The children OF white
fathers n black mothers have not the
sngntest stigma upon them among tho
or course TO Western minds this trade in
1esh and blood Is very horrible, out still
more horrible Is the trafic which is carried
on in the Congo. II Is not called slavery,
illustration of the word. Yet though whole
villages are being depopulated by cruelty
and murder. and though tho whole world
condemns Leopold n. for the Congo
atrocities. be stu continues 20 swell his
private Golfers by allowing, perhaps even
urging, his colonists to carry on their
aDomlnable treatment O: the negroes. =
In portuguese Wsss Africa also the black
Is 9 victim OF the greed and cruelty Of The
white man. The Portuguese have enormous
cocoa plantatioLs here. AZ the climate 10
TOO horrible for even the negro 20 endure
and live IN Tor more than q year, Il In nsces-
slry ~ lure or force hundreds Of blacks
from the interior to come to the coast and
work In the cocoa plantations.
Elch year unfortunate slVages arrive to
take tie places OF these who have died.
They arc driven along shackled toxether
IKE animals, with no respect for age or
sex, ana when they arrive at the plantation
SORT on contract Is read ont TO them and
they are told to ansNe r "Yes."
Then a copy OF this document Ia hung
around their ,necks and they have som.
nacted TO work for a year on the DIantatlon
VI course not n negro understands a .lnvIs
WORD OF all this, and before the year In ended
they have finished their earthly coasrs~
Only i've ave ever been known 10 &C.,
and return 70 their tribcs. -
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LUCK In BUYING ANTIQUES
MORE PITFALLS THAN EVER FOR
THE AMATEUR HUNTER.
Things Made I'm Paris Planted In the Homes
Of Peasants I'm Brittany to Catch sunr-
Her visitors Real Finds Sometimes, a.
I'm the Ease Of Baron Pich0n's Pyx.

hhC @1~C '" ht1 rye
PARIS. Nov. 2l.-Did some OF You in
travelling through France last summer
pick up veritable art treasures in out Of the
way places where the duplicity Of the dealer
hath not penetrated and take them back
toAmerica withyoua Did you free your
selves from the professional antiquAry's
trickery and go exploring on your own
account? Better look again at your finds.
you who are not experts.
The discussion growing out Of the nOtori-
ETY. achieved by the church rObber Thomas,
of whose exploits the cables have told,
has brought to light sundry incidents of
a~ntiquaries' experiences among both the
true and the false examples of ancient art
aud ~artisanship for which the increasing
number OF amateur collectors and the
rivalry OF great museums have made 90
good a market. Some tales would make
the thrifty weep at bargains too soon let 20,
Just as the same examples Of enticing oppor-
tunities arouse in others the cupidity which
profits through the exploits Of the various
Thomases.
A widely reputed Paris antiquary. the
son Of aI antiquary. draws eloquent lessons
from his fathers books and memoranda.
In 1880 his father. already known az Pere
X. as his son IL also called Familiarity TO-
day, kept a shop of antiquities and OF vari-
Gus art works. and among his patrons was
a savant Of noble family who liked to visit
Pere X. more often on a friendly basis than
a. a customer.
-For. he used to say. your shop is the
shop OF the thousand francs"
The thousand f~rancsl" exclaims the
present Pere X. 1T Is a phrase worth re-
Numbering indeed
A thousand francs then was a maximum
price for a work Of art. appearing exorbi-
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light and shadow. The illustrations Of a
typical setting give an idea Of the sort OF
effects toward which Mr.. Craig 10 working.
To the general he has been represented as
the enemy OF rootliyhts. and in fact he has
always eschewed their uniform, or me-
chanical use. But he makes no virtue Of
avoiding them when they serve his turn.
In a word, chiaroscuro, rather than color
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23


The process of making Washing
ton the most beautiful city in the
world, according to the plan devised
by committee of architects, land.
scape gardeners and citizens who
wanted to reform something, began
last winter with an appropriation of
$4,000 for the first steps in the
work, these steps. it appears, includ.
ing the cutting down of certain very
beautiful historic trees in the Botanic
garden. When a local paper recently
mentioned what was to be done a
citizen who loves trees hastily got out
an injunction restraining proceedings.
then appealed to Speaker Cannon for
help. The speaker responded prompt.
ly, and through his influence the cut
ting of the trees has been indefinitely
delayed. The people who undertake
to make beautiful cities should re-
member that while a fine. architectu.
raj structure can be built in year, a
tree is the growth perhaps of cen.
tury, and is to be cherished above
all else.
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23

Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, who went
to Chill with her husband, Prof. David
Todd of Amherst college, to help him
with his observations of the planet
Mars, also collected material on the
trip for series Of lectures which she
has engaged to give during the com.
ing winter and spring. Preparations
for these lectures required study OF
the whole region of the early Inca civ.
ilization, besides knowledge of the
past and present condition of Peru,
Chilli and the country of the pampas
and the high Andes. Mrs Todd has
already made fine collection Of Peru.
Wan and Chilian relics, to which she
expects to add material before re.
turning home.
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23
Wants Parcels Post.

Norfolk, Va-The American Fedora
tion Of Labor Friday adopted resolu
tions as follows:
Directing its executive committee to
use every influence to bring about ac.
tion by Congress increasing postoffice
clerks pay.
Starting action to expedite and sys-
tematize the regulation of convict Ia
Dor.
Calling upon Congress for small
parcels post law as a relief from the
express monopoly"
Authorizing the executive council to
deal with the questions of appointing
organizers to teach immigrants in their
own language the ideas of unionism,
and asking that the theatrical syndi.
Gates" be included as amenable under
the antitrust laws 'in restraint OF
trade"
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Personal.

Personal.
j. B. Thomas, cashier of a bank at
Albany, Mo-, committed suicide at the
Midland hotel at Kansas City.
Secretary raft has reached Vladi-
vostok from whence he will journey
over the trans-Siberian railroad to St.
Petersburg.
Charles H. Drew, veteran actor
lately with Frank Daniels Sergeant
Brue company, is dead in New York,
aged 81.
Rear Admiral Wallace, who COM
manded the Concord at the battle of
Manila bay, has been retired, having
reached the age limit.
Queen Helena of Italy, has given
birth to a daughter, her fourth child.
Speaker Cannon has decided to ap-
point Representative Charles Scott, of
lola, to the chairmanship of the house
committee on agricultural.
Dudolph Lemiux, Canadian minis
ter of labor, is in Toxic seeking a set
tlement of the Japanese immigration
problem.
Worry over financial matters
caused Oscar Nelson, wealthy busi-
ness man of Rockford, ILL.,, to commit
suicide.
Capt. w ]. Barnett will succeed
Admiral Asa Walker as superinten-
dent of the naval observatory.
Mrs. Mary Hessie, the wife of a
hardware merchant at Cassville, Mo-,
drowned hersen in water trough.
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23
THE GLENWOOD POST
A. J. Dickson, Editor and Prop.
GLENwooD SPRINGS, COLORADO
Funerals.

We would not deny the gravity OF
death; 1t is quite serious matter even
to those of us who, while conscious of,
or at least admitting, no really sinful
performances in the past, would never
theless. if pressed, confess to certain
minor indiscretions which We would
be only too willing to join with the
Lord in forgetting. Nevertheless,
writes George Harvey in North Amer
ican Review, If form or ceremony or
criterion, dying is one of the most
popular things one can do. Nobody
goes to see man born, but the en-
tire community turns out to see him
buried. Indeed, 1t is well known that
many people, perhaps majority, de-
rive actual enjoyment from beholding
with their own eyes life flicker out of
a persons body. The almost univer
sal satisfaction found, from time i'm
memmorial, in witnessing a hanging
we can understand; the event is more
spectacular and less expensive than
circus, possesses grisly human In
terest to a distinctive degree, is pre-
sumably grimly just, and, in any case,
is unpreventable. If the hanging is
to take place anyway, why should we
not see 1t? That is the reasoning
and it seems good enough if one
cares for that variety of sport. But
we could never understand why old
wemen should. as they unquestionably
anybody could be induced, except as
a matter of duty, to make a business
or profession Of the handling of
corpses.
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23
Emperor EmuIates Roosevelt.

London.-Emperor William, con.
cerning whose health various rumors
have been circulated of late, is pur-
suing strenuous rest cure" at High
Cliffs CASTLE, on the Isle of Wight.
For example, Monday he was at his
desk at seven O'Clock in the morning
and was engaged for two hours with
state affairs before breakfast Then
In the morning and afternoon he took
long drives in a powerful motor car
through the surrounding country with
members of his suite. The machine
ran about forty miles an hour, but in
some places where there was no dan
ger the speed reached sixty miles an
hour.
The Glenwood post., 1907-11-23
Dancer in OYSTERS.

The wise person has his oysters
cooked, knowing full well that danger
turks in the toothsome raw bivalves,
unless there is full knowledge of just
where they come from. 1t is interest
ing to see that health authorities are
issuing warnings against oysters.
The Massachusetts board of health
has cautioned Boston against oy
sters and clans dug near that city,
and DR.. Daniel Lewis, president of the
metropolitan sewerage commission,
and DR.. Daniel d. Jackson, bacteriol-
ogist of the New York water board
have both declared that many Of the
oysters supplied to the New York
market come from neighboring waters
that are literally nothing more than
strong solution of sewage. There
isn't a square foot of the water of
the harbor that isn't polluted by sew
age" says DR.. Lewis, land l would
no more think of eating an oyster or
clam taken from these waters than I
would SO much deadly poison" 1t Is
slowly becoming recognized. says
the Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
that shellfish taken from close about
the harbor of large city, under the
present methods of disposing of sew.
age, are admirably calculated to con,
vey the germs of typhoid fever.