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New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
.UORRI.S K. JESUP.

The often ouoted tribute TO the happy war
rior might we'll have an appropriate companion
piece in a no less earnest tribute TO the haply
citizen who has truly served his time ana place
in the ways of peace, philanthropy ana CIVIC
betterment. Amid all the encomiums which
will be deservedly pronounced upon the late
Norris n Jesup none can be more illuminating
and impressive, or more adequate, than the
mere recapitulation of those activities which so
largely filled his life and which were discrimi-
natingIv exercised not for selfish gain but for
the generous advancement of the welfare OF his
fellow men.
He was one of the founders of the Young
Mems Christian Association, which ranks
among the most beneficent organizations of its
kind in the world. He was one of the greatest
benefactors of the American Museum OF Natural
History. He president of The American
Sunday School Union, the Chamber of Com
merce of the State of New York, the Sailors
Snug Harbor, the Five Points House of In
dustrv the Peary Arctic Club and the Audubon
Society. and he was officially and most usefully
connected with the Union Theological Seminary,
the New York Institution for the instruction OF
the Deaf and Dumb, the General EducaIlon
Board, the John +. Slater Fund for Educaton
of the Freedmen the Peabody Educational
Fund the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals the City Mission and Tract Society,
the Half-Orphan Asylum, the Chrlstlan Con-
mission of Civil War times and the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund. He a benefactor Oh
Princeton University and Williams College. He
was patron of scientific researches IN various
Darts Of the world. He prominently asso-
ciated with the movement for the preservation
of the Adirondack forests and was one or the
commissioners who secured subway rapid transit
for New York. To enumerate all the 1nsutu-
tions and causes to which he ungrudglngly gave
time counsel or money would be to compile a
directory of benevolences and public works FOR
the last fifty years
The titles which we have mentioned indicate
the scope and variety Of his interests only
those who were privileged to know the man
can fully appreciate the earnestness and sin
certv with which he devoted himself to their
promotion For forty years of business In
dustry his name was a synonyme OF integrity
and in all that time and in the nearly twenty
five years since his retirement from business
but not from activity he was an exemplar OF
high manhood, of loyal friendship and OF pubic
spirited citizenship. He has passed away full
of wears and hOnors, with his faculties unm-
paired until the very end and with the COM
munitv about him enriched and adorned with
the fruits of his generous and enlightened
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.

Mr. BRYAN seems to have rushed in where a
warier politician would have feared to tread
when he appeared at Frankfort Ky, and
pleaded with the Democratic majority in the
Kentucky Legislature for the election of j. G.
w Beckham as United States Senator. 1t is
a bold outsider who interferes in family quar-
rel for, whatever else happens. the intruding
peacemaker is pretty certain TO come in for
more than his share Of knocks. Mr.. Bryan
evidently realized that he might get more blame
than gratitude for trying to allay domestic
strife for he referred to the possibility of his
Intervention costing him votes in the national
convention at Denver and even support later
at the polls. Yet with eyes open he chose to
risk the role of pacfcatOr in a state rent by
factiOnalism, which he lost in 1896 and carried
in 1900 by the slender plurality of S,09S.
The Nebraska leaders persistent devotion to
the fortunes of William Goebel and the odious
machine which GOebel organized has been not
a little surprising. He made speeches in Goe-
bels interest in the campaign of 1890, when all
decent sentiment in Kentucky was revolted
by GoebeIs burglariouS appropriation of the
Democratic nomination for Governor. He ap-
proved the reversal of the verdict given at the
polls that year by means OF arbitrary
count in the Legislature and commended the
seating of Beckham after GoebeIs assassina-
ton He remained true 10 the Beckham ad-
ministration in spite of the fact that under it
Kentuckv-to quote Colonel Watterson's solemn
fldgment-became "the worst governed state
i'm the Union" Only last fail he stnmped the
state in behalf of he Eeckha;E candidate for
Governor Mr.. Haser whom the voters de
feated chiefly as a rebuke to the machine which
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From The Tribune Buresu.J


yuosbington Ian 22-The President this after
noon received I'm the East Room the Delegates 10
the National Board of Trade who are IN con''"
ton here
Governor Curry of New Mexico introduce" ooto,l.O 49,
80 PenublicaD National Committeeman from
New Mextco and told the President that ne Is
urging New Mexico's admission to statehooo a' 'ne
present session of Congress
The Presidents calling list to-day ihciudeu 81 81
retary Taft. Attorney General BonapaIte' 80
-, D,rLa+t CLAIM Rourne and William Alden
smith Representatives Bennett. Fassett' Driscoii'
Haves. Marshall, French and Wilson, the NoiiiiiiS
soner of Labor. Charles p. Neil; captain Dalil1l
Moore a former Rough Rider: Mr.. ana Nirs- I's'.p ~
pulitzer of New York; Clifford P1nchot' 'uose
(,or0a CRAY of Delaware; the Commissioner Oh
CORPORATIONS. Herbert Knox Smith, and the Coh-
r,issioner General of immigration, Frank T. sar-
gent.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
| plague. If all rats were DESTROYED those pesti-

plague. If all rats were destroyed those pesti-
Iences would vanish from the world.
1t will be a big job TO exterminate them.
Zuschlag the discoverer of the rat origin OF
trichinosis, estimates that in Great BRITAIN
there are more than forty million rats or at
least as many as there are human beings, ana
that they consume in grain, poultry ana other
valuable objects as much as S20O,O00 worth
day! 1t is probable that they exist in proper
tionately great numbers in all countries. Mere
over. they are among the most prolific of ami
mails a single pair producing eight hundred
descendants in a year. Yet in Rio de Janelro
more rats have been slaughtered than there
were human beings In the city, and if that
could be done there it can surely be done else
where 1t has been found possible to get rid
of mosquitoes in places once densely infested
with them. and the determination OF some kihus
of birds and other animals has been practically
effected without intending it. The desirabllty
of extirpating rats is so great that we cannot
doubt the possibility of efectng the task
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
A REPUBLICAN SLATE.
or Of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Ir1bune-
Sir: Here is a Republican slate which havs
thoughtfUIly worked out VIII you let me Pro-
pound 1t to your readers2
First-EIect Secretary Taft President next No
yember.
Second-Re-eIect Governor Hughes By a rousing
majority to the place he has SO well filed This
will give him q very strong national standing
Thfrd-Elect Roosevelt and Hughes United States
Senators from New York and ask the other states
to match them
Fourth-EIect Governor Hughes President Ta1rs
successor in due order of time
AS l cross my Us and dot my Is and wipe my pen
and close the fnkstand read my slate with salts
factIon-a slate honorable to glorious country
and worthy of the submerged Empire State G
East Orange, n. J., Jan q. 1908.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
CHARLES EMORY SMITH BURIED.
Funeral in Philadelphia Attended by Men
Prominent in Many Walks of Life.

Philadelphia, Jan. 22.-Attended by men pronl-
nant In all walks of life, the funeral Of Charles
p,,,orv Smith former Postmaster General. diplO-
mat and editor of THE Philadelphia Press" took
nIace at noon to-day Services were held at his
late home the Rev. John Sparhawk Jones. pas
tor of Calvary Presbyterian Church otclatlng-
The burial, which was private, topk place In west
laurel Hill Cemetery, in this city.
The honorary pallbearers were Postmaster Gen
eral George L. Won Meyer who represented Presi-
dent Roosevelt; Senator Knox. John W. Griggs.
former United States Attorney General; John
wanamaker former Postmaster General; William
potter former United States Minister to Italy:
Samuel r. Thayer, Philadelphia: Charles A. Pea
bodv New York; F. w. Aver, Philadelphia; j.
Wesley Miller of the Masonic lodge of which Mr..
Smith was n member. and Benjamin G. Wells and
Samuel c. Wells, of THE Press
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

the Columbians have much to learn in the art
of debating if, as they confess, their feminine
rival would have them at disadvantage Ihey
say an apology would have to be offered every
time masculine logician tried to answer her
argument; but this shows clearly that the
young gentlemen have not yet mastered the
trick of using an apology as an argument Inc
panic on Morningside Heights may not prove
the superiority of co-education but IL GER
tainly does confirm the fear that debater
trained only in masculine logic and persuasive
ness is no better equipped for real combats
than battleshp would be with all her armor
and guns on the starboard side. denater
afraid of a woman is an academic creature'
of hoct
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

Fire Commissioner Lantry's testimony yester-
day showed that the same tenderness was prac-
tised toward hose dealers as toward paving
companies in regard to enforcing their guar
antees of wearing qualities. The firms had not
replaced the hose it burst, which may be one
reason for the hose shortage OF which he COM
planned. Their sureties, he testified, had been
informed Of this failure. and there the matter
ended. That is the usual way. No one fears g.
suit by the city on a guarantee of hose or pave
ment. for the city has too many suits pigeon
ho1ed in which it is plaintiff or defendant ever
to be likely legally to enforce its claim. When
the municipality pays for a guarantee OF wear
ing qualities II is usually throwing money
away.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
TAFT AT NJ. YALE ALUMNI DINNER
Secretary To Be One of Speakers at East
Orange Tomorrow Night.

The twenty-ffth annual dinner OF the Yale Alum
nj Association OF Essex County viii be held az
the Wonan's Club Building, East Orange. n j..
Tomorrow night. Assembiynan Austen Colgate,
president of the association. will be toastnnaster-
The speakers will include Secretary Taft. Governor
Fort Professor William L. Phelps and John O..
HeaId. the last named Of the founders Of the
association.
A quartet from the University Glee Club viii
lead the singing, which will include the new foot
ball songs and the melodies Of the old Fence days
The committee In charge OF the dinner is made up
of William A. Barstow. '99; Laurence Tweedy. ~;
Albert H. Atha. 's9. and Ellis Adams, 02. The
dinner will begin at o'clock
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
ADDRESSES BY FRENCH AMBASSADOR.

Washington. jan 22-Ambassador Jusserand. OF
France, Is scheduled 10 make three addresses n
the near future. Two OF these will be In New YORK
City and the other at Grand Rapids. Mich On
January .. at a meeting OF the Automobile C'uo
In New York city. the ambassador will respond %
the toast. France the Mother OF Automobiles
Three days later he is to speak the occasion q
the presentation of a medal TO Mayor Georss
Mcclellan. In appreciation OF his efforts towaso
oeautirying New York City. at which American
architects who have studied in France VIII %
present and on FebrIary Y NJ Jusserand WI.
make an address on Abraham IincoIn al Grsno
Rapids. Mich
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
About People and S0cfoi 1ncfdenfs.
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs. John r. DrexeI gives dinner dance to-
night at her house in East SD street for her three
nieces, Miss Margaretta Drexel. daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Anthony DrexeI; Miss Mary Astor Paul
daughter OF the late Mrs. James w. Paul. IT, wbo
was Miss Fanny DrexeI and Miss Frances
Fell. daughter OF Mrs Alexander Van Rensselaer,
by her first marriage Mrs Van Rensselaer, wa.
formerly Miss SaIIie DrexeI. sister OF John and
of Anthony DrexeL
At sherry's the last OF the dances OF the second
Cinderella Cotillon will take place this evening
Mrs william C.. Guliver. Mrs. Lewis Cass Led
yard Mrs. Oliver G. Jennings. Mrs. Edward III
Ripley and Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn win rs-
ceive the guests The cotiiion viii begin al 10
o'clock and supper will be served at midnight
Mrs Richard s. Dana gives a large dinner To-
night at her house in Fifth avenue for Mis-,
Georgette Collier. the hancee Of her son. David
Dana Miss Collier IS a daughter Of Mrs NJ
Dwight Collier.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt arrive her,
to-day from Washington. and win be the gusst,
of Mr.. and Mrs. H NICK TwombIy at their ho,l-s
in Fifth avenue until the middle Of next week
The object Of their visit Is to attend the wedding
of their niece. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, TO Count
Szechenyi on Monday next
The Austrian Ambassador and the Baroness Hen
gelmiiIler are expected to-day IN New York for
the week end. and will stay with Mr.. and Mrs
William Douglas Sloane. who give a dance to-
morrow night at their house IN West I'D street.
The dance is for their niece. Miss Emily Sloane.
younger daughter Of Henry I. Sloane. and ous af
the debutantes Of the season
Mr. and Mrs J. Bruce Ismay sail to-day from
Liverpool for New York TO stay with Mrs. Gustav
An1sinck
Mrs. George r. Sheldon, who has been abroad
since early In the fall Is likewise sailing FOR hors
to-day.
Among the many dinners Of last night were thoss
given by Mrs Frederic J. de Peyster at her house
in East s6th street and by Mrs Henry Cleus az
her home in Fifth avenue Mrs. Clews aftsrwsrd
took her guests to the Metropolitan Opera
Mrs Stephen Whitney Is spending tbs viats- as
No. $40 Madison avenue
Mr. and Mrs Frederick c. Haverneysr are AZ
their house in East s7th street for the rerafnae,
Of the season
Mr. and Mrs. John Waterbury have arrived az
the Gotham for the season
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
CAT CAME BACK FROM ENGLAND.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: read in your paper OF a cat which walked
10 miles from Jersey City to her former home n
Coxsackie- I tell OF a more wonderful feat
performed by cat which was not wanted in ny
household. I sent It TO Liverpool IN care OF pas
senger on ocean steamer. In about three weeks
or less the cat found one morning demurely
sitting by my kitchen fire. blinking and winkins
as IL to say, Il know n good place when fRd tt
did not send her away after that l. VI. G.
New York. Jan. q 1903
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
A NAVAL WEDDING

Annapolis. Jan. 22.-Miss Ethel Cowie daughter
of Pay Inspector Thomas ]. Cowie, u s. NJ was
married here this afternoon to Passed Assistant
Surgeon Robert E. Ledhetter. U. s. N The maid
OF honor was MISS Grace l. Howard, daughter of
Captain T. B. Howard, u s NJ and the hest man
was Lieutenant Commander John F. Doddr,dsa
The ceremony was performed by Chaplain G. l.
Rayard, u. s. y.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
LOUVRE ENeRAvINes FOR Y. M. C. A.

On behalf of his government, L. BonzOm, French
Consult at New York. presented eight additional
cravings from the Louvre Paris, to the French
branch of the Young Mems Christian Association
at No 10s West 54th street last night. 1t an
acknowledgment by the French government of eff
fective work done by the association. It's member
ship having doubled since moving into its present
quarters three years ago. Although the French
branch is an integral part OF the Young Mems
Christian Association this country, the Minister
of Public instruction in France has frequently
recognized by suitable gifts the useful work that
has been carried on for nineteen years.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
THE EAGLE" BOLTS BRYAN
M The Brooklyn Ea Sle.

From The Brooklyn Eagle
'The Eagle will net abide by the action or tba
Denver convention IL that BODY has anIS Ervar
left in it. Bryan Is not a Democrat and Bryanism
is not Democracy. The Denver convention will
emily will not do in order to revive or even 10 re-
galvanize, Democracy, as ''The Eagle
it. That which opposes Bryan or BrvaniSn ia bis Ms
torically morally and logically more Dsrnocrat 81.
than Organism in any form Those Uho sto,s S
Democracy as II was represent the Democrarv that
should be. They Will oppose a so-called Demor@
infused with Bryan RryanlSm and I-tu
oppose 1t to the end. and they will abide the
chances OF their opposition, well assured of tha
support of their consciences and of their country
men.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
KARL MUCK TO LEAVE ORCHESTRA.
Boston Symphony Management Unable TO
Secure His Further Leave of Absence.

Boston. Jan. Pit was announced tonight 'na'
DR. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston symphony
Orchestra will not remain with the orchestra a1ter
the present season. owing TO MS duties IN n0ili-
The announcement, g made by C. A EAis' man
ager of the Symphony Orchestra is as follows;
Curing 70 its inability to secure for him further
leave Of absence from his duties in berLn, the
roana cement OF the Bosom Symphony Orchestra
with much regret announce that DR.: Kari Muck
viii sever his connection with the orchestra at the
end of the present season NO arrangements Aoh
his have been made
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

AS an orator the Hon. John Wesley Gaines
properly scorns to be coerced by the blue laws
of logic. He took up hour and half or the
time of the House of Representatives the other
day arguing that the House ought not TO indulge
in oratory. but should stick strictly and abso-
lutely to the legislative business before it. He
failed naturally to say anything about the meas
ure then pending-a bill to provide for the erec-
ton of a new immigrant station at the Port of
Philadelphia
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
GERMAN CHARITY BALL TONIGHT.

The eighteenth annual German Charity Ball. ur-
der the auspices Of the Bachelor Circle OF the Ger
man Liederkranz, Jung Arion and Beethoven Bach
elors. will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight
The proceeds of the preceding seventeen balls
amounting to s62.ooo distributed among Ger
man charitable institutions In New York The ball
will be opened at 1880 o'clock by Christian G.
Hdpfel who. with Mrs. E. c. Schaefer. will lead
grand
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

IBy Telegraph to The Tribunal
Neyport R l. Jan. Z2--Alfred G. Vanderbilt
returned to Oakland Farm from New York this
morning.
Mrs Hugh K Norman fs visiting Ms and Mira
William P. Hunter.
Mr.. and Mrs. H Casimir De Rham are tbs
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. LorfI1ard Spencer.
t. Shaw Safe. who has been visiting In New
York has returned to Newport
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington Jan. 22-The Ambassador from ~
trta- Hungary and Baroness HenseiihuIvl 81 a.,
- ~ Wi, +o attend the wedding of Miss Gladys
v.rderbiIt and Count Szechenyi next week
MIR. Kroupensky counsellor. and ComInanosl w
bolsine naval attache of the Russian EMBASSY
have gone to New York t" remain for seNeiS ~, ~
Lieutenant Commander de Blanpre' h' N r,astIu
80 tho FRENCH Embassy, has returned to Washing
ton from New York.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

This newspaper IS Oroned and published oV
The Tyibun. Association, q Neo York corpora
t;ou. office and principal place Of business. Trib
0ae Building, No. I54 Nassau street, Nefo fo'E'
Ogden Mails, president; NGthdHiel Iaff'e' sec
retary and treasurer. The address OF fhe 0NE
Gers is the Office Of this newspaper
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
ROCKEFELLER FAMILY IN GEORGIA.

Augusta Ga, JAM 22-John d. Rockefeller and
family arrived here to-day, to remain throughout
tho winter season Mr.. Rockefeller expects to de-
vote much OF his time to golf
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
BIITMORE VERDICT SET ASIDE

IBy Telegraph to The TribuneI
AsheviIle, n. c., Jan. 22.-The verdict against
George W. Vanderbilt in his against J. Frank
Mccall, who Vanderbilt alleged had "sQuatted' on
his land and built house and barns, has been set
aside by Federal Judge Boyd and new trial
ordered
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

The excuse given for postponing the much
heralded anti-Bryan conference at the Waldorf
Astoria, that the convention is still too far
ahead betrays extraordinary political innocence.
The time for candidates friends to organize
and act Is before the delegates are chosen and
before the politicians in the various states begin
to make their alliances and arrangements. The
action of most national conventions nowadays
is decided months before they actually meet.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

1.-The Eagle will not abide by the action of the
Denver convention II that body has any Bryanism
left in it. Bryan is not Democrat and Organism
is not Democracy.-The Brooklyn Eagle.
We congratulate "The Eagle on its leader
ship 1t is positively the first in the field with
n bolt
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
Nesp1 1lnrk DAILY GsIbns1e

THURSDAY, JANUARY %. 1908.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

Mrs. Richard s. Dana gives a large dinner TO-
night at her house in Fifth avenue for Mis-,
Georgette Collier. the hancee Of her son. David 7
Dana Miss Collier Is daughter Of NIrz NJ
Dwight Collier.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

Mr. and Mrs. John Waterbury have arrived at
the Gotham for the season
New-York tribune., 1908-01-23

Mrs. George r Sheldon, who has been abroad
since early In the fall IS likewise sailing FOR hons
to-day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-04-24

Some one has figured out that it costs
on the average only one-half as much
to feed a horse as it does to feed a
man; and that the horse will do ten
times the amount of work that it is
possible for the man to do. If this
estimate is correct, then a dollars
worth of food given the horse will pro-
duce twenty times as much results as
the same amount of money will II ex-
pended in feed for a man. Therefore,
when man domesticated the horse he
immensely increased his own power of
securing results. When much farm work
is to be done there should always be
enough horses to do it. Farmers try
to economic on the number of horses
and have to leave much work undone
In the event of hired help being scarce.
it is sometimes possible to offset this
lack by increasing the number of horses
kept. In some parts of the West and
Northwest, declares the Farmers Re-
view, the scarcity of help has resulted
in more horses being used. Five are
hitched to a double pillow, and one driv-
er is thus enabled to turn two burrows
at a time and practically double the
work that one man has to do This is
the result of the complete utilization of
hOrSeheSh
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-04-24
Measuring Land by Weight.

The area of any piece of land, no
matter how irregular the boundary
lines, may be accurately ascertained by
means of delicate balance as follows
Make a drawing of the plat Of ground
on pasteboard to a given scale, say
square rods to / inch. Cut from some
part of the sheet of pasteboard a piece
exactly l inch square, which repre-
SCENTS one acre, or square rods. Also
cut out the plat as drawn Weigh the
square and the plat. The number of
times the weight Of the square is con-
tanned in the weight of the plat indi
Gates the area Of the land. For exam
pie, if the square which represents one
acre weighs 20 grains, and the plat
weighs 24O grains, then the plat con-
tains twelve acres--Scientitic Ameri-
can.