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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
Arn2lork DniIp Gribn1re
MONDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1907.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY-The Interstate Commerce Commission
will examine E. H. Hartman to-day, II was an
nounced. - 1t was learned that District At
torney Jerome would probably not apply to-day
for commission in lunacy in the Thaw case.
"A bomb exploded by a Blacvk Hand agent
did great damage at No. 164-I66 Elizabeth street.
= The city was buried under a northeast
snowstorm. == DR.. Lyman Abbott praised
President Roosevelt in an address before the
Peoples Forum. at New Rochelle. = DR..
Parkhurst in his sermon, criticised the press for
catering too much TO sensatiOnalism. == Mary
LAY me ne, auburn gT vas found |@TRlng asa as
eral denied that President Zelaya had received
bride in connection with certain mining con-
cessions. - A Utah postmaster found his
son. who had been kidnapped in Ireland, on the
EtrUria when she locked.
DCMESTIC.-President Roosevelt, after a
visit to Groton. Mass, to his Kermit,
returned 10 Boston and started from there for
Washington. = The House of Representa-
tives met 10 hear tributes to the memory of
Senator Alger and Representatives Adams
Albany that conference of prominent up
state men would be held Wednesday TO take
steps TO form league to watch legislation sim
liar 70 the Citizens Union in this city. - A
report 20 the Legislature on savings banks trust
companies, safe deposit companies and mscel-
laneous corporations was made public at Albany
- Several fremen Were injured in a fire
which badly damaged the Russell House, at
killed in a trolley car accident near Amherst
Mass. - The condition of the passengers in
Jured in the wreck of the Chicago special near
JoillSiDMn, rem, on saturday, was reported TO
be excellent; the company issued a statement
= More than a dozen persons We're hurt
several seriously. in a wild rush from a Chicago
Italian church following a false fire scare.
FCREIGN.-Advices from Paris say that there
are no signs that the Vatican viii permit fur
ther concessions regarding church leases to
be made. and Premier Clemenceau is quoted as
saying that neither the Chamber of Deputies
nor any member of the Cabinet is in favor Of
granting further concessions. President
Zelaya again made public the statements that
the entire blame for the war belonged to Hon.
duras. and that thu Nicaraguan troops had won
several victories. = dispatch from Panama
says that a number of former leaders of the
opposition parties in Nicaragua are serving in
the army of President BonilIa. - Cuba ms
paraded at Havana and presented appeal to
Governor MagoOn for the abrOgation of the
order prohibiting cockfghting. -= There have
been many executions in China according to
mail advices 10 The Tribune from Hankow fol-
lowing the agitation for an overthrow Of the
dynasty; the anti-fOreign movement seems 10
be practically ended. == Count Won Stolberg-
Wernigerode, President Of the Relchstag, was
received by the Emperor, who expressed his sat
isfaction with the result of the recent elections
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest, 81
degrees; lowest. L.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

fession OF weakness to desire to abolish a game
because tendencies show themselves or practices
grow up which prove that the game ought to be
reformed.
Footballs fate has "trembed in the balance"
because of the inevitable human quality of the
game; because the men who played it were not
moral machines obeying the moral law with me-
chanical exactneSs. There was a chance for
cheating in football and all sports which af-
forded chance for cheating should be abolished.
That is the counsel of perfection applied to ath-
letics. If the curriculum were to be subjected to
the same test, there would be little left Of it.
Classics and mathematics are no better than the
modern Sciences In none of them will college
men refrain entirely from cheating at recitations
and examinations; yet no one proposes that the
colleges and universities shall be abolished.
| Perfection always has strong -llurement for
reformers. If they plan remaking society, they
content themselves with nothing short of perfec-
ton and make no allowance for the fact that the
game of life is played by mere fallible human
beings The correction of abuses is always the
signal for utopianism. It used to be the reprOach
that the AnglO-Saxon peoples took their pleas
ures sadly and that, consequently, young men in
college took their sports too seriously. If the
young men regard their play seriously their
elders and educational guides view 1t with quite
too portentious gravity. Learned headshaking
over the moral qualities of kicking or batting or
throwing a ball about a field will soon, however,
impart aspect of gayety to youthful play too
long missed. When we have perfect men we shall
have perfect society and perfect sports including
football, but until then let us not abolish men
or society or sports.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
Anlusenents.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s-Ben-Hu-.
ALHAABRA- Vaudeville.
aston: 15-Genesee Of the Hills.
BELASCO-2-S :f5-The Rose 81 the Rancho
BERKELEY LYCEUM-S;31-The Reckoning.
BlJOJ-s. 20-All-of-e- sudden Peggy
BROADWAY-S:l0-I'he Partisan Model
COLJONIAfs-2-S-Eau
CPTTERION-S:I5-The Tattooed Man
DAILY SIS 15-The Belle Mayfair
EDEN MUSEE-The World IN Wax.
EMPIsE-S:25(--aptain links.
9ARRICK-S:3 0-Ca1gh IN the Rain.
HACKETT- Sofia Chorus Lady
HAhhERSTEINS VICTORTA-2:l5-S:lb -Neudevine.
HERALD SQUARE-S:I5-The Road to Yesterday.
HIPPODROME-2 Daughter and Pioneer
Days
ECDSOE-S:l5-Frewste Millions.
IRVING PTACE-s.2o-T3er PfarTer Kirchfeld.
KNICK ERROCKER-S:15-The Mil.
LIBERTY-s 15-Salomy
LINCOLN SQUARES: l5-fhsrley's Aunt.
LYCTUM-s i5-The Lion and the Mouse.
LYRIC-S-Jeanne dare.
MADISON SQUARES: 15-The Three Of Us.
MADISON SQUARE CARDEN-lO 3 m. TO IL 2. m
National Motor
8AJESTIC-s:15-On Parole.
MANHATTAN 15-The Girl and the Governor.
MASHATTAS OPERA FOT-SE-s-Figoletto-
METROPOLTTAN OPERA FOUSFS-s-Aanon Lescaut
NEW AMsTERDAM-s;15 Gynt.
NEW YORK :15-C5eorge Washington, Jr.
PFINCESG-s:20-The Great Divide.
sAVOY-ss1b-The Man the
TELHARMONTC HAIII-2-S-Electric music.
WALIACK' s-s;15-The Rich HoEgenheimer.
WEBER s-2-s:15-D Dream city and The Magic Knight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
DIVORCE STATISTICS.

The shaking of the bones in the national
skeleton closet has proceeded far enough to
furnish preliminary estimates Of the divorce
statistics 1t IS figured that for the twenty
year period from 1887 to 1906 the applications
filed for divorce throughout the country reached
the total of 100000, and probably on these
applications about 100000 divorces were
granted. In the twenty-year period from 1867
to 1886 the number of divorces secured was
32S,00O. That the growth in population does
not warrant such an increase in divorces is
shown by comparison of divorces to population
-33 divorces TO every 100000 of population
during the earlier period and 20 10 every
100000 during the later. Thus there has been
IN the last twenty years about twice as much
marital unhappiness, or, at any rate. twice as
many escapes from It. The figures are not
given in detail, but if the rate of divorce has
been progressive, 20 to 100000, which repre-
sents the average for twenty years, is prob
ably considerably lower than the rate for the
last two or three of the twenty years. Seventy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
TRADE WITH DEPENDENCIES.

The merry jest, beloved of the "antis" little
while ago, about the paucity Of our commerce
with our outlying possessions, appears to have
lost some of It's mirth provoking power We
used TO be told amid outlaws, that the only
trade we had or ever could, would or should have
with insular possessions that for the
supply of cur military garrsons there and it
was suggested, with irresistible humor, that 4
constant state of war should be maintained in
tie islands in order to require the presence of
large armies, and thus to stimulate our exports
thither.
It is quite different now. For example our
shipments to Porto Rico last year amounted to
| $22OO0OOO. Two years before they were only
Sa@GO000O. Ten years before. TO wit just be-
fore we acquired possession of the island they
, we're only 100000. An increase of nearly
600 per cent in ten years acts as a damper
upon that former mirth The fact that our
sales to that island are now greater than all It's
trHde in both directions with all the world n
few years ago inspires serious thought rather
than hilarious scQrn.
For obvious reasons our commerce with the
Philippines is not so great as with Porto Rice
one being that we have not yet free trade with
the former. as with the latter Yet our sales in
those islands last year were $7,O00OOO, against
S5OOOOO0 two years before and against only
100000 ten years ago An increase of more
than 1000 per cent in ten years really does not
impress hostile critics as quite so eXcruciatingy
ludicrous as something else might be-
1t may be observed that Porto Rico has a pop
ulaton Of about one million, wherefore its pur
chases from us are SD head That compares
very fayorably with Great Britain's purchases
which are only about $13 a head, while Ger
many's are only So a head. The Philippines have
100000 population, making their purchases
only 81 a head. But Frances are only 81 10
Italy's 81, Austria Hungary's 10 cents and Rus
sia's only cents.
! Whether therefore. we regard it positively OF
comparatively, our colonial trade is not so super
| lativey ridiculous as some of our keen witted
| jokesmiths recently affected to imagine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

divorces to every 10000 persons does not seem
prodigious number, but, of course, the true
basis for comparison is of divorces to marriages.
not to total population. The figures for MAKING
this comparison have not been published. IL
there has been a falling off In the marriage rate
while the divorce rate has been dOuDIng' Tue
increase becomes more Significant.
Chicago still leads the big cities Of the coun-
try as a divorce centre-that Is to say, with the
statistics for New York lacking; but it is hardly
to be believed that New York can compete Win
Chicago in that field 1t Is interesting TO nOte'
however that the increase Of divorce IN Chl-
cago has not kept pace with that IN the rest
of the country. This may be, of course De
cause Chicago had such a start on the rest or
the country, or it may mean that the rate OF
divorce does not tend to increase indefinitely
Chicago's rate in the earlier period was 70
and in the later 1O7. so that, while the rate
In the country In general has doubled, IN chi
cago it has increased only One-third. Boston
and Philadelphia have rates a little below the
average of the country in general, due, perhaps,
to the fairly strict divorce laws of Massacnu-
sets and Pennsylvania Boston's rate In the
earlier period was 30 and in the later period
60 Philadelphias rates were % and 63. VI
course, Boston and Philadelphia are not 80
much better than Chicago, for while Chicago
ans stay at home and get their divorces many
Bostonians and PhiladelphianS migrate for
theirs.
1t is said that the most astonishing feature
Of the statistics when they are complete VIII
be the growth Of the divorce habit IN rural DIS
trcts The cause of this change IN habits
where the simple life should prevail Is In the
opinion Of the census officials. "the fact that
1.-The farming community has become better IN
formed on the questions of divorce through
"reading sensational divorce proceedings in the
Getty papers, and that the husband and wife
now know Of an easy way to rid themselves
"of CALLING marital chains" 1t is another
instance of the urbanizing of life in the rural
districts Even in the matter of divorce 1t Is
hard to find 'hayseed" now!
The statistics when complete will be interest
ing and instructive, but we doubt if they Will
have much effect in leading the states to adopt
a uniform divorce law. A compromise between
South Carolina, with divorces on no grounds,
and South Dakota, with divorces on every con-
ceivable ground, will be hard to reach Mortu-
airy statistics have never put an end to death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
UroPIAN sPoRrs-FoB UTOPIA.

President ROosevelts common sense speech on
college sports was made where it should do most
good At Harvard University the fate of foot
ball is always trembling in the balance" All
intercollegiate contests, we are frequently as
sured, are more or less con probation" The
moral quality Of every sport is undergoing Sc
we're inquisition, and there are acute symptoms
indicating that some of the university authorities
are suffering in regard to athletics from what
the President calls inflammation of the con-
science" TO these precislans Mr.. Roosevelt says :
1 do not in the least object to a sport because
il IS rough.
Rowing. baseball lacrosse track and field
games. hockey, football, are all of them good
l emphatically disbeeve in seeing Harvard or
any other college turn out mollycoddes instead
of vigorous men.
The obviousness of these remarks is their
virtue, for obvious sense about college sports has
been in danger of being discredited Mr.. Roose-
Welt goes further:
It is to my mind simple nonsense. mere con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
SCIENCE CONFIRMED AND BAFFLED.

Every physicist will rejoice to hear that the
theory Of absolute zero has received a certain
confirmation from the spirit of Or. HodgsOn
late secretary Of the Society for PsychiCa Re
search. The revelations made to DR. Funk by
Dr. Hodgsons transmundane body have Just ap-
peared and contain assurances from the spirit
speaker that he is having a jolly time in the
"cool ethereal atmosphere
The physicist Is delighted to hear this. vet he
wants more exact reports from the Intersear
Weather Bureau. Is the ethereal atmosphere
really cool rs All below zero, Fahrenheit as
some theorists maintain? The question has more
than academic interest; its affirmative answer
would point toward a wide difference between the
standards of taste in Etherland and those in lis
vicinity. The difference is so great that il sug-
gests n most curiously constructed celestial ner-
vous system, which eXults in the delightful cool
ness Of Ali below zero while its frail human
counterpart shudders and shivers at 10 above.
The perpleXity Of working out good hypothesis
explaining the structure of such nervous sys-
TEN as DIR. HOdgsOn now possesses Is thrown
upon the metaphysical Psychologist, at whom the
physicist may now laugh with a selfsatisfed air
This breeze from the ether waiting DR.. Hodg-
sons voice thitherward through an obese me-
dunn has brought peace to the physicist but grief
TO his colleague.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

Mayor DUNES denomination may perhap s
give the country chance TO see how thor
oughly Chicago is determined upon municipal
ownership. His opponent VIII undoubtedly offer
immediate settlement Of the street railway
question In accordance with ordinances recently
passed by the Chicago Council. making a con-
tract with the traction companies very advan-
tageous to the city. Mayor Dunno will offer
further delays until municipal purchase is pos
sible However. the issue is complicated by
Mayor Dunne's outspoken stand for that popu-
lar policy. "a wide open town" He seems to
count for more support on this than on any
other ground.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
A RECEPTION AT HONOLULU.
Many Hawaiians Meet Japanese Officers al
Consulate.

Honolulu. Feb. IA reception was held al tbs
Japanese consulate to-day in honor OF Admiral
Tomioki and the officers Of the Japanese training
squadron now in this port Many leading citizens
OF Hawaii were present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
JAMES R. GARFIELD AT WATERFOWL

IBy Telegraph The Tribunel
Waterbury. Conn. Feb. 24-James r. Garfield.
Secretary of the Interior I'm town yesterday
and went to WATERFOWL last night the guest
OF Horace Taft of the Taft School. and addressed
the pupils
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

Down with the wastres," Is said to be the
great rallying cry in the municipal elections In
London. If anybody should raise It in this
country, he would drive the masses to the die
tonary. For our political language the people
do not go TO that source. but make new word
for the emergency. "Wastrels' has a fine book
ish sound. if it came out Of an historical novel
Compare It with graft" for Instance!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Maurice Campbell, Miss Henrietta Crosmans
manager. sailed for Europe Saturday 70 arrange
for her production of Pilgrims Progress next
season. Richard Strauss, the composer OF 'Sa-
lone" is expected to write the music for the pro
duction. Mr. Campbell has been in negotiation
with Strauss for some time Much OF the scenery
and many Of the properties being made abroad
It is said that three hundred people will be con-
cerned in the production not including laTss
orchestra
This Afternoon the first OF a special series on
three charity matinees will be given under ths
patronage OF Miss Margaret Ansiin at the Princess
Theatre with programme OF original songs anu
poems recited to music by Mrs Carrie JACOBS
Bond Mrs. Bond has been described "a James
Whitcomb Riley in petticOats." and this will be her
first public appearance in this city. The first tive
matinees for the Actors Church Alliance, ana
that on Wednesday for the benefit OF the Hahne-
mann Hospital.
Tomorrow afternoon little wOmen's matihoo
performance of THE Road to Yesterday VIII %
given at the Herald Square Theatre. All women
over nineteen and under feet inches In helsh'
will be admitted free.
James DuTkin. late leading man OF Chicagos en-
dowed New Theatre has obtained the LneV'-
Square Theatre, and viii assume control on Hsr sn
IL THE Wire Tappers.'' dramatization 6y ana
Davis OF book by Arthur Stringer, VIII %
nrst play
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention
wants Congress to appropriate another $4,000
ito defray the expenses Of establishing state
hood" Congress is more likely to think that the
craftsmanship so far exhibited by the Oklahoma
delegates comes too high at any price.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

The owners of a line of steamships which
carry mail and passengers from Holland to Eng
land recently asked the proper authorities to
equip the lghtships in the Thames with ap
paratus for transmitting fog signals through the
water. So eager was the transportation COM
pany which made the request to take advantage
Of the installation that it offered to pay the bill
if such action should be necessary. This was an
emphatic exhibition OF confidence in the merits
of the submarine system Of communication.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
mills. would probably expand vigorously II re-
ceipts came forward as desired.

1t can no longer be denied that higher educa-
ton has disastrous effects on railways. the
commuters who sleep in Hawthorne. bush
north of White Plains have confirmed this sad
fact beyond all dispute. Some thirty or these
unfortunates, waiting to take a train to the
scene of the accident last Saturday night, were
turned out OF the railway station by the assist
ant station agent. who, straghtway after the
election, seated himself near the station and did
merrily regale himself for four hours with the
strains of a mouth organ. while few miles to
the south friends and relatives Of the elected
were dying under the wreck. Before administer
ling tar and feathers the villagers should pause
and reflect that the young man was doubt
less moved TO emulate Nero. who fiddled while
Rome burned. This should exonerate him and
also serve warning to school boards against
the evils OF classical education. If we persist
in our mad course OF culture we shall force the
railways to hang Stradivarius in every station
that the classic mode Of gloating over catas-
trophies be not marred by the anachronism OF
mouth organ. With this possibility before them.
the corporations will doubtless take immediate
measures to divorce their employees from ancient
history-which will be well. for there is already
too much ancient history in our railway system
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25

Japhet In search of a father never got into so
many blind trails the Democratic party in its
present hunt for leader
The Dickinson press., 1907-02-02

migration to the state the past
two years has surpassed all esti-
mates and the railroads find them
selves entirely unable to handle
the increased business satisfactor-
lily.
We do not wish to falsify or
cover up regarding conditions in
this section, but it is only just to
North Dakota that the press of
the east cease giving our state a
black eye. In justice let eastern
papers turn their attention and
scare head lines to the exception
ally severe weather and accidents
therefrom all over the country; to
4o-below weather in the New Eng
land states; the hurricanes in Buff
falo; the floods in the south; loss
of stock in Canada and Montana;
fuel shortage in California and
Washington with coal $40 to $50 a
ton; lack of cars everywhere, and
let North Dakota pursue the even
tenor of her way until she surpass-
es all in wealth and prosperity.
The Dickinson press., 1907-02-02
MOTT NEWS.

Curry and Clifton Morris have lost
quite a few sheep recently from some
unknown cause.
Ira Hill from the Cedar TERRITORY
passed through here last week on his
way to Richardton.
David Helms. who lives five miles
north, is putting in a stock of goods and
fitting up a p%ostofice at his place.
The William H. Brown Land Co. re.
Gently purchased township 1868, which
is considered one of the best in Hettin-
ger county.
The citizens of. Richardton donated
quite freely to the county organization
fund, to defray the expenses of the del
egates to Bismarck.
James Wakefield was in Dickinson
last week but did not file on a claim as
he intended. He is planning to. 20 to
Idaho. where the winters are not so
severe.
DR.. w. B. Morris, Fred Dewey. 7. A,
Ulberg, Ed. Jones, Henry Barry and
Sherman Stansfeld were in Bismarck
last week to visit the legislature in the
interests of Hettinger county.
John Cudahay expects to commute on
his claim February IA and leave for his
home in Indiana. The werd Commute
does not have a pleasant ring to the e
pie OF Mott, who want to build up the
county.