The National tribune., 1907-08-01

ers' College. of Syracuse University, cf
which Chancellor Day is President. the
handsome sum of 100000. Mrs. Sage
takes a very deep interest in this col
!ege because the large castle of Norman
architecture situated on the college
grounds was her childhood's home. She
specially desires that the property shall
be the permanent home of the Teach
ers' College. and that women may al
ways enjoy its privileges, ana hopes to
accomplish this by her bequcst.
In England they have an excellent
law which gives to people VINO ha =,
distinguished themselves in literature,
science or art, pension, if In the even-
tide of their lives they find themselves.
as such people too frequently do, in
straitened circumstances The novelist
| Ouida, Louisa de la Rance, whose
mother was an English woman, has
lately been given such a pension by the
English Government Some 80 or 40
years ago. Ouida's novels were perhaps
more popular than any others. They
were eagerly read by the young per
son." largely, it is true, on account Of
| the soupcon of naughtiness which ran
thru most of them, but to the reader os
true and fastidious literary taste they
| gave much pleasure for the UnquestiOn-
led beauty of her thots, and the wealth
of her descriptive powers. Many of her
stories were truly exquisite, as for IN
stance her Dog of Flanders" and the
preface to her novel "Ariadne." In
spite of her popularity and tn, finan-
cial advantage derived from it Mile. De
la Rance, knew nothing of the value
of money, and spent it as fast as She
received it. For a good many years she
llived in Italy, and it is said she be-
came so reduced in circumstances that
she frequently lacked food. She ,n;t-le
her home in the Squalid cottage of n
milkman. depending upon his goodness
much of the time for her subsistence.
! fnI I,ar "a 4 t,n Is.a0-
lish Government, who investigated it
with the result that the aged, i'll, and
destitute novelist has been given d pen
sion of $3.50 a year for the remainder of
her life.
| In England the prefix "Fitz' usually
shows the presence of royal blood, but
royal blood with a taint. The Fitz
Georges, FitZclarences, and r'iraiam.,s,
are names which originally sprang into
being to settle a question which per-
picked a royal monarch of proud Eng
land King William ". who before
his accession to the throne was the
Duke of Clarence, gave to his sons born
at that time whose mother was Mrs
Jordan. the actress. the name of FitZ-
clarence. The Fitzjames get their name
| from James ii. of England, who be-
slowed 1t upon the Duke of Berwick,
his natural son by Arabella Churchill,
sister of the great Duke of Marlborough
it to provide suitable names for the
children Of royal favorites, and France
has perhaps been more successful than
| any other from purely euphoniStic
point of view. The Austrian Counts
Netter Won der Lille get thei,. name from
King Henry ii. of France who. not wish
ing the illegitimate sons of his father,
Francis L., to bear the name of ValoiS.
and at the same time being not unwili-
| ing to accord them some name which
1
| them that of Cousins du Lys.' cousins
of the Lily, this flower being the floral
emblem and heraldic device of the
House of France. After Henry's death
these Cousins du Lys entered the
service of the Emperor of Germany and
were finally made Counts of the Holy
Roman Empire, their French name
turned into the German Vetter Won der
Lille
| A certain sensible, if unconventional,
preacher in Pittsburg ascended his pull
pit on one of the exceedingly warm Sum-
day mornings in this month, and sur
veyed his uncomfortable congregation.
The women were tanning themselves
| furiOuSly, the men mOpping Industrious
| ly, and the children squirming about
restlessly. He himself felt his religion
Oozing out with perspiration. and acting
upon impulse he invited them, one and
all, to adjourn to the green, shady, in
|
followed their parson out, stretched
themselves out comfortably under the
shady trees, the women took off their
| hats, the parson pulled off his coat and
vest advising the men to follow suit,
and then and there he preached them a
good, wholesome, practical sermon,
which did them all lot of good be-
cause they listened to it, which they
wouldn't have done had they been in
the hot church mopping and tanning.
Miss Julia Bryant, daughter of the
American poet, William Cullen Bryant,
has just died in Paris. Miss Bryant was
a lady of rs years of age and had lived
abroad ever since the death of her dis
4 -|tinguished father. An unusually close
bond, even for father and daughter, eX-
isted between the two, and she was her
! fathers most intimate cOmrade and as
sociate. Altho not writer herself, her
| literary taste waS unerring. and While
Mr.. Bryant was editor of The Evening
Post she was of the greatest assistance
to him. The last time Miss Bryant Wis
lited this country was in 1894, when she
came over to attend the anniversary of
her fathers birth at Cummington. Mass.
Puccini, the Italian composer who
wrote the musical score of that eNqu-
lsite opera, Madam Butterfly is hard
at work on his new opera. Marie An
/ Itoinette." Great interest is felt by the
musical world with regard to this prom
i ised opera, as Puccini is best known
\ thru his Madam Butterfly" and wheth-
er he reached his hight in that can
only be proved by its successor. The
lstory of the unfortunate queen of the
unfortunate Louis XVI. of France GER
ltanly affords material for a tragic and
dramatic plot The diamond necklace
affair." and the make-believes of the
court at Petit Trianon would afford in
lteresting incidents in the building up of
Ia libretto. If Puccini can write music
which will express the tragic history of
Ipoor Marie Antoinette as perfectly as
his music told the pathetic story of the
love and desertiOH of the little Japanese
maiden, he will give to the world a
great opera indeed. A short time ago
the composer broke his leg in an auto
mobile accident which, however. did not
put stop to his work. He had some
lsort of a writing apparatus rugged up on
his bed. and tho in a great deal of pain
lat times, allowed himself no vacation
on account of it. He is much disgusted
at our copyright laws which allows sing
ers like Caruso, for instance to receive
"a tremendous compensation for singing
loperatic selections into the phono-
graph, and gives the composer nothing.
This is not allowed in Italy. which
lcountry is the first in the world to
guard the rights of composers. and tho
Igenerally considered rather old-fashion-
ed and slow-going, is ahead of up-to-