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The sun., 1907-03-31
TURIN STUDENTS IN WILD RON
Break Up Memorial Meeting 40 Chs Cn1s
Verslty I'm Honor OF CaPduCci.

hfeAA Op memOnAl MccunB ~ ono Una
Vorsity I'm Honor OF CaPducCi.
All Italy is scandalized at the scensa
which took place In Turin when the uuiS
versity authorities attempted to hold O
memorial meeting in honor Of Giosue CaE-(
ducci, the poet who died in FebrlaTy(
shortly after receiving the 1905 Nobel prsA
for literature. The proceedings were arS
ranged to take place in the Aula MagnA
and Prof. Arthur Graf was selected -
deliver the eulogium.
A great throng Of the leading citiDnA
OF Turin gathered, but as the hour for thS
exercises drew nigh a mob Of studenta
stormed the hall, swept away the ushersD
seized the seats reserved for the officials
and professors of the university and tho
special guests and proceeded 70 oreate
an amazing din with shouts. whistling and
stamping Of feet. Then they made charge
on the gathering at large, driving the poo"
pie into the corners Of the room and sns
gaging in standup fights with any men vhA
ventured TO resist.
Standing on the seats sonne kept yellinn
The university Ii Oursl Here We are tho
masters Some sang the "Marseillsise.'
The scene was one OF wild tumult, and in
the midst OF it the rector of the university
Prof. Renter, and Prof. Graf appeared
upon the platform, hoping that the youths
would quiet down and allow the meeting
to be held.
Their appearances was a signal for in;
creased disorder. Rector Renier advanced
TO the front OF the stage and attempted
10 speak. As the students persstenty
howled him down he folded his arms and
stood watching them with a smile ~ bitter
contempt. Prof. Graf next tried his luch
As II became evident that the students
would not let him speak, he took advantage
Of a brief lull to shout:
The meeting IL adjourned. Thus tbs
youth Of Italy honors it's men OF gsniu9
The university officials then NithdreT
and the audience trOoped out OF the hal'
When they had Il TO themselves, the stu
dents seemed to become frantic. They
sang ribald songs, shouted and stamped
more than ever, and finally some of them
running out seized a girl student, plump
her into the hall like a bale Of goods and Set
her standing on the speakers table.
The girl took her role seriously and AZ
tempted TO declaim CarduCci's discourse
on the death OF Garibaldi. The studan
however, tired Of her in a moment lesy
picked her up and stretched her ilAs
corpso on the shoulders or half a dozen
OF their number and then the whole mon.
falling in Dehind, parGdcd a. a sort OF mock
funeral procession.
Prof. Graf had really conferred \ soso'a'
honor on the University Of Turin by electtns
to deliver his grafton on Carducci n me
AuIa Magma. In order TO do 80 he na'
declined an invitation from the Italian MN
lster OF Education and the students ~ fh7
Y University OF Rome TO make the funeral a0-
dress m that citv on the site OF the capital
The sun., 1907-03-31
A Great Woman Trayell.r.

The many readers Of her book OF travel
will be glad to see The Life Of Isabella Bird
CMrs. Bishop, by ANNA M. SToDDART
(E. p. Dutton a Co... OF the four English
women who during the last two genera
tions became famous as travellers, Mrs
Bishop, Miss North, Miss Kingsley and
Miss GordOn-C Cumming, the first named
is the best known. Not only did she possess
a remarkable capacity for accurate OBJ
servation and vivid portrayal, but the
lands which especially attracted her lay
far beyond the beaten track. II is also
to be noted that she nearly always con-
quered her territories alone, faced wilder
nesses almost single handed, and had no
help in compiling her records.
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SOME NEW BOOKS.
j, NhAt British General Thinks OF the
Japanese

p"
That part OF the story Of the Rnsso-Japa
pese war which relates to the period from
the beginning Of August, 1904, to February.
1905. is told in the second volume Of the
record OF fret hand observations set forth
in. A Stdf Offers Scrap Book, by Lieuit.-
Gen. Sir IAN H HAMILTON (LongmansI. Read
ers OF the first volume will recall that the
author was attached to the headquarters
staff Of Marshal Kuroki, commander of
the Japanese First Army. In that capacity
he witnessed the nine days battle OF Lao
.NanR. undoubtedly the most tremendous
-~3fiict that has occurred in modern times.
The account Of what he saw and heard
odrtng the viCissitudes Of that prolonged
engagement fills large part of the Volume
betofo tass bat Gen. Hamilton subsequently
visited the Liaotung peninsula and made
study of the battlefelds of Nanshan and
Telissu. The book ends with descrip
-tion of the battle of January 1920
1905. commonly known as the battle Of
Haikoutai which was dictated by a mem
her of Marshal Kuroki's staff TO the author
just before the latter's recall to England.
t;erE Hamlton's conclusions concerning
The strategy and tactics of the combatants
are not concentrated in a final ch apter,
but diffuse1 throughout the volume, so
that the whole book has TO be read.
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~

After entering Liaoyang our author
learned from a Scotch missionary residing
in the place many interesting things about
the attitude OF the Chinese toward the Rus
SLAMS on the one hand and the Japanese on
the other. As was to be expected, the Chi
nese were at first genuinely glad that the
Japanese had supplanted the Russians, as
the former had won the highest reputation
for themselves throughout northern China
by their admirable discipline and general
behavior during the Boxer troubles. After
their arrival in Manchuria, however, the
Japanese began to loot chickens, whereupon
the Chinese began to change their minds,
and quoted one Of their own proverbs to
the effect that the grandmother has left
us, but grandpa has come in her place"
The eagerness with which the Chinese had
looked forward to the advent of the Jap
anese had been a sentiment OF enormous
value to Oyama, "a it had inclined the in
habitants Of the theatre OF operations TO
conceal everything from the Russians.
Silence, impenetrable as a prison wall, had
surrounded the intelligence bureau OF X uro-
patkin, while, on the other hand, minutely
perfect information had been continually
conveyed to the Japanese Commander-in-
Chief Now, however that grandpa had
come, the Chinese found in him a close
relative Of the Old Man Of the Sea.
One reason why the Chinese in Manchuria
began presently to think more kindly OF
their former rulers was that the Russians
we're extraordinarily generous and liberal,
whereas the Japanese were considered by
the Chinese shOpkeepers to he parsimonius.
Il must not be inferred that our author
thinks that the japanese are at all stingy;
they simply have not the money to spend.
Another reason was that some Of the jap
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Nv.

In January, 1894, Mrs Bishop. who after
her return TO England from Trebizond had
busted herself in missionary work. started
once more for the Far East. Her route
this time lay by Halifax, through Canada
to Vancouver's Island and thence to Yoko-
hama. AZ Yokohama she rested only two
days, after which she went on to Kobe,
giving in all but ten days at this time to
Japan. On March 1 she reached Chemulpo.
the port Of Seoul, for the first Of the four
visits to Corea which she paid between
1894 and 1897. This particular visit lasted
four and a half months. and she tells lis
that IL produced the impression that Corea
was the most uninteresting country she
ever travelled in. Contrasted with the
brilliant coloring, varied vegetation and
picturesque buildings OF Japan, the brown,
bare hills Of. Corea looked grim and for
bidding She wrote to Mr. Murray: 1T Is
monOtonOus in every way and the Coreans
seem the dregs OF a race-indolent, cunning,
limp and unmanly." This was only her
hrst impression, however, and later on sho
had 10 admit that the people were well
endowed mentally and not bad looking. and
she came to find beauty. fas cination and
weird picturesqueness in the country.
especially when fdealized by the unrivalied
atmosphere OF the Corean winter. The
political situation which began To shape
itself In the winterof Is04-e6 also Interested
nor She visited the most ancient ioG chs
The sun., 1907-03-31
III.

In a chapter which sums up the authors
comments on the military operations which
eliminated in. the protracted battle Of
Llaoyang We learn that the first point
which struck the author was the clear,
simple and direct character Of the Japanese
strategy, carriedco oSs though, Il was on q
tremendous scaIesr Gen. Hamilton believes
The sun., 1907-03-31

~ Nitobs's book about -Bushido' says
nothing about either gratitude or modesty,
except ON one occasion. when modesty
Y said to be an important ingredient Of
anS quality Of pohteness. There is no
o0uot that politeness and pugnaoity odn
The sun., 1907-03-31

mask and large Blue sheet. which oovers
her from head TO foot. Amy woman going
out otherwise would be put TO death
For time it seemed TO her that there was
not enough In Persia to repay the tremen-
dOus risks OF travel there. But at Teheran
she revised this impression, when rest and
the kindneIs Of hcr host at the British Le-
CATION had restored the normal stoadiness
OF her judgment After three weeks stay
in Teheran, the incidents OF which are set
forth in her book Journeys In Persia and
KurdIstan,' she felt we'll enough not only
for a ride to Ispahan, but to contemplate
one far more adventurous into the noun
ta.ns Of Luristan. The ride to Tspahan oc-
Cupied only twelve days, and she was glad
TO reach the Armenian suburb Julia after
a dangerous experience in the meaner
streets Of the city, where she was booted,
spat upon and howled at by q rabble OF
fanatical men and boys. The sheepskin
coat which she had worn during her ride
had become oppressive, and she had re-
verted to European dress, 90 that the abb
sence Of the usual shroud drew attention to
her az "Nazarene." The ride from Ispahan
to the Bakhtiari country occupied 100 days,
and the account OF her experiences fills 400
pages Of her book on Persia. HaTCiships
marked the whole period. All thought Of
returning TO Julia was dismissed, 90 severe
and perilous had been the transit oTer the
Bakhtian Mountains, and Mrs. Bishop de-
cided to make her way by Hamadan through
western Persia TO Urmi, and thence through
Kurdistan and Armenia 70 Trebizond on the
Black Sea. Il was a march Of 1000 miles,
and she Just had completed the rough ride
from Julia 70 Burujiard, 700 miles In length;
while before that she had ridden 200 miles
from Bagdad to Ispahan. At H4madap,
the once magnificent Ecbatsna. but now a
"ruinous. filthy, decayed and unprosperous
looking town" she visited Esther's Tomb,
and made inquiries as to the condition Of
the jews in the neighborhood, which she
found to be pitiab!e. only relieved by the
American missionaries, who made them
their especial care.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
ATMOSPHERE CLEARING.

Supplemented by the Greeley
clearing house certificates or cashier S
checks. as they are also called, there
is no scarcity of currency in Greeley.
The little slips of yellow, pink or
blue paper are circulating side by
side with greenbacks. gold or silver,
and are taken by all merchants for
the face value, printed in one corner.
The money situation is growing
better all over the country. Gold
is now pouring into New York from
Europe with nearly every big ocean
liner that comes into port and al
ready the New York banks have
commenced to send some of the
money westward to help move the
big wheat crop of the Dakotas and
Minnesota. Money Is also coming to
Denver again from the east, so that
the temporary stringency Is being re-
lieved all over.
There has really been no cause for
alarm If the people would just keep
cool. 1t is tine fright OF the people
that creates panics, but even the
most timid are now beginning to see
that they stood no chance OF losing
anything here.
What we want to do now is to
continue as heretofore to boost Gree
ley and make it the very best place
on earth to live in. We have the
wealth of the soil behind us here and
need pay no more attention to a
little money furry in New York
than " that place was not on the
map. The security behind our clear
ing house checks is rooted we'll II
Greeley soil and is therefore as gooe
as the government behind them.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14

as the paper stock IL Is iof '"''
rsason that the newspapers are no"
,sr,nc their old friend, Teddy, TO
smash the paper trust
As far As the newspapers are con-
cerped it may make but little o'"e' :
orce what method THE preS'oeh'
adopts to gain the desired emu pu'
,hers Is an even greater point IN
yolved IN the same question. \ lie"
d,vs aqo Clifford Pinchot, chief OF the
forestry bureau, announced that at
rho nresent rate Of using timber
thar. would be none. left in the
rnited States within 20 wears, Ihis
too. in the face ssof the fact 'h"'
,bout two.thirds of the Canad>ah
forests are practically untouched, but
their products are being barred ou,
bv a high tariff upon lumber. There
can he absolutely no benefit to any
one in Keeping up this tarih except
to the owners of the few remaining
acres of forest in this country. why
not, therefore, let down the bars OH
all kinds of timber and thus smash,
not only the paper pulp trust, but
the lumber trust as we'll: There Is
hardly a line of industry that wouio
NOT be benehtted by such an act.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
"Billinaton's Sea-"

There is tangible evidence that
the plous passengers of the May
flower were not entirely without a
sense of hnmor. Back of Plymouth
over the hill upon which they
planted their cannon is a large
fresh water pond perhaps mile in
diameter, which, it appears from
the records, was discovered by John
Ellington while he was prowling
around one night, probably on a
scouting expedition looking for In
dians. In the morning he reported
that he had found the sea in that
direction, and there was a lively dis
pute between him and the other
pilgrims as to the accuracy of his
information. He stuck to his the
ory with the same tenacity that he
adhered to his religion, and to this
day that pond is called Billing
toms sea-"
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
New Program.

The North Side Country club
has the program for the following
year arranged and published. The
years work contains great number
OF interesting subjects to be studied
and discussed. This club has
thirtyone members who meet every
two weeks. Their officers are Mrs.
Jennie Hill, president; Mrs. Louise
Brown, vice president: Mrs. Isabelle
Stone, secretary; Mrs Julia Blunt,
treasurer. The club takes vaca.
tion through the fall during potato
harvesting and began the years work
November |.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
EGYPT. Sacred Beetles.

The scarabaeus, the sacred beetle
Of Egypt, was an object of worship
in olden days and was most careful
ly embalmed at death. The ancient
Egyptians believed the heart to be
the center of intellect as well as the
source of life and removed this or
gan when the embalming process
took place, a model of the scara-
baeus being put in its place. There
are many varieties of this sacred
beetle, as the monuments in Egypt
show. The scarab was the favorite
insignia Of both men and women
and was worn as charm to protect
from harm and insure desirable
qualities to make them attractive.
Many hard stones were used for
these models, and turquoise matrix,
lapis lazuli, jasper, amethyst, agate
and onyx were much in favor.
Some of the ancient ones are clever
ly cut and were used as coin of the
realm. The finest are found with
the mummies in old tombs.-Argo-
naut.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
The wrona Leo.

There is an enterprising Liver,
pool tailor who has never been
known to acknowledge that he did
not have anything a possible Gus
toner might ask for.
One day customer entered the
shop and asked if he had any trou-
eers made especially for one legged
men. 4
Certainly" replied the ,ner-
chant. "What kind do you want p
'Dress trousers" said the man.
''The best you've got"
Hurrying into the rear of the
store, the enterprising merchant
snatched up a pair of trousers and
shipped off the right leg with a pair
of scissors. Hastily turning under
the edges, he presented them to the
customer.
"That's the kind l want. What's
the price,"
Gone guinea"
"Well, give me pair with the
left leg off,
A month later the merchant was
pronounced convalescent and on
the high road to recoyery.-Pear-
sons Weekly.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
THE STORMY PE1REL.
Why the Bird Revcls In Tumult Of
tho Wind and Waves.

The stormy petrol, alias Mothcl
Carey's chicken, Procellaria ro0a.
gica. or Oceanites oceanicus, accord
ING as we have reference to the sno.
cies of the eastern or western Az
lantie. has not got the epithet o.
stormy" for nothing. The bird
appears to revel in tumult of The
winds and waves and actually does
so for a good and sufficient reason.
This is that its food supply is very
much more abundant when the
ocean is agitated than when it is at
rest. Then the petrol has dec
ed habit of following ships, wh,sh
has really nothing to do with i'm
pending storm. No, il seeks the
ship not because it is afraid or lone
", but simply because the ship ag-
tates the waters. Very likely as it
follows a storm may spring up, and
then, seeing the bird SO obviously
delighted. poor superstitious JACK
not unnaturally thought there was
some connection between them.
From this to belief in compan-
ionship in evil was only step.
The queer notions about the
stormy petrol did not end here. It
was believed-and the naivete Of
this belief is decidedly racy of poor
Jack-that it carried its eggs I'M
der its wing and Matched them on
the water. 1t was also belieycd
that it could appear at will in tie
neighborhood of a ship anywhyre
about the ocean. All this certain
" pointed to necromatic or uncan-
nv power. and it is not to be won
dered at that the bird became such
an object of fear and aversion to
the poor mar before the mast.
The poet Coleridge has left us
fine picture of the terrifying intlu-
ence of the albatross on the ancient
mariner. but no poet seems to have
awakened to the possibilities of the
stormy petrol as theme. How
ever. we read much about it off and
on in old chronicles or tales of the
sea. In one of these it is recordcd
that the sailors, seeing the herald
of storm join the ship too near land,
as they supposed, mutinied and re
fused to proceed. - Forest and
Stream.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
LET DOWN THE BARS.

President Roosevelt is beng i'm.
portuned by prominent newspaper
publishers from all parts OF the
country to smash the paper trust.
either by prosecution under the anti
trust laws or by removing the tariff
upon paper wood pulp.
While the newspapers generally
Lave been helping the president to
the best of their ability to smash
other burdensolne trusts they have
been patiently awaiting their time
to be relieved of the enormous ad-
vances in the price of the commodity
in which they are most interested.
that Is the price Of paper stock. In
no other commodity has prices ad-
vanced more rapidly in the last
couple of years than in news print
paper. In that time the advance
has been fully 33 l,3 per cent. Even
with publication like the Tribune
this advance means an additional ex
peDse OF s4OO year. 1t can then b'
understood what it means to paper
with daily circulation of so, 600 o
more.
The burden of all this extra cos
has fallen upon newspaper publisher
and not upon the final consumer, a
is generally the case. Subscriptio
prices have not advanced and adyel
tising rates have not been increased
Did the increased cost of maxim
a newspaper end here the extra strai
might be borne by publishers witt
out any great kick, but 1t does no
The cost of everything else that go'
to make paper has also been IL
creased, but none at the same degr,
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
Not vi. leo..

A Russian peasant, having gone
to the town to buy himself a pair
OF new boots, fell asleep by the
roadside on his way home and was
stripped OF his cherished boots by n
light fingered tramp, but his sleep
remained unbrokcn till a passing
WAGNER, seeing him lying half
across a. the track, shouted to him to
take his legs out of the way"
My legs?" echoed the half
aroused arc, sleeper, rubbing his eyes.
Ihose legs amt mine. Mine had
boots on'- Paris Figaro.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
LET THEM DISCUSS.

Tile public meeting TO be held IN
the court house this evening for the
discussion of the public utilities
question will undoubtedly bring out
much valuable information on that
subject. Members of the public
utilities committee of the CONNER
cial club WHO have arranged for the
meeting are deserving of credit for
their efforts to have light thrown
upon this important question. The
Tribune will be more than pleased
to give publicity to the findings of
the committee after full discussion
of the matter has been had.
While it is the matter of city
lighting that will be talked at this
meeting there will be other questions
of a public nature that will come up
in the future, that will REQUIRE just
as earnest consideration as the light
ing question. There is. for instance,
the matter of the street railway
franchises of the city, which are now
being warmly contested for by two
different companies. We believe the
good public should have little say
in this matter also.
The Greeley tribune., 1907-11-14
ORIGIN OF sUND!ALs.
rb, chaldeans. Il 10 Said, Made sns
First Ones Used.

r,ho ChoIdoaus claim the honors
- ,he first sundial. and from them
,5a knowledge of it found a way
through Egypt and Greece lierod,
ans saws that the Greeks learned
ir,u the Chaldeans the art OF max
,rg dials and dividing the day INTO
ruerye parts, and while many ailu-
sf,rs are found in Greek literature
bsarinr on the length Of shadow
IN tclling the time of day no expla-
nation is given of how this measur-
;nr is done. A story is told OF
man who was invited to dine when
q shadow was twenty feet long,
which was about the hour of 5 in
tbe afternoon, according to the
hosts reckoning, but the overanx-
;ons guest mistook the invitation to
rrad according to morning shadows
and arrived before the feast was
served.
This story finds parallel in the
memories of many who have visited
in secluded mountain districts
where the mountaineers tell the
time of day by the shadows that
creep from summit to summit. The
Arabs were the very first to intro
duce sundials showing the hours OF
equal length. The oldest now in en-
istcnce. however, give signs OF
Greek workmanship. One is found
in Egypt at the base of Cleopatra's
Needle, and another, the most pre-
tentious of sundials, is in Athens
the Temple of the Winds, in reality
an octagonal building with dial
on each of the eight sides. Many
Greek dials were hcmicyclean in
form. while those of the Scandina-
vans and SaNons were vertical or
horizontal.
ST. Augustine introduced the Ro-
man system into England, and
many of the old churches in Eng
land have vertical sundials over the
doors. and throughout England and
Scotland they are frequently found
on the side of houses, while the hor-
izontal dial is used in the garden or
on the lawn. In time they became
the fashion, princes made gifts of
them, and they were considered ap-
propriate monuments to the dead,
and they became more handsome
and elaborate in design. A fine
sample of the art is that at Glamis
castle, which has eighty-four gno-
mons.
The simplest design is that primi-
tive block of stone with a dial en-
graved upon it and rude gnomon.
or triangular projecting piece, which
by its shadow shows the hour of the
day. The word gnomon, or gnom-
mons, il fancifplly derivation
"the know man or gnowman Of q
dial, the shadow whereof pointeth
out the howers. kansas City Star.