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New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
THE NEWS THIS MORNTNG,

FOREIGN-Prince Won Bulow discussed for
eisn politics IN the Reichstag, saying Germany
was awaiting developments with calm reserve;
- Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, declared
during the budget discussion in the Reichstag
that crisis at hand in Germany -
II was reported to the police of Ufa that an at
tan,pt would he made to blow up the train
carrying Secretary Taft and party toward 81
Petersburg. - Another engagement was re-
ported between the French troops and Arap
fribesrnen in Algeria. =- The declaration of
the government read in the Douma reiterated
the idea Of the autocratic power of the En-
peror as the sole guarantee of security ana
welfare - Japanese immigrants were de-
tained at Victoria owing TO a dispute between
the steamship agents and the Onlted states
and Canadian immigration officials. == The
Franco-Canadian treaty, 1t was announced in
Ottawa is the first OF a series of trade agree
luents to aid Canada in marketing her products
DONESTIC-Secretary Cortelyou has made
slI aIlotrnents of the new Treasury certificates
and believes that the issue will not greatly eX-
ceed $4,000 900. - Senator Foraker an
nounced his purpose TO fight against Secretary
Taft for the Ohio delegates to the Republican
National Convention and said he would give up
the Senatorsfip to make the contest for the
Presidency - In their reports to Adjutant
General Henry az Albany. regular army officers
who accompanied the Third Brigade, National
Guard. it's tour CT duty last September. say
there room for Improvement == The
special commission appointed by Governor
GugheS 10 Investigate the TorrenS system OF
s,.e registration gG-e a hearing Albany.
---= Frederick II. White. Of New York. made
nalloon ascension alors from North Adams.
iandlLg Fitchburg. Mass. = President
Eliot OF Harvard University addressed the six
ty-third annual meeting of the New England
Teachers Association at Boston. -= move
ment was started in Chicago to boom Governor
Deneen of Illinois as Vice Presidential candi-
date, with Governor Hughes candidate for
President in 1908. - Attorney General Had
ley Of Missouri left Jefferson City for washing
ton to argue the Minnesota rate before the
Supreme Court sHH
CITY.-StockS were strong. -- Justice Sea-
bury appointed receivers for the New York City
Railway Company. - 1t was announced that
the old Morton street tunnel route to Hoboken
would be opened late in January. == Twenty
five special policemen went duty in the sub
way for the first time. - The Satterlee COM
mittee reported plan for reha bilitation of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company. - It was
said that the notice of withdrawal rule may
soon be suspended by savings banks - The
premium on money dropped to y per cent.
The relations between the American To-
eacco Company and the Wells Whitehead Com
pany took up most of the time at the hearing
before United States Commissioner Shields.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, A
degrees; lowest, So
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
AGRTCULTUR4L PROSPERITY

All predictions that the present financial dis
trrbance will be brief and not severe are based
Vpon this country's large crops and the gen.
04l prosperity Of the farming community. How
East part the farm plays in creating national
wealth may be learned from the annual re-
port OF the Secretary of Agriculture. The total
value Of farm products In 1907 was $7,412,
100000, an increase OF more than S600,000,000
over the value of the 1906 crops of more than
q billion over the value of the crops of each
of the two preceding years and 81 per cent
greater than the value Of the crops of 1899. How
stupendous Is this source of national wealth
NAV be seen from Mr.. Wilson's declaration
that the crops of eight years, " equal in value
10 that Of 1907, would pay for duplicating
every mile of steam railroads in the country
land pay for their cost terminals, rolling stock
land all property In thirteen years they would
replace the present banking power of the
United States in banking capital, surplus de-
''posits and circulation, and In seventeen years
they would replace the banking power of the
world" The bulk Of our exports are agricult-
nral products. They sustain our credit abroad
and il is on the strength of American crops al
ready sold or TO be sold abroad that the bank
ers of this country have been able TO obtain the
S1U0.000.O00 or more of gold recently brought
To or engaged for this country. The shortage
Of the wheat crop, much greater in other parts
81 me MoIlu IMAM IL tnts couhuy, HSuIes ii
strong foreign demand for American wheat
al high prices.
Conditions with respect TO the great agricult-
ural sections of this country are very different
now from those prevailing in 1893. In that
wear when a business recession ended in gen.
eral disaster, the farmers were not prosperous.
Western farms were covered with mortgages.
The crops were adding little TO the national
wealth. The financial trouble extended to the
farming communities Farm values fell and
banking institutions interested in mortgages on
farm lands were ruined by their losses If the
American farmer had been creating wealth
then rapidly as he is to-day the panic of
1893 could not have lasted so long and brought
so much distress as it did. II we are suffering
from psychologist condition. our greatest pro-
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
VIEW FIELD FOR RESEARCH


One of the Nobel prizes this year has been
awarded to Professor a A. Nicholson, of Chi
cago in honor of his discovery of new method
of determining the velocity of light waves
Having attained this merited renown, we hope
the distinguished scientist will now turn his
attention to more practical problems, say the
velocity and rate of the Bryan brain waves II the
public could discover the precise speed at when
and the direction in which the COmmoner
evolves new solutions for wOrld-riddles life
would be made easier But light is a laggard
in comparison with the COmmoners mental
activities. and the physicist may expect hard
tussle with the problem.
There seems to be some general relation be-
tween Bryanum, the cerebral element emitting
the Bryan brain waves, and radium. Like the
rays sent forth by the latter Bryanium rays
are absolutely dark, producing a weird effio-
rescences (called Siver-tOngued OratOry) only in
the electrified vacuum of Democratic meet
ing Then, too very small amount of Brya-
MUM sets up tremendous, incessant disturb
ance in the surrounding atmOspherN just like
radium, and also without any apparent loss of
energy. Like radum too, BryanlUm is still
very expensive (see lecture rate list Doubtless
Professor Nicholson can find still more start
ling resembances. He may even discover that
as in radioactivity. so in Bryanioactivity. a
disintegrative process goes on. Here is grand
field for research that might bear early fruit.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
TIE nrEsrLoN 0E ArrocRACY

The Cars answer through the Prime Minis
fer to the address of the Douma is said to he
disappointing tO the majority Of that body. We
NAV regard II also as somewhat disquieting, and
as threatening u renewal Of the struggle be-
tween autocracy and democracy which it was
hoped had been ended by the famous imperial
decree of October 30, 1908. 1t was all but uni
versally understood that by that decree the
Car abandoned autocracy. conceding to his
subjects an rrevOcable and inalienable right to
participation in the government 1t was with
that inspiring idea in mind that the Russian
people proceeded to the election of the first
Douma. Nor were their hopes Of a COnstitu-
tional system seriously dashed by the Cars
words in his speech at the opening of the first
Douma in which he spoke of preserving the
Fundamental law regarding autOcratic power.
for he also spoke Of 'co-ordnating elective pub
'lic institutions with the governmental author
"ities" But now the reference to the historic
autocratic power and the unhampered will' OF
the Gar and the declaration that "soely by
this power and this will can Russia be saved
are aSsuredly ominous of reaction and Of rever-
sion to the old order Of affairs
II remains To he seen whether the conflict
between the government and the Douma will
prove to be Il mere dispute over words or an
irreconcilable difference over essential princi-
pies II probably would not matter to the
DOuma 70 any rational Russian II tne Ozat
did continue TO call himself AutOCrat. so long
as he did not attempt to exercise autocratc
power hut in accordance with his promise,
ordinated the power of the Douma with his
own But il must be confessed that the minis
terial declaration of yesterday suggested some
thing far more than that and far more formI-
dable It suggested the re-establiShment of com
pete abSolutiSm and the reduction OF the Douma
10 the status Of n mere automaton. Such
cons,lmmation would be a great disappointment
? To the world. as we'll proyocation aud IN
evaporation tu the Russian people.
II must be recognized that If the words Of
Mr. StOlypin, spoken in the name of the Car.
were TO be accepted and applied literally the
Douma would be reduced to the merest mOckery
of q parliament. For whatever il might enact,
the Gar would consult only his "unfettered
will" II is scarcely conceivable thar the seri-
Gus members c1 the Douma would IN such cir
c1Imsaances consider il worth while to keep np
the appearance of legislation. If they did their
acts would probably soon prove wearisome or
dissolved in disgrace as its predecessors were.
And if such fate befell this Douma. chosen by
special and extraordinary processes To insure
its subservience TO the imperial WILL there would
he little use in trying to form another, and it
would have to be recorded that the experiment
of parliamentary government in Russia had at
least for the time being, failed. The fixing Of
haps difficult but certainly an unwelcOme task.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
HONE MADE ALCOHOL.

Since September the farmers of this coun
try have been at liberty to manufacture alcohol
on their own premises, in quantities not
ceeding one hundred gallons daily, without pay
ing any revenue tax it, provided that the
fluid is so treated rs TO render it unfit for use
as beverage. So far as we are aware. no use
is vet being made of the privilege, doubtless
because its value is not yet apparent The chief.
if not the sole, incentive 10 attempting distilla-
tlon on the farm is a desire TO secure a cheap
source of power for certain kinds of work.
Farmers who drive machines with gasOiene
gneS therefore. would naturally be the first
to try TO produce alcohol. but apparently they
are not convinced that It is worth while at
present
Whoever ventures on the production OF spirits
at home needs four things-suitable raw mate
rials "A still, little information regarding the
quantity Of alcohol which he may hope to get
from various substances and the knowledge
which comes only with practical experience
The last Of these requires no discussion
though it may be added that the operation of
a still may be quickly learned. The government
might with pTOpriety furnish guidance In the
choice of materials. In Germany potatoes have
been extensively used for the manufacture Of
alcohol, while in France the principal sources
are the refuse of beets from which the sugar
has been extracted. and the pulp left by the
wine press or cider press. Fresh fruit of any
kind which has been damaged is also turned
to account in France. 1t may not be advisable
or practicable to follow these examples closely
but the practice of France and Germany Ger
tainly deserves close study. If America has
other good materials which are more abundant
or cheaper than those employed in Europe. so
much the better.
In n communication from MarSeilles CON
taiRed in THE Daily Consular Reports last
September it asserted that stills could be
bought in France for from $50 to $780, and
that the least expensive ones would do good
work The author of the report Consul Gen
eral Skinner. has received many letters in the
last two months. some of them alleging that
cheap stills produce grade of alcohol too low
to be used In a gas engine. Mr.. Skinner now
declares that by the addition of supplement
tary device alcohol of 80 or even % degrees
can be obtained at one diStillation. Thus a
serious objection TO the adoption of similar ap
paratus in America is removed. Unfortunately
however. there is poor prospect of procuring
here such stills as are in service abroad. No
American manufacturer yet shows disposition
to produce the requisite mechanism probably
because a market for it is not yet assured
Manufacturers having the proper facilities for
making small stills for use on the farm would
serve their own interests and perhaps those
of other persons by investigating the possible
usefulness of ucb apparatus. They couldcwitb-
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

Retrenchment the cry when the budget
being considered, and so the Tenement
House Commissioner. asking for increase of
$7SO00 found his allowance cut S26.606 0S be-
low last years figure. and that nowhere
near enough to make possible the mandatory
monthly inspection of tenements. CuriOusly,
however, appropriations to private charitable
institutions were increased literally all along
the line, several recipients being added ito
the list of 1905 bringing the total grant to this
class up to 81. 16T $40 10. Still more curious.
though, is the fact that. while the Board of
Estimate allowed all these institutions and the
Department of Correction an increase of SIT
per capita because of the higher cost of living"
it conceded to the Commissioner of Charities
an increase of only 81 rs per capita the same
ground,
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
THIRTY YEARS IN SUPREME COURT.
Justice Harlan Celebrates Anniversary by
Playing Golf.

washington. Nov. 29.--Tustice Harlan to-day ceIe-
brated the thirtieth anniversary of his appointment
IN the United States Supreme Court by PLAYING
hotly contested game of golf with Justice Nc
Kenna. in which no held his own notwithstanding
his seveuty-fve years Mr.. Harlan received MS
commission on November -, 1877. and his appoint
ment dates from that time. although he did not
take his seat until December 10 following. Few
members of the Supreme Court have exceeded the
time Justice Harlan has served. Justice Field
served about thirty-fve years. Chief Justice Mar
shall about thirty-four and half years Just4ce
Busnrod Washington thirty-one years. ara justice
John Mclean nearly thirty-two years
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
OLD GUNS BLOWN UP UNDER WATER
From The Boston Transcript

Six old smoothbore guns at Castle Island Boston
Harbor, which were bought several months ago hI,
the Boston Smelling and Refining COMPANY for
junk. were yesterday blown into small pieces ynder
water by dynamite. The services of E. L. RusseH
expert diver and electrical explosive worker were
the beach, and at high tide were completHIv sun
merged, and as the first charge was exploded
pieces of metal weighing upward of three hundred
pounds were sent flying in all directions Two cam
were demolished at each discharge. and after
ward when the diver made exarlipation TO
ascertain the result the beach, under Vater was
found to be literally strewn with pieces OF metal
varying from three hundred pounds to few
ounces. The guns destroyed were tta OF the
old armament which during Revolvti, al days de-
Tended Boston against the fleets of 9 britain
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
CONFIRMED SMOKER, AGED THREE
From The Boston Transcript.

T FIOIH TIC BOston Iranscript.
A three-y year old who walked the doo,,. - -,
long German pipe was a figure which vastiSS
amused the passengers of the steamer Marn,IettS
winch arrived here from Antwerp. Master TTreie,s,
Laczi Is Rumanian youugster who is en- routa 10
PlttSourg with his mother to meet his father Srte
passengers were at first amused and then aiarrnaS
TO see the yOungster toddling along the decks n,,H
ing at a pipe almost as large as himself '.Wonit
1t interfere with his GROWTH asked an snxinns
mother of one OF the deck stewards. NO he Uyas
Weaned on It.. said the steward. Does his mother
snow he smokes asked anothera She ought to
like cabbage leaves-Rumanian tobacco siInnosa
When Master Traian came down the eangnsnlr
he wore fetching costume of short Jacket and
long trousers with a green yarn shawl wounJ
around his neck and tied under his arms He
seemed not in the least disturbed about the stvies
of boys clothing in this country 'S''
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
WEDDINGS.

Miss Harriette Lucille Colvin. daughter OF eN-
state Treasurer Addison Beecher Colvin and Mrs.
Colvin was married Thursday night last in the
Glen street home of her parents, Glens Falls. TO
Lester Custave Bruggemann. The house was deco
rated with chrysanthemums. smilax and ferns, and
the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr.
John r Mackay pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in the presence of about fifty guests. Miss
Adela Hees Colvin. her sister. was maid Of honor.
and Miss Janet D. Coleman. of San Francisco. her
only other attendant. Paul Jones Baumgarten was
best
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

ducing class enjoys a splendid immunity from
that condition. If we are injuriously affected
by waste and destruction Of capital, the farmer
is producing new capital at more rapid rate
than ever before in the country's history His
fTt1lrp
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

out great expense make experiments m dis
tllatiOn, and ascertain what it would cost
farmers living in different localities and using
different materials to make their own alcohol
If it were once demonstrated that money could
he saved by employing home made spirits in
place of gasOIene there would presumably he
a good demand for the means of producing the
substitute. 1t may be that an excellent oppOr
tunity to develop a new and profitable bust
ness is being overlooked
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

Florence Nightingale made herself unexpectedly
famous as an organizer OF army nursing ii 1884.
during the Crimean War. She was born in Flor
ence Italy. in 1890 the daughter OF the late W z.
Nightingale. OF Embley Park, ROmsey. and La
Hurst, DerbyShire. Aiming to make herself OF
In the world she studied nursing under The Pro-
estant Sisters OF Mercy ct RaiserN erth or t-s
Rhine. and later established home for nurses IN
London.
When the Crimean War broke out and reports
came 70 England OF the suffering of the soldiers.
Miss Nightingale volunteered 70 go with few
helpers to nurse the sick and wounded al thu
front After much delay and overcoming uanv
lobjectio1s. she allowed to go with her COM
panions. Her sweetness OF disposition and her
ability nurse won the hearts of the soldiers and
Of those in command and her remarkable eNecu-
tive ability enabled her to transform the no.soms
orderly hospitals. Her ath broke down under
although she continued 70 carry the work Of
organizing nursing from her sickroOm- She has
been bedrdden for many years
A fund OF $4,000 was raised as d testimonial 10
her philanthropy. and this she devoted 10 the
Nightingale Home for the Training OF Nurses she
is the author of several works on nursing, ana 10
lady Of grace of ST. John of Jerusalem
The other members of the Order Of Merit 49,
Field Marshals Earl Roberts. ViscoUnt WolseieS
and Sir George Stuart White. General Niscount
Kitchener. Lords RayIeigh. Kelvin and Lister the
Right Hon. John Morley, Admirals of the Fleet ~
Edward Hobart Seymour and Sir John Fisher S'F
William Huggins Sir Laurence Alma iadeIh".
George Meredith, William HolniAn-Hunt. the EaFI
of Cromer and Field Marshals Marquis YaTnagatA
and Marquis Oyama, and Admiral Togo
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

Swift TarbelI. son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gage r. Tar
bell. OF New York. and Miss Nirgie Marguerite
Whitcomb. daughter of MIR. and Mrs James y.
WhitcOmb, OF Boston. married
Thursday In the Cathedral of the Incarnation.
Garden City, Long Island. the ceremony being per-
formed by Bishop Burgess. Miss BeEe Mcintosh.
of Boston, Miss Whitcomb's only attendant.
and Philip Brasher. of Brooklyn, was best man.
Mr.. and Mrs Tarhell will live at Garden City
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
WHITMAN AT N. Y. U. DINNER.

Judge Charles S. Whitman. "a. win be the prin-
cipal speaker at the annual dinner OF the New
York University Alumni Association to be held az
the Hotel Astor on Thursday night Among tne
other speakers will be the Rev. john L Lyon, Ed
mund w. Wakelee. State Senator OF New Jersey.
ard DIT. ~. G. Underwood
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
LRy Telegraph 70 The 7

by Telegraph 20 The Tribunal
Newport, r. l., Nov. 29-Ex-Senator and Mrs
George Peabody Wetmore closed their Newport
season to-day and went TO Washington
Mr.. and Mrs Pembroke Jones arrived in New
port TODAY to make inspection OF their ae'r
villa which they hope viii be IN readiness f3r &C.
cupancy next season.
Mrs Henry Redmond went to New York to-day.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

If Senator Latimer. of South Carolina, sue
ceeds in getting Congress to pass his bill limit
ing the number OF immigrants from each for
eign country to 10000 a year. the influx of
Bosnians, Tunisians, Icelanders Senegambians
and Sumatrans will leap with alarming and
mysterious speed up to the limit And the most
curious feature of the whole business will be
that these once loyal citizens OF the worlds
various microscopic countries will speak Nea-
poltan and Odessan with astonishing ease.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
rr,0n rha Tribune Bureau !

TF-rom The tribune Bureou-I
Washington Nov 29.-Miss Eleanor Cullom
Ridgely. daughter OF the Controller of the Cur
rency. was presented to society at a large tea
this afternoon. Mrs Ridgely had assisting her
Mrs shelby NJ. CuHorn, grandmother of the debu-
+orte. Baroness Moncheur, Mrs. Tiffany Dyer and
Mrs Richard Harlow. With Miss Ridgely were
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
WINS WEST POINT APPOINTMENT.

Lawre. McDermott. of No. $50 Franklin ave
nue.. PrNoklyn. has been named by Congressman
Wt'!Sul NJ Calder the successful Candidate N
a competitive examination for admission TO West
9Oint- His alternate Is George z. Boyd. af Ma
50 President street.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ao 1907,

This newspaper is Ot0aed and published 0y
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ttors: Office and principal place Of business IFto
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ogden Nails, president; Nathaniel IHttte' sec
,eto,y and treasurer. The address Of the Off
GERS is the Office Of this newspaper
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

Some Harvard alumni not reticent in criticism
of some of the features of the present athletic
TEN at Harvard, judging by what has already ap
peared in print But it is worth remembering that
The mon who critcise show by their criticism that
they wholly aloof from the policies Of the new
regime. They Insist that the football eleven must
be trained with the one idea OF winning from Yale
and that the whole football system should be
on that basis; But that is Just what President
Eliot objected to. and any coach who should run
football that basis would be distinctly objection
able to the present athletic management-Boston
Advertiser.
a decent respect for conservatism and long
historic customs requires that Harvard should
he coached to be beaten by Yale. Ap-
parentlv iconocasm is to he permitted.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

The bridge over the Connecticut River at
Hartford formally opened to traffic yesterday.
is so handsome that it may prove strong in
ducement to Americans revert. so far praC-
ticable. to stone construction. Neither in stai
bility nor in beauty the steel bridge. indis-
pensabIe under some circumstances. compete
with its predecessor
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HONORED.
First Woman to Receive the Exclusiyo Deco
ration of the Order of Merit. N

London. Nov. 29-F1orence Nightingale has been
decorated with the Order OF Merit She Is RE
first woman 10 receive this distinction. which has
been bestowed upon only nineteen men. The 0r7,r
was founded by King Edward in 1872.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

The buresque currency being circulated
in Chicago is not simply the childish joke Of
somebody with money to squander on engrav
ing bills. II has been issued to supply proper
monetary medium for the Windy City's rapidly
growing traffic in burlesque buttermilk.