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New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

FOR QUICK, INEXPENSIVE
LUNCH 60 to the Dairy Luncheon
Room. on Third Floor-an innova-
tion-most delicious dairy dishes At
1oc- and up. Soups. salads. sand
witches. &c. Served at TABLES.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

See the potter turning out crea-
tions in clay-like scientific mud pie
making-but that's the way pottery
is made o-day. And the GLASS
BLOWER is also at work-as well
as the decorator of the beautiful Bo-
hen1ian glase ware. In fact, the base
ment is veritable worlds fair.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

Kinds Of dainty effective
Produced by the Arnold
sale price. &c. a yard
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
BROOKLYN SOCIAL CHAT
Engagements, Headings and Social
Notes of the Borough.

The engagement is announced OF Miss Mary Mon
tague Howard and Adophe De Blois Caron. Miss
Howard is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Marvin Howard of No 22S Lincoln Place and a
sister of Mrs. Alfred Ludlow Ferguson Of Man
haitian. Her fance is the son of Lady and the late
Hon. Adophe Caron, K. c. NJ. G., of Ottawa.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

Fancy Strip
Neat white dots and
black. Produced by
Works to retail at ~,
&c. a yard.
EDbwa
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

OF interest in Fatbush will be the wedding on
Wednesday, June Il. of Mrs Marie Corbett and F,
Noble Wiley. Miss Frances Rubens will be her
sisters maid Of honor and only attendant. and
James Wiley Will he his brothers best man
Holy Cross Church viii he the scene of the cere-
mony, and the reception following will be small
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

Miss Marie A Almirall recently the hoste
at a small bridge. HeI guests were Mrs. Walt
ST John Benedict Mrs. Edward Lowndes Rhet
Mrs Philip Hanson Hiss. Mrs. Raymond F. A
mrall Mrs. Sylvester Blood. Mrs. William
Good Miss Jennie Hinman. Miss Adelaide Chau
cey Mrs. Irving T. Smith Mrs. Walter H Ri
man, Mrs. Charles Osborn, Mrs. John c. NJ
Keon and Mrs. Fox. The prizes were importt
hand carved ivory parasol handles.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
STORE NEWS

We are making cut glass in the
Alcove Room, subway floor, rear,
Central Building. See the expert
cutters at work.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

PRINTED SILK AND
colors. Produced bI
yard. sale price, SC.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

The engagement is announced of Miss Isabel
Mcclure and William French Smith, of NJ
and Mrs. Allan c. Smith, of 81 Second Place. Mis-
Mcclure is the daughter of the late Mr.. and Mr.
John NJ. Mcclure. of Hancock street and Twiligf
Park in the CatSkils.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22

of course more precisely TO the lower COURTS
but these very oIes are the courts first known
and best known by the vast majority OF citizens.
Another factor. equally potent among natives
End immigrants, is irregion. Along with the
weakening allegiance to the Church has appeared
a failing moral sense. TO which all the reform
waves of the last decade should not blind us.
Again the slow and uncertain justice worked 10y
our courts makes perjury less dangerous than II
should be. Technical bubbles, evasIons ana
scandalous delays all notorious among the
masses. foster the belief that little eoacl-
ing and clever shsster insure immunity
agains. the legal penalties of prevarica-
tiop Finally. be it said with sorrow,
many Americans feel that going TO court is
game and nothing more. for, they say, the lower
courts are filled by politicians, with politicians
and for politicians while the name OF unscru-
pulous lawyers who will stop at nothing to peat
even an honest opponent is legion.
Some of these factors cannot be changed by
legislation. But psrjurers could be greatly DIS
couraged by the establishment Of strictly non
political tribunals by the expulsion of disreputa-
BILE lawyers and by maintaining more rigorous
and solemn formalities. especially in the lower
courts. AS for the deeper causes of perjury,
slow education and hard experience alone can
eradicate them
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
TFrou, The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington March 21.-Baroness Hensehnuiier
wife of the Austrian Ambassador, is convaieseeh'
and gradually taking up her social duties after an
Illness of several weeks The ambassador ana 'ii7
baroness will entertain a small dinner party W
night.
The Persian New Year was celebrated AT 'h0
Persian Legation tonight, General Morteza hnah'
the minister inviting d large numoer OF guests
for a reception. Many traditions of his nome were
observed and sweets, viands and beverages Pc
c,.liar to the country were served Generai MOT
texas receptions and teas are always unique anu
interesting and call together the scholars OF WASH"
inetou as we'll as the people in society
Emmanuel Havenith. Belgian Minister 70 PERSIA
who will leave this country after several years
of duty as counsellor of the legation. immedia'ey
after his marriage on next Thursday to Miss Heieh
T-foulke will be entertained at large dinner al
the METROPOLITAN Club tomorrow nlShl oS hi'
colleagues of the diplomatic corps
The Peruvian Minister and Nine fafuo' WIZ
we're in Philadelphia yesterday. have returned 10
the capital and will go to New York to-morro" IcI
a short visit.
Sonora and senorta CaIvo, wife and daughter OF
.he Costa Rican Minister, who have spent 'le VIII
Ter in their native land. will start next week "
ioin the minister at the legation mere
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
LESSONS OF FLOOD AND DROUTH

The season of floods is here again. with null
tiplied and increasing reports of danger dis
| aster and loss. Thus at Pittsburg, while there
fs a feeling of profound relief because the food
is not so great as was feared we are told that
the loss is enormous. scores of industrial plants
are submerged and tens of thousands OF work
men are idle Other large cities are suffering
or are menaced. smaller communities are raw
aged and rural lands and property beyond COM
mutation are devastated. A few months hence
the same regions will be suffering drouth. Com
merce on the rivers will be suspended or i'm
peded because Of low water and smaller
streams will be dried UP or so shlunken as to
be worthless. Where a century aAo the reser-
roirs of nature maintained fairly equable
flow the wear around there are now violent and
disastrous alterations Of flood and dfouth. II
has been so for years it is getting worse with
every new wear. and it will continue to get
worse until the states and the nation adopt ii
policy worthy of rational beings capable OF
learning from observation and experience
There are those who affect TO oppose the ere
alton of forest reserves in the White and Ap-
palachian mountains because of the enormous
expense involved. 1t would cost millions OF
dollars. no doubt MOnstrous. Yet IL is est
mated by competent authorities that manu-
featuring and other establishments last year
suffered losses of more than S100O00Oo from
floods. the greater part OF Whlch could nave
been prevented 1t is not TO be supposed that
ali freshets and foods all drouths could be
prevented by any system of forestry. but il is
perfectly certain that a considerable part OF
them could be. 1t is well within bounds Of
credibilItv that the floods and droutlls which
could thus be prevented cause each year many
times more than the cost OF creating the forest
reserves which would prevent them. If loss
of slO0OOOO00 year can be reduced one-half.
or even one-tenth, by single expenditure of
$4,000 600 common business sense would seem
TO indicate the latter as singuiarly desirable
and profitable investment.
Bills are now pending before Congress for the
creation Of White Mountain md Appalachian
| forest reserves. They have been pendpg for
a long time. to the dscredif Of those responsible
| for the delay. They are strongly favored by all
who regard the subject with intelligence and
discretion. Their passage is earnestly urged
/ 10y public spirited men and by civic, CONNER
ciai and industrial organizations. They ought
( 10 be enacted at once. Delay s trebly foolish
for il means yearly recurrence of losses far
| greater than the possible cost of the work. an
! increased cost of the work itself. and increased
difficulties in the effective performance of il
! The prudent rational and economical policy is
that recently set forth by the National Associa
ton of Manufacturers in memorial declaring
that the necessary legislation should he I'm
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
AT the WHITE HOUSE.
IFrom The Tribune bureau

yy.sbineton March g.-The President heia g
osar.nco to-day with Senator Aldrich ana rep
resentatives Payne and Dazell at "hich e..-os .io
isative programme for this session OF Oo"e
discussed =, -. .be
Representative SABBATH OF ihinois' p'"ue s,,;e,
president a netition of forty thousand Slavoniah
citizens anxious for the release of FRANK foiH'.
evic OF Chicago confined in prison at rids u
for singing a song prohibited by the goVe'hLne". -
President Roosevelt gave the last sitting ioi ~
portrat Philip Iaszlv Il Hungarian artst' IS paint
,ng for Colonel Arthur Lee formerly British mli-
itary attache Washington
White House callers included Senators warren
Dick La Toilette. McEnery. McCumbeT oFeriisi
and Eeveridge. Representatives Ranseeu' ~t''u''7- ~
Bennett Hill Butler Hepburn, Smith, OF Mlchsoi'
and Brick Delegate Gale, Mayor Streceley, OF Lon
don Ont, and George Hackenschmids the RUSSIAN
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
MIR. ROCKEFELLER LIKES AUGUSTA
Will Leave Georgia Tomorrow for Stay IN
Virginia Before Returning TO New YORK

Augusta Ga March 2f--John y. Rockefeller
will leave Augusta Monday for Richmond a.
where he will remain week o. ten days Fron
Richmond he will go Hot Springs. Va. toF q
month or six weeks, and from that place VII pi'-
cecd 10 New York
MIR RockefeIler's party has reserved acconn'oa-
tions on one of the regular Pululans OF tne ~
Iantic Coast Line Mr.. and Mrs Rockefeller. H'''
Miss Mathilde Mccormick and John Hs-uer' pT
vate secretary. will be in the party.
In an interview Mr.. Rockefeller said lie VouId "
turn 10 Augusta next season. As Nr. Rockefeller
secretary expressed IL. ne has not been tFea'sa
here as a horned devil. but human Beng a-a
A gentleman During his stay here he has pasS7'
most OF his days playing golf and touring t1e 0V1
try in his electric automobile Prominent aIlon.
men with whom Mr. RockefeIIer assocists'
while here Mayor Rcllo Wells or - LOU
John D. Crmmins Of New York; John T. McpVU
old of New York; William J. Oliver. the coh'IA0
tor Robert Lincoln and Isaac y SeliSnian
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Fortunately the opera season still continues at
the Manhattan and at the Metropolitan For it is
ONLY hy means of these houses. and especially OF
the parterre row of the older of these two tenn
pies of lyric drama that one is able TO keep track
of the comngs and Soings of society. The boxes
present brilliant an appearance as ever on each
subscription night at the Metropolitan but there
have been so many departures for Europe. for the
West Indies or summer resorts in the South
ern States "A to have rendered il necessary
abandon number Of taoleau-vivant entertain
nents that had been planned for the benefit of
popular charities 1t is not that there any
doubt as to the response these demands on the
good will and generosity of the fashionable world.
In fact at last living picture show given a
the Colony Club. in behalf of the Sister Catherine
Home for Young Girls, the demand for tickets
so great that the house could have been sold three
times But II is the performers who are miss
ing, has been found necessary postpone
all further affairs of this kind until the fall \
of this particular spring, however, is that
those who leave town do remain long absent
and instead of their stay in SUMMER clnes
tending from end of January until Easter. as
has been the in past years it seldom
lasts more than ten days or fortnight. In fact,
New York seems TO possess an irresistible attrac-
ton. which has the effect of binding its citizens
to any drawback OF climate aud cause them
10 become afflicted with either ennui homescl-
as ever they have been away for
more than two weeks or so. There have been ntI-
merous visits Jamaica. Havana to Bermuda
and the various winter of Florida. of
Georgia and of North and South Carolina. But TIN,
visits have rarely extended beyond two or three
weeks the most, and people have sooner gone
than they back again.
Owing to this. Lent is exceptionally brilliant from
social point of view. and the avenue is thronged
every fine afternoon with motors and carriages
containing members of the fashionable set and pre-
a very animated aspect. while at Sherry's
at the Plaza, at the St Regis and the Waldorf
crowds of women foregather after 4 o'clock around
the tea tables to listen the music.
Tomorrow afternoon. however the rendezvous at
o'clock VIII be in the Church of ST. James's in
Madison avenue. for the wedding of Miss Julia
Fish to William L. Breese. of the late William
l.. Breese, His stcpfather and mother Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry V. Higgins. have arrived here from
England To be present at the ceremony and are
staying at the Hotel Belmont Mrs. Higgins Was
Miss Marie Parsons. of Columbus. Ohio. and is a
sister of the widowed Princess Lynar OF Prussia
while Henry v Higgins. G. V o. formerly an Off
of the ist Life Guards. but now a London law
yer. is the moving spirit and president of the Gov
New York and a Of Jacob Omnlum of .'rb,
London Times. Neither Lady Willoughby ,i'Er.s-
by nor Lady Alastair Innes- Ker. daughters of Mrs
Higgins BY her first marriage. have ACCOMPANIED
her To New York. hut Cecil Higgins has come q,
America TO oiciate as best his half brother
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
THE CABINET.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau ]

TFrorn The Tribune Bureau-l
Nashtueton March 2I.-The Secretary or otaee
and Mrs Root who have been visiting Boston ana
New York will return TO Washington Oh -ioii'o'
morning While in Massachusetts, they were 'l0
guests of their son-in-aw and daughter i-ie~'eN
ant and Mrs. l. s. Grant Cd
The Secretary of War and Mrs Taft are enter
tanning for a day or two Mr.. and MIS- CHar''S
Taft of Cincinnati.
The Postmaster General and Mrs. Meyer enter
tanned at dinner tonight for Baron f'osen' 'io
Russian Ambassador. Their other guests
Senator and Mrs Burrows Senator Wstnore' -iiSS
Vetrnore, Senator Aldrich, Senator Branoeeee. .lS
Swiss Minister, the Spanish Minister Mrs. NC
H Townsend Mrs. Robert W. Patterson. Rear 40
r1jraI and Mrs. Cowles. Mr. and Mrs flefIe L1in N
lard Mrs Nickerson, Miss Tuckerman MISS rat
ten and Walter Berry.
Mrs MetcaIf. wife of the Secretary OF the Navy
riI; leave Washington tomorrow accompanied oS
Mrs Boules of California, VINO mas oeeh H'-
house guest for some time They viii go 10 oah
land CAL where Mrs Metcalf will join her soi'
who is ill Miss Amy Bowles. who came from ne'
school in New York for ten days pislC u 1ii.
Secretary and Mrs Metcalf, will return 10 schooi
tomorrow. while her brother Will remain hei<
as the guest of Secretary Metcalf
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
From The Tribune Bureau ]


Washington March H.-The British Arnodssdooi
and Mrs Rrvce were the guests of honor at d oii'-
ner tonight with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. GrosNe-
NOR as hosts Among those invited 10 meet '40i''
were Mr. and Mrs John ". Foster Dr ana MT
George NJ Boiling Professor and Mrs Aiexahuer
Graham Bell Mrs. Gardiner Hubb3rd- MISS Bodtu-
man William Jackson and Mr.. Cochran
Senator and Mrs Foraker were hosts at d dinner
tonight in honor of Miss Helen Ffoulke and En-
manuel Favenith. To meet them we're the Belgian
Minister and Baroness Moncheur, the German
Naval Attache and Frau HebbinShaus, MI ana
Mrs McClintock Mr.. and Mrs. Henry spencer
Miss Daisy Pierson of New York; Miss Lowering
Miss Harriet Norris. Miss Anna Cochreli MISS
Emily Bacon Miss Foraker, Representative Butter
Ames Mr. Won Schubert. German attache; Colone4
B1omwelI Frederick Brooke Henry Du PoHt, fred-
erick Huidekoper and Benson Foraker.
Miss Evelyn Walsh entertained Miss Ffoulke ard
Mr. Havenith at dinner last night
Miss Juliette Williams and Miss Grace Jarvis
have gone TO Lakewood to stay for the next week
two.
Miss Helen Cannon, daughter Of the Speaker, Will
go to the Virginia Hot Springs on Tuesday TO
make her usual spring visit OF three weeks. The
Speaker and Miss Cannon will entertain a small
dinner PARTY tomorrow night
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
GREAT BRITAIN tND GERMANY.

Our London correspondent appropriately &C.
scribes the recent fuss over the German En-
peror's letter TO Lord Tweedmouth as tenn
pest in a teapot. That is just about What 1t
WIS considered from a point of view WDich
regards its intrinsic merits But OF course
tempest in a teapot may have regrettable eX-
ternaI effects and so might this have had. as
we pointed out at the beginning. I'D 1oihehtihs
i'll feeling and suspicion between the two
countries. Happily there now seems to be no
danger of that There is nothing which Eng
lishmen dread and try to avoid more than
being made to appear ridiculous. and LOrd
Rosebery's iudicious warning that there was
danger of their actually making themselves
so if they kept the teapot boiling doubtless had
not a little to do with the prompt dropping or
the whole matter.
But there was and is something more. The
phrase which Bonaparte quoted from Samuel
Adams affords the key TO the Anglo-German
situation on both sides England does not re-
sent being regarded as a nation of shopkeepers'
which is an epigrammatic way Of saying that
she is the greatest Industrial and commercial
mower in the world Nor does Germany OBJ
iect to the same appellatiOn. On the contrary
she has been doing her utmost for many years
to deserve and to secure the distinction Of
course a shopkeeper may keep big stick be
hind the counter and big dog in the kennel
al The rear Of the shop. But those are for the
shops security The shop does not exist for
them And So with ali their armies and
navies and the purpose of the one TO remain
ahead of all the world in sea power. and the
ambition of the other to rise at least TO second
pIace the first deliberate and iudcious thought
must be given to the shop. and every thought
that is given TO the shop is thought for peace
In the decade 1SS1-96 commerce between
the two countries aggregated S2S2o0Oo0oO and
in the succeeding decade 1S9i-l906, it rose TO
So 472 500 OO0-an increase of 23 per cent Great
Britain sells considerably more to Germany
than to any other foreign country i'll the world,
and Germany sells about twice as much to
Great Britain as TO any other nation in the
world Those are the fundamental facts which
appeal with irresistible force to the hard
headed. practical men of both countries. Shop
keepers are jealous of the security OF their
shops and in case of need will resort to siren
uous measures of protection But they do not
go out of their way 70 quarrel with their best
c1SfOn1prS
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
PERJURY.

The Preacher was not so very far from the
truth after ALL If the recent utterances of two
Ncv< York Judges about the prevalence of per-
Jury can be taken without discount. II not all
men ar. Iisrs, 4 great nJany iuen who air their
troubles ia court seem 10 be. The other day
Justice Guy said that divorce cases were packed
with periuries. and last Tuesday Judge Green
in the Git, Court. went further. asserting that
in almost every civil and criminal tried in
:. io;aI court Somebody - pure fiction. and
saying:
People seem tc have ioct lheir respect for the
sanctiry OF an cath and consider the solemn vow
tell the truth but panoply for the more ef-
f,ctiVe detail Of matter for the side they wish
30 succeed. The time has arrived when some
thing radical must be done to stem the torrent
of perjury which Is eEgulhng the efforts 20 ad-
minister justice ia the courts Of our community.
This complaint j. not new: earlier accusers
have been even more emphatic. II las been said
tnaf. few suspected perjurers are 10
earth. there has sprung up 4 class OF profeS
sicnal false witnesses only less blackbearted
than their brethren OF ancient Israel inperial
Rome and the Spanish Inqusiton. Let us hone
as much dare that this picture is an en-
largcu,en, of The facts IL still must be admitted
70 be true in some measure. What accounts for
this prosperous depravity: Judge Green opines
that all races and creeis share the dishoncr
equaliy which would indicate that the cause
must be sought in American conditions.
Probably 40 single peculiarly Of environment
sCfices 10 explain the curse: everything
.hat contributes 30 the moulding of flip
paacy dsrespect. clan morality and greed plays
some part In the breeding OF perjurers. Among
she foreign population the practice is encorr-
aged by the vague conviction that must
i,reak with all traditions in America and fight
for himself by hook or by crook. Furthermore,
in alien EYES American courts lack dignity. Not
unIy are The outward signs and formalities that
inInress the European hacking, but attorneys are
allowed too many liberties. and Judges them
selves are frequently too human iD their con
duct 10 symi,olizc Justice. The session sinks
Il, fhe level Of informal debate. full of quips
sud oratorscsl tricks. These structures apply.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
'mediately enacted by Congress 10 create the
national forest reserves known as the 7" "hte
Mountain and Appalachian reserves
GOVERNMENT BY TELEPATHY.

Among tine numerous things too good TO he
true is the report that the Board OF Esuma'e
was compelled by Thought waves TO appropfl-
ate 5000 600 last Friday for new high school.
OF course. the thought waves We're not set
up by any members of the board or other
branches of the city government: for even lei'
pathy has its limitations. They were induce''
by several hundred school children who at 'he
very moment when the board began discussing
the proposed grant, concentrated their mlnds
upon the desirability o. new building The
board actually ser aside the large sum asked
so that the telepathists can make out pretty
strong case in proof Of the efficacy OF their
psychic method. Nevertheless. we hnd excel
lent reasons for doubling the cause and eject
relation which they allege to have existed be
tween their mental efforts and the final ballot
of the gentlemen in the City Hall
If the officeholders dsbursing over Sl4o,-
O0O.OOO OF public funds every year have minds
sensitively attuned to the Thought waves of
private citizens. why has the history OF New
York City not read differently? If telepathy
counts for anything in government, why nave
not the united yearnngs of Il million or more
townsmen long since hypnotzed the Board ol
Estimate and the aldermen to spend millions "t
dollars less for KiSscna Park rotten hose
rottener pavements. ETC. and millions more on
sanitation. subwayS and tunnels, ah cllct''''
detective bureau more schools and dozen olhef
necessities which every rational taxpayer haS
been praying for these twenty years past: II
thought waves" can penetrate the skull OF 'he
Tammany leader. why do residents have'o pro
tect themselves against criminals by employing
an army of private watchmen? Why should 1t
he necessary for private parties TO pay for aud'-
inc public accounts and assisting in the routine
administration of municipal departments: No :;
hp records government hv teIcpH1nt
is plainly impossible here. The dear school
girls who concentrated their minds so earnestly
on a 5000 900 high school building must re
linouish all credit for the appropriat tion Maybe,
after the architects. contractors and decorators
for the new building have been chosen 1t VIII
become more apparent that long distance
thought waves did not direct the board cogl-
tations Or. at all events, if telepathy did DO
the Job. probably some stronger Thought
waves were being generated elsewhere thah
at the Washington Irving High School